to wonder who actually eats this stuff?

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I was searching for asparugus in Sainsbury's today and couldn't find it so ended up spending a considerable time perusing the tinned section.I spotted a very unpleasant looking tin of Goblins "beef casserole with dumplings". The main ingredient was water followed by dried carrots, dried swede, a load of unpronounceable chemicals and, way down the list, dehydrated beef (7%). I was just left wondering why anybody would actually choose to eat this kind of product. It wasn't even cheap - probably the same price as a kebab. Also, does anyone know who eats tinned potatoes?

I can imagine the onions being really foul.

(but not as foul as that tinned chicken -the pictures of that even turned DP's cast-iron stomach )

Tinned raspberries are quite nice though.

The onions aren't bad apparently, at least according to one chef's review.

Pickled pork lips anyone?

I buy M&S tinned spag bol and chilli (separate tins, not combined ) for when we go camping. They obviously aren't as good as homemade but are surprisingly platable.

I love how the picture on the tinned onions can is of them just sitting in a serving dish, as if to say "yeah, you just eat them neat like this" lol!

I used to love tinned hotdogs, or beans with mini sausages in.

Ah Mollie, but (in a come-to-bed voice), "they're not just tinned food, they're Marks and Spencers tinned food"

tinned hotdogs are mainly processed chicken (and other gross things)

Herta ones are the only ones with pork/beef in them as a main ingredient I think.

I won a tin of M and S lamb curry in a tombola- it was very nice

Surely tinned strawberries are for cooking not eating??

Yes to tinned; tomatoes, all kinds of beans, peas and sometimes only sometimes, soup.

Everything else ewwwwwww and as for that chicked I have never seen anything so horrendous I feel like I did after watching hostel.

You can certainly eat them as they are. I've never thought of cooking with them,not that I tend to but tinned strawberries.

Hmm Im sure you can eat them but when ever ive seen them ive thought they were more for cooking... maybe im missing a world of tinned strawberry joy!

Tinned strawberries are the topping (with jello) for your 1970's cheesecake mix in a box

Or for your sunday teatime Fruit Flan.

HTH.

That dirty bird looked like something I saw in a pre-natal class video.

My dad buys stuff like this, Tinned casserole, tinned chicken curry, tinned hamburgers, tinned allday breakfast.

All gross!

Tinned raspberries are lovely. Strawberries = foul. I am fond of a good tinned pear.

Tinned fruit was all the rage once upon a time, wasn't it? I have fond memories of eating tinned fruit salad (foul cubed mush with glace cherries) and carnation milk. The good old 70s, eh.

Spam, anyone? or maybe some nice pork luncheon meat?

Tinned blackberries are nasty too, all woody pips.

We always had Fruit cocktail and tiptop as a sunday treat, we used to argue over who had the most cherries and grapes

My children argue over the cherries in the fruit salad now,althugh I serve it with organic yogurt and not tip top .

dh and his family live on spam...now THAT is sweepings, hoofs, hairs and arsholes in a tin

gahhhhh

The worst I've personally experienced though has got to be Toast Toppers ...vomit in a tin...bleurgh!

Mmm forgot all about tiptop! and condensed milk.... nostalgia!

Holds hand up..

I've never tasted Spam

erm that vac=packed german fried potato breakfast stuff is really quite tasty. Really, it is. I used to eat it in the 80s when it was the height of continental/futurist sophistication
I think they're mainly constructed from salt, though. Salt, potato, and salty bacon.

I was hungry till I looked at this thread!

Note to self: save this thread for when chocolate cravings kick in

When times were hard, my mum used to buy these really cheap meatballs which consisted of "mechanically recovered meat" which I've since learned is basically the slurry left on the abbatoir floor. I actually quite liked them at the time. There are some rather dubious things sold in packets as well - when I was at uni, the girl next door to me used to live off this packet tomato soup which, after she added water, was bright pink with half an inch of scum/foam floating on it. She did always look quite ill actually, I think she was slowly being poisoned.