Porridge (TV series) Essex. The opening credits consist of outside shots of Slade prison and of several doors and gates being closed and locked, which was intended to set the scene for the programme. In the first series, there were also shots of St Pancras railway station, which was changed in subsequent series to shots of Fletcher walking around Slade prison. Title music was thought unsuitable for a show set in prison, so instead there is a booming narration (performed by Barker himself) given by the presiding judge passing sentence on Fletcher: Subsequently, Barker is reported to have said that he regretted recording
Norwegian porridge feud Norwegian porridge feud The Norwegian porridge feud ("grautstriden") were a series of public debates that was going on in Norway between 1864 and 1866, concerned with the optimal way of cooking porridge. The participants were Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Eilert Sundt. The core of the debate was about whether or not it was redundant to add flour to porridge after cooking it. The background for the debate was that Asbjørnsen published a cookbook in 1864 called "Fornuftigt Madstel. En tidsmæssig Koge- og Husholdningsbog" (approximately translated as, "Sensible Fare. A Modern Cooking and Housekeeping Book"), under the pseudonym Clemens Bonifacius, where