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Fruit is NOT a special dessert.

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CCaK · 21/04/2020 18:02

Discuss.

I won't say which side I'm on.

Is a special dessert fruit?

Or

A big gooey sticky toffee pud/cheesecake/pie and custard.

OP posts:
MitziK · 22/04/2020 12:32

Brownies are just badly cooked traybakes.

Gooey, sticky toffee pudding is a waste of perfectly good eggs, butter and flour. Even the sugar could be better put to use in preserving fruit.

Cheesecake - well, as long as it's loaded with fruit, I suppose the cold set ones are tolerable. Somebody else can have the smashed up digestives that have been either welded together like cement or expected to stay put with a blob of melted margarine and taste like sugary sawdust, though.

Pie. Oh, I like pie. Well, I like the fruit inside. Or fill it with steak and kidney.

Custard can fuck right off unless it's crème patisserie for a tarte aux fruits.

My mother would do 'puddings' each Sunday. They worked out cheaper than buying decent fruit - partly because she knew I wouldn't eat them. Good quality fruit, especially if you grow it yourself, is far more special than something consisting of the cheapest fat, the cheapest flour, all manner of additives and a fuckton of HFCS, sugar, flavourings and colourants.

(I'd rather watch a double length episode of Gardeners' World with a 'How to cook/preserve what we've grown' segment than sodding Bake Off or a TV chef bish boshing twenty quids' worth of ingredients into something that still tastes like crap).

squeekums · 22/04/2020 12:39

Brownies are just badly cooked traybakes

Are you even human

thejollygargler · 22/04/2020 12:44

We were in a lovely spa hotel last year. It was Spain so we struggled a bit a lot with the language. I managed to understand that one of the dessert options was "fruit" so I ordered it.

Waitress brought me a whole pear (skin on) and a fork.

This was not a special dessert Sad

MysweetAudrina · 22/04/2020 12:54

If is then I have had dessert for breakfast and morning snack. Big difference in having berries for breakfast and a mandarin and apple mid morning to having a cheesecake for breakfast and a chocolate brownie mid morning.

ivykaty44 · 22/04/2020 21:10

Tbh brownies are mostly pretty badly cooked and not great - I’d rather a bowl of strawberries with the tiniest sprinkling of icing sugar

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