Crimes against food

I absolutely detest gluggy gravy! I can stand gravy made with pan juices and whatnot, but when it deliberately has chunks of onion, garlic, bits of meat in it, to "add to the flavour" and then is as thick as anything, ohhhh, it's so... just yukkie!

I'm with Cailin on the butter & icing sugar popcorn, ohmygoodness, so delish!
And i love bbq sauce over tomato anyday, my eggs and bacon are always smothered!
And i like 100's and 1000's (round 'fairy seeds' - as they have become known') as opposed to flat sprinkles.

I think my list'd go a mile...
- My housemate eats fruit loops with strawberry milk ... because they weren't sweet enough in the first place?
- Tomato Sauce (or any other than tartare or lemon juice) on fish!
- 'Homebrand' cheese... i'm too much of a cheeseeater to buy coles brand cheese it's just so tasteless.
- Juices with banana in them!
- Butter or marg with nearly any spread (apart from vegemite, because vegemite is too dry without it) on toast, or sandwiches...

hmm we have me thinking now...

Yes Cailin, you may certainly call Smorgy's food criminals... any place that serves up huge tubs of bulk "salad" drowned in Kraft mayo fits that definition. Actually "Kraft" are common culprits, their version of cheese that is wrapped in foil and bought from the supermarket shelf (not refrigerated) and their individually wrapped "Singles" are soap... my kids won't eat the stuff... it's fake cheese.

haha rayray sounds terrible, i don't think its here anymore though.....

*My FIL puts cold tinned beetroot on top of anykind of meal, even roast lamb with mint sauce!!
*Tomato sauce on chicken or fish eeewwww
*overcooked vegies, MIL cooks tea in the mid afternoon for about 20 hours then "reheats" it in the microwave so that you cant recognise anything...
*plastic cheese
*that milk that is supposed to be modified to be cholesterol free by taking out the cream and putting in the vegie oil OMG soooo gross!
*fake cream in buns or on birthday cakes that are just all coloured cream and no cake.
Hmm many more but will not blabber on ...

I agree with the cheese thing. I can't stand the taste of those 'stringers' / sticks of cheese - salty crap.
DH eats cheese and onion sandwiches - just like that, doesn't even toast them - ewww

Two from the DH collection:p :
Ravioli with tomato sauce (not fresh tomatoes & herbs, Big Red Tomato sauce)
Baked bean soup - take a tin of baked beans, put it in a bowl & pour boiling water over, eat the beans & throw the water/sauce out. He thought that was how everyone ate baked beans!

I agree with ashnant .....

Juice isn't right with Banana in it!! Tastes disgusting!!

Hehehe.... my favourite juice is my homemade mango, banana and orange smoothie. Yummy yum yum yum!!!!!!

I also like the round 100s & 1000s on fairy bread... have never had it with the flat ones...

I agree with the overcookd veges one... BLEH. I can't stand eating veges with no texture... I need my vegies to still be at least a bit solid... can't stand watery vegies either... my mum is a culprit, boils vegies and then when the strains them the broccoli breaks up, the carrots flake apart, the potatoes are powdery, the spinach becomes liquid... and they all seem to meld in with each other... ewwwwww!!!!

Ashnat... I loveit when my gravy has onion and stuff in it... gives it flavour! Yummy, its so good. I deliberately make it like that! But it's never really thick or lumpy... just has some yummy onions and stuff... bet you'd love my gravy!

I thought of another one....
Using prepackaged cheese slices on jaffles. YUCK! I love my jaffles to have lots of real cheese melting away, not a tiny slice of plastic in it... Mmmmm.... actually I might have a cheese and ham jaffle for lunch... sounds good!

I love eating raw puff pastry!!!!! Gosh, I'm evil!!!

Food crimes that quickly spring to mind:
fake cream
overuse of tomato sauce
overcooking anything, particularly meat (steak esp) and veges
when my FIL smothers my special pasta dish in at least a cup of grated cheese before even tasting it - is it that bad?????
using evap milk and coconut essence to make pretend coconut milk - ewww, tastes nothing like the real thing!!!

And the worst of all for me is..........lack of FOOD RESPECT! Yes, when I cook a meal and tell people it is ready, I expect them to come to the table immediately to eat it while it is at it's best. I hate it when you say dinner is ready and then put it on the table and nobody comes. Meanwhile, the pasta is getting cold, the parsley garnish is wilting and turning brown............

ewwww coconut essence and evaporated milk??? do people do that??? Ugh! Yep, fake food is disgusting and I think it actually contributes to over eating and being over weight. The tongue/brain isn't fooled... it knows it's been ripped off and dwells even longer on what the real thing would have been like creating an obsession. If you have the real thing you will be satisfied, less likely to overeat and move on! Chocolate is a classic example: a real piece of good quality dark chocolate gives you that 'hit' without having to eat a whole block. I'm a chocoholic too sometimes but the idea of eating heaps of it is stomach turning.

LOL Bath yep its a WW tip to low fat coconut milk... and I agree FOUL!

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ewwww coconut essence and evaporated milk??? do people do that??? Ugh! Yep, fake food is disgusting and I think it actually contributes to over eating and being over weight. The tongue/brain isn't fooled... it knows it's been ripped off and dwells even longer on what the real thing would have been like creating an obsession. If you have the real thing you will be satisfied, less likely to overeat and move on! Chocolate is a classic example: a real piece of good quality dark chocolate gives you that 'hit' without having to eat a whole block. I'm a chocoholic too sometimes but the idea of eating heaps of it is stomach turning.

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Very true, there was a study about kids and fat. They gave one group the full fat food and the other the low fat version. The low fat goup actually ate more till they got to the same level of fat consumption as the first group, therefore eating more calories.

Yes, exactly, and the same applies to adults, I see it all the time. I don't buy anything low fat and our immediate family are not over weight. Our extended family however all mostly buy low fat products, especially the over weight ones. :dunno: how does that work?

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Oooh I'm definately a food criminal... I love tomato sauce, fake whipped cream (especially fake whipped choc mousse) and plastic cheese on my jaffles. But I do agree on the low fat. Anything low fat or with that low joule sugar is just gross.
The biggest food criminal I know is my MIL... the original meat and three veg woman, overcooked vegies with garlic bread from a packet in the freezer and defrosted, undercooked pickled pork *shudder*

I've changed my main shopping venue from Coles to an Independent grocer (Leo's Fine Foods) and am discovering lots of locally produced food that are more 'real' than the brands you find in Coles. Yogurt for example... there is a nice little range of locally made yogurts that taste sooooo good and don't rely on "thickener' to make it taste creamy. coles used to stock Jalna and King Island which are good... but more and more the "fake' yogurt brands like Ski and Nestle were taking over their shelves. *thumbs down* Coles!

Thanks for bumping this thread Trill :)

My dad once put a packet of dried friut (like for a boiled fruit cake) into...CHOW MEIN! Glace cherries and all...it was very disgusting...I'm scarred for life! I cannot eat cooked savory fruit, yuck!

Instant coffee - this is not coffee and should not be allowed to even be called coffee as it is disrespecting proper coffee!

Cheese in a can - how did this ever come into existence?

Deb - why would you make fake mashed potato? It's not like making mashed potato is difficult!!!

Tasteless supermarket tomoatoes - why bother?

Any mass produced junk food combo meal (eg. McDonalds, Hungry Jacks, KFC) - sure I'll have my whole days worth of calories and 3 days worth of fat in one unsatisfying meal.... they should be outlawed!

Square sholder ham blek that is not ham!!!!!!!!!!!
Vegimite on wheat a bix YUCKO.
Tomatoe sauce smothering everything and anything (its need on pies and fish and chips)
adding salt without tasting food first.

umm i will keep thinking

Fake parmasen cheese like that Kraft crap and pre grated parmasen that is packaged.

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The biggest food criminal I know is my MIL... the original meat and three veg woman, overcooked vegies with garlic bread from a packet in the freezer and defrosted, undercooked pickled pork *shudder*

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OMG do we share the same MIL??? :lol::lol::lol:

My DP takes the smothering everything with sauce a step further...everything is smothered in the hottest chilli sauce he can find and i know there is no way he can taste anything then and also he has stooped to a new low..."dog" rolls of "ham" apparently they are fantastic...i think not!

Tomato sauce. On anything. Unless it's home made, in which case it is wonderful. The biggest crime was when Heinz brought out GREEN tomato sauce. Not sauce made from green (unripe) tomatoes, but normal tomato sauce dyed green. Wrong, wrong, and more wrong.

Fake plastic cheese.

Medium steak when rare is ordered. I usually have to order steak blue so that I get it rare.

Pre-made salad dressings.

Almost everything made by Kraft and Nestle.

Gravox.

Bad chocolate. The world should not be subjected to it.

Packet mixes when the real thing is easier and quicker and tastes 10 times better.

I agree on the cooked lettuce. Wrong, wrong and more wrong. Most wrong was when I bought a cheese and salad sandwich and was asked if I wanted it toasted. WTF is that about.

Just have one thing to say on bacon and maple syrup (and pancakes) for those who doubt its wonderfulness. It's the BEST hangover food ever. EVER. And if served with fried banana sprinkled with a bit of cinnamon and brown sugar to caramelise.... oh baby. Mmmmmm. Has to be good bacon, and real maple syrup. Our local butcher cures his own bacon and it is sublime.

Loving this thread! Thanks Trillian for bumping it!

I agree with the overcooked vegies, plastic cheese and salt/pepper-ing things before tasting.

But my few *felony* crimes are:

Artificial sweeteners (don't even taste sweet!!)
Low fat milk *blurk*
Pre-packaged meals that just taste like the plastic they've been stored in - and nothing else

and my number 1 -

Runny egg whites - don't mind the yolk runny, but puh-lease cook the white!

I agree with the others about the 'low fat' foods being unsatisfying so we eat more. Same goes for quality food. If you feel like a proper chocolate eclair with chantilly cream - eat one. Don't have a fake cream donut from woolies.... it just won't satisfy you and you will have "wasted" the effort. Gosh dang it - just eat the calories and enjoy every single one of them!!! It's the way I lost 18 kgs... ;)

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Vegimite on wheat a bix YUCKO.

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I had forgotten about that, used to eat weetbix like that as a kid :redface:

Prepackaged potato salad - completely rude in a bring a plate scenario, especially if the bringer then whinges that others have brought potato salad (which happens to be home made) as they were the ones to meant to bring it :rolleyes:

Pizza's from Pizza hut, or any large Pizza chain..
They all taste gross, I tried all the different kinds of bases and they all either taste like big bits of dough with gross toppings or overcooked thin base and then you can taste the gross toppings even more! lol
I completely went off Pizza until I found a lovely little Italian restuarant that makes the most delicious pizza's I've ever had. I don't even like my own home made pizzas, but I've never made the bases before, just used the supermarket bases which are gross.

I've said gross too much sorry heh

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Baked bean soup - take a tin of baked beans, put it in a bowl & pour boiling water over, eat the beans & throw the water/sauce out

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that is outrageous... YUK!!! definite food crime send him to food prison immediately!!!

Some food crimes for me are:
*Gravy on meat - eww
*toast without butter
*Lindt chocolate - what an insult to tha cadbury factory.
*hedgehog slice that's too crunchy!!!!!!!!!!!
*subway putting PICKLES on sandwiches!!! ewk
*fat free mayonaisse (they must be joking - its rubbish)
*McDonalds making you pay extra to put cheese in a McChicken - blasphemy!!!!

Go the fairy bread!! :) :)

I agree with you Ben... except about Lindt ;) Lindt generally has a higher cocoa content meaning you don't tend to over eat the stuff (you get the "hit" after eating less). Quality over quantity any day when it comes to chocolate.

There's nothing wrong with pickles on Subway, I always ask for heaps! Yummo I have a craving now, thanks Ben01 :lol:

Have to agree about Lindt milk chocolate - how can a company that makes such divine dark chocolate make such awful milk choc!

Oh mine are from DH, he's the worst!!
*putting potato chips or savory biscuits like jatz in the fridge, WTF???? Who wants cold crackers?
*putting tomato sauce on macaroni cheese!!! Why not just have a tomato pasta, not cheese?
*making this disgusting mash of all the vegies in the fridege, potato, carrot, broccolli, cauliflower, and mashing some gravy in with it...ewwwww.......it just comes out some brown/green colour, how can you eat something so ugly??

See, I think they should lock Cadbury up and throw away the key LOL. Awful stuff, blergh. Give me 70%, or 85% Lindt any day :)

ETA OMG SJ, who would put chips in the fridge????? WTF?

lol ok I confess I love chips in the fridge. I don't know why but they just taste better! That goes for Jatz too.
Ben- ummm i think cheese on a McChicken is a food crime in itself ;)
You know what's really good but probably definately a food crime? Kettle chips (plain ones) that have been fridged, served with tomato sauce to dip them in. Yummm.....

eww.....lol. Chips in the fridge are just weird. DH says his mum used to put them in there at home so now he likes them. Thinks they stay fresher or something. Not true!! They just taste like fridge, lol. And how long do you want to keep them for anyway?? lol.
Lori, I do agree with you on the McChicken though!

LoriRae what did you eat when you were pg?!:D Sorry but that sounds too gross!!

Ditto the pickles on subway...I always ask for HEAPS!!!

I think McDonalds in itself is a food crime! Sorry

Also a food crime this creation from my husband. A Nacho 'lasagne' Mince meat with no flavouring added. Flavoured CCs. Tomato sauce Cheese and wait for it..... PEAS (to make it healthy DH informed me!) He layered it together like a lasagne was the most disgusting thing!!

Also my MILs 'spag bol' doesn't even deserve to be called spag bol! DH begged me to make it like his mum does. I call her and ask what she puts in it. Mince meat...Lots of garlic...and tomato or BBQ sauce, whichever I have more of! YUK YUK YUK!!!

eww.....that is not spag bol!!!!!!!
Neither is my Aunty's...huge amounts of pasta with hardly any sauce with a few bits of chopped up steak in it, hahahahahaha. What the?? I remember going there for dinner and my little cousins saying 'What is this mum???' and the adults saying 'Shh....just eat it'. Very hard to eat, no flavour, :rofl:

Aaaah! See we don't generally buy milk chocolate... my DH hates it and has converted me to dark mostly. I seem to recall Lindt's milk chocolate is pretty average. My kids love dark chocolate too thankfully... if you are going to eat the stuff the dark stuff is marginally better for you. There's a photo in my gallery of my 2yo toddler standing in the 'fridge polishing off my Lindt Chili Dark chocolate!!! Little scallywag!

Agree on that spag bol, sounds as bad as what my ex SIL made one night. Totally flavourless and surrounded by an orange oil slick. Silly me had walked in the door and said how hungry I was, so I had to eat it. There was not even any cheese to help with the flavour :(

Very confused the gravy on meat being seen as a crime. :dunno: Nothing better than a good roast with homemade gravy. I am fussy though, on the meat only and not the veg.

I like a good gravy too (made with pan juices and bits of caramelised chicken skin then strained) made after you roast a chicken and poured over the chicken meat... and potatoes. Gravox can be a food crime but I do admit to having it in our pantry... sometimes if we have lots of people over for a roast there isn't enough pan juices to go around so i have to add a bit of gravox to make up enough for everyone. A dash of red wine usually prevents it from being too gluggy and a real crime against food!!!

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Butter or margarine on Sweet Muffins (ie: chocolate or berry. Muffin Break offer this all the time WT?)

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I agree with the choc, yuk, but berry muffins a little bit warm with butter (not margerine YUK) ahhh YUMM!!

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putting tomato sauce on macaroni cheese

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I do this, haha, well on my mums any way, she puts tom sauce in he rmac cheese, and then when its finished, ill put more on, and mix it up, and then eat it...IMO it makes it more cheesy tasting..I love my mums mac cheese!! And its probably the ONLY time ill put tom sauce on ANYTHING.

Im the one that introduced cheese on McChicken to Ben01, i worked at maccas and did this, and omg it was SO good, done it ever since. We had a customer order cheese burgers with choc sauce on them..it wasnt just a once off too, they came thru about 4 or so times when i was working, probably more.

My parents put cheese and golden syrup on sandwiches *EEWW* WTF?
There have been a few dishes my mum has cooked that have been pretty bad, and i hate hate hate it when she will cook a nice chicken caserole, and ill come accross a gluggy bit of chicken skin...YUK...
I dislike chicken skin, (Ben01 ;)) i dunno, i just cant eat it, i used to like it as a kid, when mum used to cook roast chicken, and the skin on the drumstcik was nice and salty and flavoursome, i dunno what happened and why she doesnt cook like this any more.
Red Rooster Chickens, and also their fish..I just cant eat the chickens from red rooster any more, probably coz i worked there and had to stuff and salt them every freekin day, YUK, and i warn ppl, dont have red rooster fish, i was reading on the box the one day, and got the fish's scientific name, searched it up, and its a fish that comes from vietnam and is either a catfish or related to catfish that swims on the bottom of lakes/rivers/rice fields in the mud...EEWW

I LOVE FULL CREAM MILK!! In South Africa, we would get the milk fresh from the farm, it was cured, and we would get it straight out of the delivery tank, and after a few days, id sneak into the fridge with a spoon and scoop the cream from the top of the milk!! Dont get it like that here in OZ do ya??

Ok, im blabbering now, ill go, for now, till i remember some more, im sure there are plenty haha.