Salad cream ??? Marmite ??? What's your foodie weird things

[weeksy]

I love a bit of salad cream, although i have no idea what's in it compared to Mayo.

Marmite though i hate..

So what's your foodie things others may love/hate you like.

Cornflakes and cold custard is a love for me. Althogh a lonnnnng time since i've had that.

[Rockburner]

Apparantly: having beans on toast is weird.....


I thought it was a true british staple!

[weeksy]

Apparantly: having beans on toast is weird.....


I thought it was a true british staple!

Who said it was weird ?

[Count Steer]

I expect a few people don't like: dates, olives, anchovies, sardines, prunes, dried apricots, figs (fresh or dried).

I do.

[gremlin]

Apparantly: having beans on toast is weird.....


I thought it was a true british staple!

Who said it was weird ?

I wouldn't class them as weird, just dirty, filthy, mushy little balls of insipidness in a faux-tomato gloop that pervades through every other item on a plate.

Odd, coz I like proper beans and I like tomatoes. Probably because 'beans' are just processed to fuckery.

Everyone thinks I'm odd because I eat the tails of prawns. In fact, I pick the discarded ones off people's plates. They're lovely and crunchy and full of prawn deliciousness.

[gremlin]

I expect a few people don't like: dates, olives, anchovies, sardines, prunes, dried apricots, figs (fresh or dried).

I do.

Love all of them.

(I should note I'm typing this sat on the bog. Coincidence? )

[MrLongbeard]

Apparantly: having beans on toast is weird.....


I thought it was a true british staple!

Who said it was weird ?

Me, it should be beans with toast, never on, but that's because I hate food that should hate a crunch going soggy / mushy

[MrLongbeard]

Odd, coz I like proper beans and I like tomatoes. Probably because 'beans' are just processed to fuckery.

I used to love me a tin of beans on a spud, or as part of breakfast, but I had a tin last week and they were as sweet as buggery, I may as well have dumped a bag of haribo on my tea

[Mr. Dazzle]

Apparantly: having beans on toast is weird.....


I thought it was a true british staple!

Who said it was weird ?

I wouldn't class them as weird, just dirty, filthy, mushy little balls of insipidness in a faux-tomato gloop that pervades through every other item on a plate.

Odd, coz I like proper beans and I like tomatoes. Probably because 'beans' are just processed to fuckery.

Everyone thinks I'm odd because I eat the tails of prawns. In fact, I pick the discarded ones off people's plates. They're lovely and crunchy and full of prawn deliciousness.

I hate tinned beans for pretty much exactly the same reason. Don't listen to the haters, solidarity brother!

[Count Steer]

When my missus was off for a years study oop north (MA Web Journalism ) she had a go at making baked beans. The recipe include black treacle. The result looked interesting but they were even blander than the canned ones.

You can add stuff to jolly them up, like Worcestershire sauce but heating them in the pan that you've fried the bacon in perks them up a bit. (Assuming one isn't a health faddist that grills it ).

[Mr. Dazzle]

I have actually made baked beans myself many times. They're good, cause they're not sugary and mushy and bland.

There're a whoel load of bean dishes of a similar nature which are great, right up to the very greatest of all....Cassoulet.

Tinned ones are just fucked up

[Rockburner]

Odd, coz I like proper beans and I like tomatoes. Probably because 'beans' are just processed to fuckery.

I used to love me a tin of beans on a spud, or as part of breakfast, but I had a tin last week and they were as sweet as buggery, I may as well have dumped a bag of haribo on my tea

Heinz are particularly sweet yes. We tend to buy the Branston ones, maybe worth a try? Oh - and what CS said about adding Worcestershire sauce.

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Cassoulet is bland, but why would the peasant food of anywhere be great?

I have any easy approach to food, if I don't like it, I don't eat it.

[Count Steer]

On the 'get that abomination off my breakfast plate' subject, they can take those previously frozen triangles of grated spud that style themselves as 'hash browns' and insert them into each and every bodily orifice (hot and/or frozen). Actually, that goes for commercial 'hash browns' on an English breakfast, full stop.

Potato latkes though...yes please.

[MrLongbeard]

These were Branston, Heinz got kicked to touch many moons ago.
If they were a regular staple I'd probably experiment with them, but as this was probably the first time this year it's not much of a loss to the menu, although I now have a hankering for fish fingers and beans.

[cheb]

The M&S ones are ok, usually eaten slightly warmed with a bit of chopped chorizo thrown in. Slightly warmed as I'm lazy and impatient. It's nothing more than calories and why heat it to hot and then have to wait for it cool down. Saves converting one form of energy to another too, as does eating them from the saucepan.

[gremlin]

I'm gonna throw out a controversial comment, one that could get me cancelled in today's febrile environment:

I buy M&S ketchup coz it's better than Heinz.

There. I've said it. I await flaming pitchforks outside Chez Gremlin any time.

[Count Steer]

Branston pickle is 31% sugar so their beans are likely to be sweet.

I'm sensing a 'Jazz up Your Beans' competition in the making.

I'm liking the 'add chorizo'.

I'll go with a dash of Thai fish sauce and a sprinkle of chilli flakes (no, I haven't tried it ).

[Mr. Dazzle]

I don't think the Chorizo itself is even the key per se, it's the smoked Paprika. That stuff is a secret flavour bomb.

[gremlin]

Branston pickle is 31% sugar so their beans are likely to be sweet.

I'm sensing a 'Jazz up Your Beans' competition in the making.

I'm liking the 'add chorizo'.

I'll go with a dash of Thai fish sauce and a sprinkle of chilli flakes (no, I haven't tried it ).

All you lot agreeing that a basic food item needs copious amounts of 'jazzing up', is surely a tacit admission that the food source is pretty crap. Personally I wouldn't be wasting a half-decent bit of chorizo in baked beans anymore than I would be throwing good bacon and chestnuts in a pan of vomit-inducing Brussel sprouts.