Do you like naff food?

[Palinurus]

That macaroni cheese that comes in a can.

[Bledlow]

Baked beans. On toast. Wivva bitta cheez melted on the toast first.

Cheap cafe breakfasts, with cheap catering wholesalers sausages, fried chorleywood white bread, baked beans from 10kg dirt-cheap cans, fried eggs, bacon . . . .  heart failure onna plate. Washed down with big mugs of sweepings-off-the-floor-of-the-packing-sheds tea.

[Gattopardo]

Space invaders 10p picked onion "crisps".

Potato waffles

Those cheap german "Dr Oetker" frozen pizzas (brain says "same as pizza express")

Space invaders are now 15p, potato waffles rock and Dr Oetker pizza are the best frozen pizzas.

[Gattopardo]

I just ate 20 of those meatballs you get from Ikea.

In two sub rolls.

 

ZBs post has just reminded me of when I lived nr Leeds, Ikea was a stones throw away ,I used to like their 30p hot dogs lots of tom sauce and mustard ,3 at a time.

Z try them in a wrap with tomato sauce and english mustard.

3 hot dogs, and an ice cream i hope.

[Clandy]

Baked beans. On toast. Wivva bitta cheez melted on the toast first.

Cheap cafe breakfasts, with cheap catering wholesalers sausages, fried chorleywood white bread, baked beans from 10kg dirt-cheap cans, fried eggs, bacon . . . .  heart failure onna plate. Washed down with big mugs of sweepings-off-the-floor-of-the-packing-sheds tea.

Nah, that's positively healthy compared to this...

[rogerzilla]

WANT (a small slice of)

[rogerzilla]

Thursday-fray bentos pie

Oh yes.  My typical student Saturday night meal was:

Fray Bentos* steak and kidney pie
Cadbury's Smash
Tinned "garden" peas

Lovely.



*bore-your-friends fact: it's a place in Uruguay.

[mike]

Oven chips, at every opportunity (whenever Mrs mike is out)

[rogerzilla]

Over chips don't count 'cos they're relatively healthy; at least compared to chip shop chips where they still fry them in LARD.

[Clandy]

Those crazy Americans, so inventive when it comes to new ways to clog those arteries! That said, I would still like to try this.

[robbo6]

Is it possible to fry chips in molten chocolate instead of lard?

[urban_biker]

Mmm Fray Bentos pies. It doesn't really matter what flavour you buy - they all taste the same anyway 

I'm sure Fray Bentos was one of the reasons I bought a tent with an oven.

[Woofage]

Those crazy Americans, so inventive when it comes to new ways to clog those arteries! That said, I would still like to try this.

Apparently they go for deep-fried butter too . Take a cube of butter and dip in breadcrumbs before freezing. Then deep-fry for a few seconds.

[Bledlow]

Fray Bentos* steak and kidney pie

*bore-your-friends fact: it's a place in Uruguay.

I don't have the t-shirt, but I do have the stamp in my passport.  Says 'SALIDA F. BENTOS'. 

[Oaky]

Baked beans. On toast. Wivva bitta cheez melted on the toast first.

My variant on this is baked beans (1 whole tin), on 3-4 slices of toast with lashings of butter and marmite spread on it, topped with a layer of cheese and grilled.

[Jacomus]

Corned beef sandwiches. Plain white bread, thick lumps of corned beef. Awesome.

Beans on toast.

Fast food burgers!!! A total vice.

[Oaky]

Cooked cheese, in the Oaky family style, would probably have food snobs tutting (plate of sliced cheese under the grill until bubbling, eat with bread and butter).   Cheshire cheese works very well, and the right sort comes out with a texture not unlike a runny scrambled egg (can be made especially creamy by pouring on a splash of milk before grilling).

I suppose I might sneak it past the food police if I called it raclette.

We also do something similar with tinned chopped tomato under the cheese.

[L CC]

All these delights are perfect for when you feel a bit sorry for yourself. This week:
Monday-cheap and nasty frozen pizza
Tuesday-candy sticks (they used to be called sweet cigarettes)
Wednesday-fake cheese. God I love cheese slices. By the packet.
Thursday-fray bentos pie
Friday-an entire bakewell tart
Who knows how low I'll sink today. Better hope my knee gets better soon or I'll be too lardy to get on the blummin bike.

Update:
Saturday- 10p noodles, for breakfast
Sunday-  k f c

Monday- mince. From a tin. I am ashamed.

I feel the need to say- I don't usually eat like this, honest.
However.
Corned beef sandwiches. With caramelised onion chutney. Nom.

[hulver]

Corned beef sandwiches. With caramelised onion chutney. Nom.

 

Oh I'm hungry now.

[Zoidburg]

Cooked cheese, in the Oaky family style, would probably have food snobs tutting (plate of sliced cheese under the grill until bubbling, eat with bread and butter).   Cheshire cheese works very well, and the right sort comes out with a texture not unlike a runny scrambled egg (can be made especially creamy by pouring on a splash of milk before grilling).

I suppose I might sneak it past the food police if I called it raclette.

We also do something similar with tinned chopped tomato under the cheese.

That's welsh rarebit you are making, my grandmother used to make it for me.

Welsh rarebit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I would not describe it as naff as it takes bit of effort to make and goes well with a lot of good ingredients.

[Arch]

Saturday- 10p noodles, for breakfast

I have a stash of those at work.  Most days I make a sandwich, but it's always pretty dull (I'm very disorganised and mean about buying filling material), so I top up with a packet of noodles.  My colleagues all tend to buy the ones from the local chinese shop, which come in all sorts of flavours, and cost 30 or 40 p, but I stick to the Sainsburys basics at 10p a pop.  They are amazed at my capacity to eat the same cheap thing for lunch, day after day.

Does anyone remember 'Crispy Noodles'? We had them very rarely, when I was a kid (in the 70s), as they involved deep frying, which we didn't do normally. As I remember, they were a bit like Prawn Crackers, only thicker and long instead of round.

[geraldc]

Instant noodles are not naff food. They're awesome.

[Torslanda]

Spam and egg sandwiches with brown sauce. It's the only reason we have a frying pan! (And may have something to do with my weight problem)

BOAB I sympathise entirely.

But it TASTES NICE!

[Torslanda]

O M F G !!!!!!!

Bacon in chocolate!

Nurse! Crash team to Nth Manchester! Stat!

[pcolbeck]

Just remembered bacon fry ! The stuff that comes in  a can like corned beef. Bliss with eggs and fried bread. I crack and buy some about once a year, Mrs Pcolbeck winces and turns her nose up.