In a cafe, and a woman has just complained (funny)

[QuestionableMouse]

She'd ordered a bacon sandwich and it's just been delivered to the table. She's now moaning because her bacon sandwich has a tiny crumb of black pudding on it. And she doesn't eat pork.

I feel for the poor staff having to explain which animal bacon comes from 😬

(And no, there's no vegan bacon on the menu so not a mix up!)

it seems packet mixes are so popular in the US because they are cheap, convenient and produce consistent results unlike using cups to measure ingredients with.

The food does apparently cost more in US - US living in London you tuber recently did something on it - I've seen fair few america react to his video with surprise.

I love Evan. I think packet mixes being cheap is in reference to buying flour, sugar, baking powder separately in the US rather than in comparison to the UK.

I think packet mixes being cheap is in reference to buying flour, sugar, baking powder separately in the US rather than in comparison to the UK.

I was trying to suggesting that food generally being more expensive in US encourages people to look to make savings and reduce uncertainty/disasters - hence I can see they would favour packets from a money point of view in comparisons to us in UK.

Though InMySpareTime has another point about taste expectations.

Certainly in past and now as food price increase I know we look at where we can save money - even in UK it can work out cheaper - contrary to MN logic- not to cook from scratch for some things.

I think packet mixes being cheap is in reference to buying flour, sugar, baking powder separately in the US rather than in comparison to the UK.

Some people who rarely bake may not keep a stock of flour or baking powder on hand, so the packet mixes are one and done.

I was just conveying what I read. I wasn’t calling them cheap/not cheap or saying it was right or wrong. I was just amused at the slightly heated debate it got on the site which cannot be named beginning with R.

I had something like that in Tenerife-it was supposed to be fajitas; with carrots, green beans and cauliflower? I've always said it must have been left-over vegetables.

We lived in France for some years…our village was holding a medieval event with entertainment and food. My friends who were veggies wanted to come so I rang the organisers and asked what the veggie option was…..Chicken was the reply!

I didn't sense any negative connotation or tone, I was just sharing a thought. I bake a lot from scratch and will sometimes use a packet mix for cakes because cakes are fiddly compared with most things I bake.

I give you the most sanctimonious poster on MN. And that is saying something!

I do wonder if packet mix is different in the US to the UK as here I find it produces tasteless overly bouncy sponges.

What have you done to reach this conclusion? Have you analysed every single post ever made on Mumsnet, assigned it a number on a 'sanctimony' scale, and concluded this one is at the top?

Yes, I give you 12.9 on the sanctimony scale of sanctimonious sanctimoniousness.

You must be quite new to Mumsnet, then.

There are cheap cake mixes here and good ones if you pay a bit more. I buy the nicer ones and the cakes come out well.

I remember watching Top Chef years ago, where a team of professional (in fact award winning, lots of them)chefs had to cater a wedding, and they bought about 20 boxes of yellow cake mix to make the wedding cake! The judges were not impressed but I remember the chefs seemed bemused at there being an issue....

As I said to the pp, if my posts have made such a strong impression on you, I can only assume you're fairly new to Mumsnet.

Ah but how do you know 12.9 is a high score on the sanctimony scale of sanctimonious sanctimoniousness?

Because your first word in reply to my question ending '... and concluded this one was at the top' was 'Yes'.

You'd think so, wouldn't you? But no. I've seen so many tedious sanctimonious joysponges over the years....and yet I still crowned you.
Ouch for you.

ah it was more of a sentence starter but fair enough, you are right the scale goes to 12

Thank you @Labnehi Thank you @Flapjackquack

You speak for us all!

Strangely, or not, I don't feel an 'ouch'. Probably because the word 'joysponge' is overused on MN as a substitute for 'person who has a different viewpoint'.

friends? Family? Work colleagues?

do you have positive happy relationships with people out of interest?

What are you expecting me to say to this? 'No, I'm a hermit and never speak to anyone'? Only on Mumsnet would disagreeing with some posters on a single thread be taken to mean a person might not have any functional relationships with anyone at all in the real world.