Odd wanky Christmas food

[Jellycatspyjamas]

I’m finishing off my online food order and think I might have found the oddest Christmas food - sticky toffee cheddar cheese. I can’t even imagine what it tastes like. Sadly I’m too late to order it.

Any other odd food combinations out there that I’ve missed hiding from the shops this year!

What? Of course I’ve had stuffing and bread pudding . I said ‘Have you ever had stuffing or bread pudding?’

Not snobbish at all. I like good food. By that I mean I enjoy cooking and and using the spices and herbs that evoke the season. For bread sauce is that epitomised. Posters saying it’s grim and it’s sloppy and disgusting is very rude. You can dislike something g without trashing someone else’s taste.

You forgot the one with pineapple in 🤨

Posters saying it’s grim and it’s sloppy and disgusting is very rude. You can dislike something g without trashing someone else’s taste.

How is it rude? No one insulted your bread sauce. Baffled.

Coverdale is indeed lovely. It has a very short shelf life though.

Doddington. The very very finest cheese known to man.

As for these bastardised mixes with this and that - no thanks. If you want to eat cheese with pickled onions or cranberries or cake or god help us sticky toffee pudding- then go ahead. But not mixed in as a novelty.

Bread sauce is epic but only with beef. I don't make it often enough.

Caulie cheese ( straight from freezer to table via microwave) might be served in a pub to bulk out an over cooked roast dinner along with those token sad veg reclining, either over or under done, in a white ceramic dish... but has no place with Christmas dinner.

I grew up in Lytham St Annes but I certainly don't remember seeing that in Booths.....

Those picture buns wind me up, pretty though so many of them are. I discovered char siu bao buns at a Chinese restaurant in the 1980s & have been addicted ever since. At the moment I can only get frozen ones from a Chinese supermarket & I steam them in a bamboo steamer. I learnt to make BBQ pork but I haven't yet tackled making my own bao buns. I was so thrilled when I saw labels in supermarkets saying 'bao buns' because I thought I'd be able to have them whenever I wanted - then I saw the flat little things in the packets! Nothing like the big, fluffy buns that are so delicious.

@ifIwerenotanandroid
They're a disappointment to me too! The themed ones are so cute (though a bamboo tray of freshly steamed, pillowy white bao is a thing of beauty) but tiny/dense and always in a blah flavour like hoisin veg. Char siu or nothing in my books.

'a bamboo tray of freshly steamed, pillowy white bao'

@evtheria I've never tried one of the other kind. But I'm glad to have my suspicions confirmed. Thanks for taking one for the team.😉

If you have a Costco membership, the duck bao buns in a purple box in the freezer section are the absolute best. All of the supermarket offerings are rubbish in comparison.

I quite agree.

I don't know if it's because I'm Scottish and bread sauce seems a very English thing to me, but I really struggle to get the appeal.

@GameOfJones the Costco ones are indeed the best - my DD could live on them.

My bread sauce is legendary in my family (in a good way).

Thanks, but I just checked. There isn't one anywhere near me, & I wouldn't qualify anyway.

I'll have to start practising my bun-making. In fact, that will be my new year's resolution: learn to make perfect bao buns.