different between cornmeal vs pablum

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corn +? meal

cornmeal (countable and uncountable, plural cornmeals)

Dried corn (maize) milled (ground) to a coarse meal.
She made a kind of polenta from cornmeal and chicken broth, with some cheese sprinkled on top.

Borrowed from Latin p?bulum (“nourishment”), with the modern sense coming via the brand name Pablum.

pablum (usually uncountable, plural pablums)

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).
(dated) Nourishment.

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