Flahavans makes excellent porridge
Second, if you want the actual best porridge get yourself some Kilbeggan (which are actually from Westmeath, funnily enough).
But we have buried the lede - Flahavens or not, is it water and salt, or is it milk?
Here are my hard-earned porridge cooking tips, not that you asked:
Start soaking the oats the night before in the pot you'll cook them in (in the fridge if you're using dairy). This softens the oats and reduces cooking time by a lot.
First thing in the morning, cook them on the lowest heat for about 20 minutes while you do your routine. This way you don't need to stir them constantly, they're extraordinarily creamy, and you won't burn the oats to your pan.
Then add a touch of cream (or milk) to your bowl to cool the oats down some, and add some maple syrup if you're into decadence. Ultra low effort, maximum effect.
And if you want to get real weird with it, add some pomegranate seeds. I don't generally bother, because pomegranates are a bit of work, but it's awesome.
Ah so you are using water with a pinch of salt! /s
What's your favorite biscuit. Asking as a yank who likes tea and biscuits.
Green and most herbal tea gets neither milk nor sugar, but sometimes honey. Add a little cold water to the herbs first, so you don't extract bitter compounds: using near 100C water is why so many people think they dislike green and herbal tea. (Ginger, hemp, chamomile and hibiscus are the main exceptions to this rule - they need boiling water for the floral flavours.)
I love coffee, but I have enough herbal tea to open an apothecary. Just be careful that you're not getting teabags with plastic in them! Pukka are consistently great, as are Suki.
Favourite fancy biscuits are from the Island Bakery [0] in Scotland. Their Lemon Melts and their Chocolate Gingers are just about perfect. I know you can find their shortbread in the US, but not sure about other varieties. The biscuits come in a little cardboard boat and it's adorable.
There's no right or wrong answer here
Porridge is serious business.
( agus is féidir liom rith ar nós na gaoithe )
(between the Rubberbandits and Kneecap, it seems like fashionable irish lads are already prepared to live in a camera-full* surveillance society? After all, when you're riding a pony you can give the gait analyst one of these \/m.)
On the other hoof, the shout outs:
Tir Na Og - https://www.skysports.com/racing/form-profiles/horse/138973/...
are kind of depressing:
Shergar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shergar
* On the white hoof, Kevin Mallon is confident enough nothing will ever link him to Shergar that his face appears all over the Sun. If something should cross my desk before the Devil calls him in, I do know someone with swine.
EDIT: at least the patrimachy was an excellent chaser; nice references both to Philly's finest and the Black "tis but a scratch" Knight.
Also, I don't know if sex ratios have anything to do with it, but rural** russian bridesmaids may be less selective than the irish lasses***; in this vid even Subaru guy pulls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuSf1UcFRq0
** I've forgotten the details but IIRC it was Ershov visiting Dijkstra — so D takes E for a hike out in the dutch countryside, and E says "aha, you westerners do actually have a few unpaved roads, too"
*** as the irish lasses in my circles are fond of full and frank discussions with sticks, before fighting any of their do stumpa asail fathers I think I'd want "not a rock for twenty mile, not a clump of tree, but covered a man of my own men with his rifle cocked on his knee."
I love how russian artists support their local scene, eg Emin on the piano and Pirozhkov on a pony. (looks like the ones I don't recognise were KVN players?)
Timati's got some good lines, eg:
Ya vsegda ekstrafresh kak vladelets khimchistki
Moy otbelennyy kesh ne popadayet pod riski
Odna strochka po TsB ravna barrelyu nefti
Zaklyuchayu kontrakty s Gazpromom v kazhdom kuplete
Я нашёл себя и меня нашли
إن شاء الله или c'est la vie
Looks like tourism[0] may be a better bet[1] than mucking out cowsheds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ob5B3Tqm7A&t=103s
That's especially true because land tenure in the RF doesn't include subsoil (and therefore mineral) rights.
0:29 after hearing so much about metaphorical vatniks, here's a literal quilted jacket?
(Timati's line is that cash sticks to intellectuals; here it's to the cow shed)
1:17 the cow shed is fresh because even european cows are comfortable at a lower temperature range than humans, and the Yakut cow is especially cold-adapted[2]
1:20 pretty sure the steaming has been exaggerated for comic effect — no, wait, that's not steaming, that's probably smudging against the insects. I once asked a colleague who was telling Siberia stories why they didn't do their fieldwork in summer, and they quickly answered: "mud and mosquitos"
1:22 didn't HN discuss blackhouses?[3] this line provides a reason they may have been more popular than "white houses" before screens, or at least glass windows, were cheap and widespread.
1:51 tripod goblets make sense for steppe nomads — circular feet on stemware are pretty unstable until one has cheap and widespread flat tabletops?
how early is attestation for this style of jacket? put a bolo tie on and you could almost go line dancing in that (although the sleeves are more reminiscent of a "Mutz")...
1:54 this seems like a decent design for a cow shed — the slop should wind up in the grabens allowing the cows to stand with relatively dry hooves on the horsts?
2:36 sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakha_cuisine#/media/File:Kier... (cream, berries, and sugar)
2:55 sweet ride; I wonder if they have any double-height tallboy[4] customs there?
3:16 haystacks used to be built in rain-shedding shapes; plastic tarps have been a super useful invention here
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2g8ZrJa1ls
[0] in other unexpected side content, the Rubberbandits guide to 1916: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvKTG8pE_70
it's 3/4 of an hour, so it'll be some time before I get around to it, but I am curious if they go into any more detail than a Michael Collins biography I'd read about how the Republicans had not only had access to, but even been altering the paper files in, the Black & Tans' archives.
[1] how come only the elementary school student knows about the diamond pipes?
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakutian_cattle#Description
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhouse#Description
[4] eg https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRhDfDd...
While the Taylor Swift shows us downtown Yakutsk (and gives the girls an excuse for more flattering costumes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI5RqKeJKBE
Interesting that what'd I call a "jew's harp" seems to be part of Sakha indigenous identity?
Brrr... at 3:56 the temperature indicated on the building is -51!
(NB I'm a bit handicapped having never seen the originals of either)