the food rant thread

[Jakob W]

Berliner Weisse is the hipster craft style du jour, no? (Or is that over already - I'm such a square...)

[ian]

I think it was a Singlecut Kim Hibiscus Sour Lager. A few beers were consumed as it was a hot, hot evening and we understand the importance of adequate hydration. I was working up to the bourbon barrel-aged barley wine.

[Mr Larrington]

Mr Sainsbury, your House Of Toothy Comestibles appears to gave ceased to sell that pea and mushroom masala that I quite like.  The spiffy new packaging on the rest of your Indian dishes in no way makes up for this nonsense.  If it has not returned to the range after Mr Larrington is returned from his holibobs there will be trouble of the burny stabby sort.

[Jurek]

Mr S has also stopped selling the prawn spring rolls, which I was partial to.
Waitrose appear to have followed suit.
Is there something we should know?
About prawn spring rolls, I mean.

[rafletcher]

T*sco have, at least in my local store, stopped selling the rather tasty Baxters Crab Bisque with Roast Tomato and Basil. Continuing to sell the Lobster Bisque in no way compensates for this omission.

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

My local Tesco has stopped selling their bakery dark chocolate cookies. Apparently I must have been the only person buying them.

[hellymedic]

My local Tesco has stopped selling their bakery dark chocolate cookies. Apparently I must have been the only person buying them.

I don't think many Brits like dark chocolate...

[orienteer]

Well I do, it's what drives me to Lidl every so often to stock up on a selection bars 

[Canardly]

Which bright spark decided that Cos lettuce should now be known as Romaine lettuce?

[Ham]

A USAnian? has been such for a long while.

Wikifleadia confirms:

Origin and etymology
In English, the most common name in North America is "romaine", while elsewhere it is known as "cos lettuce". Many dictionaries trace the word cos to the name of the Greek island of Cos, from which the lettuce was presumably introduced. Other authorities trace cos to the Arabic word for lettuce, khus

It apparently reached the West via Rome, as in Italian it is called lattuga romana and in French laitue romaine, both meaning 'Roman lettuce', hence the name 'romaine', the common term in North American English.

[billplumtree]

Which bright spark decided that Cos lettuce should now be known as Romaine lettuce?

Since Broixit, innit.

[hellymedic]

Well I do, it's what drives me to Lidl every so often to stock up on a selection bars 

AIUI Lidl isn't BRITISH

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

The tub of bouillon powder I bought a couple of weeks ago has vanished from the cupboard. How? Where? What the fuck is going on in my kitchen?

[woollypigs]

Behind the milk in the fridge?

[hellymedic]

Nah, atop the jar of hot chocolate...

[Mr Larrington]

Inside Pete.

[rafletcher]

Well I do, it's what drives me to Lidl every so often to stock up on a selection bars 

AIUI Lidl isn't BRITISH

But orienteer is...

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

There is no milk in the fridge, the hot chocolate lives in a different cupboard and Pete's not interested in vegetable stock.

[Mr Larrington]

It was only when I'd reached the far end of the bag-like packaging that those sandwiches came in that I discovered the two sachets of mustard

[ian]

Are you eating monster sandwiches? The kind where you have to perform a radical fillingectomy before you can fit it into your mouth? I do miss that with anorexic British sandwiches. One lonely slice of ham. I want the pig. An entire pig microtomed into slices. With the annual cheese output of Wisconsin.

[Mr Larrington]

This was actually a fairly normal roast beef and cheese flavored food product job but still seemed to include half a cow and 2/3 of a chemical plant's daily output of cheese product.

[contango]

Are you eating monster sandwiches? The kind where you have to perform a radical fillingectomy before you can fit it into your mouth? I do miss that with anorexic British sandwiches. One lonely slice of ham. I want the pig. An entire pig microtomed into slices. With the annual cheese output of Wisconsin.

Funny to compare portion sizes. There was talk of a scientist who managed to divide a human hair into 16 different strands. He was last seen slicing the ham used in Network Fail sandwiches. Compare and contrast a bagel shop in downtown USAnia where the servers optimise efficiency by slicing the ham for the four bagels you just ordered all at once, and then you realise they do nothing of the sort and that's the ham for one bagel. I swear I had to dislocate my jaws like a snake to eat that thing.

On the flip side, people over here get to be so unfeasibly fat I wonder when they decide to stop eating. Seeing people who are so morbidly obese they could lose half their body weight and still be morbidly obese is a serious eye opener.

[Julian]

O cashews

You are so tasty and delicious

And turn the most mundane of dishes into a nut-studded feast

Why do you have to be produced by Vietnamese slaves held in abhorrent conditions?

[Ruthie]

O cashews

You are so tasty and delicious

And turn the most mundane of dishes into a nut-studded feast

Why do you have to be produced by Vietnamese slaves held in abhorrent conditions?

Oh, they're not are they?

I was going to do my cashew nut pilaff for the church party next week 

[Mr Larrington]

On the flip side, people over here get to be so unfeasibly fat I wonder when they decide to stop eating. Seeing people who are so morbidly obese they could lose half their body weight and still be morbidly obese is a serious eye opener.

Breakfast on Saturday in  a diner in Susanville CA.  Waitress directs bloke to a booth.  Bloke looks like two Johnny Vegases in the same clothes.  Bloke somehow squeezes himself 'twixt table and bench and sits gasping like a stranded fish before waitress returns with Brown Drink.  Asks if he can sit at counter instead.