Post your most controversial food/drink opinions

[Mrs Miggins]

Toasted cheese and jam sandwiches.
There are some people who just wont believe how scrummy they are together.
Good vintage cheddar and decent strawberry or raspberry jam.

I like cheese on toast with marmalade.

 

[Cid]

Sprouts are great and should be eaten year round. Sprouts and bacon lardons, bit of nutmeg, phenomenal meal.

Having said that I once bought some sprouts from Tesco that were fucking awful and just bizarrely unsproutlike in flavour, so maybe everyone is just eating the wrong sprouts.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Hot food is massively overrated. You pay more tax on it (if bought out) and have to wait for it to cool down before eating it - borrring.

 

[campanula]

I would sooner chop off my thumbs, pop them under the grill and gnaw on them than eat a takeaway of any description whatsoever.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

I would sooner chop off my thumbs, pop them under the grill and gnaw on them

Fries with that?

 

[campanula]

Fries with that?

anchovy relish, you barbarian

 

[not-bono-ever]

taramasalta.

I have never actually tried it because smell.

 

[The39thStep]

‘Traditional’ Roast Sunday dinners are overrated

 

[Proper Tidy]

There is something seriously wrong with people who don't like fruitcake. It's way more interesting, delicious and complex than any sponge type thing could ever hope to be.

Chocolate cake is the dullest of all the cakes.

Cake generally is overrated

 

[dessiato]

Rich fruit cake, thick slice of butter, thick layer of marmite, thick slice of cheese, preferably a vintage cheddar. Wash it down with a small tumbler of whiskey

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Jellied canned ham is one of the finest delicacies known to humankind.

Couldn't find any of this in Tescos today.

 

[Spymaster]

Couldn't find any of this in Tescos today.

Metros might not stock it.

Bigger ones certainly do.

 

[chemn]

I like to eat avocado with salt and malt vinegar.

 

[Wolveryeti]

Ground turmeric is the most pointless spice ever. You could replace it with cadmium yellow in literally anything that calls for it and nobody eating it would bat an eyelid.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Metros might not stock it.

Bigger ones certainly do.

It was the biggish one in Brixton. Not massive but not a Metro. Anyway....it will stay on the list until I find some

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Jellied canned ham is one of the finest delicacies known to humankind.

And the best bit is the jelly.

 

[Spymaster]

Ground turmeric is the most pointless spice ever. You could replace it with cadmium yellow in literally anything that calls for it and nobody eating it would bat an eyelid.

Cadmium yellow probably wouldn't be quite as good at fucking-up everything it touches though.

 

[danny la rouge]

Shortcrust pastry is horrible. It’s like biting powder. If you have to have pastry, at least make it an edible one like puff.

 

[Ted Striker]

A roast beef (as in Sunday) is the single worst interpretation possible, of the great gift that cows give us. Blows your mind to think the shitty sliver or slab of tasteless meat in a roast comes from the same animal as steak and burgers.

Cheese is for wierdos - have you not fucking smelt it?

Chicken Korma is a great dish

 

[Spymaster]

A roast beef (as in Sunday) is the single worst interpretation possible, of the great gift that cows give us. Blows your mind to think the shitty sliver or slab of tasteless meat in a roast comes from the same animal as steak and burgers.

I think this wins in terms of wrongness.

 

[Ted Striker]

I think this wins in terms of wrongness.

Yeah, I was expecting a "well, you've clearly never had a good roast beef...", but I literally went specifically to Roast in Borough Market on a Sunday to fully test the hypothesis. It was still awful. A roast meal, is great for all kinds of non-cullinary reasons (memories of getting the family together, my Mums sense of triumph at her execution...), and Roast Chicken, and to a lesser extent, pork, are perfectly fine meals, but beef (and lamb, now you mention it) every mouthful you are trying desperately to extract the same sort of taste/flavour in their other, better, guises.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

A roast beef (as in Sunday) is the single worst interpretation possible, of the great gift that cows give us. Blows your mind to think the shitty sliver or slab of tasteless meat in a roast comes from the same animal as steak and burgers.

Cheese is for wierdos - have you not fucking smelt it?

Chicken Korma is a great dish

1. Wrong.

2. Wronger.

3. Ah, things start to make sense.

(((Ted's tastebuds)))

ETA: To complete the picture, may I ask how you like your beef?

 

[Ted Striker]

1. Wrong.

2. Wronger.

3. Ah, things start to make sense.

(((Ted's tastebuds)))

ETA: To complete the picture, may I ask how you like your beef?

You already know the answer "Medium well, please, and without the sidedish of sneering attitude if it's all the same". IF it's a filet AND I'm in new or refined company, I'll go with "medium rare" (and then say, in my head "Medium rayer...an aristo crat")

(I do have fairly shite tastebuds tbf, I put this down to a surely-this-can't-be-right nose (I have little to no sense of smell). It's odd, I genuinely have eating as up there as one of my favourite passions)

 

[seeformiles]

white pepper is the sort of thing you'd wish on your worst enemy

White pepper blinds your worst enemy better than black pepper

 

[fishfinger]

White pepper blinds your worst enemy better than black pepper

Yeah! Someone threw a handful of white pepper in my eyes when I was a kid. It fucking stings.

 

[maomao]

Yeah! Someone threw a handful of white pepper in my eyes when I was a kid. It fucking stings.

Still? Wow.

 

[fishfinger]

Still? Wow.

When I think about it, yeah.

 

[The39thStep]

Shortcrust pastry is horrible. It’s like biting powder. If you have to have pastry, at least make it an edible one like puff.

I do have time for the pastry on a pork pie though

 

[danny la rouge]

Still? Wow.

Yeah: people still have white pepper? Wow.

 

[danny la rouge]

I do have time for the pastry on a pork pie though

I’ve not eaten a pork pie for at least 36 years. But, yes, it wasn’t shortcrust, was it?

There was also suet pastry. That’s fine too. It’s shortcrust that’s evil.