Made Up Food Rules

@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.

Crisps or chips do not belong in sandwiches.
Dunking biscuits in tea or coffee is wrong. My XMiL thought she was very posh so I was very surprised to see her dunking as my mother had always said that was what common people did.

No chicken with pasta except Milanese which is breadcrumbed.

The texture together is nasty.

horse!? Trying to thing what typo it might be 🤣

On a recent weekend away with my teens we were peckish but didn’t want a full meal (as we had eaten out a lot!) I suggested we go to Bella Italia just for a dessert, they were shocked and objected “you can’t do that mum, it’s against the rules”. Just watch me I said, we went in, I told them we just wanted dessert, they of course said that was fine. We were seated, had our dessert, paid and were out of there within 30 minutes. It was perfect. They now keep telling their friends about this “hack”. It’s genuinely the first time I have impressed them with anything in years 🤣

It is a cob!

Must have a fried egg with horse and polenta.

Brown Sauce was made for Stovies!

I quite like some beetroot on the side, along with the oatcakes.

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.

Chips from the fish and chip shop must have salt and vinegar. Unless you are eating them with curry sauce, in which case no vinegar.

Soups. Thick and blended, thick with bits in, or cream with bits in - all good textures. Thin soup (like French onion) - not great, but acceptable. Thin soup with a mixture of bits in (like minestrone) - unacceptable. Thin stew with bits in - completely out of the question. However, ramen is OK.

Plates containing multiple items side by side must be correctly oriented, although 'correct' doesn't have an absolute rule and requires rotating the plate until all components are in the right place. If the components are not arranged correctly with respect to each other, plate rotation may never result in acceptable orientation. In this case the main item goes either top left or bottom left and I eat whatever is then in the wrong position first to get rid of it.

Gravy must not touch any green foods.
Sandwiches are nicer cut into triangles.
Smooth soup is a bit weird.

Yolks must be very well cooked (preferably popped and turned over if a fried egg). Runny yolk makes me feel a bit sick, even looking at it. It reminds me of the consistency and density of green snot or pus. I just have no idea how people can put it in their mouths and eat it.

I hate meat crisps, apart from bacon crisps. I absolutely loathe meat soup though. I think it’s the thought of tiny bits of meat floating about 🤮 Generally though, I absolutely love meat and adore a steak but those circumstances gross me out.

This is true. It's the only thing I don't have butter with. I even have butter with peanut butter!

Grated cheese does not belong in sandwiches. It falls out!

Oh I do, as the homemade from scratch I have tried looked like dirty dishwater🤣

I've found my thread
My family rules, Yorkshire pudding only with roast beef, usually as a starter on its own
Parsnips- only with beef
Stuffing and pigs in blankets only with roast chicken and Christmas turkey
New potatoes never with beef
Mushy peas made with dried peas soaked overnight (actually delicious) only with roast pork ditto apple sauce
Mint sauce only with roast lamb unless a meat pie also served with mushy peas, I only encountered this in York pubs
My sister still sticks to the roast dinner rules but my offspring insist on Yorkshire puddings with all roasts Inc Christmas
Have to admit I thought ' nooo' a couple of weeks ago when served stuffing balls and pig in blanket with an otherwise excellent beef roast in a pub

@Dearg
I’ve never heard of beetroot, pickled or otherwise, as an accompaniment for stovies. Or milk for that matter.
Oatcakes on the other hand, most definitely! And brown sauce (though that might just have been my Dad & me!)

Tomato soup must only be eaten when it’s snowing or there is snow on the ground. I’ve tried rebelling but it just doesn’t taste as good without snow ☹️
ETA: also meat must be the last thing you eat on your plate in case anyone calls around mid meal and thinks that you couldn’t afford meat. Still can’t eat it first 😂

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Baked bean juice may never ever touch eggs or bread.

But but but … (faints- fake camera pans out to beautiful fry up where beans and eggs are next to each other to create an exquisite taste . Some is missing off the plate, oh, hold on, it’s on the bread and real butter sandwich!!)

Very happy with bean juice on bread or toast but absolutely concur that bean juice and egg must never meet. You and I are the reason that budget cafes started using ramekins for beans ✊ power!

Sweetcorn is a fruit, as are tomatoes, peppers and courgettes.

Oh yes. When people ask for spag bol recipes and someone comes on and says 'the real bolognese sauce in Italy is made with calves liver and milk, and not served with spaghetti but tagliatelle.

No one cares. We are looking for a mince- and tomato-based sauce to go with spaghetti. I don't care if no one in Italy ever ate it anywhere. We eat it in UK and it's lush.

At breakfast my DH eats a slice of toast topped with butter, peanut butter, a soft boiled egg, a large dollop of squeezy marmite, then a sprinkling of dried parsley. Yes, I know!!!
So there are no rules in our house.