• Catfish
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    19 days ago

    Counterpoint to yesterday. What food is never in your house? Some of mine are dislikes, others I just don’t use.

    Baked beans & tinned spaghetti

    Tinned fish

    Bananas

    SPAM

    Cream cheese

    Microwave meals

    Canton etc jars

    Frozen veg except peas

    Tinned asparagus

    Carob

    Breakfast cereal

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      19 days ago

      Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam

      Spam spam spam spam!

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      19 days ago

      These days it’s lamb due to the price, pork is almost never in my place except for bacon. That’s the exception and fresh vegetables.

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        19 days ago

        I don’t mind lamb but will go years between buying it. I just doesn’t register as a thing most of the time. Eat loads of piggy though, really annoyed the Colesworth apple sausages seem to have vanished.

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          19 days ago

          Apple Sausages?!

          Oh my god, how did I miss those? I want some now :(

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            19 days ago

            They were bloody good. Not overly ground up into paste like too many sausages are (presumably to hide what’s in them)

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        19 days ago

        That’s rough. Have a friend who can’t touch any allium at all. Hard to adapt, I use them in near everything.

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      19 days ago

      celery spam and tinned meat in general EXCEPT for tinned mutton ham (only from asian grocers) cos I really like this jar sauces tinned veg carob lolly water breakfast cereal tins of soup EXCEPT for Campbells chicken consomme when I can find any (the best!)

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        19 days ago

        This mutton ham thing sounds curious. Have heard celery described as ‘hairy water’, but love it myself.

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          19 days ago

          Real mutton ham is delish - its a leg of lamb/hogget/two tooth that’s been salted and smoked like pig ham. Very hard to find and bloody expensive as not much is made. The tinned mutton ham is a nice sandwich meat with a different flavour profile to regular ham, but has all that salty smoky cancerous goodness. Comes in a pale yellow tin with foreign writing on it. Try asian grocers.

          Celery can get in the bin. If I want watery crunch I’ll go for cucumber every time cos less stringy bits.

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            19 days ago

            I use celery in bolognese sauce, in minestrone and sliced very thinly in salads. I use the leaves finely chopped in place of parsley as it’s the same thing.

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      19 days ago

      Crunchy peanut butter, garlic and onions, cows milk, tinned tomatoes, mangoes.

      (Intolerance and just not liking crunchy)

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      19 days ago

      Lol. Most of those are in my kitchen. The only thing I can think of is cans of soup like cream of chicken, cream of mushroom etc.

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        19 days ago

        I don’t buy those either. Once in a blue moon will get a ‘chunky steak’ sort of thing but it’s always disappointing.

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          19 days ago

          They are aren’t they. My dad called them “untouched by human hands”.

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            19 days ago

            Yep. There’s something about tinned or jar cooked things that just isn’t right. Sort of sticky clammy. Need my thesaurus!

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              19 days ago

              It’s the surface tension, they are stringy thick. They also use fats that don’t melt in your mouth. They are too sweet.

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                19 days ago

                100% on the too sweet. Never found a jar salsa that wasn’t effectively jam.

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      19 days ago

      stinky cheese

      no tinned vegies other than beans and tomatoes

      no premade sauces

      very few foods made overseas, I will buy the aussie version

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        19 days ago

        Corn kernels are acceptable tinned. And beetroot but I mostly do my own for that.