Most people make terrible food and can't actually cook.

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They can't.

I read such horrors on food threads.

Either courgettes and mushrooms mixed in a worthy mushy horror.

OR jars, and packets.

Horrible. So. Much. Horrible. Foood.

We've had this one before. It worked well then, too.

Errol I love you 😁

You must be someone who eats to live rather than lives to eat Ohuhu. To me that sounds so joyless.

Actually it's great, @RampantIvy . My life is full of joyful things; cooking is just not one of them.

I find British dishes dull. Asian and carribean food are far more flavoursome.

I enjoy a nice bangers and mash but there's not much work that goes into cooking it.

I never understand ‘I can’t cook’ - it usually means CBA.
I feel like saying, ‘Oh, dear - can’t you read?’ Anyone of normal intelligence who can read, can follow a simple recipe - if they can be arsed.

Coming next from the OP: 90% of the world has crap hair

i always assume it's just different tastes. There are a lot of very popular takeaways and restaurants round here that I think are really poor. But other people really like them. So I must conclude that I don’t share their taste.

My mum is, in my opinion, a dire cook. Technically. But also in what she thinks is nice. She genuinely likes food that I think is crap. And I know she doesn’t want to eat the kind of food I like. It’s only a problem when I’m at her house despairing of the terrible food.

Rocksludge oh god what is that 😵‍💫,

I think every nation has its good and bad, there are some really questionable things here like stargazy pies 🫣,
Americans have gravy and biscuits which tastes of absolutely nothing,

and Canada’s National dish poutine is an insult to potatoes , it’s horrible.

I love cooking, I’m pretty sure I’m really good at it (one of my few real talents in life). So is one of my sisters (possibly helps that we both love food/eating😳).

Im not sure it’s always all about whether people can cook or not though. My mother is trapped married to a man who likes food plain, over cooked and without onion, garlic or spices. Where do you go with that to make amazing food?

I do have to say though that I’m sure some people can’t cook. One of our neighbours invites us round for dinner periodically, and the food is invariably dismal and flavourless. Really pretty impressive that she manages it every time.

I have no clue whether this is true, as my family and friends can all cook.

Or... don't have a huge amount of time? I can cook a tomato sauce with my eyes closed. But in a household where both adults work full time we often use a jar. If you think that equates to CBA then you don't really understand people

I do wonder just how well a lot of people can cook. Often a particular restaurant or takeaway will be recommended and most times me and DH will try it and not be impressed at all

interesting point@mydogisthebest. On a holiday to Lanzarote (Costs Teguise) many years ago I remember asking various other holiday makers that we got talking to whether they could recommend places to eat. The answer was universally "you won't get a bad meal round here" or "everywhere serves good food".

While technically the food wasn't bad, none of it was good, except for a Lebanese meal we ate on the last night. DH and I decided that these people mustn't eat very well at home.

Such an abomination. So sorry you went through this. Your friend is hopefully no longer your friend?

@ImNotEntirelySureAboutThat

Umm🤔 you've tried most people's food?

Wow big statement.

Ever considered you just know a load of rubbish cooks or you are very fussy?

I can assure you a can cook very well thank you very much, I cater dinner parties

I have no idea. That woman has a whole TikTok account of what I consider cautionary cookery tales. Awful stuff. Why would you want to do that?

I agree that every nation has some questionable stuff. And it becomes more so in less technically able hands. I’m not necessarily against poutine tbh. It wouldn’t be my first choice though.

if my Canadian friends are anything to go by, the national dish of Canada is actually ‘Kraft dinner’ (boxed macaroni cheese). 🤣

Well you haven't have you 😂 you've eaten a few people's food that you know.

I'm a crap cook when it's a meal I'm not into. Dinners tend to be five minute affairs, eaten off laps, so I'm rubbish at that. I cannot see the efficiency of spending an hour cooking something that gets devoured, so we eat a lot of ready meals, with veg on the side.

Puddings and cakes get a lot more respect and enjoyment from me and I'm good at making those. (However, with the price of fuel and butter, I just tend to buy decent cakes and biscuits).

Lmao. I know a bellend someone like you OP, thinks she is the queen of food. She’s not a chef but teaches cookery at a local private school. Ultimate food snob. But I’ve tasted her cooking, not as impressive as she likes to make out. I imagine you’re the same tbh.

@christmastreewithhairyfairy , not having the time is a different matter. You seem to have deliberately misunderstood.

You obviously mix with the wrong sort of people.

One assumes that you made it yourself? 😂

To be honest, I realised this when visiting my mum in hospital and everybody was raving about how great the food was

it was endless cottage pie type concoctions

my Mum had home cooked leftovers and salads from M&S

Fried or boiled ?

I think most M&S salads are somewhere between disappointing and actually disgusting tbh. The dressings are rarely nice.

@sashh are your crispy pancakes Findus? Used to love those as a kid!