Interesting Facts

Jessie Gallan, who recently celebrated her 109th birthday in the UK, has put her long life down to plenty of porridge, and no men. Image - CC 3 - Source http://www.vectorgoods.com  (Jessie, who lives in Aberdeen, told a Daily Mail reporter: “My secret to a long life has been staying away from men. They're just more trouble than they're worth." She also made sure that she got plenty of exercise, and she still eats a bowl of porridge every morning. I guess Goldilocks was onto something.)

Sales of porridge and oatmeal in the UK have nearly doubled in the last five years. (According to figures, sales of porridge, a popular breakfast cereal, and oatmeal soared by 81% to £85m from 2000 to 2005. Britons ate 50,000 tonnes of oats last year.  Of course "To get one's oats" has a completely different meaning, as does "To sow one's oats" as is "to do porridge".)