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Are you a food snob about anything?
I don't really consider myself a food snob-I have been known to eat pop-tarts and chick-fil-A on more than one occasion. But I am a little particular about a few things.
- Freshly ground pepper and sea salt on the table. Once you do this, you can't go back.
- Good chocolate. Preferably dark. I don't care for the cheapy kinds of milk chocolate.
- Real butter.
- American cheese must be sliced from the deli counter, not the pre-wrapped slices (LOL-yeah, I know, real foodies would clutch their pearls at the thought of American cheese, period.)
Re: Are you a food snob about anything?
chocolate, coffee, cheese
I really can't eat cheap chocolate anymore - I had some mint/milk chocolate sample at Godiva yesterday and it was so sweet, I almost spit it out.
I kinda gag when anyone eats American cheese. DH buys it and I just don't touch it - he tries to feed it to DD too.
I can't drink bad coffee anymore and try to avoid restaurants that serve bad coffee. Seriously - who serves Maxwell House, etc? That shitsucks.
Yes, I am a food snob.
1. Real, dark chocolate - I agree no cheap crap
2. Real butter (also agree)
3. I hate stuff with hydrogenated oil, so I don't eat it(Yes, this includes Girl Scout Cookies, crackers, and most baked goods out there.)
4. If you ask me if I want whipped cream, it's better be whipped cream. Whipped topping/Cool whip does NOT equal whipped cream
5. I don't like cake mix, brownie mix, ready-made icing, instant pudding or instant potatoes. I'd rather go without.
6. Fat free stuff sucks.
Ok, that's all I feel like posting now.
In general....no, I am not a food snob. I am not above Pop Tarts and I am certainly not above boxed mac & cheese (I *always* have it on hand, I have an unhealthy addiction). But I guess there are a couple things...
1) I will judge crab cakes that are not up to MD standards.
2) Though I don't like potatoes, instant mashed potatoes are just silly - I'm against those.
3) I never ate canned veggies growing up and I feel like they don't really count as veggies. Though I do buy canned green beans sometimes. I like them even if they are worthless nutritionally.
4) Canned frosting. This one is tricky because I like the way it tastes but I feel like it's a major cheat and so I almost never use it. My mom always made icing from scratch so I do too.
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Dammit American cheese is delicious! And it melts the best. You can't make a grilled cheese with cheddar, it just isn't the same.
muenster makes the best grilled cheese.
hmmmmm....I'll have to try that
I'm FAR from a food snob, but there are a few things I'm picky about (I'm actually in agreement w/ most of SK's list):
- I can't do instant mashed potatoes - my mom has always made her own (her mashed potatoes are so loved that she generally makes them in 5 lb batches... haha), so instant taste really bizarre to me.
- DH and I both are awful about judging crab stuff... once you have good Maryland crabs/crab products, you just can't go back.
- Canned veggies make me gag. I don't know what it is about them, but they gross me out to no end.
- While I don't HATE American cheese, I will always pick another kind over it... I used to love it, but as I've gotten older, I've come to appreciate "real" cheese more.
... every single day of forever.
I am a foodie, but I like to think I'm not a food snob. I'll happily eat box mac n' cheese or american cheese or box cake or canned icing or any other number of things that people seem to feel the need to apologize for.
With one exception: 99% of green vegetables have no business coming out of a can and I will totally snob out about that.
One of our good friends prefers green beans from a can and I just don't care. I won't buy them even if I know he's coming for dinner. H also likes peas from a can, and again, not allowed in my kitchen.
ETA: I make a strong distinction between the things I'm snobby about eating and the things I'm snobby about making. I'm a snot about cooking a LOT of stuff. Cooking is my hobby, so 90% of the time if I'm making something - it's totally from scratch because that's half the point to me. But I'll eat anything. And I buy box mac n' cheese for nights I have no time/no energy/H is cooking. and I just had a poptart for dinner the other night when I had to work late. Theyr'e in the vending machine at work...
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I'm going to echo a lot of previous posts...
1. Blue crab dishes. My friend took me to a seafood restaurant in Vegas and was excited for me to try the crab cakes... which looked like hockey pucks and were BREADED. *gag*
2. Fake sweeteners. I went through a phase of using Splenda right and left, but now the idea makes me want to puke. I'd rather eat/drink less of something that has real sugar.
3. Canned icing. I just hate it.
4. Real butter. I grew up with margarine and won't ever have it in my house.
5. And there are a lot of things I won't buy generic, but I don't think that's a food snob thing. If it is, I have a HUGE list.
And I don't buy American cheese. I'll eat it if I'm at my Mom's and it's all she has - she's a die-hard American cheese lover, and it has to come in the Kraft (NOT individually wrapped) package. But I buy cheddar or provolone. Grilled cheeses are made with cheddar.
ETA: Daisy reminded me - I only buy real maple syrup now. I grew up on Mrs. Butterworth's and always bought it until about a year ago. I was making a friend's pancakes recipe and her husband, who's Canadian, insisted I buy the real stuff. I've never gone back.
My overarching things are that I only want to eat real food and better-than-decent quality food.
I have things that I do my best to avoid- artificial sweeteners, HFCS, artificial color (DD's snow white cake had a pink dress instead of blue because of this,) hydrogenated & partially hydrogenated oils, wonder bread, etc.
From a taste standpoint handle/won't eat/drink: fake maple syrup, margarine, (or bad bakery icing for that matter,) white zin, canned vegetables, instant coffee.
While I don't consider myself a foodie- I really like good food and I don't want to waste calories on eating something gross.
Oh I forgot totally about this one. Yes-real syrup without a doubt. DH actually likes King Syrup which makes me want to throw up.
And agree with Daisy in that I definitely try to avoid things with dyes, HFCS, artificial preservatives and flavors, etc......
I am and I'm not--I think I'm mostly in line with what Wawa said. If I'm making something, it's going to be from real ingredients and it's going to be as from-scratch as possible and I'm going to use the freshest (hopefully local or small-batch) ingredients I can find. My everyday diet has hardly anything fake in it. In general, I'm disgusted by super-processed, additive-laden, nutritionally deficient "foods" like Twinkies, Freeze pops and Kraft singles "cheese food".
That said, if I was served pretty much anything at someone's house, I would eat it and enjoy it. And if someone went on and on about how much they adored Mrs. Butterworths or Velveeta or CoolWhip, I wouldn't sit and argue with them. There's no point in making a fuss over your own dietary choices unless it will literally kill you to eat something.
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Cream of x soup--can't stand those cream of soups that are used in casseroles.
Whipped cream - must be real
Butter - will not eat margarine or any of those spreads
I try not to buy fat free or sugar free products with the exception of diet soda.
I feel like I should chime in on American cheese. Growing up my parents would buy it, but not the Kraft singles individually wrapped cheese food. But then I had the Kraft singles at a friends' house and was jealous because I liked them better and started buying them when I was in college. I don't know why. I fully admit that it's crap and it tastes a lot like plastic. American cheese is low on my list of foods in general but I will eat it. Though I grew up making grilled cheese with American, I now prefer cheddar.
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I woudl just like to share...I'm working on prepping a bunch of food for my neice's birthday party tonight. (I sat down to jot down a recipe quickly)
So my kitchen is full of fresh veggies and dried chilies and meat and all kinds of good stuff. I'm mkaing a cake and marinating some chicken and making 3 kinds of salsa.
And because I've got all this going on...I told H to stop and pick me a spicy chicken sandwich and fries so I woudlnt' have to stop and cook dinner. It was delicious.
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Meh, i'm a food snob about very little things. I recognize that many things are good for what they are. Like, Reddi-whip? Not good as whipped cream. But good as reddi-whip. I have this debate a lot at work - one of my friends is very Italian and loathes Olive Garden. Me, I enjoy Olive Garden, but in my mind I don't like it as Italian food, I like it as comfort food that has huge portions and isnt that good for you ha. If someone asked for a great Italian restaurant, I'm not going to say Olive Garden. But if someone said if I liked Olive Garden, I'd say sure.
Same way I like Kraft mac-and-cheese (in shapes, please, such as scooby doo) but it is not in the same league as my homemade mac and cheese with carmelized onions. But they are two very different things.
That said, here is what I am snobby about:
Sour beef and dumplings. If the dumplings aren't from scratch, riced and all, if the sour beef hasn't simmered all day, etc - then I want no part in it.
Cakes and doughnuts. We take these things very seriously in my family. I'll eat almost anything, but I definitely know what is good and what's not haha.
Oh me too, I much prefer milk chocolate to dark chocolate. Not a fan of the bitterness of dark chocolate.
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I don't know if this is snobby, maybe just preference but I only eat navel oranges and clementines that don't have seeds, no other types of oranges. Snobby about frosting- like others, I'll eat the canned stuff if someone else has made cupcakes, but I don't buy it or use it myself.
Late to this, but I will join you in the corner with an additional pound of YELLOW American Cheese and a cup of Maxwell House
I am NOT a food snob at all... I'm not above fish sticks, canned green beans and velvetta shells and cheese for dinner... In fact that was on the menu this week and it was delish.
I am particular about anything crab related and usually won't buy that outside of the DelMarVa area. Other than that there isn't too much that I shun.
Crab cakes for sure. I cannot stand ones with filling anymore (I used to not know the difference...5 years in Maryland will change that feeling!)
I can't stand the kraft cheese that is individually wrapped. DH bought it recently I almost gagged at the sight of it and refuse to use it. I can deal with freshly cut white american, but I would get provolone or colby jack a thousand times before american.