To be fair, most things don´t taste that well on their own.
Wait until you hear about rice and pasta.
huh? d-does your rice and pasta not taste good just boiled with some salt?
get better pasta and rice dude
I don’t even need to put salt on my rice. It’s great on its own just boiled.
I beg to differ. Just a bit of honey and milk make 'em fucking delicious, and if milk and honey are complex seasoning, something is very wrong with your ability to cook.
Chinese person here, the spices that work well on rice also work on congee, which is already similar to oatmeal, and IMO they work just fine on actual oatmeal too.
Hell we even have a “lazy congee” where you literally just add leftover rice to hot water to make a sort of rice oatmeal. Super convenient in the morning when you’re in a rush!
Defenders of McDonald’s chicken nuggets surprised to learn they contain 38 ingredients.
As do I. I would never sully my delicious tempura fried compressed chicken matter by dipping it in cups of high fructose corn syrup.
Oatmeal is a grain product, so yeah, adding other things to it to make it more to your personal liking is kinda the point.
This is like saying bread is bad because most people like it in a sandwich.
That’s actually not even necessarily true. You can just leave flour around in water and the natural yeast ferments. Then you can throw that in with some more water and flour and it’s sourdough. Would be better with some salt though.
Or you can make super depressing unleavened flatbread.
you don’t even need yeast, in sweden we have “stick bread” which is just flour, water, baking powder, and salt which you wrap around a stick and grill over a campfire. Perfectly tasty.
Yes, no one who says “I love pasta!” is saying that to mean “I love just the pasta on its own without any sauce”
Oatmeal like rice, tofu, grits, or any number of other foods is a flavor vehicle.
As a kid one of my favorite memories is just eating a plain bowl of white rice with some salt and pepper.