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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
9.09 AM
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This is my first thread but I couldn't resist asking... do you have food(s) that you love to eat, probably only very occasionally, but that are 'shameful'? I have two - a Fray Bentos tinned steak and kidney pie and Kraft Mac and Cheese (I grew up in New Jersey). These are at odds with the rest of my diet and my love of cooking and fine dining but sometimes I just can't help myself! I hope I am not alone in my secret and I won't find myself banished from this lovely forum, lol! Would love to hear about your shameful eats... |
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Greece
May 17, 2009
9.19 AM
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Oh, I could happily scoff a whole Fray Bentos pie - the lovely savoury meatiness of it, and that soggy layer of chewy pastry under the crisp top. Who was the genius who had the idea of putting a pie in a tin? I imagine those tins went to every corner of the British empire, sustaining lonely bachelors in their jungle outposts... |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
9.24 AM
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They truly are a work of genius, apart from the portion calculation as they are meant to serve four people! The thought of sharing spoils the pleasure and shame! |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
9.32 AM
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Have to admit we often have fray bentos steak and kidney pie with chips and baked beans. You just can't replicate the taste yourself. I also like walking along the seafront with a carton of prawns and a cocktail stick... |
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May 17, 2009
10.30 AM
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Hmmmm,
shameful as in non-foodie?
Only when OH cooks ;-) |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
10.39 AM
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My food shame is awful I am almost too ashamed to say... I can only eat it when drunk as I know its soo shameful. My husband once bought me a bottle of champagne in order to get me drunk enough to have a chilli covered KEBAB. Urrgghh the sober thought makes me shudder but after a bottle of moet it is delicious. I also love jellied eels and pie and mash. I once had some sent mail order from London as I live up north now. It was not the same without the marble table and tiled walls of the pie and mash shop though. |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
10.52 AM
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Fattart - I too come from London originally (the East End) and Sunday tea was always shrimps, winkles and (for my Dad) jellied eels from the van by the local pub. Ahhhh memories... |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
11.00 AM
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Hey Prawn, a soul mate, yes whelks, crab, prawns, winkle sandwiches Sunday tea definitely. I miss it sooo much. The other weekend we did a 6 hour round trip to Blakeney in Norfolk for the caravan with oysters, brown shrimps, cockles, crab etc....Oh it was so nice. Also in London you could get all sorts of fish with your fish and chips, rock, skate, place, soul, haddock. In good old Yorkshire all you can get is cod, cod and and more cod. The peas are good though and they use lovely dripping for frying so not all bad. Of course I am close to Bradford too which is fantastic for curry. I would still run back down south at the first opportunity don't get me started on the weather...... |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
11.29 AM
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Yup, skate and chips with proper mushy peas not to mention pease pudding etc. We are in Warwickshire now and yes I still miss London. Luckily though our eldest daughter and partner live down there now in Fulham so I do get to visit a bit........ |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
12.13 PM
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Pot Noodle.... |
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United States
May 17, 2009
12.14 PM
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I have gotta google winkle pie!
Mine's barbeque. It's a noun here in the US South. It's pulled pork- mmmm. |
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Greece
May 17, 2009
2.35 PM
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I ca easily beat you're shame Penifer, I have my F.B Pie in a sandwich!!!
Tea X.
ps I have been known to do the same with there S & K puddings, brown sauce of course. |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
2.58 PM
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Thanks all, I feel reassured by our mutual love of the pie in a tin!
Tea, that sounds like some sandwich - I'm presuming squashy white bread so as not to add any nutritional value? Lol |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
2.59 PM
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Wow Pennifger that brought back some memories. When I was little we used to go on caravan holidays and for weeks before my mother would add extras to the weekly shop and store them under their bed for the holiday (tins of course) and Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie was a holiday staple (the only time we eat it). Another favourite was tinned macaroni cheese. Happy Days!;-) |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
3.02 PM
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I have a really bad one....crispy pancakes. I know - its the orange breadcrumbs that does it and the MSG laden gloop of the sauce. Very sad and shameful! |
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May 17, 2009
3.36 PM
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joeyjimbles you legend! i loved crispy pancakes, and we had frey bentos pies too, think there are 2 in the cupboards
other shamefuls, yeah donner kebab has to be in there and those like cinema hotdogs, the frankfurter ones |
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United States
May 17, 2009
3.45 PM
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Shame, Susan? Love of good BBQ should be shouted loud and proud! On the other hand, so-called Mexican food from Taco Bell and Del Taco... THAT'S shameful. And tasty. And, damn it, now that I'm thinking about, I'll have to get some today.... |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
3.56 PM
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Maccy D for me please. |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
5.25 PM
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I can hang my head in shame when I say - Campbell's meatballs on speghetti topped with cheddar. It's almost not even food, but it was one of my childhood ill foods :S |
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Greece
May 17, 2009
5.27 PM
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Correct Pennifer thick sliced white, lots of butter.
Tea x. |
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Greece
May 17, 2009
5.33 PM
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I've never had Campbell's meatballs, but it sounds like food to me, and a damn tasty meal at that. |
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Greece
May 17, 2009
5.47 PM
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Also good in a sandwich ST.
Tea X. |
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United States
May 17, 2009
6.13 PM
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Nestle Tollhouse cookie dough, straight out of the package. They say you have to cook it first, but it's so much tastier if you don't. |
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South africa
May 17, 2009
6.40 PM
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One spoon peanut butter and one teaspoon Nutella...one mouth! yummmyyy! |
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Australia
May 17, 2009
7.49 PM
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A bacon sandwich preferably in fresh and still warm french bread. I used to have a thing for Farleys Rusks in my 20s but can't even look at them now. |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
7.52 PM
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Heinz winter vegetable soup or Knorr packet chicken noodle soup! Both childhood foods for me.
Salty thin microwave hotdogs dipped in mustard and ketchup mmmmmmmmmmmm almost to hot to handle or chew but somehow you manage!
Butterscotch flavour angel delight. A Girl Guide camp specialty.
Diet coke. It's so bad but so good. Still seems like a treat to me as was never allowed fizzy as a child.
For the same reason, guiltily love jelly babies too ;) |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
8.58 PM
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Erm I stopped eating crispy pancakes forever ago, not keen on tinned pies, went off tinned pear shaped blocks of ham, can't bring myself to eat pasta n'sauce by batchelors.
I don't do McDs, KFC or anything like that.
I'm useless aren't I? :o( I think the trashiest I get but am not ashamed is a fish finger sandwhich but that's like onece a year.
Is dipping hot toast into tea shameful cos I do that maybe twice a year?!!
god I'm boring. |
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United Kingdom
May 17, 2009
9.31 PM
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This has turned into a bit of a walk down memory lane lol. Fray Bentos pies and Crispy Pancakes. Wow.
But is it just me or are they not now as good as they used to be? They just don't seem to have the quantity of filling they used to... or maybe the memory is just better than the reality.
Haven't had an FB for ages but there'll be one in this week's shopping!
Thanx for the memory-jogger, pennifer :o) |
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United States
May 17, 2009
11.35 PM
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JonMc so true! I just eat too much of it and I don't know anything about pie in a can. Pie is always good, right? And Taco HELL? |
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United States
May 17, 2009
11.56 PM
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Why do you think I listed it under shame, Susan? lol Gimme a couple of Nacho Cheese Chalupas and a Mountain Dew! |
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New Zealand
May 18, 2009
9.12 AM
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Gregg's cheese and onion pasties. The bag would be see through with grease.
I miss them so much. One of the first things I did after getting off a 26 hour flight was to get my brother in law to drive me to the nearest Gregg's bakery from Heathrow!!! |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
9.24 AM
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fish finger sandwich with salad cream yummy yum yum!!! |
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Australia
May 18, 2009
9.31 AM
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I would break kosher for a single piece of American bacon. No joke. It's my Achilles heel, that stuff. So crispy and thin... |
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New Zealand
May 18, 2009
9.48 AM
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Mince n Cheese Pie in one hand and a chicken filled roll in the other, I then proceed to take bites alternating between the two! :-) |
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Switzerland
May 18, 2009
10.13 AM
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I have a weakness for fried foods, particularly french fries.
Thankfully (or not), there are not too many places in Zurich which sell french fries. You can buy them from one or two sausage stands here, or otherwise order them as a side dish in a restaurant. So when I have been without french fries for what may seem an eternity, I will sneak into McDonald's for a quick fix. And that is usually the only time I will go into McDonald's! |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
10.32 AM
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kfc every time |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
10.41 AM
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Kraft macaroni cheese! Chicken flavour super noodles...Angel delight! Love the stuff. I haven't eaten a Fray Bentos pie since I was little, but I remember loving the soggy part of the pastry!! |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
12.20 PM
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I could admit to so much trash in my past.. everything tinned but could not bring myself to eat FB pies... the absolute horror & fear of encountering gristle scares me witless!
Present guilt.. fish finger sandwich in white plastic bread with tom ketchup YUMMM!!!
Also with RaspberryRose on this one... butterscotch Angel Delight, no other flavour will do I'm afraid. |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
12.23 PM
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Uum I have a fray bentos pie in my cupboard. It has been there about a month now but I am definitely going to have it this week, I haven't had one since I was a teenager. The pastry is lovely.
McDonalds, KFC, chicken super noodles, pot noodles and Greggs sausage rolls. |
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Greece
May 18, 2009
12.45 PM
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In defence of Messers Fray & Bentos, I've NEVER encountered gristle or anything remotely dubious in one of their lovely pies. I'm not saying it's a health food, but as far as I'm aware the quality of the product is consistently high. |
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Ireland
May 18, 2009
12.59 PM
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Reading about all your Fray Bentos pie weaknesses triggers a childhood memory too - but I don't associate it with pies. Does anyone know was there ever a Fray Bentos brand of meat paste (something like Bovril?) That seems to be what a can vaguely recall. I tried to find out on Wikipedia - and discovered that"Fray Bentos"is a country in Uruguay which I never knew before - and it was here that Fray Bentos pies were first manufactured! |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
1.02 PM
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Stoupa..I have no evidence of this at all... it's the fear I'm afraid. I only ever eat stews, pies etc made be me or mum... she has the same aversion as me! Daft really, but there you go!
More guilty secrets.... I stll love Farley's rusks.. I'm in my forties! |
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Ireland
May 18, 2009
1.02 PM
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Oh- my shameful thing -there are lots butt the first one that springs to mind is Condensed milk by the spoonful straight out of a tin! I think I can safely blame it on the "Pukkies" we had as children - they were little pyramid-shaped, Tetra pak individual portions of condensed milk that you could drink with a straw. My mother bought them for us when it was school holidays.... mmmmmm wha ta good idea! Wish they still made them! |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
1.06 PM
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Eeewww I saw a programme once that was about how they made tinned pies and there was a process where the filling was sort of mechanically and chemically partially digested to make the meat tender, I know its mechanical but it made me thankful to be a vege the thought of it yuk!
I am partial to a fish finger sandwich on cheap white bread from time to time i have also been know to eat baked beans cold from the tin by scooping them out with bread! |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
1.08 PM
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I LOVE potato waffles cooked in the toaster in buttered white bread with salt, vinegar and tomato sauce - YUMMY!!!! |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
8.23 PM
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There are some legendary shameful eats - I feel quite normal now about my love of FB pies - Lupin I am still laughing that they are named after a country!
Joeyjimbles - I too loved crispy pancakes - cheese or minced beef - do they still exist??
And I fully agree that only Angel Delight butterscotch flavour will do! |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
8.49 PM
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The [as far as I'm aware] originators of the crispy pancakes were Findus, who are sadly now defunct. Not sure if other manufacturers make something similar, maybe with a slightly different name for trademark/copyright purposes. |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
8.53 PM
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I am ashamed to admit that crispy pancakes do still exist. Made by birds eye now I think. |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
8.57 PM
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Ambroisa tinned rice pudding - straight out of the tin [hanging head in shame] |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
9.52 PM
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Cucina, lift your head high and walk with me, without shame, to declare our love of the ambrosia. It's lurvely! - especially kept in the fridge. Asda used to do a 3-pack, not sure if they still do. And a while ago when I needed to lose a little weight and was watching the fat content of what I ate I seem to recall it was below the 'magic' figure of 5% fat. Or maybe I was just in denial and had the calorie-goggles on when reading the label :o) |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
10.19 PM
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I used to like those curries in a packet that were dried and your reconstituted them. Oh lordy, can't remember the name but I used to think they were great. Husband has just reminded me - Vesta. Looking back I suppose it was "space age" food! |
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Ireland
May 18, 2009
10.22 PM
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Nothing like fat pork sausages hot in well buttered white plastic bread. Yum I can nearly feel the butter dribbling down my chin LOL |
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May 18, 2009
10.40 PM
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Lupin - I just opened a can of condensed milk today and ate a quarter of the can straight - almost didn't leave enough to cook with. |
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United Kingdom
May 18, 2009
10.50 PM
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Oh not Vesta curries, but Vesta chow mein and Vesta paella. Fray Bentos pies were a real student treat as were the tins of Danish Zwan kidneys in gravy. Where there is a "good" branch of Burger King I like their cheeseburgers - no sauces or pickle - with salty chips piping hit like they do down south in Sunderland. Oh, the nice Turkish chip shop 8 miles away does great fish cakes and fried roe as well as chips and pizzas but I only buy there once a year. Hey - thick white toast with grilled Dairylea spread and a wee hint of Daddy's sauce under the cheese if we didn't have Dairylea. Considering what a snotty organic locally-sourced foodie I pretend to be I know way too much about this stuff. Angel Delight and Symington's table creams. Aaaaaagh! |
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United States
May 18, 2009
11.14 PM
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True shame is sitting on the kitchen floor with a 5-year old and a husband who's old enough to know better, chowing down on an Entenmann's Filled Chocolate Chip Crumb Cake straight from the box, which easily serves 8.
Did I mention that it's eaten with 3 spoons?
Dashmom |
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United States
May 19, 2009
3.56 AM
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Reese's peanut butter BIG cups! |
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United Kingdom
May 25, 2009
4.21 PM
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Yay for the fray bentos brigade. I love em, crispy pancakes and smiley faces. Oh and Lancashire chips peas and gravy smothered in salt yummmmmm!!!!!! And a good bacon butty with ketchup. |
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Sweden
May 25, 2009
4.48 PM
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I loved tinned ham....
Every year I get a craving of dipping olives in dark chocolate and I do it... |
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