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Original poster

To think porridge is a man breakfast.

74 replies

moogy1a · 07/09/2013 09:59

DH insists all breakfast cereals are girly food.
I suggested porridge as an alternative cos I consider that a manly food ( I don't know why, maybe it conjures up images of hardy Scotsmen).
Anyway, he disagrees and thinks it's as girly as fruit and fibre or special K.
Opinions? or am I being odd to think of breakfast in these terms? It's only cereals that I divide along gender lines btw before I get accused of agreeing with the Muller yoghurt ridiculousness and I always have porridge!

OP posts:
MsVestibule · 07/09/2013 10:01

Your husband is very odd. You, slightly less so.

Sirzy · 07/09/2013 10:02

Your both odd to assign genders to breakfast cereal!

Pagwatch · 07/09/2013 10:03

You are both assigning genders to breakfast cereal.
You are both odd.

Tee2072 · 07/09/2013 10:03

Breakfast cereal has gender? Confused

SPBisResisting · 07/09/2013 10:04

YABO sorry

wonderingsoul · 07/09/2013 10:04

my guess is that he wants you to do a full english every morning Wink

stubbornstains · 07/09/2013 10:06

What does he consider a manly breakfast? If it's meat, tell him he's not a real man unless he's gone out pre-dawn and killed it with a bow and arrow Grin.

Porridge is a small boy breakfast in this house. I would be careful of letting your DH have any in case it causes him to spend a solid half hour jumping up and down on your bed while you're MNetting on your laptop.

AnneUulmelmahay · 07/09/2013 10:06

Crikey moses at dividing cereal along gender lines

By this token I guess a fry up is for the Menz

EverybodysStressyEyed · 07/09/2013 10:07

You're both weird - in my office the 'girls' eat porridge, a few of the 'men' eat fruit and fibre or Special K and the balance have some sort of cooked

whois · 07/09/2013 10:07

My porridge is pink so he probably wouldn't like that... 59g porridge oats, 280ml water, handful frozen raspberries. Microwave for 3 mins. Stir and stand for 2. You get a lovely raspberry pink bowl full of yummyness.

Squitten · 07/09/2013 10:09

Considering any cereal to be gender-biased is very stupid.

I assume he considers bacon and eggs, made by you, to be the only suitably manly food...?

Original poster
moogy1a · 07/09/2013 10:10

I'm guessing that girly breakfasts are any which imply healthy diet / weightloss .
there again porridge is very healthy.
I'll ask him if steak and eggs would be more manly.

OP posts:
FetchezLaVache · 07/09/2013 10:11

Oh well, if it's only cereals you divide into gender lines, you're clearly not bonkers at all! Grin

stubbornstains Grin

Lazyjaney · 07/09/2013 10:11

Porridge is neuter, Omelettes are feminine, English breakfasts are greasy.

juneybean · 07/09/2013 10:12

Oh god, don't give Kelloggs any ideas we will end up with pink and blue boxes.

Original poster
moogy1a · 07/09/2013 10:12

Actually, it's not just cereal that I think have genders.
I must admit that a steak and kidney pudding would scream man to me.
Maybe I should be French where they have official genders for everything.
I'm going to look up French words for various foods and see if there's a gender difference!

OP posts:
EduCated · 07/09/2013 10:13

Where do we stand on crumpets? Me and DP both had them this morning. I need to know which of us was wrong.

Original poster
moogy1a · 07/09/2013 10:14

OK.
porridge is feminine, and steak is masculine in French.
This isn't helping me is it?! Grin

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Original poster
moogy1a · 07/09/2013 10:16

Crumpets are man food. Definintely.
Would you agree that cupcakes are a girl food?

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WillieWaggledagger · 07/09/2013 10:18

"Porridge" is masculine in French (foreign word in French usually are)

Original poster
moogy1a · 07/09/2013 10:20

ooh, thanks Willie. It's also masculine in German.

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StuntGirl · 07/09/2013 10:21

You're both odd.

TerraNotSoFirma · 07/09/2013 10:21

Shit! I just had a bowl of porridge. Will I grow a penis now?

Silverfoxballs · 07/09/2013 10:23

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littlewhitebag · 07/09/2013 10:26

I eat porridge most days. My DH prefers muesli or bran flakes and sometimes Special K.

I quite enjoy a fry up from time to time. DH hates fry ups and likes a continental breakfast.

Do we need to swap roles? Do we need gender reassignment surgery?