The many faces of gruel 11 Articles

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by michelle obama

From the kingdom where Grendel was slain by Beowulf to the orphanage where Oliver Twist asked, "Please sir, I want some more," gruel has shown its versatile face. It is incessantly referred to as something plain, only eate...read more

by Pamela Kay

Gruel, when spoken it even sounds awful, rhyming with cruel. Even its other name, which is porridge, has connotations of tasteless fare. Given a bad wrap by the books and stories of life in the 1800's and in the world's gh...read more

by Aubrea Glenn

Over the years, gruel has been given a bad reputation as a poor or cheapskate meal. This, however, is not as true as it may seem. Though earlier forms of this meal were, in fact, not very nutritious and were also very ch...read more

by Logan Anderson

Gruel is a porridge-type food made from boiling cereal in water or milk. To say that gruel has developed something of a bad name in recent times is an understatement. A staple for poverty-stricken proletarians not 200 ...read more

by Aggie Woo

Gruel is simply a kind of liquid food in which oatmeal, rice, etc boiled in milk or water. Traditionally, gruel is a form of meal especially for the poor. It is unsavory and lacks of nutrition. However, gruel may mean ...read more

by Eva Smart

THE MANY FACES OF GRUEL "If you don't behave, little mister, you'll only have gruel for a week!" The threat of a menu consisting only of gruel is the classic symbol of cruel, domineering headmasters at cold orphanages ...read more

by Shenni Bubb

Gruel, I can't help but associate this word with Oliver Twist, "please sir can I have some more?" A porridge like substance which was originally boiled with milk and water. Defined in many dictionaries as (n.) A light, liq...read more

by Violet Fortune

"Please, sir, I want some more." Made famous by Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, gruel, is a watery thin type of porridge typically eaten by the poor working class during the Industrial Revolution. Gruel is probably the star...read more

by Tenebris

Grains, usefully, expand when placed in water: something the travellers and the poor of the world have known for millennia. Gruel takes this to an extreme. How far can you stretch the last bit of oatmeal in the house bef...read more

by Mara Yoresh

For a very long time (in fact, right up to the moment I began this article) I thought there was no such thing as gruel. I considered it to be a fictional food item used as a literary device to indicate when a story's hero...read more

by JoAnne Windsinger

Gruel, Cruel and Comforting I remember eating cream of wheat, a soothing and warming balm for whatever ails you. How comforting to eat on a cold, bone-chilling day. I still reach for it when I get that feeling of impen...read more