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Pablum vs Spoonmeat - What's the difference?

pablum | spoonmeat |

As nouns the difference between pablum and spoonmeat

is that pablum is anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing while spoonmeat is food to be eaten from a spoon, such as a soup or pap.

As a proper noun Pablum

is a cereal brand for infants made from wheat, oat and cornmeal.

pablum

English

(wikipedia pablum)

Noun

(-)
  • Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.
  • *1992 , October 23rd, Daily Sentinel, Writer Likes Clinton, on page 2:
    • The Republican argument today is pablum , mush and saccharine (which exhausts my edible metaphors).

    spoonmeat

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) Food to be eaten from a spoon, such as a soup or pap.
  • (obsolete, by extension) Patronizingly simplistic material; pablum.