To ask about your food snob specifics.

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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

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

What about every one else??

Ketchup and mayo. Basically anything that's not Heinz I can't abide.

Curry sauces or pasta sauces from jars! Before I met DP (who insists on making his own) I honestly didn't believe you could make better yourself. Now when I'm at mums and she uses a jar of sauce it tastes SO sweet to me, like it's absolutely full of sugar.

Coffee and tea I can't drink cheapie either. I wish I could though with the amount of bloody loose tea and Nespresso capsules we go through.

I'm very fussy about coffee and bread. Instant coffee doesn't count, I see it as a hot drink, not coffee.

We used to use only Hellman's mayonnaise but have been seduced by the Heinz version.

Cats will eat only Whiskas . They are much snobbier than us
Tested DH once on Sainsbury's own brand whiskey against his supposed preferred brand .Sainsbury's came out best (he can tell the difference with the posh stuff).
Have to have dry cure bacon , free range organic eggs, organic meat (we don't eat much meat) I like to think they've had a happy life and aren't stuffed with nasties
Can't eat cheap rubbery cheddar.
I like M and S bread . Sliced white is essential for bacon butties though.

Must be PG tips (had to use up MIL Yorkshire tea when she died-you don't waste food in our house- and neighbour's Typhoo ditto .Yuck .I do like Earl Gray if I'm making it just for me. With lemon .
Choccie onesides have to be Mc Vities
Also Heinz beans and Ketchup and Hellmans .
Tested Aldi orange liqueur against Cointreau the other day and I can't tell the difference (use it only for cocktails, she says grandly).

Twinings teabags, Tampax tampons, diet Coke, Heinz ketchup, HP sauce.

I don't think it's snobbery but I'd rather have no meat than cheap meat.

It you buy certain things because you prefer the taste or the way they've been grown/produced, that's not snobbery. That's just having a preference.

Only drinking an expensive brand of sparkling water is snobbery because they surely all taste pretty much the same.

Tea. That's about it. I wouldn't buy value meat though, and I only buy free range eggs.

If you insist on Heinz ketchup then try the organic version. It ruins you for all other ketchup forever. I could eat it off a spoon.

Oh and I'm anti food snob when it comes to chocolate. Absolutely LOVE cheapie chocolate like Kinnerton etc.

Wilkin and Sons Tiptree ketchup - tastes of tomatoes and makes Heinz taste of vinegar and sugar.
Can't stand Hellmanns mayonnaise. I want something which at least vaguely resembles the real stuff. I tend to get a Maille mustard one, but would be open to others.

Meat must be good quality. Sausages and bacon I get from Hinton Marsh farm. All our at comes from the farmers' market. Milk too.

Can't eat processed ham. Or bread. I get bread from Hobbs House- they do a sliced loaf!

Only free-range eggs and only British meat, absolutely no imported meat ever. Would rather not have any.

I am snobby about butter(not marge) coffee (lavazza or illy if i am feeling flush)eggs (must be free range) and milk (must be organic). Also like heinz beans and ketchup and I do think pricey tomatoes taste better.

Sat chuckling at this thread.

Cheap tinned tomatoes aren't worth the tin they're in. Instant coffee has to be nescafe in some form. Branston beans. Always John West tinned tuna. Super markets' own tins have far less actual tuna in them.

Do think some commenters should look into the meanings of free range and organic. A food being organic, even a meat, has very little to do with animal welfare. Organic meats are often not even free range.

I not sure my preferences are posh enough to be classed as food snobbery but...

Country Life spreadable butter
Nescafe Azera for instant coffee
Yorkshire Tea
Decent bread - I very rarely eat bread unless I'm out in the morning of a weekend & buy some

Will only eat mince if I've bought & cooked it myself, and with the exception of Heinz Cream of Tomato or Chicken if I'm poorly, I only eat homemade soup these days.

Not keen on processed stuff generally. My mum sometimes liked to help up by picking up bits for lunch boxes when she goes shopping & I have to try & hide my face.

We're on a tight budget so it's cheapo nasty all the way.

Except coffee. I won't have coffee at MIL's. It's just vile. Morrison's Smart Value Price or something. Horrible. My dad bought some tin of something the other day that was equally undrinkable. I think that was some 'high-end' Nescafe product but it was awful.

Juice drinks. Why ffs. Just have juice, or better still, water.

In this house we've cut back a lot and swapped for cheaper brands. but I won't settle for anything other than clipper organic tea, DH only likes Kenco Blue coffee, we'd rather go without beans unless they are Branston. And I'm a big ketchup snob. Has to be Tiptree Wilkins & Sons ketchup

Must have Maldon sea salt, Kerrygold butter for cooking - constantly seek out homemade butters for spreading, higher welfare meat, real coffee, no processed food - no additives, even the dog's diet is additive free, homemade bread, must have artisan cheese.

Sea salt, nothing else comes close to it; too chemically.
Proper bread not evil Warburtons, Kingsmill or the like, again chemical tasting.( although M& S white sliced makes good toast.
Real butter, Lidls is good.
Free range eggs from real free range hens.
Carrots from local produce stall on market, actually taste of something.
English apples and pears in season.
Schweppes tonic water, there is no comparison.
Branston Beans.
Findus petite poi's.
HP brown sauce, the others are vile.

Heinz ketchup....can't handle that cheap supermarket own brand vinegar-laced stuff.... Bleeuurrggggg. PG Tips tea bags are the only acceptable means to make a cup of tea in my house - I can literally smell if my hubby has tried to sneak a grotty tetley bag in on the sly....

Oh yea....I'm also an insufferable coffee snob....costa coffee just does not cut the mustard...when costa is my only option ie. At Motorway services, I have to sit and wallow in a moment of sheer dispair in my car before I eventually pull myself together and drink it anyway :( . Starbucks, in all it's overpriced, tax-evading glory is heaven in a cup.

Warburtons crumpets only. Nothing else is like a proper crumpet.

Fairy liquid. A bottle lasts for months.

I'm a tea snob too, has to be a good Assam.

DH must have coke zero. Diet coke or Pepsi max will NOT do.
I am fussy with chocolate: even trashy chocolate needs to be Cadbury, preferably Irish imported. The mint crisp is best.
Beans = Heinz.
Marmite, never own brand "Yeast extract"
Instant coffee: Azera or Kenco only.
Indian dried groceries (pulses/spices) - must be Natco ideally and not "East End" which are inferior.

I buy my tea from Fortnums.
I live in a 3 bedroom terrace and drive a 14 year old bashed up Ford.
Insane.
But SUCH GOOD TEA.

Decent coffee. Organic eggs. Organic chicken.

Real coffee
Real butter
Good quality and higher welfare meat
Dry cure bacon, not Danish
Sausages with at least 90% meat
Birds eye frozen peas
Fairy liquid

However, given a ranging hangover a caf breakfast with dodgy sausage and bacon, white bread and marg and ketchup that is mostly vinegar is heavenly. Still won't drink instant coffee though.

I am a hypocrite