Meatloaf can have a variety of grain ingredients. Bread, oats, rice, etc

When we lived in RSA my wife mentioned to some friends one evening that she was going to make meatloaf for supper the next day and I said something to the effect that I was looking forward to it. Everybody turned their noses up and said as far as they knew, it was as you say, a turnoff!

Then we discussed what meatloaf was to them, and what it is to us. Just a few differences, but my take was that their recipes for the most part were simple ground meat blocks, tasteless and dry by the end of the cooking. Ours, quite different, tho with only a few common ingredients added and it is delicious. Evidently the common recipe in RSA WAS pretty bad {at least as described to us}. Not so my wife's {or my Mother's, or many other US women for that matter} who make delicious meatloaf.

It was pretty interesting to me as anything about food is!

Anyway, my wife is a phenomenal cook. German {her roots}, Meditterranean, Old American, whatever. And since we raise pork, lamb, beef and add to it game meat, we eat a lot of meat dishes. This new recipe above we'll have to try. We normally do not grind any bear meat, and make pot roasts, steaks and chops.