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Oaties: King or Ming?
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:37 pm
by Hendrik
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.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:02 pm
by eloisec
well, in comparison to the other normally horrible food we got they seemed ok!
if I got given them now ... perhaps not so appealing.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:24 pm
by 99yorkpj
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..!
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:32 pm
by J.R.
Shouldn't there be the third option of NEITHER ???
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:59 pm
by Great Plum
Oaties were truly legend...
Edits my reply as my typo was spotted!
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:06 pm
by eloisec
truly not.
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:27 pm
by Laura M
OATIES OATIES!!! *marches around holding the banner high for oaties*
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 2:38 am
by ben ashton
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?]
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:54 am
by Hendrik
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...
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:54 pm
by cj
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:32 pm
by Euterpe13
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 !)
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:27 pm
by Katharine
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!
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 5:08 pm
by Euterpe13
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...
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:25 am
by Hendrik
i can't believe only one of you recognises those things as toxic...