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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??

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DamselNotInHerDress · 04/02/2015 09:37

I don't consider myself a food snob, I would eat anything anyone had cooked me and be polite and complimentary. I Imagine other people would call me one though.
I only buy organic meat. I buy a ham from the butchers and boil/glaze it myself. I dont buy processed/reformed meat although I do buy he dc organic sausages from the butchers. I've never liked sausages! Bacon and any other meat comes from the butcher or farmers market.

I don't buy jars of sauces or packets, readymeals, frozen food like nuggets/pizzas etc, I don't like the taste and I wouldn't feed the dc reformed MRM 'chicken'. Only buy organic eggs, butter and milk, make my own cakes as i know what's in them, make our own pizza bases and sauce rather than buy them.

I'm not a control freak though, outside of the house, when we go out for dinner (and yes I steer clear of lots of places I'd call 'horrible'!) the dc can eat what they want (nuggets and the like) though they tend to choose other things. They have had McDonald's and eaten at Pizza Hut before and do have their fair share of treats.

But at home, we eat well, use good ingredients and enjoy our food. I still don't think that makes me a snob!

CharleyFarleyy · 04/02/2015 09:48

Coffee has to be a known brand e.g kenco, nescafe... (DP who doesn't drink coffee got me £1 stuff once Hmm )

QTPie · 04/02/2015 09:52

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sashh · 04/02/2015 09:59

Tea and coffee.

I do not 'do' instant coffee at all. Tea I like to drink an actual blend of tea so Earl Grey or Darjeeling, preferably in a pot but I will take tea bags to work.

Ragwort · 04/02/2015 10:09

I am quite openly a 'food brand snob' in that I know what I like and hate compromising.

I spend at least £10+ a week on decent ground coffee, loathe instant, can just about drink it to be polite but I take my own individual coffee filters into work Grin. Bread must be fresh, bakery type bread. Real butter, proper 'vintage' cheddar, Heinz or C&B beans, 'premium' pasta - value pasta shapes are not the same as 'good' Italian pasta shapes. Birds Eye Petits Pois.

I genuinely believe that people can taste the difference between premium brands and value brands.

But sometimes I do love a Pizza Hut buffet lunch or a McD's Grin.

We are fortunate, we can afford to eat well, I choose to spend money on food and wine and buy clothes from charity shops, drive an ancient car & am not bothered about holidays. Grin

supershaz · 04/02/2015 10:10

Cornflakes cheap brands taste like soggy cardboard, coffee, tea, frozen peas, bread...... I'm more of a food snob than I thought Hmm

Bumbiscuits · 04/02/2015 10:24

I think Heinz sauces and soups and canned beans/spaghetti have a rather unpleasant and specific "Heinz" taste.

Branston beans are far better than Heinz IMO. After eating Branstons regularly you can really taste the additives in Heinz beans.

Baxter's tinned soup is better than Heinz though still not a patch on homemade.

I recently swapped from Lurpak spreadable to Graham's spreadable in order to buy a Scottish brand as I try to support my local sheriff Grin . It takes a second or two longer to become spreadable but the taste is definitely better.

I bought an own brand Nuttella for the kids once. They complained and I had a taste. They were correct, it was grim.

Mamab33 · 04/02/2015 13:27

Nimby and Furry

Is President butter better than organic supermarket brand?

bigbluestars · 04/02/2015 13:37

OP you can't be a foodie and like processed pasta sauce.

It is all rank.

Only1scoop · 04/02/2015 13:38

Nice 'pasta sauces' Grin

bigbluestars · 04/02/2015 13:38

Ditto with tinned soup.

SunnyBaudelaire · 04/02/2015 13:43

sorry it makes me laugh when people who describe themselves as 'food snobs' are fussy about which tin of baked beans they have. surely the terms 'food snob' and 'baked beans' simply cancel themselves out, no?

Naicecuppatea · 04/02/2015 13:43

I'm bad I suppose. I don't eat any ready meals/convenience food, ketchup, frozen convenience food, baked beans or standard bread. I like nice chocolate, 98% meat sausages, spreadable butter (no marge), nice yoghurt, and cheese, tea bags and coffee. I am not too much of a label snob though.

PaulaAtMummyKnowsBest · 04/02/2015 13:45

Mayo must be hellmans

Beans, tomato soup and ketchup must be Heinz

First coffee of the day must be

The children's squash must be hi juice or fresh juice.

I refuse to buy value/basics range

SunnyBaudelaire · 04/02/2015 13:46

I am a raging food snob but have to rein it in a bit being skint these days.
I would not have any tinned foods at all, other than certain fruits.
A baked bean would not get within a mile of my house back then! These days I buy Lidl own brand for the teens, what can I do?

WorldWhore1 · 04/02/2015 13:56

Can't eat cheap meat. Would rather just have a sandwich.

Won't eat margarine. Only buy Lurpak.

White bread tastes like plastic.

Anything that's frozen and beige in colour.

PrimalLass · 04/02/2015 13:57

OP you can't be a foodie and like processed pasta sauce.

You can. Loyd Grossman Tomato and Chilli sauce. Yum yum yum.

SunnyBaudelaire · 04/02/2015 13:58

yes but if you think that it is 'yum yum yum' then you are not a 'foodie'!
Although LG is probably the best of a bad bunch.

bigbluestars · 04/02/2015 14:00

"
You can. Loyd Grossman Tomato and Chilli sauce. Yum yum yum."

Exactly. GROSS man is well named.

PrimalLass · 04/02/2015 14:02

Nope. It is lovely.

PrimalLass · 04/02/2015 14:02

yes but if you think that it is 'yum yum yum' then you are not a 'foodie'!

Says who?

PrimalLass · 04/02/2015 14:04

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Foodie

Foodie
A douchebag who likes food.
Douchebag - "I'm a big foodie."
Non-doucher - "Really? I like food too, but I'm not a tool."

SunnyBaudelaire · 04/02/2015 14:04

"Says who?"
probably anyone in possession of a full set of taste buds who is interested in nice food?

PrimalLass · 04/02/2015 14:04

foodie
A person that spends a keen amount of attention and energy on knowing the ingredients of food, the proper preparation of food, and finds great enjoyment in top-notch ingredients and exemplary preparation.
A foodie is not necessarily a food snob, only enjoying delicacies and/or food items difficult to obtain and/or expensive foods; though, that is a variety of foodie.
Because he was a foodie, he liked to collect menus from restaurants which prepared food he enjoyed.
_

Doesn't say that you can't use a jar from time to time ...

SunnyBaudelaire · 04/02/2015 14:06

yeh I would not describe myself as a 'foodie' though, how can I when I buy Campo Largo baked Beans!!?

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