Hmmm… Weird.

I love oatmeal… so much, in fact, that I eat it every single day for breakfast. This is what I, and most Americans, think of when we think of oatmeal for breakfast:

Ahhhhhh yes, cooking oatmeal, warm oatmeal. It’s so normal, even McDonalds and Starbucks do it:

However, to a Dane, this is super weird. They love oatmeal, but heating it up is a completely foreign concept to them. When I think of oatmeal, I think of cold days when a piping hot bowl of oats makes me nice and toasty! Denmark has a lot of cold days, but they still eat their oatmeal like this:            

Bowl + milk + raw oats = Breakfast.

That’s it! Quick and easy, and it actually tastes good too (with some cinnamon, banana, and raisins). It’s a lot cheaper than boxes of cereal, maybe this is their substitute? Oh, Denmark.

Emily