Meaning
Porridge — the thick, warm breakfast cereal cooked from cornmeal, hominy corn, oats, plantain, or banana, sweetened with milk, nutmeg, cinnamon, and condensed milk. A filling, comforting start to the day, sold at breakfast spots and made at home.
Examples
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Mek a pot a cornmeal porridge fi breakfast.
Make a pot of cornmeal porridge for breakfast.
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Di hominy corn porridge sweet an thick.
The hominy corn porridge is sweet and thick.
Origin
From English 'porridge'. See Hominy corn, Cornmeal.
How it’s used
Thick breakfast cereal (cornmeal, hominy, plantain, banana, oats).