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?

Someone gave me some tinned crocodile & tinned impala from SA once.
I gave them to DDs Montessori group when they were doing some project or other. The children tried them apparently!

Well all of the above sounds gross, but this is coming from a lady who will eat a fray bentos steak and kidney pie (the one in the tin) very every so often - usually after doing decorating or having v. busy day - would never buy it but dh has a thing about them - childhood memories and all that! In fact, he turned 50 last week and his wish was to have said fray bentos pie with a £100 bottle of wine we had been given some time ago as his birthday treat. His love is fine wine rather than fine food . Luckily for me and dd, we had already organised a family lunch at Oxo Tower!

tinned boiled potato is good in potato curry actually.

And my diet is a healthy one (ie not much animal product).

I think people who eat alot of cheese deserve the title of who eats this stuff - now there's a food that has few redeeming qualities in my book.

How can you hate cheese? It's the food of the Gods! Though parmesan is surely the work of the devil.

Oi,don't diss the cheese!

Cheese is loooverly

Especially Stilton.

I used to live off tinned stuff and chips fried in lard when I was a child. My brother once found a bit of plastic in a tinned burger, my father complained and recieved a whole box of .....more tinned food. The only tinned food I have in my cupboards now are spaghetti and baked beans, strange hey!

He used to buy hot dogs in a can and campbells meatballs alot, tinned veg aswell.

I really want to try a Fray Bentos pie! How sad is that. The only things in tins in my cupboard are tomatoes.

The French eat loads of tinned veg

The canning process means that some foods are actually much better produced this way - it's a bit like pressure cooking. So meat dishes and beans work very well.

Not such a good method of serving soft fruits, though!

I quite like Fray Bentos pies, probably because they were not cooked all the time

Vesta chicken curry! I'm fairly sure there was very little chicken in them, tasty though.

Cheese cannot be a healthy food surely.

How is parmesan the work of the devil! I don't really think cheese is great the the only cheese we have in the house IS parmesan.

I eat the odd bit of cheese but I'm not a fan.

There was a great thing about some food like spam which is bad for yiou - it's made in Denmark and they've marketed this stuff to Japan as the new sushi - and it's doing very well. It's not spam but something similar. It think span is the same as mortadela (is that the spelling) but obviously thinly spiced and not in a tin. But people like the stuff.

I don't know if I'm being a food snob but I just can't feed ds any of this. I spend way too much on fresh food, my fridge is always full and I panic if it's half full. I should get some therapy hey!

The joy of having a coeliac in the family.. you cant have mich tinned stuff, it all has wheat in! Thank God for small mercys! That stuff is foul! (or fowl in the case of the canned chicken!) I went to catering college, and have always said I would try anything once! I TAKE IT BACK! Never will any of that stuff pass my lips! EVER! I did used to quite like hotdog sausages, until I watched a tv prog, where they told you that most of them are oficially vegetarian, because mechanically reclaimed meat is not legally classed as meat!! I now make a point of only eating meat which is identifiable. I even make my own sausages!

My tins:
every kind of bean - will never use any other than baked, kidney and maybe canellini when I finally get round to that nigella white bean mash recipe.
Puy lentils (ha!)
artichoke hearts (ha! ha!)
chestnuts (poss 2003 sell-by date)
Custard (yeah! - kept in fridge for emergency pud)
Rice pud (as above)
Beansprouts (emergency stir-fry)
toms (obv)

Parmesan is full of salt though. Still gorgeous but in no way good for you. My youngest loves it.

I too would love to try a fray bentos pie. I love processed meat products in any combination or variety. But food industry knowledge is the kind that you just can't pretend you don't know, isn't it? Once you've read those mechanically-recovered meat stories you can't turn the clock back.

There was a moment of intense happiness in my life when Prince Charles started selling organic Cornish Pasties in WAitrose. That pretty much ticked every joy box for me. But they discontinued them, and I've not yet found a substitute - mainly because if they taste posh, they don't count. They have to taste like processed meat products, but not be made of cow labs. It's a challenge, to be honest.

Parmesan is vile not gorgeous. It's evil in dairy form.

I give ds parmesan - on his pasta - that's what gives pasta it's salty taste - but fresh parmesan and not that wierdo powered stuff which has a bile like smell.

DS loves cheddar - now that's a cheese I just don't get. But if he likes it, I'll get it.

Prince charles also made some really fantastic cheese and bacon tarts, we loved them but can't get them now

Cheddar is the best.

I hate to tell you guys this, but a cornish pasty is not meant to have processed meat in it! should be good steak, minced or cubed! If you want processed, try ginsters!

You can't beat a good steak and stilton pasty.

Homemade always taste crap though imo.

I had a rather good economy cornish pasty from ocado last week, the mince was real

What's actaully wrong with mechanically recovered meat? Assuming the animal is not diseased, why is it a problem?

DH and I went through a stage of eating Vacuum Space Breakfast regularly - we'd keep a packet in the larder for when we couldn't be bothered to shop. Looks just as horrible as you'd imagine when you open it, but by the time you've stirred it around in the pan and fried the bejesus out of it and sprinkled it with pints of Lea and Perrins it was a definite guilty pleasure - took me back to my school cadet force camps.

We also swear by tinned fruit - DD has a very posh friend who comes to visit purely for the bizarre thrill of tinned peaches and cream for pudding. And now that the country is running out of supplies of fresh airlifted papaya/mango/pineapple you will all be forced to come round to my way of thinking on this (or eat apples).