It was a breakfast staple for us children being raised by grandparents who lived through the great depression.
Oatmeal, chopped hard boiled egg, raisins for sweetness. Cooked ahead of time, cooled in the fridge, in plastic margarine containers. Always served cold. Grandma called it mush, so we did too.
Awhile back I'm talking with some friends about growing up poor and I brought up mush, and how it made being poor not so bad, because no matter how bad things got there was always mush.
Six people around a table and none had even heard of it. There was talk of not liking raisins, borderline insulting grandma's cooking, and absolutely no interest in trying it. The conversation moved on, now its later and I'm still thinking about it.
Am I alone on this isle of mush? And if so, the odds of that are almost mind blowing remarkable for such a simple food combination.
A carb, a protein, some sweet all cheap- what frugal parent wouldn't be all over this?
So I'm asking you /r/frugal for your thoughts. Am I all alone here, or do my friend's frugal-fu come up short?
One last note- I haven't eaten mush since back then, mostly because I don't care for raisins enough to buy them, and you cant have mush without em. Also, grandma made it best.
December 13, 2018 at 11:29PM
