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?

They're amazing and delicious!!

Real bread, not packets. Proper cheese not the plasticky stuff. Free range eggs. Pricey chocolate, not Cadburys or Galaxy or bars. Earl Grey tea. Bovril. Just bought some Bonne Maman Lemon Curd to try. Very greasy, don't recommend, will have to bin it. Generally not bothered about brands as such just about my own preferences. I tend to use the test 'would your gran recognise that as food?' If the answer's No, I probably won't buy it.

I used to be in the salt is salt camp, but Cornish sea salt is so much nicer

I have to buy branded cereal, it must be Kellogg’s every other brand taste like cardboard.
crisps must be branded as well, walkers are the only decent packets

I think some brands are better than others but I buy what I can afford at the time .

I think the Clarence court eggs do taste noticeably different as well. I always get them now. I much prefer robinsons squash to own brand as well. I think it is product by product. Cereal I can’t taste a difference between own and branded.

I agree. We've bought Marmite in the past because it takes us years to use a jar (we both fall through the 'love it or hate it' cracks and think it's OK and will have it every so often) and I don't think own brand was available last time I looked.

But I had some Tesco version at a friend's house and agree that it was much easier to spread and actually preferred the taste. Will definitely buy that when the jar we have runs out.

I'm a self confessed, unapologetic food snob. Although I hide it well.

It's just that after bills are paid, good food should be one of those things I do prioritise. The more I read about processed food, the more horrified I become. I will literally eat anything but when given a choice will try and eat organic, minimally processed food. I'd rather buy second hand clothes, or keep my car going for another few years than compromise on food quality.

We eat very little meat...maybe twice a month. So I want my chicken to be the best. Cheap chicken is full of water.
Always golden yoked eggs too.

DH insists on Heinz sauce and Fairy washing up liquid. Everything else we buy own-brand or whatever's cheapest.

There is a massive difference between eggs if you eat them soft boiled. The yolks taste totally different.

I buy burfords or leghorn from waitrose but they are only for me to eat soft boiled. I would not cook with these eggs

There are some brands I buy because of flavour/consistency. They tend to store cupboard items that last ages.

Marmite
Fairy liquid
Heinz salad cream
HP Brown sauce
Bovril cubes
Marigold bullion
Maldon salt 1.3kg tub
Fevertree light tonics
Red Fox mature red Leicester
Kingsley Farm cottage cheese - full fat
Branson pickle

Mostly we buy fresh and predominantly from Lidl. Great meats and cheeses, brilliant salty butter, nuts, amazing ground coffee (Indian particularly) etc. They've ruined their sausages though. They are all, shiny and smooth and bland in a Richmond sausage stylee 🤢

For those of you that love Burford Brown eggs. If you are anywhere near a Gails Bakery they sell a brand called Cacklebean eggs. £2.75 for 6 and they are gorgeous! The yolk is tastier than Burford Brown:

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I think yabu,
Your mom wanted to leave her grandchildren whom she loved something directly in her will ( instead of making them wait for their inheritance through their Dad which may never happen).

I'm honestly astonished that people are saying a grandmother leaving something in her will to her grandchildren equally is unfair.
Is there some rule that inheritance can only be left to children that I'm not aware of.

Sorry wrong thread!

I think all of us should be a little more concerned where our food is coming from and not refer to it as 'snobbery'.Take for example tinned tomatoes .There has been a lot of press in the recent years here in Germany about the origin of tomato products within the EU. China is the worlds biggest producer of tomatoes producing 37 million tons as opposed to 6.2 million tons in Italy .Many of the so called Italian tomatoes are factories taken over by the Chinese and many of the tins of tomatoes found on our shelves 'produced in Italy' do not contain a single Italian tomato.If you want to have real Italian tomatoes make sure to read the labels on tomato puree /tinned tomatoes .Since April 2020 they have to be correctly labelled either 100%Italian tomatoes or produced only with italian tomatoes .Otherwise you may be getting Chinese tomatoes masquerading as the real thing.Same goes for olive oil.

Give over 😂😂😂

Oooo @schnubbins could you kindly point me I. The right direction to find out more.

The more I read the more I realise I just need to start growing more of my own.

I try and make choices that are better for myself and better for the planet. So I go for anything organic, as I hate the overuse of pesticides, I avoid the best I can to buy things that are out of season, I don't buy meat for myself as I am a vegetarian, but if my DS wants a steak or chicken breast I buy local and organic. If that is me being snobby, than I am more than happy to be a snob.

I don't like the term food snobbery. Being a bit discerning about what you put into your body is important. It impacts your health. Not to put too fine a point on it, there's a working class culture in the UK that prides itself on avoiding 'fancy' food but it results in a terrible diet and increased disease, mortality etc.

I earn far below the average national wage but I prioritise spending money on decent ingredients. I love food and I love cooking. Sometimes good ingredients cost more, sometimes they don't. It's worth paying extra for decent basmati rice for example, but I can't taste the difference between Puy lentils and ordinary lentilles vertes.

I economise by buying in bulk where I can - eg I buy good olive oil by the 5 litre can. Thinking about it, we always have a loaf of the cheapest sliced white in the freezer (everyone in my family has a soft spot for it) but I make the other bread we eat myself from flour I buy in 20kg sacks.

I don't eat meat but if I did, there is no way I'd expect to pay less than a fiver for a whole dead animal, as some people seem to think is their birth right.

It is not snobbery to prefer better quality food, or food with a particular taste, or food from a better supplier, etc. People in the UK are so weird about cheap food and oddly find it virtuous to spend as little as possible. I prefer better quality and then consuming less. I like to spend on food that I enjoy - it’s for my body after all and I see that as a delicious investment!

My gran is in her 80s and eats as much processed food as anyone else…

Diet coke and heinz ketchup (although I'm not sure that makes me a snob, because I'm not sure food snobs would entertain the idea of either of those products!)

We have our own chickens and I think their eggs are nicer than supermarket ones

Very wise words @schnubbins

Also, very true @womaninatightspot , chickens, ducks and turkeys etc (poultry) should be eating foods natural to their diet, such as insects. It follows the ecosystem, and thus is also better for us in more ways than one. But due to the dishonesty of man and mass production, factories force feed poultry non normal foods and still expect for the eggs to be healthy. Farming, and many other food related industries need to go back to original practices as much as possible.