Shu and I have been visiting beautiful southern California. In Shu's mind, we've been eating a lot of "mucilage." I call it "granola" and have to laugh every time he says, "Isn't that 'mucilage' good?" Is that what you call it? Having come from Wisconsin, and a farm, "mucilage" sounds way too much like "silage" to me, which is food for cows.

Do you call that stuff that you put on yogurt "mucilage?"

Sounds horrible.

Sounds like you're eating library paste, since mucilage is an adhesive made from gelatinous plants. Could it be a foreign cereal called Muselik (spelling may be off, since I never paid much attention to it)?

mucilage

I have never heard granola called mucilage, and I've lived in California all my life. There is something called [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muesli]muesli[url], which, unlike granola, is not toasted and has more fruits and nuts in it. Kellog's does sell something called Mueslix. Maybe that's what you're getting or the waitrons are pronouncing it wrong. Who knows?

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Mueslix

That's the ticket.

Maybe that's what he means! I will ask him. Clearly he was saying "mucilage" though. We were at this hotel with Greek yogurt and this great granola to mix with it. Shu kept telling me how good the mucilage was, and I thought it was another use of the word that I hadn't known. However, when I looked it up, I couldn't find it.

Maybe I can convince him to answer in this thread!