Oaties: King or Ming?

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:37 pm

Well, I've noticed a thread about Crusty Creams vs. Bourbons (both nice in my humble opinion, and went very well with plastic 1L bottles of milk), but the real question is this:

Were you one of those freaks who liked the -often charred- discs known as oaties?
Or did you quite rightly throw them in the bin/at eachother/at cheeky squits instead?

This really is a question I'd like settled once and for all.

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:02 pm

well, in comparison to the other normally horrible food we got they seemed ok!

if I got given them now ... perhaps not so appealing.

99yorkpj · Post by **99yorkpj** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:24 pm

Stick a little butter on oaties and they improve immensly! Other than that I can't see a lot of use for them... other than the previously suggested missile option- very favourable..!

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:32 pm

Shouldn't there be the third option of NEITHER ???

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:59 pm

Oaties were truly legend...

Edits my reply as my typo was spotted!

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:06 pm

truly not.

Laura M · Post by **Laura M** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:27 pm

OATIES OATIES!!! *marches around holding the banner high for oaties*

ben ashton · Post by **ben ashton** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:38 am

oaties and milk were on a par with 8 slices of toast and milk, but depended on what week in 'house biscuit terms' one was in.

didn't they get stopped tho on my juniors? [ie. pre 2000?]

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:54 am

yeah i only had them for the first few years i was there. presumably they were stopped on health grounds.

and no, JR, if you were familiar with them you would know that they are (what i would term) a 'marmite' food. love it or hate it.

infact, i feel a new thread coming on...

cj · Post by cj » Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:54 pm

I don't remember many biscuits at Horsham at all, hence my obsession with them now. We did have 'dorm biscuits' at Hertford at bedtime - the only luxury in 1's, a very spartan house.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:32 pm

raised ruddy soft, the lot of you.... I dont remember get any sort of biscuits at Hertford, burnt or otherwise
( what I do remember, and still yearn for from time to time, are the flapjacks we sometimes had at tea-time.... and date slices !)

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:27 pm

Euterpe13 wrote:raised ruddy soft, the lot of you.... I dont remember get any sort of biscuits at Hertford, burnt or otherwise

We had a tin of biscuits in the kitchen in 6s. It was officially kept for times like before the early Communion on Sunday morning. I do, however remember that it was raided at other times when it shouldn't have been!

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:08 pm

Yes, there was also a tin of totally tasteless biscuits in 2's kitchen for same purpose - but no-one was interested in raiding them !!!

Tea & biscuits for early communion became " authorised", I remember, because of people fainting in the middle of communion - especially Kate Muir ! I had to catch her more than once as she slipped sideways...

Hendrik · Post by **Hendrik** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:25 am

i can't believe only one of you recognises those things as toxic...