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food snobs anonymous

115 replies

magnolia99 · 09/04/2017 06:39

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 Grin - Turned my nose up at a canned Shock spaghetti Shock 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!

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ShowMePotatoSalad · 09/04/2017 08:52

I have no qualms tucking in to a McDonalds or KFC but I have to buy organic mayo from the posh shop.

BrieAndChilli · 09/04/2017 08:53

And DD likes those little packs of sushi from M&S that come with the little bottles of soy sauce for her lunchbox. And olives with lemon slices for her fruit snack at break time!

BrieAndChilli · 09/04/2017 08:54

She's 8

shoofly · 09/04/2017 08:56

Very small ds2 in posh deli, whinging "ovs (olives),Mummy, ovs peese" I really wanted to tell the sneery looking woman beside me. "It's ok, his big brother only eats chicken nuggets...."

TroysMammy · 09/04/2017 09:01

I'm a tea snob. I won't give Tetley, PG Tips or Typhoo the time of day. We had Teagate in work a few weeks ago because one of my colleagues admitted she had been making tea with gifted Typhoo teabags. I could tell they weren't Russian Caravan or Kenyan. Horrified wasn't the word.

SecretNortherner · 09/04/2017 09:15

Canned spaghetti toaster? That's a thing Hmm.
My oh always says I'm a food snob... he eats meat from a tin. It's nearly a deal breaker for me.

strongandlong · 09/04/2017 09:19

I'm pretty sure I know the street you mean GoingQuietly. I walked down there during the week and was struck by the constant of Percy Ingle and that amazing fishmonger. I was amazed by how thoroughly it's gentrified since I was last there (probably 15 years ago. God I'm old).

I feel I must stick up for PI. It's old school, but good stuff. They do London Cheesecakes, which are my favourite childhood throughback treat, and pretty much impossible to find these days.

LBOCS2 · 09/04/2017 09:37

I think DD1 is the good snob in our household; like a poster upthread she'll eat sushi but not fishfingers and her breakfast today was chicken liver parfait on brioche Confused

I, on the other hand, had a snack-a-jack and a Rolo yoghurt. With proper coffee. Has to be proper coffee Wink

LBOCS2 · 09/04/2017 09:38

Food snob. Not good. I really must start previewing my posts.

Ginosaji · 09/04/2017 09:42

Unless its canned spaghetti hoops on the toast then yabvvu Grin

dinosaursandtea · 09/04/2017 09:52

More importantly, where are you getting your truffle tortellini from? Now it's all I want....

anon050 · 09/04/2017 10:09

I prefer my tinned spaghetti on top of two slices of toast but never as a toasted sandwhich. Only baked beans are suitable to go in a toasted sandwich as far as I'm concerned.

NatalieRushman · 09/04/2017 10:22

Brieandchilli I think your dd would get on smashing with the food snob in my house! Except she'll only eat the ones from waitrose because "the M&S one has dry rice". Eventually we found out that Costco do massive catering boxes by the same brand, so buy those ones now and decant them into little bento boxes for her packed lunch. We also have to buy pickled ginger from the Asian shop because the pickled ginger has to be pink.

MoonriseKingdom · 09/04/2017 10:27

I'd never heard of Percy Ingle or London Cheesecake. Are they darn Sarf things?

I'm not a food snob but canned spaghetti is the devil's work. I couldn't even eat it as a child.

CaoNiMartacus · 09/04/2017 10:40

How would a canned spaghetti toastie even work? It sounds like a recipe for disaster. And so carby. Vom.

MollyHuaCha · 09/04/2017 10:43

I am a shocking food snob (sorry!). If it's going into your body and through your digestive system, you should definitely choose only food you like the look of.

I'm aware millions of people in the world cannot choose their diet. If someone was starving, a canned spaghetti sandwich would be most welcome. Otherwise, it sounds over processed and unhealthy.

strongandlong · 09/04/2017 11:02

Yes, Moonrise.Percy Ingle is a venerable north/east London bakery chain.

London cheesecake is delicious. Mmm puff pastry...

MoonriseKingdom · 09/04/2017 11:12

Thanks strong. That sounds rather nice to me. Every day's a school day Grin

Blumkin · 09/04/2017 11:13

I realised I may have a food snob problem when dd was 3. We were round a friends house and she was cooking dinner for her dc and my dd. She opened he freezer and asked me if dd liked fish fingers

Me - oh, I assume so, she happily eats any poached fish but has never tried a fish finger

Friend - does she like smiley potato faces?

Me- smiley potato faces, what are they? She eats normal potatoes so I guess she'll eat them?

Friend - exasperated voice I've got frozen peas, your bed has had frozen peas before?

Frillyhorseyknickers · 09/04/2017 11:14

Generally, if you have to refer to yourself as any kind of snob you're just a social climber in the making.

Fwiw, the fact that you know anyone who a) owns tinned spaghetti (which country are you in!?) and b) thinks putting spaghetti in a sandwich and toasting it is in anyway acceptable suggests you are not a snob of any description.

Also, truffle (in any form) tastes like kerosene. People buy and eat it because they thinks it puts you up there with the big dogs. It doesn't, it just makes you an idiot who pays a lot of money for petrol-tasting mushrooms. Biscuit

PhilODox · 09/04/2017 11:25

I'm so glad AnnieAnoniMouse posted. I was wondering if tinned spaghetti was different over there after the pizza revelations!
I haven't eaten (UK) tinned spaghetti in 40 years, and don't intend to ever do so. I'm the least snobbish person when food is involved. It's not a snobbish thing it's a disgusting taste thing!

Original poster
magnolia99 · 09/04/2017 12:11

Frillyhorseyknickers goodness gracious what a rather large chip on your shoulder! This thread is really in good faith and should be taken light heartedly, because I always laugh at myself for being unintenionally pretentoius (was raised by snobs and am trying to do their handiwork.)

The tinned spaghetti, as repeatedly stated, was not actually owned by anyone I know - not that it matters - but consumed by a child at boarding school half a world away. Aparently it tastes different there, and given their conservative prime minister puts it on pizza, I'd assume standards are different - again, not that it matters.

Furthermore, anyone who thinks truffles taste of anything other than ambrosia, is, quite frankly, a twat. I'm sorry to be vulgar, but bearing such a cross about a delicious food to avoid being seen as snobby is absurd. You're depriving yourself. Truffle tortellini, burnt butter, sage, glass of good wine - you'll thank me.

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limitedperiodonly · 09/04/2017 12:17

They do London Cheesecakes, which are my favourite childhood throughback treat, and pretty much impossible to find these days.

Thank God. My mum used to bring these home when she worked in Bartons. There's only one thing worse than a London Cheesecake, and it's a stale London Cheesecake

Headofthehive55 · 09/04/2017 12:54

My DD alarmed her fellow students by putting her celariac in the fridge ready to make soup. They were worried it really was a mandrake.

nbee84 · 09/04/2017 12:59

Similar vein - at work I hate eating my soup with a dessert spoon because they don't have soup spoons Grin