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To treat spaghetti hoops like baked beans?

71 replies

KenLeeeeeee · 24/01/2013 17:52

Please help resolve an ongoing row between me and "D" thinks he knows better than me H.

Tonight is a very lazy throw-things-in-the-oven dinner for the kids on account of both me and the husband feeling rough as a badger's bum. I suggested chips, chicken dippers and tinned spaghetti hoops. Husband looked at me incredulously and asked WHY I would give them chips and spaghetti hoops. I asked what he proposed instead - he said he would have given them carrots because spaghetti is a pasta product, therefore not an alternative to vegetables in the way that baked beans would be. I said he's clearly being yampy and that tinned spaghetti IS a perfectly acceptable vegetable replacement in a naff meal, just as you might use baked beans, hence the items sitting together in the supermarket aisles.

Who is BU?

OP posts:
KenLeeeeeee · 24/01/2013 18:15
Wink

I agree that tinned spaghetti is dreadful, although I do find the hoops mildly more tolerable than the short straight bits of spaghetti. No idea why, but as a child I was adamant that they tasted different.

Are they seriously one of your five a day? How??

OP posts:
KeemaNaanAndCurryOn · 24/01/2013 18:16

He's right. Tinned spaghetti hoops are not a veg. You wouldn't have spaghetti and chips for a meal any other way. The red sauce doesn't magically transform them into beans!

ceeveebee · 24/01/2013 18:19

Beans have higher carb content than spagetti hoops. The '1 of your 5 a day' is down to the tomato sauce isn't it?

Startail · 24/01/2013 18:20

Spag hoops are marked as one of your five a day. I know baked beans do too.
So for bean phobic DDs they are a reasonable substitute.

notapizzaeater · 24/01/2013 18:20

Hoops do taste different to sticks ! My ds wold oly have paghetti "tyres" when he was little. I wouldn't serve spaghetti thou with that - I'd serve sweet corn ...

Emilythornesbff · 24/01/2013 18:21

Yes ceeveebee, it's all about the sauce.

AudrinaAdare · 24/01/2013 18:21

Not the same. The straight hoops do seem to taste different, or perhaps that's because I bought the value ones...

CloudsAndTrees · 24/01/2013 18:21

I'm with your DH.

Locketjuice · 24/01/2013 18:22

Yanbu :)

NothingIsAsBadAsItSeems · 24/01/2013 18:22

Hoops are not a substitute for beans

You have beans on toast but you have Hoops with a side of toast (as there's too much sauce and it makes the bread go soggy)

You can have cheese on top of your beans but never on top of hoops

You never have Hoops with chips but it's just right with beans

You can put hot sauce in both Hoops and beans :)

PatTheHammer · 24/01/2013 18:27

When I was a student 'double-carbing' was perfectly acceptable, the norm in fact. Common combos were the old favourite of 'Pasta n sauce' served in a baked potato or a portion of whatever pasta bake they had in the canteen served with chips.

Anyway, I would treat them the same as baked beans on toast for example but wouldn't serve them with chips. I used to love lining them up on the prongs of my fork as a child.....Ahh, memories!

GlitterySkulls · 24/01/2013 18:36

"you wouldn't have spaghetti & chips any other way"

erm, i regularly had chips as a side to spag bol (pre diet) - it's delicious!

StickEmWithThePointyEnd · 24/01/2013 18:46

So eating chip butties with spaghetti hoops is technically triple carbing.

I like to live on the edge.

KenLeeeeeee · 24/01/2013 18:48

erm, i regularly had chips as a side to spag bol (pre diet) - it's delicious!

Can't say I've ever had spag bol and chips, but I have had lasagne and chips. I believe it's a Wetherspoon's standard meal.

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EMS23 · 24/01/2013 19:10

OMG StinkyWicket - Spoops is my new favourite word!! I'm going to suggest Spoops for dinner to DH now just so I can use that word. Grin

Catchingmockingbirds · 24/01/2013 19:29

Sorry OP, I'm with your dh.

KobayashiMaru · 24/01/2013 19:32

yabu, beans are actually a vegetable of sorts, and do have some vitamins and minerals. Spaghetti hoops is not and does not.
Plus spaghetti hoops are vile, slimy, revolting things.

GlaikitFizzog · 24/01/2013 19:37

My tins of spaghetti hoops inform me that's they are one of my 5 a day. So OP yANBU. Beans are bluergh!

TiggyD · 24/01/2013 19:44

Hoop = beans. That's science.

"If you want a vegetable type portion what about carrot sticks / cucumber sticks?" - Well, you could eat carrot and cucumber sticks. You could also go into the woods and suck the moss off some rocks like elks, but we are HUMAN! Human food comes from tins full of orange tinly goodness.
The sauce in all shaped pasta tins in a vital lubricant for the body. Do you want your kidneys rubbing together and possibly starting an internal fire that would need dousing with copious amounts of Yazoo of Frijj?
Think of the children and say no to any vegetable in raw stick form.

Yamyoid · 24/01/2013 19:44

Yabu, your Dh is right. Spaghetti is not a vegetable.

Shutupanddrive · 24/01/2013 20:15

You are right, he is wrong!

Fakebook · 24/01/2013 20:21

You can't eat pasta with potato. That's WRONG. YABU.

HorraceTheOtter · 24/01/2013 20:49

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DawnOfTheDee · 24/01/2013 20:53

lol TiggyD....that is very possibly my favourite post ever...

...orange tinly goodness....Grin... kidneys rubbing together...Grin....

Iteotwawki · 24/01/2013 21:14

Have no idea what yazoo or frijj are, but it's the scaffolding provided by carrot and cucumber sticks that stop my internals falling out and becoming externals :) my kidneys are most definitely not rubbing together (probably too poisoned by the high protein / low carb diet).

Am fairly certain that a lifetime of not eating tinned beans hasn't done me that much damage.