Guilty Pleasures 2: Food you love but shouldn't

1) Crisps in general.
3) Black pudding (local butcher's own, fantastic). My sister-in law asked me politely not to mention what it was made from in front of her kids. Honestly-what do they think food really is!
4) Glace cherries, dipped in the tin of black treacle ideally. Used to nick these from the larder as a kid and still do.
5) I used to love Bombay Duck, had it in India first but it seems to have disappeared from all UK menus. A crumbly flake of intensely savoury and atrociously smelly dried fish that was great sprinkled on all sorts of dishes. Where has it gone?

Bruce

It was banned.
Seriouly - it was dried fish, dried in the open, flies, etc all over it. So you can no longer buy it in the UK.

Jalapeno Peanut Brittle. Also that Mexican Coca cola that's made with real sugar.

BB

Chorizo, salami and all manner of salt and fat packed curries, sausage and bacon.

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It was banned.
Seriouly - it was dried fish, dried in the open, flies, etc all over it. So you can no longer buy it in the UK.

Really? Presumed as much. Shame. Rather like being unable to drink the green top milk from my adjacent dairy farm, fresh and warm from the cow (plus or minus flies).

Bruce

As a kid I hated Bombay Duck, but then I got past hating it and went into sort of not really liking it, but having it anyway. Bit like having a Vindaloo - you don't really want it that hot, but you can't stop yourself from ordering it.
Sardine & marmalade sandwiches for me. (well, you do have lemon with fish after all).

Can I add a 'sub' thread. Food you are supposed to love but don't.

1) Wine. Just totally don't get it. What a load of cack is talked about it too. (Ducks)

Bruce

i like thread 1 better (more pics please)
scotty

I like to chew stuffed green olives and sip on a glass of milk at the same time.

Food I shouldn't love but do:

1) Those manky burgers that you get outside football grounds.

2) Pot noodle - chicken and mushroom flavour (I haven't eaten it for years, though).

3) Marmite on toast

4) Jelly straight from the packet (another sneaking down in the middle of the night as a kid obsession)

5) Sprouts



Foods I should love but don't:

1) Caviar - filth!

2) Oysters - utter filth!



Mark

ps. Bruce can't count.

Frog legs from Bangladesh.Prepared at now defunked,"Phil Smidts", in Hammond,Indiana.

Scottish smoke salmon with whole strawberry preserves.

Any kind of sushi or sashimi including Fugu..

Any kind of smoked fish. I mean ANY kind..

Any Bivalve..Its sick but,I gotta have em...

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Originally posted by Diccus62:
Lard

Toast and beef dripping + lashings of salt.

shredded wheat covered in butter.

Bacon, brie and avocado toasted sandwiches

peanut butter and banana sandwiches

marmite and cucumber sandwiches

Donna kebab.

A nice cup of hot Bovril... with milk and pepper.

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Originally posted by chiba:
A nice cup of hot Bovril... with milk and pepper.

A cook in a kitchen I worked in once, told me that he made banana smoothies with a liberal shake of pepper. It sounded weird but I tried it and he was right - the pepper enhanced the sweet flavours.

Frfeshly milled black pepper on strawburys is worth a try as as are a few drops of tabasco sauce hidden within good quality strawbury ice cream.

Bob there is something wrong with you :-)

Ryan

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Originally posted by Roy T:
Frfeshly milled black pepper on strawburys is worth a try as as are a few drops of tabasco sauce hidden within good quality strawbury ice cream.

I am so delighted to hear this - I thought I was the only person in the world who liked freshly-ground blackpepper on strawberries (best with the early morning dew still on them).

And I think'll I'll have a go at that Tabasco Strawberry Icecream - it'd work wonders in a homemade Neapolitan!

Black pudding

I failed to mention that I suffer from one more.

My wife makes the greatest Mojito..I am addicted to them..
All fresh and hand muddled..

Two Greek rural delicacies, from the Peloponnese (I picked up a taste for them 'out there' as an archaeology student in the '80s).

Kalamata Olives - which are pickled in olive oil and red wine with some herbs, some salt but not too much. Fantastic. (In rural areas each household picks and pickles its own. Ilias' mother's olives were quite superb.)

Skorthalia - a garlic paste/dip, made by blending crustless white bread, olive oil, lots of garlic, some salt and then cut with some lemon juice to taste. (One variation also includes some crushed walnuts.)

Usually served with other 'dips' like Tzatsiki and Taromasalata, and especially wonderful with kolokothakia, deep fried sliced courgette.

If you hadn't guessed, we don't just have sausages and burgers for those summer barbecues!

James