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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Fruit and meat is WRONG.

137 replies

TattyDevine · 22/03/2016 19:01

Wrong, wrong wrong.

Lamb and watermelon salad - wrong.
Chicken and mango - very very wrong indeed.
Sultanas in a curry...really, must you?
Pork belly with rhubarb and cucumber - just why would you?

Ham and pineapple pizza - fine, okay then, if you must. Pineapple on a gammon steak - why would you if you could have a dippy egg? But once again, if you absolutely must.

AIBU?

OP posts:
nancy75 · 22/03/2016 19:16

Banana in curry ShockShockShock I'm phoning the food police

CrotchetQuaverMinim · 22/03/2016 19:16

I love all these things too, sweet and savoury together, especially meat and fruit. yum.

nancy75 · 22/03/2016 19:16

Apple on your roast dinner bleurgh

londonrach · 22/03/2016 19:16

Sour!!!!!! (Puts dw40 on dyslexic brain. )

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 22/03/2016 19:17

Yanbu

Meat and fruit together - just no. No no no.

londonrach · 22/03/2016 19:17

Wd40.... (Hits the chocolate!).

SugarplumMary · 22/03/2016 19:17

Dp thinks fruit in cake is odd

Fruit I expect - it''s vegetables in cake recipes I've now found since having DC that took me by surprise. Courgettes in chocolate cake being a now favourite.

Alisvolatpropiis · 22/03/2016 19:17

Yanbu!

2016namechangecomingalong · 22/03/2016 19:18

YANBU fruit and neat should never be eaten with the exception of melon and Parma ham.
Spoils a good bit of meat imho. Yuck!

SqueegyBeckinheim · 22/03/2016 19:18

YANBU, it's so very very wrong.

I love Moroccan style lamb, except it's always got blooming dried apricots in it so I can't have it.

The only exception I can think of is duck with plum sauce,but plum sauce doesn't actually taste of plums. As to pineapple on pizza, it's an abomination.

BoreOfWhabylon · 22/03/2016 19:18

YABU. I make a superb beef and banana curry. 'tis delicious.

Roussette · 22/03/2016 19:19

Pork and apple sauce - died and gone to heaven.

Curry and bananas - no no no. Makes me think of our dear old Mum, her curries were full of bananas and sultanas and really reminded me of fruit salad with curry sauce {grin}

LifeofI · 22/03/2016 19:20

I eat tomato with nearly everything, havent you eaten it with a fry up? Thats got meat in it.
I use to get from a cafe an avocado and bacon sandwich was nice.
It depends really on the fruit, with the suggestions you made above they dont sound very nice.

Roussette · 22/03/2016 19:20

figs, goats cheese, wrapped in parma ham - yes to that too

misskatamari · 22/03/2016 19:20

Yabu! Although I live with a dh who adds banana to pizza, so my view may be a little warped :)

nancy75 · 22/03/2016 19:20

Beef and banana curry?? What is wrong with you peopleShock

YellowTulips · 22/03/2016 19:21

Duck a l'orange????

Sorry OP YABU - apart from ham and pineapple pizza which is an abomination.

BoreOfWhabylon · 22/03/2016 19:23

It's absolutely delicious Nancy, I promise.

It also contains peanut butter and cooks down to a lovely satay-type sauce.

Katarzyna79 · 22/03/2016 19:23

ive never had sultanas in a curry but sultanas in pilaus and biryanis are devine and quite normal, in Asian and middle eastern food, surprisingly tasty. we used to add sultanas and almond to our pilaus growing up i still do that's how i was taught.

ive used raw mango in curry, is used by Chinese, thai, indopaks, also good in salads.

not weird really, is duck and plum weird lots of folks eat that? ive never tried it but my cousin has had it a few times because her husband makes it ,she says its delicious is it?

banna curry as in plantain? ive used plantain in curry it takes a bit like something in between edoes and potatoes if cooked in a curry, not bad.

but grilled plantain with just a lick of oil is pure comfort food served with jolof rice its devine!

ive come across watermelon curry not convinced to cook it yet though i reckon id be the only one eating it lol i wonder is it a curry or more like a spicy salad?

Katarzyna79 · 22/03/2016 19:25

papaya in curry or in salad think thai salad is amazing too ;)

MakingJudySmile · 22/03/2016 19:25

Pineapple on pizza is wrong and needs to be outlawed

Is the chicken and mango hot? If so I don't think I could, hot mango seems to close to the evils of pineapple on pizza. But chicken and mango cold is ok with me

So far mentioned
Banana in curry
Sultanas in curry
Figs / goats cheese
Pork and apple
Turkey and cranberry
Melon and Parma
Others

All fine

BankWadger · 22/03/2016 19:25

In most cases OP YADNBU blocks out memories of pork casserole with pineapple or savoury rice with sultanas in. Who the hell taught my mother to cook?
However. You MUST make an exception for banana pancakes with bacon and maple syrup.

Ohh yes and the duck in plum sauce from the Chinese place.

And chicken banana curry.

and ham and pineapple pizza

wigglesrock · 22/03/2016 19:26

Nope - sorry have to have the bananas in the curry - you can blame my Mum - banana, sultanas, desecrated coconut Wink all staples.

Bulletpr00f · 22/03/2016 19:26

YANBU. This is a huge pet hate of mine which I think started with duck a la orange....why oh why oh why would anyone think that combination worked? I was an excited eight year old told by my mum how posh and delicious it was. It wasn't.

Then again this is the mum that one year later when I wanted to eat steak in a restaurant for the first time, ordered me a halibut steak. 30 years later and i'm still disappointed with that meal.

BankWadger · 22/03/2016 19:27

And red pepper in chilli dishes