You know you ARE a foodie when.....

[moondog]

visitors wanting a cuppa have a choice of green tea or Earl Gray

you would never use virgin olive oil to FRY for heaven's sake

you never buy wine at the supermarket as the choice is so boring and limited

your child looks at a picture of a fish finger and honestly has no idea what it is

Any more for any more??

You come out of Waitrose with fresh anchovies, vanilla chai, organic stem ginger icecream and three types of artisan-baked bread.

You went in for nappies.

Am almost wetting myself reading this (Ocado are due to deliver here in the morning)

I made some of Nigella's espresso muffins earlier in the week to take to work, then realised that having used nearly 3 packets of G&B 70% dark choc meant that the icing cost more than I earn in an hour !!

The Pizza Express comment made me laugh too; dd's 'non-secular' parent was asked what his favourite fast food outlet was, and on replying PE, was accused of being a food snob.

I hasten to add that we are in debt and I'm not trying to be flippant, we totally fail to match our food & drink intake to our income..

When you're thrown into a moral dilemma if someone brings a bottle of Piat d'Or to dinner. I mean I couldn't put it on the table (what would the other guests think), but I didn't want to keep it because we'll never drink it, and we certainly can't bring it to someone else's house.

Incidently, the same person also brought Ferrero Rocher which induced a similar moral dilemma. It's probably a good thing that she didn't bring flowers as I'm a bit of a flower snob too (my mother was trained by Constance Spry don't you know ).

Oooooh yes Brandy.
Relate to all of those!!!
(Have a cousin who regularly turns up with a bottle of Mateus Rose. Thought it was some sort of tongue in cheek retro joke initially. No.)

Flowers.
Carnations and chrysanthemums. No no no.
Read something once about a new mother'ungratefully jamming yet another spray of carnations into a tea pot'. Related to that!
My grandmother thinks that the best flowers are the ones that last the longest.
(God, I'm a cow!)

I'll procure a copy of the publication MIFM.
About to catch my plane home. (Suitcase full of goodies ways a tonne)
Blighty here we come.

God, I LOVE Britain!!!

Speak to you soon...,

Can't leave without raising a homophone alert....

(New thread perhaps? You know you're a grammar and spelling bore when....)

Your 3yo son has never had a chicken nugget, or McDonalds.

In restaurants, he asks for a menu (can't read) and then says to the waiter "I'll have the squid."

He also likes dim sum, particularly cold marinated baby octopuses. (nb: octopi is wrong, before anyone starts ... octopodes might be ok, except nobody would know what I meant.)

Wow - you lot really are foodies aren't you? I thought I was cos I bought Hotel Chocolate choccies instead of Cadbury Heroes, turns out I'm a Z league foodie!

Just found this thread; it's great.
My contributions: vicarious, but where else does it come from??
your 6yo asks the waiter (unprompted) whether or not the tuna on the menu is line caught and is it bluefin or yellowfin
your 9yo goes on his 1st school trip to France and brings back for you a smelly cheese from Chateau d'Epoisse, rather than a pen or a notebook.

Have all you foodies seen Waitrose Food Illustrated magazine? It really is beautiful! (an aside, but I can't believe how thin Nigella is on the cover, feel she must have been Atkins-ing or something)

She has been Atkins-ing (apparently, she's not a mate or anything) but surely that pic is airbrushed and/or the effect of Magic Pants?

I made pate today. Out of organic chicken livers. And organic butter.

That cover picture must be airbrushed, surely it's not just Spanx? Pah! She once said something like 'women like me because I am not thin' and now she's gorn and betrayed all us curvy women by becoming the size of a stick fgs!

My DS1 regularly pretended to be making pasta when playing with play dough and DS2 goes to the local leisure centre creche and amuses the staff by wandering round with a plastic cup commenting on how good his coffee is today!

Oh and re Nigella Lawson she has become so thin that I now seriously doubt she eats any of the stuff in her books, she's always saying "this is my favourite" or "I eat this all the time", usually butter laden, calorific feasts.

You travel around the back roads of Carmarthenshire for hours trying to find the farm that produces Llanboidy cheese and the children only have an hour at the iron-age fort. Eventually get it in tiny Spar and discover farm not open to public. Fantastic stuff though (children hated it and loved the fort!)

I thought it was just sour grapes on my part for thinking Nigella looked really odd (not just thin, but an unnatural shape) on the cover of waitroes magazine. Incidently, moondog, Waitrose in Brent Cross (north west London) sell fresh quince.

so foodies, which is better - olive or delicious?

... you virtually never enter a supermarket, as you do all your shopping in the local organic grocer / cheese shop / Indian health food store / deli.

... your 2 year old loudly says "I want an olive" as soon as you go within 50 yards of the aforementioned deli.

.. you decorate a birthday cake with your 2 year old and she doesn't try to eat the smarties because she's never seen them before and thinks they're buttons.

... your 2 year old is given a bar of white chocolate and says "Mummy this is VERY nice cheese".

Olive, marginally IMO

Moondog - where do you do the shopping?
I had to go to Asda when I was home last time and I found it quite frightening.

Your two year old throws at fit at Nana's because she doesn't have brioche for his breakfast. My mother, who is Texan and has never even heard of brioche, was completely dumbfounded.

You actually blush when DS says the words 'Happy Meal' at playgroup and wonder where on earth he learned them (DH!).

I have to say, I met Nigella years ago at a book signing and she was tiny. I wonder if the curves came later and now she's going back to her previous shape. The magazine cover does look as if she's wearing a very tight corset though.

Blimey you lot, and I thought I was a bit of a foodie, but I am nothing in comparison

I mean my contributions are

PGs tips or Lady Grey or Green Tea
Cook books as bedtime reading, Nigella if I am feeling particularly amourous (gets me in the mood)
Birthday cakes made from 70% chocolate, which my kids won't eat cos they are yukky (I haven't mangaged to ingrain my tastes in theirs)

However I am veggie and my kids aren't, but they know exactly what meat comes from what animal, and why farms exisit.

A friend of mine is constantly on a diet and reads cook books in bed - 'dieters porn' she calls it. Phoar - look at the cheese on that!

You are too busy to make a cake and buy a luxury one from M and S, then feel so guilty that you make homemade marzipan to cover it

When you go to JS, and your DS 3.5 asks for olives, innocent enough I hear you say....the problem starts when he button holes the top guy on the wet fish counter and launches into Hello X do we have any anchovies today ?? Answer, usually in the negative (JS ordering technique) and he looks at you, and says really mummy and you then feel obliged to palm him off with some smoked salmon.