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Porridge ingredient appears wrong to a male (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oatmeal

'porridge ingredient' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'wrong to a male' is the wordplay.
'wrong' indicates an anagram.
'to'+'a'+'male'='toamale'
'toamale' is an anagram of 'OATMEAL'.

'appears' is the link.

(Other definitions for oatmeal that I've seen before include "Pale variegated brown colour" , "Eat loam (anag)" , "Ground cereal" , "Kind of porridge" , "Plain food" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Independent.
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