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Made Up Food Rules

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LittleMissEnraged · 11/11/2026 23:28

I don’t mean religious rules or cultural norms. I’m thinking about quirky individual rules you abide by that other people might not understand.
I am not a vegetarian, but I can’t bear meat on a pizza. Any vegetable - even pineapple!
My other strict rule is that you may have a condiment or butter on a sandwich but never both.

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Bigreddog25 · Today 19:23

Allseeingallknowing · Yesterday 15:43

Homemade gravy is superior to that made with granules! Bet that most wouldn’t know the difference!

This depends who makes it and how it's made, surely 🤣

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · Today 18:46

ilovepixie · Today 18:32

What’s wrong with sweetcorn on a roast??

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It's too small.

(I don't eat roasts, so don't have this rule myself, but if I did that's why I would. )

NineteenSeventyThree · Today 18:42

ilovepixie · Today 18:38

So you eat the crust first you savage!

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Oh, yes siree!

Always get the boring bit over with first is my motto!

neverhadnooneever · Today 18:41

ilovepixie · Yesterday 19:14

Cannot eat egg and chicken together. It’s like eating a mother and its baby.

Yes this - eating a mother and it’s baby is disgusting 🤮

ilovepixie · Today 18:38

NineteenSeventyThree · Yesterday 21:42

Pizza must be eaten from the outside in.

Condiments must never be spread over food, only blobbed.

Any savoury food item is improved by the addition of black pepper and mustard.

Apple sauce can be enjoyed with any type of meat but mint sauce is only for lamb.

So you eat the crust first you savage!

ilovepixie · Today 18:33

MyBigPony · Yesterday 20:38

I'm a meat eater but soup must never contain meat.
Toast must be cold before it's buttered.
Any cafe that puts crisps on my plate with sandwiches will never see me again.

Scotch broth?
chickeh soup?
beef broth?
all gorgeous.

ilovepixie · Today 18:32

OneMoreProfiterole · Yesterday 20:35

What kind of maniac has sweetcorn on a roast?

And beans DO go with eggs. When that yolk breaks and mixes in with the bb juice… mmmmmm

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What’s wrong with sweetcorn on a roast??

Lomonald · Today 18:06

Dinosaurhearmeroar · Today 18:04

Cannot have chips with any pasta. It’s carbs on carbs. Can’t have a side of bread with baked potato. It’s just wrong pal.

Chips and lasagne with a side of garlic bread though you are missing out.

Dinosaurhearmeroar · Today 18:04

Cannot have chips with any pasta. It’s carbs on carbs. Can’t have a side of bread with baked potato. It’s just wrong pal.

Loudnesses · Today 15:58

I never order meat on a pizza either, but that's because of the nasty processed meat most pizza places use. If I was making my own and had left over roast chicken, I'd be happy to use that on the pizza.

ItsCloudyToday · Today 15:48

Pasties/sausage rolls have to be warm.

The chocolate side of a chocolate biscuit is eaten with it facing down, never up.

Chocolate has to be eaten straight from the fridge. Same with potato crisps - preferably posh, crunchy ones. Maise based ones are fine out of the cupboard.

if you have a chutney/pickle/sauce on a sandwich, it must always go on the top of the other fillings and be eaten with the sandwich held that way.

Packed lunches end with the sweet stuff - main/sandwiches ➡️ snacks ➡️ fruit ➡️ treat. Do not be eating your yoghurt whilst waiting for your soup to warm up in the microwave! 🤮

Lomonald · Today 14:24

pliplop · Today 13:46

I only like prawns marinated or in garlic butter - I can’t eat them in any sort of sauce like a curry. I have no idea why as I love tandoori King Prawns but only dry!

I don't like hot prawns, love a prawn cocktail or even getting them from a fish van at the seaside, but hot no thank you.

pliplop · Today 13:46

I only like prawns marinated or in garlic butter - I can’t eat them in any sort of sauce like a curry. I have no idea why as I love tandoori King Prawns but only dry!

EveryoneUsingOutro · Today 12:32

Allseeingallknowing · Yesterday 19:50

No, butter jam then cream. There is no other way!

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Agree! Trying to spread jam on top of cream is a PITA. But you can dollop cream on to spread jam easily.

EveryoneUsingOutro · Today 12:27

gonoodleoodle · Yesterday 19:02

Baked bean juice may never ever touch eggs or bread.

Well this is just super sensible and everyone should (not) do this! Grin

girlygirly · Today 12:07

BetterAttitudeNeeded · Today 08:14

@BlackCat14 OMG yes the one banana a day thing. I still say exactly the same to my kids and I've no idea why.
Custard should be cold with a hot pudding.
Mince pies should never be completely enclosed in pastry unless it's puff pastry in which case it's obligatory.
Cutting a fresh loaf of bread, the crust should be eaten immediately with loads of butter and it doesn't count as food.
Sweetcorn is grim but buttered corn on the cob is delicious. It's always in addition to a meal though not in the same plate as anything else.

OMG I thought I was the only person who loves corn on the cob but can’t eat corn off it! No idea why, it just tastes totally different.

Baldrapunzel · Today 12:05

There should be 5 x as much cake as icing.
Royal icing has no place on a Christmas cake.
Toast must be cold before buttering.
Meat has no place in a smooth soup.
Fruit does not belong in cheese

girlygirly · Today 12:03

A quiche Lorraine should never have cheese in it. Any other quiche is fair game but as a cheese hater it drives me nuts because all supermarket quiche Lorraine’s have bloody cheese.

Also, mayonnaise on every sandwich is also wrong (don’t like mayo either). Totally unnecessary.

HughManity · Today 11:57

DarkWinterNights · Today 11:53

Went to a venue cafe

Expensive breakfast was served on paper plates & paper cups

I would understand paper plates at a roadstop cafe.

However this was a sit down, river location

Will not visit again

Did they have disposable wooden cutlery?

OssieShowman · Today 11:55

2 second rule.

DarkWinterNights · Today 11:53

Went to a venue cafe

Expensive breakfast was served on paper plates & paper cups

I would understand paper plates at a roadstop cafe.

However this was a sit down, river location

Will not visit again

Rattymare · Today 11:41

Ham and cheese together in a sandwich. It's either one or the other.

HughManity · Today 10:45

@Shodan , but you cook them separately and put them on the plate separately.

As for your husband... Hmm

Shodan · Today 10:03

HughManity · Yesterday 22:21

If eating, say, a roast, each forkful should contain at least two or three elements of that meal. Not one individual item per forkful.
Sacrilege!

😂This is exactly what my children say. But I look at them and think two things:
a) You're weird, eating one thing at a time, and
b) I don't carefully make a meal with items that complement each other to then eat them individually! If you're going to do that you might just as well serve pickled onions with your roast dinner.

On the subject of pickled onions though- DP once requested that I serve roasted pickled onions with the Christmas dinner, I was baffled and revolted equally, but decided I was being narrow-minded and unloving, so I gave it a go. They were predictably awful. Then just the other day, we had a ready-made coq-au-vin, with tiny onions in. He said 'Oh look! Pickled onions!'. There was then a realisation (he thought all baby onions were pickled onions) and a careful explanation of what the word 'pickled' meant...

SometimesthingsMatter · Today 08:57

Pettybutcorrect · Today 03:38

Cold dessert-Hot custard
Hot dessert-Cold custard

Mint sauce belongs on any roast, gravy on none 🤮

Sweet and savoury NEVER work together, no fruit with meat or cheese.

All bread products (crumpets, wraps etc) are purely for savoury toppings.

Mayo goes with 90% or meals but NEVER warm.

Nooo, don't take away my cheese and apple!! Or pork pineapple damn you!