Breakfast cereal is available in a packaged dry form such as Alpen, or it can be made fresh. Most warm cereals can be classified as porridges, in that they consist of cereal grains which are soaked in hot water, cooked and/or boiled to soften them and make them palatable. Sweeteners, such as brown sugar, honey, or maple syrup, are often added either by the manufacturer, during cooking, or before eating. Porridge is especially popular in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Porridge became important in Scotland due to the freezing winters. The Scottish people prefer porridge to be made with only water and
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal opera webseries, which was released on 25 December 2013. It was released on their Youtube channel on May 3, 2015. The last update to the channel occurred on May 3, 2015. "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal" was recognized in 2006, and 2007 with the Web Cartoonists' Choice Award for "Outstanding Single Panel Comic". It has been twice nominated for the Award, in 2003, and in 2008. "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal" has been featured on a variety of websites and blogs, including "The Economist", "Glamour", "Boing Boing", Bad Astronomy, Blastr, "Blues News", Joystiq, and Freakonomics. In a YouTube video on the "SMBC"