A history of oats-kimchi breakfast, an American perspective

 4000BC: Oat is discovered in the middle east.

700AD: Oat grains are considered a decent replacement for other grains in times of famine, and 'that gross gloopy thing' is no longer of concern.

1602AD: Oat is imported to America

1850: Oat becomes a staple food of most territories

1880: Kimchi is imported by Korean/Chinese immigrants

1920: Oat becomes the standard 'healthy' breakfast.

1960: Kimchi is sold in specialty stores, encouraged by the influx of Korean immigrants.

1967: Oat-kimchi combo is discovered in several places but promptly forgotten because nobody wants to admit they came up with the interesting combo

1980: Kimchi comes up as a health-food, the trend doesn't last too long.

2000: A random college student in the NorthEast discovers that mixing the oats and Kimchi is pretty decent savory breakfast and tells his friends about it.

2015: Kimchi becomes wholly common and is sold in literally every grocery store there is.

2016: Breakfast places start selling Oat kimchi as a standard breakfast offering for those seeking savory breakfast.

2017: An extremely lazy person does kimchi-oat-egg-soysauce-seaweed-sesame-green onions combo and discovers that it's the bomb and can work for any meal of the day.

2045: Kimchi-oats becomes the standard fare for all American lunches.

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