food snobs anonymous

[magnolia99]

Now this isn't really the most serious post as I pretty much admit I'm being dreadfully dramatic, but AIBU to be a totally unintentional food snob - Turned my nose up at a canned spaghetti toasted sandwhich the other day and it got me thinking that I may be one of 'those' people with haughty food opinions. I do the whole 'no mass produced babyfood' thing, the 'how dare you' response to caged/cruelty meat, and have a toddler known to cry for truffle tortellini.

Anyone else suffering this affliction want to share their stories - it may make me feel less like a terrible person!

I wouldn't eat that either but I don't consider myself a food snob.

I don't eat anything processed though...so maybe I am one after all!

But then again...to label someone who eats healthily as a snob seems ridiculous. I made all my babies' food myself. No jars at all and we eat a lot of organic, locally grown things but that's because we're in a position to do so.

Some people aren't.

I hardly think turning your nose up at a canned spaghetti toastie makes you a food snob. The question is do you buy your truffle tortellini from Lidl or do you make your own?

@hoteleuphoria Is it possible for one to buy truffle tortelini Lidl? I think F&M do a decent one but prefer homemade
(I hope people take this thread with a grain of salt...)

I am by no means a food snob. As in i enjoy angel delight, sandwich spread and a donner kebab like the next self respecting northerner. But i wouldn't eat tinned spaghetti /pot noodles or the such like. Surely its just personal preference

You cannot be a food snob if you even know people who might offer a canned spaghetti toasted sandwich.

I do have some food snobby tendencies but happily eat all sorts of rubbish too including canned spaghetti on toast but a canned spaghetti toastie, presumably made in a breville type machine, sounds so bizarre, just why?

Did the person who made it have a breville but no normal toaster?

There is a huge thread in classics about making toasties and I bet canned spaghetti is not one of the suggestions. Was there cheese in there too? Wasn't it incredibly messy to eat?

Crumbs - Friend's son is at boarding school in New Zealand - tuck shop there is more than a bit laissez-faire with culinary standards

I too would turn my nose up at a canned spaghetti toastie, it sounds disgusting. However, I'm about to have a sunday breakfast treat of spam fritters, so I don't see myself as a food snob.

I think they do have truffle tortellini in Lidl. Their Deluxe range includes all sorts of naice treats.

(said evil toastie was purchased by friends son and has since been requested at home, she, like I, was a tad horrified)

Magnolia, I hope you mean a grain of Himalayan pink salt?

I may be one, as I didn't realise spaghetti came in a can. Now that I think about it, I've seen the little kid tins but never full ones aimed at adults. Now I wonder what other tinned wonders lurk down that aisle.

Canned spaghetti sounds rank but I do love spaghetti hoops so maybe I am a hypocrite.

Tinned spaghetti is an abomination, they've got a cheek to even call it spaghetti, so I'm with you on that one.

Himalayan pink salt? . Only vanilla from Madagascar will do as well.

Until this interaction I wasn't aware spaghetti came canned. Aparently its in the same sauce as those supermarket baked beans slop they love to dish out heartily at boarding school. A spaghetti toasty is literally carbs inside carbs in a sugary tomatoe sauce? And obviously the salt is shavedpink himalayan - not the big slabs we use to cook the steak on

Lidl truffle tortellini is really nice. So is tinned spaghetti on toast, but only Tesco long cut, not hoops.

I can't be arsed to be a food snob. I cook "from scratch" 😉 most nights, but then sometimes you just want crappy junk food. Everything in moderation.

Plus, how can you be a food snob when you can get all the wanky ingredients from any old shop. I buy pink Himalayan salt from B&M and Madagascan vanilla from Lidl.

I can't actually believe someone has never heard of tinned spaghetti!

"the salt is shavedpink himalayan - not the big slabs we use to cook the steak on"

Whoa, what? You can cook steak on salt??

Here is my story. We live very close to a very cute street bursting with lovely restaurants, independent delis, bakers, a fishmonger, cake shops etc. There is also a Percy Ingle.

Every time we walk down it with FIL, he spies the Percy Ingle window with its somewhat sad offering of cakes, and turns to us all with a big smile saying "ooooh! Lots of nice looking things in there!"

I must be a huge food snob because it really pisses me off! Of all the amazing food on offer on that street, he goes for a day-old deflated eclair?!

Oh believe me, being a food snob is not limited to wanky ingredients. Its the mentality of it. Personally prefer buying individual vanilla beans and extracting it myself - easier to tell the origin of the product and control the flavours.

www.naturallivingideas.com/himalayan-salt-block/ - works wonders really!

I am a bit of a food snob, can't use sauces from a jar, have to make real gravy, make my own houmas. Can't resist jacket potato with cheesy beans and brown sauce though!

Carbs inside carbs

Exactly! My first thought was, "A bread sandwich?"

Oh tinned spaghetti is amazing. Hoops or with sausages... Even better. In a toastie though? No.

I love spaghetti hoops on toast, it's a great can't be bothered meal.

I really would recommend a baked bean toastie. I was introduced to them as a child.

I am not a food snob.