Food snobbery

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DM always buys "good eggs" I mean nearly £4 a box from Waitrose. I ate one. Wasn't really too impressed- I mean not sure what I could hope for from an egg really?!

What things do you insist on buying branded?

Are there things you simply wont skimp or get own brands of?

AIBU to think any free range egg is just the same as the next?

@Hollygolightly86 i eat from Daylesford farms.

ok? But they cannot supply food for your entire diet no one farm could obviously

Also that doesn’t make it genuinely organic..come on now. Eat what you choose but please don’t be naive to marketing bs

@veronicagoldberg it does! However the quality of everybody’s shite differs, depending on their gut microbes. You get better microbes the better and more diverse you eat. That’s just fact.

Are they burford browns?

She is not being unreasonable. More expensive eggs often taste much better. Obviously you buy what's within your budget but I will happily cut back in other areas to buy burford browns.

My other guilty pleasure is lurpak. I like lactic butter and there aren't many other options in the supermarket.

I used to buy expensive mainly organic food. Simply cannot afford it now. Can say I've noticed the eggs taste any different at all

@Hollygolightly86 all of my fruit, veg, dairy and meat is. You were speaking of supermarkets, daylesford isn’t a supermarket.

i eat what I can organic, and I’m happy with the food we eat

I saw someone once on a weight loss thread declaring that “food is fuel, not a hobby” and I thought that was so sad, not to get any enjoyment from food. Better food snobbery than indifference to what you eat.

She buys something she presumably can afford because she likes the taste of it better than the standard stuff? How is that food snobbery? Does she refuse to eat anynother eggs and make a big face about it? Does she put you down for not buying other eggs.

I admit to being a food snob. To me life is simply to short to buy instant coffee or cheap cheese. I import a particular tea i love from France. I don't care what others do. I like my food and drink to be good quality. Thankfully so does dh.

Also as said up thread if she buys the Burfords I get her reasoning.

Anyway , the thing that puzzled me is posh salt. Is it not all just sodium chloride?

I once went to a very overpriced garden centre with attached posh shop and was surprised to see they sold exactly the same brand of tri colour pasta as Aldi for £4.50 more! I love Aldi, I think some of their products are better than higher end supermarkets but you can’t beat fresh meat , eggs from a butchers

Mutti chopped tomatoes
Longley farm cottage cheese
Kellogg's cornflakes
I only buy sausages and chickens and mince from a good farm shop and pay more - partly taste , partly texture
Blue dragon stir fry sauces

Oh and I think Branson beans are better than heinz

I tried Tellicherry and couldn’t tell the difference - I did wonder whether they were the real thing. I know it’s not the theme of the thread but I can’t get much of a taste from saffron either - pretty colour but that’s about it!

@Hollygolightly86

What do you think of Abel & Cole and Riverford etc?

I don't order from them but I'm interested in your thoughts

There was a big poll on this on Instagram at one point and the overall consensus agreed with you

LOL! I think Jim Royle once said "Get it et, it all goes to make a turd". 😂

Ok that’s fine I wasn’t talking about supermarkets either, I am just saying that it’s absolutely impossible to farm completely organically so nothing from farms/supermarkets/smallholders/local independent shops is truly organic. Its marketed as such to make money which is no problem but calling something organic doesn’t mean it is ‘literally’ it’s like calling produce artisan when it literally isn’t because people think it’s somehow better & pay accordingly. I’m not trying to be argumentative & get into it on here I’m just stating a fact that just because a farm has been certified as organic does not mean it is

I just find the one I use is more flavour and less straight up "salt"
Don't get me wrong, for pasta/potato water I use cheap stuff and I had turkey dinosaurs for tea last night so I'm a fan of cheap stuff

@Yamyam13 The sauce is thicker and the beans bigger- much better I think on toast. I was quite suprised when I tried them as my H had always been a Heinz snob- but he declared them nicer too

It's the quality of the item not the price or brand.

Heinz Beans are utterly shite, runny, hard and weirdly sweet. Aldi beans are thick and savoury.

A lot of brands are made in the same factory as the 'unbranded' stuff and it's just a case of swapping packaging, yet people buy into the fact it's branded and more expensive so better. More fool them.

I'm shocked people insist on buying Kellogs Corn Flakes. They're the blandest food on earth and exactly the same as every other cornflakes ever.

I buy eggs from the side of the road in our village. The chickens are always roaming round and they have a little side plate to leave the money on. The yolks are more orange and tastier, plus they are only slightly more expensive than cheap eggs from the shops.

I don't really buy anything branded, I worked in a few different factory's as a teenager so saw that most premium brands are made along side cheaper supermarket own brands.

I do buy different types of bread for different things. It has to be cheap soft white bread for chip or crisp butties, dippy eggs or to have with egg, beans and chips. But crusty rolls or wholemeal for sandwiches or soup.

Is that food snobbery or taste though?

I have a friend who travels 30 mins out her way to shop at Waitrose because her hubby likes the meat. I’ve been told it’s the exact same meat as in Tescos. It comes from the same place. There’s then usually a wee picture on Instagram of her full Waitrose trolly.
ive been once or twice as I was passing and it’s right beside another shop I go to. I couldn’t believe the price of some items on there. So much more expensive than other supermarkets.

I also use Kohinoor curry sauces rather than any other brand jar sauce because they just taste far, far nicer.