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So who feeds there dc's billy bear meat??

159 replies

bogie · 22/05/2008 20:11

My auntie used to feed me this all the time after reading whats in it I would never give it to ds but at the deli counter 4 people in front of me bought it!
So who on here gets it?

OP posts:
southeastastra · 22/05/2008 22:08

i quite fancy trying billy bear sausage now

TheFallenMadonna · 22/05/2008 22:08

IMO salad cream is even more revolting than billy bear sausage.

micci25 · 22/05/2008 22:08

i have had a pork scratching with hair on.... and i ate it! i was pg and craving i couldnt help it

MrsCarrot · 22/05/2008 22:10

they would have been fried off though surely?

when I eat some cured hams I get a fizzy feeling in my throat, I think it must be the preservatives in them. I neutralise it with some fruit and carry on but it's probably pickling me or something.

RubberDuck · 22/05/2008 22:11

Now normally, TheFallen, I'm with you on that one... but for some reason luncheon meat with a hard boiled egg and cold potato salad HAS to have salad cream or it just fails.

I blame school dinners as a kid, myself...

Boiled ham and half-set parsley sauce falls under the same category.

MrsCarrot · 22/05/2008 22:11

I like salad cream with pork pies

WilfSell · 22/05/2008 22:11

fake sushi? Wot, with fake rice?

TheFallenMadonna · 22/05/2008 22:12

Oh God, do not add hard boiled egg into the mix or I really shall get queasy.

RubberDuck · 22/05/2008 22:14

No, has to be Daddies Sauce with pork pies, sorry.

minorityrules · 22/05/2008 22:17

All the people horrified by the though of a little child eating a slice of processed ham.......

They get to ten and refuse most vegetables spend the dinner money on chips/crisps/coke

or

Just wait til they walk through the door after a night on the tiles with a whopping kebab and chilli sauce dripping off their chins after a night out.

or

They go off to university and live on pasta, pot noodle, red bull/coffee and alcohol

then you'll be wishing they would eat Billy Bear!

A little of everything in moderation is what we should strive for, there are no bad foods

JamesAndTheGiantBanana · 22/05/2008 22:18

It wasn't worth going to the canteen with an egg sandwich in your lunchbox in our school. You'd be accused of smelling like trumps and no-one would sit by you.

The horror of growing up veggie and smelling of trumps.

What I wouldn't have given for a slice of bear shaped processed floor-sweepings then, I can tell you.

MrsCarrot · 22/05/2008 22:19

er, sorry, Rubberduck

a pork, or even chicken and ham, pie from the deli on Holkham Estate, sitting by the lake with a beer and a sachet of mustard and salad cream is the only way to do it IMO.

southeastastra · 22/05/2008 22:19

good post minority.

i came home the other day to find my ds(14) asleep on the sofa, next to him were kfc wrappers and he'd stuffed himself into a food coma.

this was a kid that was so fussy i thought he'd just wither away once.

MrsCarrot · 22/05/2008 22:20

snigger at smelling like trumps

Piffle · 22/05/2008 22:28

well when kids have their own dish they can to wtf they like. I know I did! But I soon came back to good food.
Yes in moderation even total shite like billy bear and cheestrings are fine I'm sure. But they don't actually taste nice!!! At least mcdonalds is yummy and so are kebabs and curry and fish and chips.
he'll if I'm breaking out of the wholesome food for a bit I can find plenty to expose the kids to that they'll happily fall off the wagon for, with my blessings. But processed meat like that when good ham, marmite, cheese or jam are available is not one of them.

LadyOfWaffle · 22/05/2008 22:30

I loved it when I was little so it's the law that DS has to experience it I was so chuffed when I saw they still did it

RubberDuck · 22/05/2008 22:30

Quickly goes and hides the cheese strings in her fridge that the kids hate but RubberDuck scoffs...

Nothing to see here, move along, move along...

Loshad · 22/05/2008 22:40

er minority rules, my eldest is 14 - yes he may well buy a kebab when he's at uni, he certainly buys a subway when he goes into town with his mates, but it doesn't mean it's ok for me his mum (or for his dad) to specifically, and deliberately buy him over processed shite. I might as well buy him a can of tennants and a 20 pack of benson and hedges and have done with it.

cali · 22/05/2008 22:41

hardly the same loshad, for a start it's illegal for an adult to do what you suggested

cali · 22/05/2008 22:47

meant to add, had a subway once, full of processed meat. that's why I stick to mcd's/bk chicken meals, they might be fried but at least they are made from pure chicken breast.

ladymariner · 22/05/2008 22:51

great post, minority.
And whilst I've kept quiet about billy bear, I shall shout from the rooftops about the heavenly joy of salad cream!!!! Love it, you can keep your silly watery dressings, it's salad cream every time!!!!
(takes a deep breath and goes off, muttering about how salad cream is god's way of making lettuce appealing!)

Piffle · 22/05/2008 23:28

my response to the salad dressing heathen is
olive oil
white wine vinegar
wholeseed and Dijon mustard or Herbes de provence
Pepper

Or simple balsamic vinegar...
salad cream only ever needed for potato salad... And I loathe potato salad but am told it is vital for one to enjoy it... I am blissfully ignorant but I am a salad fiend...

jamila169 · 22/05/2008 23:38

i disagree piffle - salad cream is also needed to sharpen up marie rose sauce, also it's bloody excellent with chips

nappyaddict · 22/05/2008 23:41

yuck no. it smells like sick.

tigertea · 22/05/2008 23:41

My mother when my dcs go to stay with Granny and Grandad