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Comment by fellowniusmonk

14 hours ago

Oatmeal is fine, but has nothing on hulled barley.

Oats are for horses. Mankind basically co-evolved with Barley.

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throwup238  12 hours ago

Barley was the preferred food for cavalry horses alongside oats since antiquity so “oats are for horses” is a medieval European quirk.

throwaway173738  13 hours ago

Hulled barley gives me the worst stomach ache of my life. I’m a horse I guess.

  • Insanity  13 hours ago

    This comment actually had me 'laughing out load', haha. I've never tried Hulled Barley, and I guess now I'm put off from even trying :)

    • fellowniusmonk  2 hours ago

      People go too hard, you really just need to drink 1 tsp ground up and boiled in a drink. It aggressively gels with water so it's best consumed like it was historically as a "small beer", with lot's of water.