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food snobs anonymous

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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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Moussemoose · 09/04/2017 13:01

Truffle tastes like sex. It's yummy.

Food snob - chicken on pizza is an abomination.

limitedperiodonly · 09/04/2017 13:22

I go to Bologna a lot. Food snob heaven and a really nice compact city with good bars (unusual for Italy) and a proud history from medieval times to present day - the memorial at the town hall of pictures of the partisans who were murdered by the Nazis will will make you weep at their brave black and white faces now gone forever.

After five days of lunch and dinner, my husband and I felt like Hansel and Gretel being fattened for slaughter by the witch. We'd stopped for an early lunch on the way to the airport though I couldn't eat another bloody morsel.

The owner said he'd tempt me with fried eggs, dippy bread and shavings of truffle. I thought just the sight would make me puke. But it was great. He gave me a piece of truffle about the size of a thumb knuckle to take home Smile

limitedperiodonly · 09/04/2017 13:29

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

Same here. I take in my own cutlery because theirs taste metallic. I know that doesn't seem to make sense, mine is metal too, but theirs seems to spark off my lips.

I'm fussy about drinking glasses and mugs, too. We go to a favourite beach on holiday and you can't take glasses onto the beach. I hate the waxed paper cups you have to have from the bar. So the bar makes my gin and tonic in my own plastic beaker and puts in just the right amount of ice. I am trusted to take the glass bottle of tonic away with me because it's hard to break and they know I'll thow it in the bin when finished.

AnoiseAnnoysanOyster · 09/04/2017 13:39

I am a tea snob come to think of it. I do like a good strong cup of tea and the likes off Tetley and Typhoo etc just don't do it.

toomuchtvandsocialmedia · 09/04/2017 13:47

Another tea snob here- it has to be made with tea leaves in a pot? I have recently started purchasing high quality tea online so I get actual leaves rather than the dust that passes for supermarket leaf tea. It is my treat to myself as I reckon I deserve it Grin

tabbymog · 09/04/2017 14:06

Tinned spaghetti reminds me of childhood treats! Dad was the cook in our house, and he was a great plain cook. Something as exotic as tinned spaghetti was a treat, but I'd never think of putting it in a toasted sandwich now. We didn't have toastie makers back then.

limitedperiodonly · 09/04/2017 15:42

I only ate tinned spaghetti at friends' houses and it was neither here nor there. I preferred baked beans.

That said, I could see how it would make a good toastie with a lot of the sauce drained off and the addition of grated cheese. Especially when suffering with a hangover

GoingQuietlyInsane · 09/04/2017 22:54

strongandlong you are right, PI isn't bad. Their bread, the round one with bits in it (food snob alert!!!!!) is incredible.

I think I just find FIL a bit annoying and will find any excuse to internally roll my eyes #notafoodsnobjustabitch

SelenaValentina · 09/04/2017 23:26

Decades ago, when you did a school 'foreign exchange' you lived as part of a family for 3 weeks. I was going to Southern Germany and our German teacher informed us that they eat, inter alia, 'pasta'. We ask - what?

My DM, bless her, buys a tin of spaghetti in tomato sauce (contradiction in terms!). The whole family looks at it in horror whilst I try and eat it (actually, once covered in HP it was almost edible). This happened a few times 'to get the taste'.

Arrive for exchange somewhat worried about food. Discovered that tinned spaghetti bears absolutely no relation to the wonderful Spaetzele. And thank you, Lidl, for it being in the Alpenfest week!

Toadinthehole · 10/04/2017 01:52

New Zealanders eat all manner of frightful things, tinned spaghetti being the least of a multitude of evils.

Surprisingly, for a farming nation, we also turn up our noses at offal, but will eat tonnes of CMOT Dibbler sausages containing nose, balls, anus, ears, hooves, eyeball, and whoever knows what else.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 10/04/2017 02:14

I grew up on a farm where we grew our own fruit and vegetables, bottled surplus fruit, made butter and cheese from unpasteurised milk from our own cows and got eggs from our own free range ducks and hens. All grown up I now buy all food from Marks and Spencer or Waitrose, usually organic, but comments such as

ds1, aged about eight once interrogated a waiter about the cheese that had been proffered for the top of his Spaghetti Bolognaise

"is that real Parmesan???"
and
"well no one likes ready grated!" complete with a horrified face to emphasise the point
Dh was laughing his head off in the corner

make me want to go to Spar and buy Angel Delight , Findus Crispy Pancakes and Smash (if they are still made)

A spaghetti toasty is literally carbs inside carbs in a sugary tomatoe sauce?

It's tomato sauce- if you are going to sneer at other people's food choices best get the spelling correct.

kali110 · 10/04/2017 02:16

Have some people really never heard of spaghetti in a tin Confused
Though i don't have it often i don't think it's vile, prefer it over beans.
Actually may even try the toastie, i'm intrigued!
oh and i also love Parmesan shavings! ( infact cheese in any form)

kali110 · 10/04/2017 02:17

LassWiTheDelicateAir no, you can't get findus anymore!
For bad food, i used to love them!
Reminded me of childhood Grin

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 10/04/2017 02:21

They were very bad indeed !

I'm a bit Hmm as well about the people who have never heard of tinned spaghetti. (Wonder if Heinz still makes tinned potato salad)

kali110 · 10/04/2017 02:24

I used to love them, even as an adult! ( only the one flAvour though).

kiwiscantfly · 10/04/2017 02:32

In defence of spaghetti in a can (and crazy NZ food choices) ours tastes way better than uk spaghetti hoops do. Canned spaghetti is just as popular as baked beans here. And while I will never vote for a Tory prime minister I do love his pizza toppings! Made a spaghetti pineapple and ham pizza a few weeks back and my six year old turned up her nose. I may not be a foodie snob but I hah raised one lol.

melj1213 · 10/04/2017 02:56

I'm very Hmm at people claiming never to have even heard of tinned spaghetti ... maybe you've never tried it but to have never heard of it? Have you never been in a supermarket in your lives?

I always have a tin of beans, a tin of tuna and a tin of spaghetti in the cupboard, if nothing else, because beans/spaghetti on toast is a great quick meal in a pinch and all of them tend to have relatively lengthy shelf lives.

BarbaraofSeville · 10/04/2017 03:11

Exactly, melj how can people not know about such things?

Likewise those who say things like 'I didn't know anyone still ate spam, Angel Delight, Crispy Pancakes or Smash'

But then again, if you shop online and don't buy it, maybe it is possible for these to pass them by? I don't do online shopping, CBA to think and plan in advance for it and I don't mind a nosy in the supermarket or do the shopping in person.

user1471481356 · 10/04/2017 05:28

I'm in Australia, we must have totally different tinned spaghetti here, because tinned spaghetti toasties/jaffles are amazing! With lots of cheese and pepper. And not messy at all!

Tinned spaghetti pizza though Hmm but spaghetti bolagbese on pizza is fantastic!

Trollspoopglitter · 10/04/2017 08:38

I don't know how to rest of you shop, but I shop for things in my list (whether written or mental list). I don't peruse aisle by aisle, looking at random stuff on the shelf I actually have no need to purchase. I also don't purchase nor eat baked beans (not from uk as you can tell) and wouldn't be able to tell you what's down the tinned veg aisle either, as we buy frozen. Not that hard to comprehend.

sueelleker · 10/04/2017 09:47

Went to Belgium with my primary school when I was 9, (in the 60's)and they served us plain spaghetti. None of us had ever seen it before, only tinned. We ended up putting tomato ketchup on it to try and make it taste familiar.

luckylucky24 · 10/04/2017 09:59

I am in a sense. I know people bang on about Aldi and Lidl but the food there I find to be well below standard with the exception of snacks and chocolate. Same in Asda, I find the meat in particular poor quality.
I really dislike brewers fayre pubs but don't mind hungry horse.
Happy to eat tinned spaghetti as long as it is Heinz. I have tried others and they are vile.

Limitededition7inch · 10/04/2017 10:19

I hate all this competitive food snobbery. It just makes people sound quite unlikeable: who doesn't know that tinned spaghetti and smash exist, ffs?!

And I would absolutely DIE if my 8 year old spoke to a waiter in the way a PP has mentioned.

strongandlong · 10/04/2017 10:26

Kali you can still get fundus crispy pancakes. Yum.

Limitededition7inch · 10/04/2017 10:29

Is it just me or do Findus crispy pancakes not taste as good? I had a major craving for them a few years ago and was just disappointed. I admit that as a 33 year old my tastes may be somewhat different to when I was 8.

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