Tinned fruit is just the best

[Coldemort]

Have woke up with a bit of a hangover and just snarffed a tin of orange segments and am how about to scoff another tin of grapefruit segments.
No mess, no peeling, and delightfully mushy.
Much better than the real thing.

I'm allergic to all citrus fruit.
But tinned pear is my go to.

Why can’t you buy tip-top anymore 😩.

I love tinned mandarins I buy them in juice so a little less sugar and drain the juice away

Love tinned pineapple and apricots (too much faffing about the fresh ones) and often use tinned apples for a quick crumble

Never tired tinned oranges

@Judethe0bscure

Even better with tinned milk! Reminds me of "desert" at my Nan's.

DD had this for a snack last night, she had asked me to get her the funny milk in a tin that her Grandma has and a tin of mandarin oranges. I got myself a tin of peaches and a tin of carnation cream, it is a really thick tinned cream, you can turn the tin upside down and it doesn't fall out. It is one of my guilty pleasures.

Coldemort Thank you ,I didnt realise that, thats really interesting. thought it was just me ! (will defo stick to tinned pine apple from now on) Have a stash from Lockdown .Loads of it in Tesco at the time for some reason!

I didn't know you could still buy tinned cream? That's now on next week's shopping list!

Tinned peaches with Greek yoghurt and granola is one of my favourite breakfasts! And tinned fruit cocktail and ice cream is such a lovely refreshing dessert, one of my favourite things to have on a sunny day

Tinned apricots and evaporated milk. Lockdown has me all retro.

when i was little and lived at home we had fruit cocktail and tinned milk often for sunday tea. i can remember hoping that id get one of those lovely red cherries they never put many in and it was so disappointing if i did not get one!

@labazsisgoingmad

when i was little and lived at home we had fruit cocktail and tinned milk often for sunday tea. i can remember hoping that id get one of those lovely red cherries they never put many in and it was so disappointing if i did not get one!

Snap!

The tinned fruit counter is my favourite bit of an all inclusive holiday hotel. I'm not that partial to a tinned pear, but love peaches, prunes and mandarins all in together.

Totally agree that chocolate ice cream is the ideal accompaniment to mandarins.

The must have a huge but gentle peeling machine, surely that volume cannot be done by hand?

Waiting for a poster to say I'm a tinned fruit peeler AMA now

@labazsisgoingmad did you have pilchards on toast too?

On a roll now. On Christmas Day, DM would come over all Hyacinth and get in actual grapefruit for breakfast. Half each, with a glance cherry. Every year, having eaten tinned fruit every Sunday when crumble wasn't on the menu, we would eagerly pile in and within seconds look as though our gums had been pickled.

Everyone else bought toilet rolls. I bought tinned peaches .
Another who grew up with fruit cocktail and evaporated milk as a pudding.

oh yes pilchards on toast was quite a staple thing in our house always the Glenrych i think it was in the red tin. yummy

Tinned peaches, pears and pineapple.

If it’s mum’s home bottled fruit then it’s spiced black plums, peaches and cinnamon apples.

Tinned Peach baked with a vanilla sponge on top with custard is the best ever.

OMG, I have a tin of rhubarb in the cupboard I’d forgotten about. I’m so going to have that now!

My gran used to serve us halved tinned peaches in syrup, with Carnation evaporated milk poured over the top, so they looked like a soft fried egg. Mmmmmmm.

Preservatives and sugar

shudder

Our tea in the 70s was often tinned fruit cocktail served with bread and butter.
Lovely!

@MagicKingdomDizzy

Preservatives and sugar

shudder

Everything in moderation as they say.

I bought extra tins from March incase stores closed. I had not eaten a tin of fruit cocktail since I was a DC. I decided to get through the pile my new sweet treat a tin of fruit cocktail with a lump of vanilla icecream. Beautiful.

Tinned grapefruit in juice (NO to syrup, too sweet) is my fave breakfast every morning. I wake up craving it and end up eating the whole large tin. Makes the first cup of coffee of the day most delicious.
No messy peeling or spray of citrus juice in the eyes, just open the tin and dive in. I drain the juice into a glass to drink with my dinner (no waste in this house).
Love tinned pineapple chunks and mandarin segs too, guilt free fridge grazing material. Better than

I remember going to the golf club dinners as a child and 'fruit salad' was tinned fruit in a lovely glass. It seemed the height of sophistication and we would always check and be envious of whoever got the cherry, there only seemed to be one of these.

I only like tinned pineapple really (and prefer it to fresh) as other fruits get slimy.

However - I keep a couple of tins about all the time as it’s great to be able to knock up a quick crumble!