To think this should be considered a Food Crime?

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So I have just seen an advert for it and it reminded me how much I hate it. Jelly with fruit in it. Why? Why would you ruin jelly by putting fruit (that invariably goes soggy and mushy) in it? Just why? Same goes for yoghurt with fruity bits in it. Makes me feel sick just thinking about it. 😫

What foods do you feel have been ruined worldwide or by someone that you know?

I tried a Shakeaway once. They had Turkish Delight flavour and I love TD. I assumed they'd add a bit of rose essence to a chocolate milkshake or something.

No. They chucked a bar of Fry's Turkish Delight into a cup of milk and we all stood around listening to the high pitched whine of the blender as it struggled to blend this rock-hard lump of chocolate-coated jelly into something approaching a liquid.

I haven't been back to Shakeaway since.

DH's favourite pizza is tuna and pineapple. When we were first together and he revealed this to me, I had very serious doubts and continuing my relationship with him.

I have my toast so pale that my mother refers to it as "frightened bread"

My Mum used to feed my tinned fruit with caranation milk as a child. I cannot go anywhere near Carnation these days - it makes me gip. If I was really lucky on a special occassion we had Nestle tinned whipped cream instead,

"It seems perfectly normal to most people round here but chips with gravy, mushy peas, beans or cheese sounds rank. I hate soggy chips - they have to be greasy and well cooked (ie not anaemic) but not soggy."

I couldn't agree more, AndroidAddict - in fact, I would go further and say that gravy spoils anything crispy. It gives me actual, physical pain when I serve beautiful, crispy roast potatoes and yorkshire puddings to dh and the dses, and they pour gravy on them.

But I was raised in a gravy-free household, because my mother didn't like gravy. We were reluctantly allowed ketchup, on certain meals, but she commented every time about the amount of effort she had gone to in cooking the meal, only to have us 'ruin' it with ketchup. Apple sauce was allowable, with pork, ditto bread sauce with chicken or turkey, mustard with beef and parsley sauce with fish or gammon. But not a lot. And to this day, I like certain meals much drier than most people seem to like them.

I do make gravy for dh and the dses - and occasionally I have a small amount on my meal (but it has to be a nice gravy, made with proper stock and wine - not bisto), but it goes in a little pool on my plate, well away from anything crispy, so I can decide what I want gravied and what should not be.

However I also commit many of the food crimes mentioned on here. Dh is very scathing about my liking for wensleydale with mango and ginger. And I love Nutella on toast (especially toasted brioche), salted caramel, peanut butter in things (M&S peanut butter icecream is so delicious, I can't have it in the house - like another poster with peanut butter, I have NO off switch with this particular icecream), and I occasionally enjoy tinned spaghetti hoops on toast - I know it is in direct contradiction to my crispy things should stay crispy mantra - but I bloody love buttery toast with the sauce from the spaghetti hoops soaked into it. Or baked beans and their juice (I eat all the beans and then the squishy toast) - but I will not contemplate baked beans with a cooked breakfast - the juice gets everywhere and contaminates the whole thing.

The worst food crime I can think of is my mother's chopped jelly dessert. Three flavours of jelly, all chopped up finely, and layered in a bowl. Pretty much pre-chewed jelly. I hate jelly anyhow - it is disappointment in see-through, fruit flavoured form - but when chopped up, it is even worse.

Totally agree that eggs and tomatoes should have nothing to do with each other. I saw a recipe recently for tomato quiche, I can't imagine much worse.
HP fruity sauce is the only thing to have on scrambled egg btw and the egg has to be cooked with loads of butter.

M&S peanut butter icecream is so delicious, I can't have it in the house - like another poster with peanut butter, I have NO off switch with this particular icecream

A woman after my own freezer heart.

One of DH's favourite things is banana in jelly. Banana. Berries or oranges or something, I could understand, but bananas?! Just no.

I put Nestle caramel on bread and eat it. I also put it on slices of banana loaf.
I eat condensed milk out of the tin and sometimes add it to tea or coffee.
I always, ALWAYS get pineapple on my pizza.
I love fruits in jelly and yogurt.
I can eat bread with just plain mayo.
I also sometimes mix soured cream with sugar and put it on bread. Or put it in the bowl and pour some pureed banana on top.

But. Keep your disgusting beans to yourself. And weetabix. And poached eggs. And sprouts. Bleurgh.

People who start sentences with 'So', when it clearly isn't called for, is a bigger crime IMO...

Pineapple on pizza is massively wrong, but even worse is Yorkshire pudding with jam!

no, no no, Allalone - I have to make extra Yorkshires when I cook them so everyone can have one with jam on ( afterwards, not with the meal - like a pudding )

My friend and I invented the Findus Crispy Pancake toasty in about 1988. First fry your crispy pancake. Then butter two slices of bread, put in extra nuclear square cheese slices, and add the pancake as filler. Squash the whole lot into the toastie sandwich maker and toast. Eat with Daddies sauce.

Lush.

Afterwards we would chop up Marathon bars and put the bits in a bowl on top of cornflakes, and nuke it in the microwave. Mix, eat.

The late eighties, food heaven. Apart from Trio bars.

fruit and jelly kind of go

fruit and cheese - yes NEXT to the cheese

IN the cheese? Get To FUCK

I love trifle but can't stand the type with flaked almonds on top, not being into nuts. Hot rice pudding is acceptable but those cold little pots by Muller - foul beyond belief.

Pineapple on pizza is very very very right

Just as good is deep fried pineapple on batter from the fish shop

I'm also partial to a random cranberry

Raisins or whatever they are in hummus or cous cous. No thank you.
Also hot chocolate made with water. No, it should be made with hot milk, nice and creamy!

Grey, unbrowned meat. Shudder.

Primula. In particular the flavoured stuff. Who the fuck wants to eat prawn flavoured cheese?

peanut butter + chocolate = 16 kinds of wrong. No. Stop it at once

Eh?? What is this insanity?? Haven't you ever eaten Reeses ...

Whoever was saying about the chips 'n curry sauce. It's one of the foods of the Gods BUT I'm with you on the crunchy, so I dip each chip into the pot of sauce, NEVER tip it over the chips.

I've found a Chinese takeaway near me who a) do decent Chinese food (an absolute the RARITY in the SE of England) b) deliver & c) do FANTASTIC crunchy chips & curry sauce.

Now I need to find a company who do supersized front doors 😁

Reeses. Just the once. I was looking forward to trying one, salivating...it was THE most disgusting thng is eaten in a long time. Bleurgh! and I LOVE chocolate & peanut butter.

My Mum used to feed my tinned fruit with caranation milk as a child

Consider yourself lucky ... my mum used Nestles tinned cream (is anyone else old enough to remember that?) and considered herself right posh when she eventually moved on to the proper, fresh stuff

Haven't read the full thread yet - I wonder what other horrors lurk??

Puzzled - snap with the carnation milk and tinned fruit ( always with a cherry in that no - one wanted) But my Mum went on to ElmLea.....bleurgh

as a student and 20-something I loved chopped fish fingers , grated cheese & sweetcorn in a baked potato with black pepper! I'd prob still eat it now. Also tinned spag on toast (carbs on carbs). Love a chip in runny egg, but no gravy on my chips or yorkshires please!!