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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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ExquisiteSocialSkills · Yesterday 20:13

Walker1178 · Yesterday 16:00

Fries must be eaten with salt, proper chips with vinegar. Never both together

No, salt and vinegar on proper chips but then I am a big salt enthusiast.

LucyFreyaUrquhartDixon · Yesterday 20:14

Peanut butter has no business in my cupboards. It is claggy and grim.

Cockerpoocrazy · Yesterday 20:15

ilovepixie · Yesterday 19:14

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

Years ago I taught A Level German using a text book with a picture of a fried egg and a roast chicken leg side by side . I think it was about genetically modified food. Even looking at that page made me feel squeamish….. so wrong !

IsItTheBlackOneOrTheRedOne · Yesterday 20:20

I can happily eat milk with a spoon (cereal) but drinking it is 🤮

I love a sliced banana on toast but biting into a whole one straight from being peeled is 🤢. Same goes for if the banana is mashed on the toast 🤮

Even the slightest hint of a single tiny speck of brown and I want to throw out the entire avocado.

Lomonald · Yesterday 20:20

BlackCat14 · Yesterday 19:50

You can’t have more than one banana a day… since I was young my dad always said this but could never explain why, but no one in our family would ever break the rule!

Oh we were only allowed 1 banana so I only eat 1 in a day, do you think it was a plot to make them last?

HRTQueen · Yesterday 20:24

chicken and pasta just do not go together

two meats together chicken and bacon especially

meat in a cream sauce

i do not like meat on a pizza

Sparklynosestud · Yesterday 20:25

I’m with Op who saves most delicious until last. Also no meat on pizza. Also dislike whole banana but sliced on porridge is ok

HRTQueen · Yesterday 20:25

And anything that wobbles even some jams are just too wobbly

WBAveeno · Yesterday 20:26

HRTQueen · Yesterday 20:24

chicken and pasta just do not go together

two meats together chicken and bacon especially

meat in a cream sauce

i do not like meat on a pizza

Chicken and pasta I agree that’s a no. Also chicken on pizza is wrong.

IsItTheBlackOneOrTheRedOne · Yesterday 20:27

noodlesandpickle · Yesterday 19:56

You mustn't have jam on fruit scones. This is from my Nan, from times of rationing, sultanas and jam together is an extravagance! Jam can only go on plain scones.

I agree with this just from preference. Fruit scones only need lots of butter - jam is overkill. Your Nan’s rules are spot on 👌

WokeUpEarlyWalkedTheDog · Yesterday 20:30

Mayo OR butter. Never both. Jacket potatoes with tuna mayo can, however, be buttered up.

Chicken and pasta are not to be tolerated together.

Cheese sandwiches should be on thick self sliced bread (white or brown is fine), with butter and should be accompanied by very sweet and sour gerkins.

The only correct flavour for a milkshake is strawberry.

Boreded · Yesterday 20:31

XenoBitch · 11/11/2026 23:32

Well, as long as you only apply those rules to you only, then what is the issue?

There is no issue…OP just wants to know what other people have as their quirky little rules.

@LittleMissEnraged I’m also very much a sauce or butter never both on a sandwich kind of girl!

TheSnappyBluePoster · Yesterday 20:32

None of these are rules, they are just things you don't like

Boreded · Yesterday 20:33

Allseeingallknowing · Yesterday 15:43

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

If you can’t tell the difference then you’re a savage and deserve the granules 🤣

We can keep the good stuff for ourselves.

Boreded · Yesterday 20:35

TheSnappyBluePoster · Yesterday 20:32

None of these are rules, they are just things you don't like

Did you miss where OP said they were individual rules…so ones you impose on yourself, not real rules for everyone else

The posters sharing their own rules are likely sticking to them as rules because why not 🤷‍♀️

OneMoreProfiterole · Yesterday 20:35

maddiemookins16mum · Yesterday 20:04

Sweetcorn basically only goes with about 4 different meals and NEVER on a roast.

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

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.

NormasArse · Yesterday 20:43

Allseeingallknowing · Yesterday 19:50

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

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There is, y’know!

TheSnappyBluePoster · Yesterday 20:48

Boreded · Yesterday 20:35

Did you miss where OP said they were individual rules…so ones you impose on yourself, not real rules for everyone else

The posters sharing their own rules are likely sticking to them as rules because why not 🤷‍♀️

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People are imposing these rules because they don't like it... Therefore, they aren't even self imposed rules.They're just things you don't like.

WokeUpEarlyWalkedTheDog · Yesterday 20:48

Still water can only be drunk from a water bottle and never a glass.

Sparkling water can only be drunk from a glass and never a bottle.

Diet Coke must come in can form and I’ll not hear different.

Greatnessinessness · Yesterday 20:49

If I eat pizza it has to be cheese and mushrooms. I’m not vegetarian.

Dancingintherain09 · Yesterday 20:49

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.

I've found someone like me, I do not like meat on a pizza...at all.

LindorDoubleChoc · Yesterday 20:51

I am already very tired (even though I spend comparatively little time on Mumsnet these days) of the contrary and aggressive responses by the poster with snappy and blue in their name on this thread. I'm not sure I'll get very far in reporting them as they stay just on the side of not posting personal attacks ... but will try.

Allseeingallknowing · Yesterday 20:53

Boreded · Yesterday 20:33

If you can’t tell the difference then you’re a savage and deserve the granules 🤣

We can keep the good stuff for ourselves.

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I don’t mind being called a savage-I’m one of many!

likelysuspect · Yesterday 20:58

Does anyone remember the thread where a poster (not sure if it was the OP) talked about having an omelette or an egg with.... wait for it.... sliced tomato. Or it might have been A slice of tomato

Many of us on the thread were deeply upset, horrified, baffled. I think one of us, and it could well have been me, felt 'disturbed' by the presence of this random item that was incongruent with the hot item

I cant remember what the thread was about now and I may have some details wrong but it definitely involved a disturbing tomato element.

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