Weird food combos

[MrsMaxwell]

DH isn’t very confident when it comes to cooking. So if he does cook I try to just leave him to it.

He’s been off work for two weeks and at home (he’s in the forces and lives on base so when he’s home he’s not working but I am).

He’s been cooking dinner every night for the first time in 8 years which is great.

But he does some really weird food combos. Pie with baked beans (two wet things?) and chops with mash and cauliflower cheese (two carbs?) are two examples.

I wouldn’t and haven’t said anything but WTAF?

Yes but I wouldn’t have gravy with beans.

I love eggs and beans

But...but...it's two wets!

OP in your food rules, if you can’t have two wets, do you have a wet and a dry? What about two drys together? Two drys and a wet??

What about apple pie and custard, by your reckoning that’s two wets

Mustard and mayo on a sandwich. Double wet.

Ummm.... I think it's just you, op.

I'm a Southerner and I wouldn't dream of eating pie without gravy or beans. And mash doesn't count as a "wet" - if it does, you're making it too runny.

Chops with mash and cauli cheese is fine too, imo, although I'd probably have some carrots too, just to add a bit of colour.

Oh gawd, just twigged that it's the PIE that is the 2nd wet!

No way is a decent pie a wet. A cheapo shop-bought pie, where the filling is 90% gelatinous gravy and 10% gristle, might, just conceivably be a wet, but a "proper" pie shouldn't be scarcely wet at all.

The little bit of moistness that is a prerequisite of a pie filling is encased in lush pastry, and pastry is definitely a dry (and a crispy dry, at that). Therefore, when taken as a whole, a pie is much closer to the dry end of the wet/dry continuum than the wet, and must therefore be considered as a dry food, to all intents and purposes.

I have discussed this with DP, and he agrees with me, so we must be right.

Mash isn’t a wet.

They're not weird at all OP. It's hardly tuna on cereal.

What's with all the talk of "wets" O.o

I couldn't eat "wet" food with a pie because I do have food issues and the beans alter the consistency of the pastry.

Are you thinking that cauliflower cheese is a carb because macaroni cheese is a carb? Because it really isn't!

You are all just blowing my mind now

MrsMaxwell you started it

We'll have to analyse it thoroughly now.

Can’t go wrong with pie, chips, mushy peas and gravy! Same with chips cheese and gravy. Yum!

Would you have macaroni cheese? I don’t think it’s weird at all OP.

I’ve never come across anyone who has thought that cheese and cauliflower were carbs

Agree a properly good pie is not wet - you can add wet by pouring gravy over it (that's the saucy bit of the filling, the lumps being inside the pie), or other juicy stuff.

Just remembered MIL hoicks her judgy pants if anyone tries to have ketchup and baked beans on a cooked breakfast - enough sauce in the beans, apparently

What would you do if served lasagne, chips and garlic bread OP?

3 carbs in one sitting!!!!

Pie should always be served with liquor or gravy, and served with mash or chips - 2 carbs there, pastry & potato! And I don't eat Kiev but Kiev, chips and beans sounds fine. I used to love my schools sausage roll, chips and beans, one of my fav dinners that was.

You cannot have chips with lasagne.

You can, and should.

Wow! Don't come to Scotland you'd be apoplectic!

Macaroni cheese pies (served with mash and beans and gravy)

Haggis wi neeps, mash and gravy

Stews and thick soups served with mounds of bread and butter, with the stews probably at least 2 kinds of potato too.

Don't even consider getting a high tea (which is NOT the same as an afternoon tea down south)

I have been to Scotland.

It was very nice

Yes, that's the only way to serve lasagna.

I don't like chips with lasagne, but would serve garlic bread if it needed stretching a bit.

Sorry but you're being very weird.

Pie with beans or gravy is fine and completely normal.

Chops with mash and cauliflower is also fine.

I'm not sure if you're joking or not.