Hot gruel and... hot gruel.

Gruel?

Afterward, with rice gruel.

With vinegar. Also afterward, with rice gruel.

Sir, I think perhaps a little gruel.

We can eke out three months, slurping gruel.

To fill you with hot gruel and good cheer.

Well, all right, then. Hot gruel... for both of us.

How are we to feed samurai when we live on rice gruel?

Meat, ma'am. If you'd kept the boy on gruel, this would never have happened.

Porridge, gruel and later, bread, became the basic food staple that made up the majority of calorie intake for most of the population.

We made many a bran new theory of life over a thin dish of gruel, which combined the advantages of conviviality with the clear headedness which philosophy requires.

A cartoon of a crazed, angry looking woman threatening a child with a dripping bowl of tainted gruel has left many Doha bloggers scratching their heads and looking for answers.