Stories like The Magic Porridge Pot, where you had a pot where if you knew the magic words, this pot would just make as much food as you liked, without you having to do any work, provided you could remember the other magic word to stop it making porridge.

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

What that says basically is that the general tendency of the universe is to move from order and structure to lack of order, lack of structure in fact, to mush.

In Bangladesh, where the rate of malnutrition is among the highest in the world, an affordable vitamin and mineral supplement is now available that can be added to porridge and soup.