I’m with TDC on this one. Plastic and mince is a bad idea. As is cheesy chips. And indeed a chip butty. Although a few crisps inside a cheese sandwich is OK but I know exactly why Tracey disapproves of such a thing. It’s a textural mistake. A bad thing with foodstuffs. Hence the melted plastic and mince.
I am very happy to know about popty pings. Excellent. Now all I have to do is remember it!!
§ue
And I have already relayed the popty ping info to my good friend in Edinburgh. She is delighted to know it too. And has passed it on to her colleague who tells her that a ‘popty’ is a Welsh oven. Therefore, a microwave is a popty that goes ‘ping’.
Fabulous.
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I thought about the chip butty thing after I posted Sue, pure wanton disrespect for foods stuffs that are perfect on their own, warm buttered bread- on it’s own, chips with salt & vinegar, unadulterated. I did, many years ago, enjoy burnt toast, with plenty of butter & brown sugar, I mentioned odd. Popty ping will roll off your tongue soon Sue, us welsh have now adopted it as part of local lingo, don’t think I’ve heard mention of microwave in a long time. There is actually a song about it, strange but true. xx
Yes, I will just reassure you both that I binned the meaty plastic concoction! The popty ping got far too carried away (love it!).
As for crisp butty - I am definitely of the yuck camp… but chip butties - delish! If I had thought of that I might have gone for it over the cheesy chips! (But yum when all you have oomph for is to bung chips in oven)
Despite the massive improvement in gluten free stuff in the 30 ish years since I was diagnosed Coeliac the warm buttered bread still doesn’t match the real thing… there’s my excuse for bunging chips with it lol!
Burnt toast with butter and brown sugar?! Hmmm… eggy bread - now that’s the winner - with loads of ketchup!
Now I have posted those replies the wrong way round so I’ll make even less sense than usual!
Massive improvement in gluten free food. My brother was 2 when diagnosed. I remember the bread that came in cans that had to be boiled. And the weird biscuits. And all the other horrible food he had to eat.
Sue
Mr Dc enjoys cheesy beans, it basically looks & smells like vomit. Beans on their own are revolting, why would anyone want to make it worse!!! They obviously failed Home Economics at school. xx
I was 17/18 when diagnosed and yep remember the stinky bread that came in cans! I probably should have been diagnosed at 2 but my mum had a battle for years to get taken seriously. On the birthday of the NHS I am hugely thankful to Dr R who finally worked it out! Bless him! I suppose I at least had a chance to eat ‘normal’ stuff - though I still crave a KFC all these years later lol!
Yes! Beans on toast with grated cheese on top!
Oh Gawd. xx
I bet you’ll love it even more that I bung tinned tomatoes on too!
…but on the side, not on top to make it go all soggy!
Urgh, urgh, urgh.
Tinned tomatoes go in something (like bolognaise, but chopped if not passata). But never, ever on a plate alongside something else revolting.
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Lolol! I’d bung them in with anything!
Having had not much appetite for the last few days I thought - thanks to this chat - “could just eat beans on toast with cheese and toms!” … Go to cupboard - no beans! At that point other half phoned from work so I said about this bit of randomness and no beans… he’s just had beans on toast with cheese for lunch! Asked me what I’ll have now… “banana probably” says me. “Banana on toast?!” he suggested… that got the urgh urgh urgh treatment from me!
When I was a student we’d have curry, rice, egg and chips. All on the same plate.
I say that’s what has made me the man I am today.
AD
And what a man you are AD. All hail the curry, rice, egg and chips diet.
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blimey, I take a day off and it all kicks off…
I can still enjoy a chip butty, I tried cheesy chips recently and shock of shocks, it really did not work for me.
Curry rice egg and chips sounds like a youthful blow out to me but I can not argue against the idea.
Mick
Eeeeeew, things should not be in tins!!! You’ll be telling me next tinned burgers are acceptable. I wish I was surprised Mr D, but I’m not. Hi Mick! Even our dogs don’t have tinned dog food, it’s been bunged in a tin to disguise the fact in a previous life it was inedible, now compressed, mushed & added chemicals, it is. Peas should not be so neon, really they shouldn’t.
Wotcha Tracey.
Tinned burgers sound foul, but as an even more ignorant kid, I did enjoy spam! Perhaps I should have read the label.
M
They are Mick, whilst studying as a dietitian, I had the pleasure (not really) of visiting various food factories (we could have become environment officers in the 2nd year, if we wanted to) eyes, ears, noses & arses were basic ingredients in certain products, as it’s tea time I will say no more…