She reaches into her apron and pulls out a handful of semi-rotten, bug-infested millet, which will be the basis for the gruel she will prepare for the meal that evening.
He'd pictured small children consuming the golden gruel their mothers would make, knowing that it would sharpen their eyesight and strengthen their resistance to infectious diseases.
They fed pork and lamb, fish, chicken and guinea-hen, eggs and milk, toast gruel, oatmeal, rolls, potatoes, vegetables.
Barack Obama in USA Today For his part, Obama said the criticism of Kagan has been "pretty thin gruel."
Charles Dickens in AFP In "Oliver Twist," Dickens wrote, the orphans were given "three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week and half a roll on Sunday."
Howard Hampton in Canada.com Training for 20,000 when over 200,000 have lost their job is pretty thin gruel,Hampton said. "What happens to the other 180,000?"