Let us torment children

Please sir, I want some food, or gruel

https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/edible-insects-scientists-plan-to-feed-primary-school-children-locusts-and-mealworms-to-make-the-uk-greener-1657372… Pupils at four primary schools in Wales are to be fed insects such as crickets, grasshoppers, silkworms, locusts and mealworms as part of a project to gauge children’s appetite for “alternative protein”

Oliver Twist, the little orphan boy in the workhouse, who was so hungry he even asked for seconds of it: "Please sir, I want some more." Gruel was a type of hot cereal, usually made by boiling a grain such as oatmeal in hot water or milk.