Start Your Day Well (And With Foolishness)

Fortnum & Mason is full of unusual, indulgent and just plain intriguing things to eat and drink. As well as the only-to-be-expected-but-by-no-means-pedestrian rows of buttery shortbread, brightly coloured boiled sweets, jams, marmalade, preserves and endless varieties of tea, there are giagantic candied fruits, potted meats, seasonal novelties of all sorts (witches' finger biscuit, anybody?)

But while the Other Penguin was distracted by (among other things) candied scorpions, baking supplies were being perused in a quiet corner. Given a choice between two-toned sanding sugar and ants disguised as a snack, there’s no contest What. So. Ever. Come to that, given a choice between attempts to make scuttling things edible and almost anything else in the world, I’ll take the Anything Else. With bells on.

The Anything Elses included, to my enormous amusement, this...

Stoats Oatmeal. Is that stoatmeal for short?

And, if other people don’t immediately think of oatmeal and descend into fits of giggles, that’d be because they haven’t met the Stoat Appreciation Society. Or maybe they’re just grumps the rest of the time, too...

So, start your day with a bowl of Stoats’ Oatmeal* – nutritious, tasty, and a great source of B vitamins... and mirth!

Stoats oats are available from http://www.stoatsporridgebars.co.uk/... that's right - they have bars as well. Stoats love bars...

* Which, I fervently hope, is solely a branding exercise and not anything akin to, for instance, civet coffee...