AIBU to think that, if you sell porridge, you should supply salt?

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Starbucks sell really good porridge, with nuts and seeds.
But don't have salt sachets.
And the staff look at you as though you have 2 heads when you ask.
AIBU to find this irritating?

I think I saw The Pioneer Woman (American TV "cook") do something similar with condensed soup.

Porridge definitely needs a pinch of salt in when being made, it really does make a difference. But not sprinkling on top, that's madness!
And the Starbucks porridge has salt in already:

Just get some salt sachets for your bag?

You can get 2000 salt sachets for less than £10 online. That's a shit load of salty porridge!

Agreed!

Just steal it from other places 😂

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God, I hate (some) people.

I add salt to porridge while I'm cooking it. Makes it miles nicer. I've yet to collapse from hypernatraemia and my blood pressure is consistently on the lower side of normal.

Here's a new concept for you, too: Some people have some fucking joy in their lives.

Salt on porridge doesn't appeal and neither does water. I've had golden syrup on porridge but atm I'm having sweet cinnamon. Yes, I have a sweet tooth 😋

In the UK cooking salt is normally iodized, and this is the only source of iodine for most people. So people who cut salt out of their diets and only user table salt are probably doing more damage than not.

Salt is a flavour enhancer so porridge with a pinch of salt just makes it taste…oatier I guess. You can still add whatever flavorings you want.

Here's a new concept for you, too: Some people have some fucking joy in their lives.

Totally agree.

My XMiL was obsessed with foods being bad for you and would try and lecture me about eating them and giving them to the kids. In the end I told her that if we stopped eating all the things she claimed were bad for us, we'd starve to death.

I make porridge with water so def needs salt. But i am also a big fan if sweet n salt together

I’m Scottish and my dh and I stopped having porridge when visiting my dad because we got sick of the lectures we’d get about putting sugar instead of salt!

Porridge with water is how it should be made, and although I wouldn't add salt, it would make more sense than adding sugar.

Sugar and salt do not belong together.

I used to salt porridge when cooking it, but stopped a few years back when I reduced my salt intake. Have dropped the honey now too , but it does need something - and its probably more reasonable to expect salt than sachets of cinamon or nut butter.

This must be the British culture Farage keeps banging on about! 🤣

No, you're thinking of muller fruit corner.

🤣 gross!

I had no idea that cooking and table salt were different. We only buy table salt and DH also uses it for cooking his veg. I had no idea we may be missing out by not using actual cooking salt.

Years ago, I used to eat porridge with salt and cream. Not salt in the porridge, but sprinkled on top. Absolutely delicious on both counts.

Now, I neither eat cream nor add salt to food. Most people don’t eat salt with porridge so YABU.

I haven’t RTT but I assume the Scots will be here en masse to point out that all porridge should be eaten with salt and it’s only the sassenachs that add sweet stuff.

Pleasee explain.

I agree.

This reminds me of many, many years ago, when camping with the guides, we had a Scottish patrol leader whose turn it was to cook breakfast. She salted the porridge. Every single girl guide apart from the patrol leader and the guide leader, who was also Scottish, left theirs.

It was a shame to waste so much food, but most of us found the salty porridge inedible.

If you have a weird preference its on you to provide it. If I liked M&Ms on my porridge I wouldn't expect them to provide it

M&M's on porridge sounds gorgeous! I would pay extra for that