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To ask about your food snob specifics.

241 replies

Writerwannabe83 · 03/02/2015 11:50

I'm eating some sandwiches and I've had to use some really shitty bread that my DH purchased and it's frankly ruining my lunch Grin

I'm more than happy to buy own shop brands but I really do believe that some things have to be the 'real thing' and I will not buy cheaper versions to try and get a better deal.

My list includes cereal, nice bread, tea bags, Nutella and pasta sauces Grin

What about every one else??

OP posts:
AnotherGirlsParadise · 03/02/2015 11:52

I'm very funny about meat - I just can't buy cheap stuff, not after my mum scared the shit out of me with the CJD scare in the 90s.

Enb76 · 03/02/2015 11:52

I very rarely buy brands.

Stokes for tomato sauce is a must though, actually tastes tomatoey. Also teabags are posh ones, I'm quite fussy about tea. Think that's it though.

Fairylea · 03/02/2015 11:53

Clover. Warburton bread or bakery bread. Finest tomatoes. Cathedral cheese.

Leeds2 · 03/02/2015 11:54

Diet Coke.

kittentwo · 03/02/2015 11:56

Fairy liquid badedas meat bread butter

LadyLuck10 · 03/02/2015 11:59

I'm a massive food snob and so is DH. We don't mind spending on food. Not sure where we both got those ways from. We don't really spend on other things though so food it is.

HubertCumberdale · 03/02/2015 11:59

I'm afraid I'm the most snobbish of the food snobs and won't eat processed foods or drinks. I sympathise about cheap bread, it tastes like newspaper.
Don't get me wrong I eat what I'm given if someone is nice enough to cook for me.

FinallyHere · 03/02/2015 12:03

As for pasta sauce, this is the final frontier for me. Its not that i would mind paying for a nicer one, but what can they do that a fried onion and tin of plum tomatoes can't. Plus there is usually chorizo in the 'fridge, to add a bit of pep. Bliss.

Thats for tomatoe sauce, natch. Pesto I'm happy to buy in jars.

And happy to jeer at DH's work colleague, who talked about being able to tell, in a fresh pesto, whether the basil had been grown on the north slopes of the coast, where the prevailing wind from the sea provided that subtle tang of salt.

FurryDogMother · 03/02/2015 12:03

Butter - I'm a fan of President Slightly Salted. Also smoked haddock - has to be un-dyed. I prefer dry cure bacon, too - don't like the white stuff that comes out of normal bacon. Tesco Finest Camembert as well. I don't/won't buy any ready-made meals either - always make everything from scratch, though not about to start curing my own bacon, making my own ketchup (has to be Heinz), nor making my own cheese!

Rivercam · 03/02/2015 12:04

I can't do value meats, and tend to buy standard supermarket brands, although would like to buy organic/free range.

Tomato soup and beans - Heinz

My boss used to buy those burgers in a bun which you microwave. Urgh! The smell made me feel sick.

I do tend to buy better quality tomatoes and carrots during winter, as sometimes the cheaper brands lack flavour off season.

worldgonecrazy · 03/02/2015 12:05

Asparagus out of season. It's just wrong.

Heinz baked beans.

Any fizzy drink made with sweeteners - ick.

Aranan · 03/02/2015 12:06

The food snob in me started to itch at the thought of pasta sauce in a jar and tea in bags..

JoanHickson · 03/02/2015 12:10

My food snobbery goes up and down with my income.Grin currently I am not feeling so snobby about organic as I once did.

Good coffee always wins out, though I do have instant once a day to lower caffeine and faff.

I prefer tins with a ring pull.

I won't compromise on birds eye frozen peas.

I also insist on butter over spreads.

Grumpyoldblonde · 03/02/2015 12:12

Tea, no compromise on my brand is acceptable, not snobby about much else as far as I can think.

NimpyWWindowmash · 03/02/2015 12:13

Cake

it has to made with butter. Not vegetable fat, or (shudder) oil

Otherwise I am not eating it.

I can SMELL it (and taste) if it's not real butter.

GlitzAndGigglesx · 03/02/2015 12:13

I don't buy value mince meat as I can taste the difference. Same with ketchup and mayo they have to be Heinz. And Dr Pepper and coke

NimpyWWindowmash · 03/02/2015 12:14

Furrydogmother, that President salted butter is best, BEST!

Lurpack don't even come close

GoooRooo · 03/02/2015 12:16

Heinz baked beans - always.

Bread from the baker. I will not have a sliced white plastic bread loaf in my house.

SweetValentine · 03/02/2015 12:16

Anchor butter
free range eggs
fresh pesto

scotchmincepie · 03/02/2015 12:19

Has to be butter. And sometimes I buy really nice butter in rounds in posh paper.

And sourdough bread from the local bakery - don't like anything else now. That's an expensive habit.

Meat I tend to only buy from M&S and occasionally the Co-op or the butcher - just don't like meat from elsewhere I can't touch it or cook it. I know that's weird.

Fish I'm less fussy about.

Ready meals (don't have that many mostly cook from scratch) - M&S.

Bought an organic free range chicken from there a couple of weeks ago - v. expensive but 3 of us for roast dinner and then a chicken pie for 4 with the stock from the bird and lo chicken. Not quite a magic chicken - but not bad- but not cheap. Can't buy a standard supermarket chicken.

OnlyLovers · 03/02/2015 12:22

Good bread, from a deli or farmers market. The 'bakery' stuff from Morrisons, Sainsburys etc does not cut it, no matter how many words like 'artisan', 'spelt', 'nutty' etc they chuck at it. DISCLAIMER I also adore the cheapest of cheap white sliced for specific things like bacon or ham sandwiches, Nutella sandwiches etc.

Peanut butter MUST be Sun-Pat. This isn't just cheap v expensive snobbery though; the worthy low-salt, low-fat, fair trade organic blah de blah ones from health-food shops don't darken my kitchen cupboards either.

Tea. Loose-leaf Darjeeling weighed out and bagged for me by knowledgeable staff in venerable purveyors' premises in Soho. ANOTHER DISCLAIMER I love a mug of builder's with fish and chips/in the pub/after a long cold walk.

Chocolate digestives MUST be McVities or There Is No Point.

Cheap sausages. Turn to wallpaper paste in your mouth. Grim.

MaxPepsi · 03/02/2015 12:23

Mayo has to be hellmans. Tomato ketchup must be heinz.
Everything else I've learnt to adapt to what my purse can afford or I do without until it's on offer!

trice · 03/02/2015 12:24

I am a giant food snob. All my meat comes from a speciality butcher, has to be grass fed. My veg is organic and or local or frozen. I make everything from scratch. I won't eat chocolate unless it is 85% or above. I try to stay gluten free even though I don't have food intolerance. Coffee has to be high mountain and water processed. Milk must be from a2 cows. I spend ages reading labels and fussing about additives.

I have a serious health problem though so I am aware that I am controlling the food I eat to control my health anxiety. (I am more than a bit mental).

SaucyJack · 03/02/2015 12:25

Hellman's mayo is the only thing I have major brand snobbery about.

Not that I buy it that often, cos when I do I just eat it out of the jar with a table tea spoon.

HappyAgainOneDay · 03/02/2015 12:27

You are all so lucky to have such a choice. I like Aldi's Village sliced wholemeal medium loaves at 55p, Hellman's mayonnaise because other brands are rubbish and everything else that I buy is cheapo......