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[Pigmy Pony]

Never liked that sort of muck (cereal), mainly because I hate cold 'raw' milk... Ugh!

Toast/butter & jam for me instead for breakfast, or if I want to treat myself, a nice croissant or pain au chocolat, to soak up my morning cappuccino!

As for Vitamin D, I get that naturally from the foods I eat, including fruit such as bananas, plus fresh orange juice, and all the (hot and frothy) cow's milk I have in my milky coffees!

Don't need to take any supplements.

Marco.

No better way to start the hoity toity posh-boy day

[Pigmy Pony]

I have always loved the old Corn Flakes. Excellent with milk, yoghurt and fruit.

Apparently better than toast for breakfast. Wheat and Bread just makes me feel bloated.

But, TBH, Egg, Bacon and Tomatoes is just the best start to the day.

Yeah, cooked breakfast is just the best When I used to do archery competitions and would be out all day, I always started out with a "Full English", and it kept me going like toast or crassonts never could...

[Pigmy Pony]

Lol... The staunch British 'egg & chip' brigade abroad have always really amused me.

Go on holiday abroad to some lovely country, where the food (if done right) is 10-times better than it is here normally, yet resolutely refuse to eat anything but bland British stodge, which is even worse than it is 'back home'!

In such instances, the phrase: 'away and educate yer palates, ya clueless chavs', is never far from my lips

Marco.

Yeah, growing up where I did, you wouldn't have thrived.

[Pigmy Pony]

Aye, sick/gruel in a bowl (especially the traditional way with salt)l!!

The only way for me porridge will stay down, is with a little cream and some Drambuie!

My dad likes it, though

Marco.

And you call yourself Scottish? I'm beginning to think your dad found you floating down the Clyde in a basket

[Marco]

Yeah, growing up where I did, you wouldn't have thrived.

Lol - so where were you dragged up, then?

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

Depends how you make it. Rice version is good too.

Never heard of that. I do like me porridge. I reckon I'm more Scottish than ten Marcos all wearing kilts Just need to work on the accent a bit. Bernard Manning was apt to say that if a dog is born in a stable, doesn't make it a horse...

[Marco]

And you call yourself Scottish? I'm beginning to think your dad found you floating down the Clyde in a basket

Dear oh dear, daftee... I thought you were more observant than that... I'm not Scottish. I was born there, and am proud of my Scottish roots, but I'm Italian. Scottish nationality, Italian ethnicity - learn that and remember it in future!

Pretty much the whole of my family tree is Italian.

And, as far as my eating habits are concerned, they're pretty much 100% 'European' (mainly Italian/French). I don't really have a British (or Scottish) palate, in that respect, although there are a few Scottish 'delicacies' I like such as Lorne sausage and GOOD haggis)

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

Lol - so where were you dragged up, then?

Marco.

Brookfield estate, Preston.

Pretty much dragged myself up, from about the age of 7. Mum and dad provided the essentials of course, and we always had a good Christmas. But after dad buggered off and mum had a breakdown which put her in a mental hospital for a couple of months, we were too poor for cereal so had broken up pieces of bread with milk and sugar. 'Pobs' we called them.

When I was 11, I went on a school holiday to Newlands Youth Hostel near Keswick. My mum had saved 10 shillings a week to get the £7 10 shillings cost together. Each morning you could either have porridge, or what I later came to call 'spoilt brat' cereal (rice krispies etc.) most kids chose the cereals, leaving me to enjoy as much porridge as I could fit in. Liked it ever since.

Well you did ask

[Barry]

No, I think the figure quoted would be for bare cornflakes, I don't think they could put speculation as to how you serve the cornflakes in print. Taking your theory to a silly degree they could quote ridiculously high vitamin C figures based on an assumption that a lot of folk put fruit on their cereal.

Yes - but no-one consumes dry corn flakes, whereas many do without additional fruit etc. Anyway, it is only now that Kelloggs have doubled the vitamin D content of their cornflakes to provide half the RI.

[Pigmy Pony]

Dear oh dear, daftee... I thought you were more observant than that... I'm not Scottish. I was born there, and am proud of my Scottish roots, but I'm Italian. Scottish nationality, Italian ethnicity - learn that and remember it in future!

Pretty much the whole of my family tree is Italian.

And, as far as my eating habits are concerned, they're pretty much 100% 'European' (mainly Italian/French). I don't really have a British (or Scottish) palate, in that respect

Marco.

I know all that, you've told us often enough My comment about dog-born-in-stable alludes to that, so it's your observation skills that need sharpening