Yeah, I think they meant creme of wheat.
That, or farina. The cooks on one of my ships always tried to pass this shit off as grits. We referred to it as "lagging paste".
Lagging, for those of you who do not understand, is the sheets of insulation that cover the bulkhead on the inside of a ship - fiberglass backing with a canvas dress side. It's stitched together with a thick coating of glue (paste), then painted for durability.
The farina served on the mess deck was of a significantly thicker consistency than this paste. If you ate more than 3 spoonfuls, you could honestly say that you shit a brick, because this stuff would set up in your intestines like qwik-crete. It sounded like you dropped a rock in the shitter when you were finally able to eject it.