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[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago

Cheeky. I shall slap you with a herring.

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

onions. Cant eat 'em. Garlic isnt much better.

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Apple Sausages?!

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

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

(Intolerance and just not liking crunchy)

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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!)

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months 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.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

stinky cheese

no tinned vegies other than beans and tomatoes

no premade sauces

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

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are aren't they. My dad called them "untouched by human hands".

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

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