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Surely we can't be THAT lazy in this country?

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 20:26

I have just made Chocolate Rice Crispy-things for the first time since I was a wee tot.

I am amazed that these things are actually available ready-made in the shops. Chocolate. Rice Crispies. A spoon. Cupcake cases. What's so frickin' difficult about that?

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onepieceofcremeegg · 14/04/2009 21:17

Re the grated cheese. Some brands are full of flour to stop it sticking together (and also stops it melting I guess)

I know this because dh is coeliac and has been warned against canteen/cheap cafe cheese.

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:18

Wtf is a Haslet and a Billy Bear? Clearly I grew up in a gourmet household (would explain my G&T tot, eh, Provincial? ).

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TheProvincialLady · 14/04/2009 21:18

Gawd knows. Some other variation of groin and ear I suppose.

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:19

Yes, as my friend says: Saveloys are just lips and arses. Yum! Kebab, anyone?

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LibrasJusticeLeagueofBiscuits · 14/04/2009 21:20

Today I bought ready peeled potatoes and it felt good.

moondog · 14/04/2009 21:20

Haslet and Billy Bear. OMFG.
When very small dd pinted to BB crap and expressed desire for it.Naturally she was beatensoundly and put into a half Nelson before being frog marched over to the prosciutto and parma ham for re-education.

onepieceofcremeegg · 14/04/2009 21:20

Billy Bear is "just" processed/luncheon type meat shaped/coloured into the face of a bear named billy I think.

(I have never bought it. dd1 hasn't noticed its existence thankfully)

JackBauerKilledTheEasterBunny · 14/04/2009 21:21

I am on the fence about this thread.
I totally agree with ricecrispie cakes and pancake mix (so muhc s I even made batter for my MIL in an old lemonade bottle after she was going to buy the 'add milk' pack.

However, I used to work in an office with no kitchen and started at 6am after a 2 hour commute, so I used to buy the cereal bowls to have a as brekkie.
And I love ready grated cheese. When I was a child I used to earn pocket money by grating a catering size (30cm x 10 x 10) block of cheese for my mum's catering business.
I had to do 4 a week to get 2 quid.
I fucking hate grating cheese.

LibrasJusticeLeagueofBiscuits · 14/04/2009 21:21

However I don't understand the squeamishness of some people saying oh I couldn't eat tongue/brain/offal and yet they are quite happy to eat dead flesh.

NotmyELFtoday · 14/04/2009 21:21

I give you my 80's food hell:

Alphabites (not chips, not potato, just not right)
Liver (should never be eaten!)
Baked Beans (food should not be orange)
Corned beef and tomato sauce sandwiches
Luncheon meat / Spam / Haselet etc
Faggots (vomit)

snigger · 14/04/2009 21:21

ROFL at MerryHenry - I think most of us have backed into gourmet households, faced by memories of food-crimes committed against us in our youth.

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:21

I don't even bother peeling potatoes, Libra. Good roughage. Keeps you regular.

Thank God you got your DD onto prosciutto before disaster struck, moondog.

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ingles2 · 14/04/2009 21:22

Aaarghhh.... Sorry Moondog, but I've bought those cereal bowls
I commute longs distances occasionally and if I've left at 4.30am to be at work for 8.30, I've succumbed along with a banana. There is no other choice really in a garage.

JackBauerKilledTheEasterBunny · 14/04/2009 21:23

OOh, I loved haslet until some unkind sould told me what it was made off.
Can't even look at it now!

LibrasJusticeLeagueofBiscuits · 14/04/2009 21:23

The mash doesn't taste the same with skin in!

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:24

Snigger, our childhood food crimes included liver and gizzards (which, oddly, I rather enjoyed).

Also kidney (though my ma's steak and kidney pudding was second to none) and a delicious construction called a 'picnic roll' - basically lots of meat and egg ground up and stuffed into pastry. Delish. It's amazing I've never had a heart condition!

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NotmyELFtoday · 14/04/2009 21:25

I do admit though that when I was pregnant I went off all food, normal veg such as carrots made me sick, the sight of meat made me ill, by the end I was eating hardly anything as it made me sick. The only potato I could eat was the ready made processed stuff, because its so creamed/mashed that there was no chance of ever getting a lump.
Trust me, when you've thrown up lumpy mash from the canteen in the middle of the office and then cried as officially there is nothing left you can eat without being sick, processed mash is a godsend!

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:25

Libra, dahling, it's organic skin so it's softer.

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moondog · 14/04/2009 21:25

Just do yerself a sandwich or an omelette Ingles.

I'd sooner have a jowl or poss. even an arsehole than a cheap sausage or pie.
At least it's a whole ringpiece and not an amalgamation of many.

TrillianAstra · 14/04/2009 21:26

We thought haslet was posh. Billy bear was too expensive, no mention of it being crap.

TheProvincialLady · 14/04/2009 21:26

So what is it made of then JackB?

And don't think I didn't notice the reference to toast toppers Snigger. We had those too. Did I mention that I was also vegan for a few years? Although the only thing that could haved truly protected me from my mum's vile taste was becoming fruitarian.

badgermonkey · 14/04/2009 21:27

I just don't get why you have to eat cereal because it's the morning. I mean, does breakfast = ONLY CEREAL EVER? Is there a law against having a sandwich before noon?

Also I don't really like cereal (expensive, not good for you, people make revolting noises eating it) so I think I am biased.

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MrsMerryHenry · 14/04/2009 21:27

PMSL at moondog!

Baked ringpiece served on a bed of mirepoix.

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snigger · 14/04/2009 21:27

At least it's a whole ringpiece and not an amalgamation of many. - Moondog.

I believe that's a possible for quote of the week.

ingles2 · 14/04/2009 21:27

.Can't be faffed when I get in at 9pm and dh/ds certainly wouldn't thank me at that time in the morning.
Besides,... who can eat at 4.30????
If only there was an M&S garage on the way.