What food item won't get eaten (light pls)

[Polkadotpjs]

I’ve just been going through my cupboards and found this beauty - cannot see anyone eating it and nobody knows its origins??!
Where did it come from? Who bought it? Sounds vile

We have some cactus jam bought from Lanzarote last year that I can't see ever being touched. It was bought as a souvenir for my friend as we thought it was quirky and she's a bit of a foodie, but then once home I decided against giving it to her in case she thought I hated her. 😂

Tinned lamb stew - from a deadmans cupboard, now in the back of my cupboard- age indeterminable

Apparently suet makes roast potatoes crispier I thought it was tossing them in semolina that did that?

OH bought an Artic Roll at Christmas for old times sake to show DS

Trying to clear the freezer offered it to him and he pulled a face

The Artic Roll may be jettisoned

Sorry to be petty, but "Artic" sets my teeth on edge; it's ARCTIC (like the North Pole)

Thanks for this. Now making trifle with out of date sponge fingers and an out of date tin of fruit salad

Please send me your mushy peas, chick peas & most anything else vegetarian.

Chick peas are so versatile! They are fabulous oven roasted!!

A friend of mine lives the tins of ‘all day breakfast’

It’s weird the things people are turning their noses up at, yet others would love!

I’m vegetarian & eat very very low carb (to control diabetes) so I need to eat fresh veg - but if I can’t get it, I’ll have to eat the lentils & chickpeas etch love them so it’s no hardship to eat them, but putting my blood sugars up makes me more at risk of dying from CV if I get it so after the worst if this is over, if I’m still here (or even if I’m not I suppose) the goid banks will be getting a donation.

Food

Oh I want some arctic roll!

Do not despair marmalade hoarders ! Many years ago there was a recipe in the Times to use up the inevitable jar or jars of homemade marmalade than live on most peoples shelves and you mixed a jar with a bottle of cheap vodka and more sugar if I remember rightly to make home made Cointreau , Left for a while and then strained it was ideal to use in cooking . I have the recipe somewhere but you can google it . Decanted into an old Cointreau bottle it lives in a cupboard along side many bottles of strange liqueurs brought back from foreign shores .

Here’s Nigella’s chocolate marmalade cake recipe. Suitable for using up any other unwanted jam found at the back of the larder. Sugar quantities can be reduced if wanted. As you can see, I have cooked it once or twice and I’m not a tidy baker, but the mysterious yellow splodges are not turmeric, they’re from when a primary age DC had to identify verbs in a recipe.

I've just opened some balsamic pearls which lots of MNers raved about on "what to buy in Waitrose" threads a while ago and which I read when a Waitrose opened near us. I'm guessing this was about 6 years ago as they were best before sometime in 2015! I figured out that surely vinegar is a preservative & ate some. They tasted fine. If I do get violently ill, until I eat them again I won't know if it was that or the mozzarella which was best before 10th March which was part of the same salad.
Next to the balsamic pearls in the cupboard is some coconut oil of a similar vintage. That's still untouched.

This beauty gifted by a Latvian client. Claims to be medicinal, but tastes so horrible you would rather die than drink.

itwasalovelydreamwhileitlasted I'd try that! I really like rose jam.

And now I fancy marmalade and capers as well , but I'll see if there's any left next time I'm venturing to a shop.

Ancient unidentified meat kept in the freezer, instead of eating could be used as holy relics for worship in these difficult times

a jar of marmite that was several years out of date
I found one of these in the cupboard the other day, an opened jar, that had solidified.
I'm not a "love it or hate it" marmite person - I have occasional cravings, maybe once a year or every two years, but they pass after a couple of servings, and I don't eat it for a while.
I added boiling water to the jar to get it to a normal consistency, tasted fine, no ill effects.
Not certain if nutritional value will have survived.

I love chick peas and mushy peas. Send em my way oooop North.

I will see you vacuum chestnuts and Christmas chutney

Also I am completely floored by the idea you can get tinned brussel sprouts shock

They never have them in my B&M and I like to have a couple in incase I run out of frozen. Chop them fry them in butter with chopped bacon yum yum

My contribution I have some ground fennel seeds going back to about 1995, they're older than my kids haha

Love that this is still going. I have just found some ancient Sos mix too. Best before 2016?

I have a tub of birds lemon mousse powder. It's never been opened and moved house with me at least twice I reckon 🤷‍♀️

I have a trifle mix that has been in the cupboard for a while now. I keep meaning to do it but it's such a faff when I can make fresh much easier!

@Polkadotpjs can you still get sosmix?! I LOVED THAT STUFF

Loving the marmalade tip - we had some in a multipack of jam at Christmas, the jams are long gone, the marmalade is just sitting there, forlornly...

6 tins of sardines the 2 bags of quinoa (my husband went through a phase about 6 months ago).

Probably the pasta! The kids hate it and OH and I consistently put it on our meal plan for a night it’s just the two of us eating and consistently have someone else that night. Although now we’re self-isolating we might not have a choice!