To read the Waitrose magazine for comedy relief?

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AIBU to get the Waitrose magazine just to have a good laugh at some of the pretentious recipes? DH and I sit down and go through the recipes/articles for 10 minutes while we have a cuppa and end up in mad chuckles every time! It never disappoints. I mentioned it to a colleague at lunch and whilst I was sharing it she looked at me very sternly and said -"you shouldn't get the magazine just to laugh at it, some people really appreciate those recipes. I love their recipes". I felt a bit bad and apologised if I offended her. I asked if she had ever made one of the recipes and she admitted she had never (ironically, I have made a couple of the easier ones). Am I the only one that finds some of the recipes pretentious and therefore, hilarious? I seriously hope not! Maybe I have a weird sense of humour?!

I will caveat this by saying that Waitrose is the only shop walking distance from my home, so I treat it as my corner shop. So I do shop there but only for a few top up items/special offers.

I agree with a pp that for genuine entertainment you need Ottolenghi's recipes in the Saturday Guardian. I do have half a dozen types of oil and another six types of vinegar in my kitchen cupboard but I still end up having to do special trips out to Big Waitrose for kefir lime leaves or Berbere spice mix if I fancy doing one of his recipes.

My dad grew up in a council house in Peckham if you want to play working class background top trumps. I just can't get on board with "cuppa" (or inverted snobbery).

Well I’ve read the whole thread and this nailed it early doors

300g Waitrose fresh Sicilian linguine
5ml Waitrose finest truffle oil
6 Waitrose finest prepared lobster tails
1 bunch samphire
1 Icelandic lava-smoked shallot
1 tablespoon Chateau de Chasselas chablis 1997
1 jar Waitrose budget pasta sauce

Is that the sort of thing you mean, OP?

There is a distinct lack of comedy on this thread. Disappointing

There was a group called Take A Shite (I think) on Facebook. Not sure if it posts much anymore but had some proper classic Bad Tips.

I'm loving how the Mrs Buckets are so affronted by this thread. Now that is funny.

Ah I fancy making a pineapple upside down cake now, glacé cherries in the pineapple ring holes. First thing I ever cooked for my DH when I met him. Have your fun wherever you can find it OP.

Perfect, thank you! 😂

Ooh there's some proper cat-bum-mouth responses on here 😂

Well done OP - Chef's kiss!👌🤣

Thank you for the take-a-break thread. Made my night!

Are the Take a Break ‘hacks’ the same as Viz Top Tips ?

I mostly shop at Aldi/Lidl but just looked through the link and I don't know what you're on about? Don't fancy a lot of the recipes but def could make any of them from stuff we already have/can easily pop out and buy.
I see they're calling blood oranges 'blush' now though or is that another weird class thing?

This reminds me of when I did a fortnight’s work experience at Waitrose magazine after uni in the William Sitwell era. I contributed to brainstorming the recipes that Pippa Middleton ‘wrote’ and remember testing a recipe in the kitchen and totally messing it up…the shame! Anyway, I never thought the recipes were pretentious and thought they were all a lovely bunch of people (apart from Sitwell)

Just clicked on the magazine. It is a bit funny.

"Creamy miso and wasabi....leeks" 😂. Quite an amusing juxtaposition.

The spiced pineapple crumble sounds delish. Thanks for the link

Didn't we all make pineapple upside down cake back in the 60s/70s?

Well, all the girls did. The boys got to do technical drawing.

I really hope OP won’t ever come across an Ottolenghi cookbook.

😀

I'm with OP, I call that mag Waitrose Wanky Food.
Nearly every recipe seems to feature cheese for some reason.
It must be a challenge to keep coming up with new recipes for these mags though.
MrBeccabunga likes the weekly newspaper one they do for the Sudoku puzzles and I regularly bake a chocolate buttermilk cake recipe I tore out of that years ago.
It was by Martha Thingy [from Bake Off] and originally given as an Easter bake but I noticed some years later she recycled it with very minor tweaks as a dessert.

Fucking hell. Some people will get defensive about anything. Pretentious recipes are funny.

That doesn’t mean the people laughing can’t cook or don’t enjoy good food.

I made that recipe the other weekend but with tinned rather than fresh pineapple (I don't know if that means I have to self-flagellate for being a wanky twat for slightly less time?). It went down very well in my house and was incredibly easy.

I still cook a lentil and halloumi recipe I got on a Waitrose card 15 years ago. Is that hysterical too?

Sheesh. You used to get a less vicious pile on on breast v bottle feeding threads back in the day!
I get you OP, I work in Caffè Nero and we give them away in our store so the recipes do provide some mild amusement during quiet moments when we have time to flick through the latest copy.

We get the magazine every month and I've never found the recipes funny. It all seems like pretty standard food to me. I feel like I'm missing something.

I'm already planning that plus the greens and leeks and eggs thing - the banana, date and tahini pancakes look worth a go too 😀

Thanks for the link from me too, and I will happily take my seat in the Wanky Food Club (I have eight kinds of oil in my kitchen if you include the coconut oil in a jar) 😊