Festive food

[Baz Faz]

This will be the first of many posts, I'm sure. Supermarkets are desperate to lure customers with strange offerings (though they probably put off just as many from shopping there).

Today I saw that Iceland (the supermarket chain not the country) is offering brussels sprouts coated in Marmite butter. They also offer crisps (US = chips) with what they call a Christmas tree flavour.

Sainsbury's does not want to be outdone in revolting food. It is selling tea flavoured with brussels sprouts.

[Scrubb]

Dec 13, 2018 14:28:49 GMT 2 Baz Faz said:

revolting food. It is selling tea flavoured with brussels sprouts.

Eugh. SEriously?

I will now have to keep my eyes open for similar things here. To post about, not to try!

[tzarine]

why would someone hurt brussel sprouts like that?

[kuskiwi]

I like both, but not sure I would like them together.

[Baz Faz]

Two years ago Waitrose had a banana and bacon trifle. Not this year.

[auntieannie]

Here, people aren't keen on that kind of thing. I don't go to supermarkets enough to notice anyway.

And I am on course to survive Whamageddon! so that's good. (haven't heard many christmas songs yet).

[Baz Faz]

Today I saw tinned haggis.

[Ethel Mertz]

This is a gross thread. Sprouts, marmite, sprout tea, banana bacon trifle, tinned haggis. And wht da hello is Christmas tree flavor and Whamageddon? I've just gotten old and cranky, I guess. Not too fond of a lot of the "new" stuff.

I'm really Jonesin, dying, craving, itchin for some Christmas cookies like mama made ... I made them too and it frustrates the hell outta me cause I no longer can. date pinwheels, Mexican wedding cakes, apricot filled Rugalach or apricot anything, biscotti, lemon snow drops, jeweled coconut cookies, fruitcake cookies, etc, etc, etc. Oh gawd, I'm dyin!

[kerouac2]

I bought too many jumbo prawns at Monoprix yesterday. They had cut the price in half. But I think that my appetite has been cut in half, too.

[Netsuke]

I have two Christmas puddings living with me. I have my eye on one-off them. They are way too big for one person and I'm trying to calculate how much would be left for moi if I had to share. There'd be me, a,b, cee and d plus two minors.

Psst: Stupid wonkyrules! Can't type the third letter of the alphabet because it gets changed to 'character' and just looks so lame.

[Baz Faz]

I was looking back on this branch and found I had posted something similar to the Brussels Sprouts crisps a year ago. I am really bouncing this up because there is a post from Ethel.

[kerouac2]

I think I might buy some Cuban lobster tails again this year. The holiday brochure from Picard makes it look like a good option.

I was temporarily tempted by some of the foie gras offerings, but it rarely seems to be sold in small enough quantities for me. I like it at first and then it disgusts me, so I need a very small quantity. Give me a pâté de campagne instead, please.

[tzarine]

kerouac2
a friend brought us back foie gras from paris when tzarevich was little
i couldn't eat it for years. it was so much

my dad used to send me this fruitcake
collinstreet.com/texas-pecan-cakes

this is also from my childhood holidays
www.sees.com/christmas-gifts/boxed-chocolates

[Baz Faz]

I lived for a time in Périgord, the prime foie gras producing region. At one of those communal village meals we were served foie gras as one of 5 courses. The 15 year old girl opposite me refused hers. I queried this. She said she was bored with foie gras as she lived on a farm that produced it.

[tzarine]

on my first trip to venice, i managed to get sick of proscuitto
i only buy it for tzarevich

i could really use some eton mess from m&s
i'd go before closing on many many london trips to pick up some or a trifle

[kuskiwi]

My pavlovas usually finish up as a mess - either eaten - or as Eton.