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To think that this is not stuffing

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Snoff · 27/12/2025 20:27

I picked up a load of Christmassy bits from the reduced section at Co-Op, to join the selection of indulgent leftovers destined for tonight's dinner. Among them was a ready-to-bake foil tray of 'Pork, Cranberry and Chestnut stuffing' from the fancy range (this thing). I thought it looked a bit un-stuffingy when I put it in the oven, but was not prepared for it to come out looking like I'd just baked a block of mince whole. It hissed and oozed fat when cut. I then belatedly read the ingredients and learned it's 65% pork (!) while breadcrumbs do not feature on the ingredients list at all. I thought perhaps it was really meant to be actually used to stuff a turkey, but there are no instructions for doing that - you're supposed to just bake it and eat it. Which no one did in this house because it tasted like a shit sausage.

AIBU?
YABU: this concoction that is 65% pork and 0% breadcrumb that that is not meant to be stuffed into anything is stuffing
YANBU: this is not stuffing, it is just a huge, weird, slab-shaped sausage

...also feel free to post about any festive supermarket food you bought that was weird/nasty/not what you expected.

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tothewindow25 · 27/12/2025 20:32

Yeah, that looks like stuffing to me.

I used to just use paxo stuffing, which I think is sage and breadcrumbs and probably the kind of thing you are thinking of?

But a few years back after having sausage stuffing I mostly make that now. It is basically like a kind of meatloaf and is delicious. That’s what the thing you bought looks like.

Backassnow · 27/12/2025 20:32

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You are right, but as an insatiable yellow-sticker vulture, this is a lesson I'll never really learn

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