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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Aside from debating oats, peasants had more time off than we did.

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

Beat me to it ๐Ÿ˜›

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I hate it ๐Ÿ˜”

[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

you can criticise the world without resorting to past = bad which often hides things we have lost.

Also oats are nutritious, delicious, and efficient.

How about pointing out how hard you work to afford food that is often thrown out lest it undermine keeping you slaved to "the economy" etc.

No actually I'm not done. Wanting fewer material things is good actually. Opulence need not manifest in terms of the aquisition of territory and things. What if you have a tiny home and breakfast gruel but you get idle time, community, gorgeous views, freedom etc.

the problems with society aren't that you can't eat figs every meal and stroll around your estate, it's that mere subsitence demands your soul.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago

Overnight oats are really good for my digestion and diet. What, you want me eating steak and eggs?

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago

Itโ€™s more mocking the rebranding from something terrible, to something more appealing.

Meanwhile, I have a black coffee for breakfast to help concentrate my hatred in order for me to get through the day..

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

If you eat overnight oats for your tummy troubles the post clearly isn't for you. If you eat it because you can't afford other meals it is.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Well if you eat it because youb can't afford anything else you're quite bright as it's quite the savings comparitively, most would spend more money on a worse meal!

Not surprising, our gut flora love the stuff. My old microbio lecturer used to always get his class to run an experiment where people would test the growth of different types of good bacteria found in the gut using different food sources. Some would be random foods, others would be bio active drink made for the task and, ever present, was porridge (about the same thing). Porridge always won.

It also has one of, if not the lowest glycemic index of all carbs.

[-] DrPop@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Gruel is top tier

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

And they're amazing for your diet in general. M-F such an easy no brain option for a meal. Make individual containers Sunday night. Food for the rest of the week.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 73 points 3 days ago

What's wrong with overnight oats? I really like them.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 46 points 2 days ago

I read it as cutting through the spin. We use contemporary words like overnight oats, instead of words like gruel that have strong connotations of poverty, for essentially the same food, to obscure the fact that we are the same working class as medieval peasants were. There's nothing wrong with gruel; and we're just not as far removed from peasantry as we've been led to believe.

[-] bizarroland@fedia.io 46 points 3 days ago

Some people get a kick out of making you feel bad about anything and everything you enjoy by reframing it in the worst possible light.

Oh, you bicycle to work? Enjoy breathing in all that carbon monoxide from the cars passing you and a greatly increased risk of dying due to a driver not thinking that you're a human being. Hope you don't cross a street and inconvenience a driver you selfish prick!

Oh, you eat primarily vegetarian with only a little bit of meat? One, meat is still murder, you're a prick. Two, of course you would mention it. Three, fuck you and your entire family and your entire gene pool you piece of shit.

I could probably keep going but you get it right? Don't let the things that you enjoy be taken away from you by people who are chasing clout and will say anything that they possibly can in order to get it.

[-] fishos@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

Way to miss the point. It's about some people acting like these are choices rather than "this is the best I can do". Would you really prefer the inconsistency of the gig economy if well paying consistent jobs were available? Would you eat rice and beans for every meal if you actually had the choice? Wouldn't you prefer just a few more square feet in your tiny home(maybe in the kitchen or bathroom)?

Acting like people are making all of these choices out of genuine desire and not a good helping of "this is what I have to do to survive" is what the meme is criticizing and what you on your high horse up there failed to see.

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[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

I would love a tiny home.

But fuck the gig economy and contract only employment.

[-] gerbler@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

My favourite part of Tiny Homes is how they came into vogue and were subsequently priced out of reach of poor people.

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[-] protist@mander.xyz 26 points 3 days ago

I eat oatmeal with raisins, pistachios, and molasses like 4 mornings a week. It's fucking delicious

[-] Zoop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The food bank gave us a bag of bulk bin pistachios and I've been wondering what to do with them (other than just eat them alone) since I've never bought them before. I'll have to give that a shot! They gave us some dried cherries, too; I'm curious if they would be good in the oatmeal with the pistachios, maybe? Thank you for the ideas. :)

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 18 points 3 days ago

pistachios

Well how bougie of you

[-] protist@mander.xyz 9 points 2 days ago

Each serving gets like 8 salted pistachios from the bulk food aisle at the HEB

[-] moody@lemmings.world 11 points 2 days ago

That's like $17 worth of nuts in their breakfast

[-] protist@mander.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

I know you're just making fun, but I bought $6 worth of pistachios today and it'll probably last me about 3 weeks

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[-] OmgItBurns@discuss.online 11 points 2 days ago

I feel like my oats have been disparaged. The peasantry demands an apology.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 23 points 2 days ago

OP has upset the peasantry.

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lotta cope and seethe in here as they flay the messenger for bein so rude in handin' em a mirror they don't like the look of. I get it yeah? But they're mad in the wrong direction

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i wish i was a peasant

peasants had the church that would feast them like 100 times a year for saint days and shite liketh that

i are a serf

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean, if you tithed, so they were feeding you with your own food. Also not a real feast most of the time.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

And while the church wanted a tithe, the manor lord required you to work one or more days per week on his field, using your own tools. This was rent. There might've also been monetary rent in addition to work rent. And in addition to the church tithe, the manor lord wanted a tithe too. You couldn't choose to rent somewhere else, either - while the manor lord didn't own you, he owned the piece of land you lived on, could dictate your terms, and you'd have to pay a fine for moving away to another manor lord's service. If he sold the parcel of land, you'd have to do all the same to the new landlord. If you could manage to hide in a city for a year + one day, you'd be free. But if you got caught, you'd be imprisoned until your lord came and picked you up.

These were the general rules in my area, others would differ. Obviously they changed over time and so on. And much of this is from the chronicles and those were written by the Order, so the real situation might've been worse even.

There's plenty wrong with our current situation and we seem to be sliding back towards serfdom, but serfdom is definitely worse than what we have now and we can NOT afford to go back.

[-] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

First, thanks for the informative comment.

The general rules in my area

Made me imagine that we'd figured out federation backwards in time, and you were commenting from a middle ages Lemmy instance.

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 37 points 2 days ago

I make overnight oats nearly every night.

I use steel cut oats in the slow cooker over night, add dates, apple, cinnamon and chia seeds.

It is ready for me before I leave for work at ~6:10, and ready for the rest of the family when they have breakfast at 7:30.

What is not to like.

[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 43 points 2 days ago

What is not to like.

Being awake at that hour.

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

Not even God is awake by then.

[-] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I (begrudgingly) wake at 4:15am and yes, god has forsaken this time of day.

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 8 points 2 days ago

I finish at 2:30 in afternoon, I'm home before the kids....

[-] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

that is great, that you can organise work and kids that way! in my estimate, you see your kids more than many 9 to 6 workers

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago

I do indeed.

I also took a job far closer to home last year, I'm only commuting 8 minutes each way now.

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[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not getting to eat breakfast with them

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[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hot overnight oats? I always made them in a mason jar in the fridge. My favorite was 1/2 cup of oats, 1/2 cup of vanilla yogurt, 1/2 cup of milk, all in a jar and then fill the rest of the jar up with frozen blueberries and strawberries (cut ones). Close, put in fridge, eat cold the next morning. The oats will have soaked up the liquid and gotten soft. It's a nice cold cereal and quick to pour into a bowl, stir a bit, and chow down.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

Put dried fruits and spices from around the world in mine I eat better than emperor's

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Just a victim of capitalists.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

Tiny homes are fine if that's all you need or want. I don't know it overnight oats are. They're right about the gig economy though, that's some terrible bullshit right there

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 days ago

Its just your standard rolled oats with the other goodies and your preferred liquid stuck in a jar overnight, ready to go right out of the fridge in the morning.

Personal favorite is cinnamon roll flavored! There are some great recipes out there.

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[-] biscuitswalrus@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago

Without a call to action, this is just an insult.

[-] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

make your own call to action, decide for yourself. you don't need random strangers on the internet showing you the directiosn. they already showed you where you stand, go and make your own path.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I mean, yes but have you had good overnight oats? So good!

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