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Dr Samuel Johnson, that famous eighteenth century lexicographer, said of oats ''A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people''. And presumably it was a Scotsman who riposted ''But what people and what horses!'' That exchange encapsulates much of the history and role of oats - a cereal, once important as human food in parts of northern Europe but latterl...
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Dr Samuel Johnson, that famous eighteenth century lexicographer, said of oats ''A grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland supports the people''. And presumably it was a Scotsman who riposted ''But what people and what horses!'' That exchange encapsulates much of the history and role of oats - a cereal, once important as human food in parts of northern Europe but latterl...
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