A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

[mcshroom]

I don't know if they've changed since, but when I worked at KFC in about 2005 there were no vegitarian options on the menu at all.

[barakta]

I remember KFC having no veggie options at all and refusing to eat there when with a group. I ended up finding chips elsewhere after they'd all eaten which sucked.

The difficulty getting veggie food as well as "TOO MUCH SODDING CHEESE" were considerable factors in stopping being vegetarian.  I certainly wouldn't go back to it now despite it being easier as I'm now largely if not totally lactose intolerant which knocks lots of easily accessible food off the menu as it is. I can't have cream, milk or yoghurt (or skimmed milk, whey powder) in any quantities without getting ill - and I'm also intolerant somehow to soya milk but seem to be OK with soya in stuff but haven't tried eating soya recently.

[citoyen]

By contrast, I'm veering more and more towards considering vegetarianism a viable option. I'm an omnivore by inclination but in principle* I would happily cut meat out of my diet. It helps that I like cheese and mushrooms.

Most meat is very disappointing so I could easily live without it. I've never found it hard to resist the lure of the KFC, for example. And as for those pizzas with hotdogs in the crust... I tried one once, just to see if it was really as bad as I feared it would be. I nearly hurled.

Nando's, on the other hand, would cause me problems if I tried to go vegetarian.


*the flexible (some might say hypocritical) kind of principle that balks at factory farming but mysteriously becomes a non-issue when I'm presented with a tasty slab of foie gras...

[Wowbagger]

I was looking in Waitrose the other day at various cuts of meat. There was a piece of beef which looked to me to be about the right size for 5 or 6 people sitting down to eat and it was over £40! People must buy this stuff, but it seems prohibitively expensive to me. I poked around on the shelves and found a couple of pieces of rump steak reaching their "sell-by" date which had been knocked down to about £4 each and bought those for the freezer.

[geraldc]

KFC vegetarian options. Having done 2 tours of duty with the colonel you can have:

Chips
Beans
Corn on the Cob
Coleslaw

I'd also bulk it out with milkshakes and an apple pie.

Meat being expensive is a good thing. When it comes to being a treat again, rather than a staple, I can't see it doing anyone any harm.

[citoyen]

There was a piece of beef which looked to me to be about the right size for 5 or 6 people siting down to eat and it was over £40! People must buy this stuff, but it seems prohibitively expensive to me.

This perception is part of the problem. Nearly all meat in supermarkets is grossly underpriced.

Ethically, the answer should be to eat less meat, not to eat cheaper meat.

[ian]

Plus I was in Nandos the other day and I swear my friend's chicken starting whispering 'eat me! eat me!' as I chewed through yet another horrid wallpaper paste-and-veggie burger.

Vegetarians in Nando's. A recipe for disaster...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nandos-serves-chicken-vegetarian-roshni-2972616

I find it a bit hard to believe that anyone could mistake halloumi for chicken. It's like confusing cheddar with a banana. And she ate the entire thing. She's either so dumb that she's effectively an anti-rocket scientist or angling for a substantial freebie.

Considering what it must cost to ethically produce something like beef, £40 for a hunk enough to feed a family seems reasonable. I may have abandoned my vegetarian principles, but I figured if you're going to eat meat, you ought to at least have some regard for the ethics. I can't do the math that allows four chicken breasts to be sold for £1.99. I've always been happy enough to treat meat as an occasional thing, it doesn't have to be a constituent of every meal. Though I was brought up that way, my dad won't eat anything that doesn't contain meat.

I could never eat foie gras on the basis that it tastes horrible enough for it never to challenge my ethics.

[citoyen]

KFC vegetarian options. Having done 2 tours of duty with the colonel you can have:

Chips
Beans
Corn on the Cob
Coleslaw

I'd also bulk it out with milkshakes and an apple pie.

Are these all genuine vegetarian options or is it the French definition of vegetarian you're using here?

[Ham]

Hmm.... making a dressing for a SLAD for family Ham, I decide to check how hot the chilli is I'm using, as none of the remainder are chili-heads. It was a hottish one, so I chewed up about half of what I had chopped, and one other. Of course, this now renders me useless for actually gauging the heat of the completed article. C'est la vie.

[Ruth]

Picked walnuts aren't walnut shaped.  They're like little gobstoppers. 

I had no idea.

They should've sent a poet.

[andrew_s]

Today's offering on the birthday table at work:- Chocolate Mint flavour Pringles.
Just so wrong.

[hellymedic]

Today's offering on the birthday table at work:- Chocolate Mint flavour Pringles.
Just so wrong.

I think I mentioned Sweet Cinnamon Pringles on the Disgusting so-called food thread but andrew_s has won the internets today.

[David Martin]

Today's offering on the birthday table at work:- Chocolate Mint flavour Pringles.
Just so wrong.

That's not even wrong..

[hellymedic]

Today's offering on the birthday table at work:- Chocolate Mint flavour Pringles.
Just so wrong.

That's not even wrong..

It's not even food...

[andrew_s]

Today's offering on the birthday table at work:- Chocolate Mint flavour Pringles.
Just so wrong.

That's not even wrong..

It is wrong actually. I should have said "Mint Choc flavour Pringles".
The Daily Wail agrees with me - Christmas food No ONE wants to find in their stocking

[citoyen]

The Daily Wail agrees with me

That's nothing to be proud of.

[nikki]

Cashew nut butter. Yum.

[Wowbagger]

Picked walnuts aren't walnut shaped.  They're like little gobstoppers. 

I had no idea.

They should've sent a poet.

When we had a walnut tree Dez tried pickling some. You are supposed to pickle them long before they ripen as what you are pickling is the entire fruiting body, which as you rightly point out is green and gobstopperish. Dez left it a bit too long before he had pickled them and the shells were starting to form inside the green outer, which made them inedible.

I have to confess that I didn't try one as Dez had already given his view and slung them out. I think he pickled only the one jar.

[hellymedic]

My partner read the ingredients list on a haggis he bought... 

[Mrs Pingu]

One of life's valuable lessons there. If you intend to eat it, never, ever read the label on a haggis.

[Kim]

Or alternatively: Don't eat the haggis.

[hellymedic]

He told me he wanted a haggis weeks ago.
They weren't available from Sainsbury's at the time.
Now Burns' Night is approaching, they are everywhere.
He went off to Evans on a pornfest yesterday and I messaged him to catch a haggis on his return, telling him I could happily live without a haggis.
He caught a haggis; not just any haggis but a haggis from M&S.
He read the label as put it away.
He lives and learns...

[citoyen]

I know exactly what's in a haggis and I still love 'em.

[L CC]

Me too. If I could persuade Mr Smith we'd be having some this weekend.

[hellymedic]

I'll eat haggis if it's on offer but I'm also quite happy to pass it up.
David genuinely did not know the origin, history and ingredients.
We'll probably attack the beast before Burns' Night.