What Foods Would You Be Happy To Go Without?

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  1. I did a shop in Lidl (Harrow Weald) last week and ended up chucking about half the fruit and veg. A punnet of 'ripen at home' peaches was a grim, green furry puddle within two days.
     
  2. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    This is the ‘fussy eater’ thread isn’t it?
     
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  3. Guy

    Guy Squad Player

    Visit to Sainsbury's this morning..... Shelves fully stocked
     
  4. Monday morning.
    Duh.
     
  5. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Noooooooooooooo!!!!! And how, pray tell, is one supposed to make a ragù bolognese?

    [ANECDOTE] Some years ago for my eldest two birthday treat I took them to see to Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at Snorbens. I said that we would eat wherever they wanted and both said they wanted to go to Cafe Rouge. It was really shyte but they both enjoyed it and couldn't understand my saying that the only people who could possibly like the place were those who had never visited a 'real' French Cafe ie one in France.

    Fast forward a number of years and we're on holiday in Kent and I get handed a "Ferry for a Tenner" (T&C's apply) flyer in Canterbury. I book (£15 for a car at stupid o'clock return Dover/Calais). We spend the morning shopping (and visiting cafes - ISTR writing about on here at the time because someone was asking about booze cruises to Calais - I was keen to go because Sangatte had just become a news item and I wanted to have a look at it). Come lunchtime we go to a cafe/bistro thing for a proper prix fixe multi-course lunch. We three share a charcuterie platter for starters and the waiter tells me they have a children's dishes for main course - they really didn't like the look of moules normandes or pot au feu served in a cauldron but they can do tagliatelle bolognese. I explain to the kids that it's very like their Nan's spag-bol (liquidised vegetables and sauce cooked by boiling). When it's delivered to the kids it's a 'proper' based upon a traditional Italian coarse soffritto and the waiter points out that "...yes it has been cooking for 24 hrs..." and to my surprise my kids wolf it down and now won't ever eat any other sort of ragu.
     
  6. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    Battenburg.

    The world would be a better place without that. horrible cloying dry sponge and disgusting marzipan.

    It sounds German, I hope it is and Brexit will see its supply diminish and then stop. Dirty teutonic basterds
     
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  7. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

  8. Just reminded me of one of the funniest things ever committed to celluloid:
     
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  9. No, they'll just rebrand it as British Mountbatten cake.

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  10. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

    I love pork it is my favourite meat, but crackling YUK!!!
     
  11. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player


    I'm quite partial to a slice of the old pink 'n' yellow personally.

    Not those little so-called 'mini batenburgs' though. They're an insult and a stain. Poor Prince Louis of Batenburg must be spinning in his grave and wondering why he bothered even marrying Queen Victoria's granddaughter if they were going to minituarise and otherwise cack about with his confection. The proportion of marzipan to pastel-coloured sponge is hideously out of balance.

    As for the haterz, I can only imagine that they're those odd specimens who claim not to like marzipan. But if you don't like marzipan, just say I don't like marzipan! Don't go badmouthing the country's prettiest and best looking everyday cake.

    Too flavoursome probably for the frumpy Brits in any case, who prefer stolid great ugly lumps of 'lardy cake' or the austere misery of ultra-dull Madeira cake or even the rank stinking horror of the disgusting Viennese Whirl.
     
  12. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    What about Bakewell tarts?

    You always seemed like decent sort until this bombshell.
     
  13. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Well it depends on yer tart of course. Again, you could be put off Bakewell* for life if you lost your Bakewell cherry, as it were, to one of those sickly sweet little Kipling monstrosities. Bakewell are supposed to be thin for God's sake! Everyone knows that.

    But on the other hand there's some perfectly acceptable bigger tarts, both the market type in low-profile tin foil and cellophane and best of all, the homemade variety.

    Isn't Bakewell up north near where you come from, anyway? (Waves hand vaguely upwards). There must be some very decent local examples from the bakers that you can slip into your bicycle's front basket before pushing it up that long cobblestone hill, no?


    * The correct plural of Bakewell is Bakewell. There's no 's' added.
     
  14. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Almost all potato salad, coleslaw, salad cream, branston type pickles, ketchup, cheap mustard and other mushy shyte people put in sandwiches or uninvited on your plate. It should all die horribly.

    Any non-fresh sauce or dressing is the work of the devil.
     
  15. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Yes, but home made potato salad is a completety different story...
     
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  16. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    I'm always mystified by people who like salad cream. Nasty, nasty stuff. Surely won't last beyond the boomer generation...
     
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  17. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    I can picture GOBE staring at the empty aubergine tray in Waitrose and quietly whispering “Brexit” before snapping the pencil he was about use to cross aubergine off his shopping list.

    Then the rage builds and finds an outlet with a screamed “It’s ******* mousakka night!”
     
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  18. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Good call. I do the cooking in our house so have always done the shopping. This has the enormous benefit of ensuring the drinks store is always well stocked & we get to eat what I like.....although I do compromise and accept the need for the wife to eat some frozen stuff once a fortnight. Luckily, she finds 99% of what I decide to cook totally to her taste.
    As for what food I could happily forgo:
    Any cooked cheese (but NOT uncooked cheese!)
    Most shellfish as I have had periodic allergic reactions to crab, lobster, langoustine, oysters etc
    I wouldn’t care if I never saw another chip
    Tinned meat in all its gelatinous horror

    Running out of rice & pasta would be a problem, as well as bread and/or flour & yeast; and no fresh veg/salad.
     
  19. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Cold/warm new potatoes are lovely. I’ll let you have a bit of sour cream with some chives or dill, but put salad cream or long life mayonnaise on them and there’s gonna be trouble.
     
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  20. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    I really can't think of any food I'd be happy to go without. Perhaps that's why I'm such a fat ba5tard
     
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  21. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Mrs Moose made parmigiana last night with the last aubergines to reach the UK. The lad played ‘the Last Post’ on the bugle as she served it up.
     
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  22. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    It's so lovely to know Danny Rose is so down to earth that he posts on here.
     
  23. AndrewH63

    AndrewH63 Reservist

    There are few meals from my 1960s Watford childhood i have never wished to revisit. Stuffed Roast lambs hearts, tapioca pudding, powdered orange juice you had to whisk into a jug of water. I doubt most of those will be in short supply, but will trade my ration of swede, and fish such as skate wings.
     
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  24. Do you remember when the most exotic thing you could buy was a Vesta chow mein or paella?
     
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  25. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

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  26. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    I remember Abbots Langley council being so snifflingly uptight Tory that they constantly refused permission for a Chinese takeaway to open, on the grounds of the rubbish y'see. (Trans: foreign)

    They did however grant permission for a proud British takeaway selling good solid non-rubbish producing English food.

    It was an utter disaster of course. The food was dire, nobody bought it and it closed down within about 3 months, to be replaced by a very popular Chinese.

    The local tories retired defeated and grumbling about how hard done by they were and went on to do more of the same, right up to the present day.
     
  27. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    Cheese, crunchy salad leaves and cucumber with a big old blog of salad cream on lovely soft white cob. Tangy goodness!
     
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  28. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    Sweetcorn can **** off and die
     
  29. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    How odd. It's delicious, especially barbecued with a **** of butter.

    The tinned stuff is ****, of course.
     
  30. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    Barbecued with a white sauce, crumbled feta, coriander and melted butter with garlic. Think it a Mexican number.
     
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  31. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    Even tinned has its place. All yum.
     
  32. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Stuffed hearts are excellent as part of a Sunday roast.
     
  33. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Do you remember that ‘chicken curry & rice in a can’ stuff. By a firm called Harvey’s or something. A 2-part can with a gungy pseudo curry in one side and some sort of rice in the other. Was a regular staple during the school hols when I was left to do my own lunch.
     
  34. I don't think we ever sank that low.
     
  35. Filbert

    Filbert Leicester supporting bloke

    All offal is beautiful. What do you stuff the hearts with? I’m veggie now but I still love to torture myself with the thought of delicious meat.

    I always used to order offal dishes when out for dinner. I had chicken hearts in a sticky sweet sauce in a restaurant and they were absolutely sensational. Best thing I’ve ever eaten in a restaurant was whole chicken livers in ravioli with a sage and butter sauce.

    Cooked tripe once and it was okay, did it as a sort of Spanish tapas stew with beans and chorizo so I couldn’t really taste it.

    I love a bit of offal, though I don’t like cooking it myself because it usually stinks when raw. Kidneys smell of piss… that’s enough to put me off.
     
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