gruel

“You know, kids in other countries have no choice. They have to eat gruel for every meal.”

There’s a few different threads of criticism, some thinner gruel than others.

Whatever the liberals were able, or not, to eke out of the conservative justices, it appears to have been thin gruel indeed.

During the long voyage, the meal offered to captives was usually little more than a worm-ridden gruel—a thin, watery boiled cereal—or a concoction called “dab-a-dab,” a mash of beans, rice, and corn.

His only diversion was to make pictures using the hard bits of grain collected from the meager gruel his jailers gave him.