What foods are you a snob about?

[The empressof all]

I can't stand plastic-y dairy products. You know, Cool Whip, non dairy creamer, fake sour cream are things that just make me turn up my nose.

Cheap Ice-Cream, the kind that tastes like the container, why bother eating this stuff?

Do you make value judgments about the food when you eat at other peoples houses. Do you judge them on their culinary taste?

[theorist]

1. I'm only a snob when it comes to coffee and wine. Do those count? n/t

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. Me too-coffee and wine

no Dunkies for me!

[ET Awful]

2. I agree on the artificial "dairy" stuff.

I'm also a mustard snob. I will NOT eat that thin runny crap that passes as mustard. I need a coarse ground brown mustard with some bite to it :) I'll settle for some of the thinner "gourmet" mustards, but regular yellow mustard just sucks ass.

[amazona]

3. packaged food

I'm a scratch cook and I guess I'm a little judgmental in my heart about people who buy sugared breakfast cereal, Hamburger helper, or really I guess most of the prepared foods in the entire grocery store. I try to keep my thoughts on the subject to myself but I'll tell ya'll since I'm sure you're all gourmets too. :-)

[sundog]

5. I don't do McDonalds

especially after watching "Super Size Me" :puke:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. coffee

coolwhip

i dont think you should serve guests frozen/fake foods

[radwriter0555]

7. Capelin Caviar is in Trader Joes right now... and it only available for

a couple weeks a year, and is ASTOUNDINGLY only **gasp** $2.99 per jar. AND the stuff lasts in the fridge, unopened for up to 2 YEARS.

Fine, tiny little salty bursts of LOVE on your tongue... A real treat, dollopped on a light cracker atop a touch of cold sour cream.

SIMPLY delish.

Shoot, I should go buy a few more jars...

[The empressof all]

27. OMG Thanks for telling me

I love Caviar and sourcream omlettes. Gotta get there this week for some of this stuff for Christmas morning breakfast.

[radwriter0555]

31. GET the capelin, it's AMAZING... just simply wonderful... and stock

up!!!!

[tridim]

8. Pizza and Chinese food

Pizza, as in no frozen for me.. Only homemade. Chinese food, as in I never eat at those $1/scoop places or any restaurant that doesn't have Chinese cooks.

My biggest snobbish food is garlic. If it's not real and fresh (pre-minced garlic in oil isn't fresh), I don't eat it.

[mcscajun]

9. Another "nay" vote on plastic dairy products...yuck.

I loathe all 'fake food.'

Genuine whipped cream, please. Sour cream...accept no substitutes. Butter always...margarine is icky.

Hamburger Helper is an abomination before humanity. :puke:

If I'm going to have ice cream, it must be worth the caloric load. Same goes for chocolate. Anytime you're going to ingest so-called 'empty calories' they ought to be the highest quality 'empty calories' you can possibly find! :party:

But no, I don't make value judgments about the food when I eat at other's homes. I *do*, however, harrass my one bachelor friend who insists on using "Hamburger Helper Lasagna" about his use of the "Helper"...and I'm not kind...but he knows it's not personal. :) He's a good sport.

I'd rather have a good time with friends...and if their food choices are truly abysmal...I offer to cook! :) Most times, they'll accept.

[Skittles]

10. fish - to me, only "flat" fish are REAL fish

none of that "steak fish" stuff - if a fish is too thick I call it a swimming steak.

[The empressof all]

41. Salmon filets are so much better than Salmon steaks

It really is just the way it's cut off the same fish. Wonder why that is.

[Skittles]

44. really? mabye I'll try it that way

I've always considered salmon a swimming steak

[cali]

11. Most everything.

I grew up with a food snob. My mother would no more have had a cake mix in the house than she would have bounced a check. I buy most of my meat from local farmers who raise and slaughter the animals humanely; beef, lamb and pork. It's so much better. Local fertilized eggs, abd veggies in season. I won't buy a winter tomato. I can't stand processed food and I hate lousy bread. OTH, I have a very weird thing for burned onions.

[kittycat1164]

12. steak

gawd I hate cheap steak. Spend the extra to get the good cuts!

[The empressof all]

29. and never freeze steak

Sorry, but I can taste a frozen steak no matter how "properly" it's defrosted.

[mcscajun]

38. Don't freeze any meat or poultry...and Heavens No, NOT fish!

Any flesh you freeze changes texture and loses juices on defrosting. It's never as good as it would have been fresh.

Express Lanes in supermarkets are our friends. :)

[mondo joe]

13. Almost all my judgment of people in daily life is about food

But more about what they DO, not what they eat.

[Cuban_Liberal]

14. Coffee and tea.

I'll compromise on a lot, but I draw the line at my caffeine sources.

:)

[No Mandate Here.]

15. Artichokes

They're lousy if they have a round top. Manna from Heaven if they are pointed.

[Left Is Write]

16. Yeah, I'm a food snob.

I prefer to serve real cream that I've whipped myself, but in the interest of saving calories, unless it's a holiday, I usually have lite Cool Whip on hand.

You will be happy to know, I am making bourbon whipped cream to serve with the holiday dessert. :)

I'm a scratch cook. I think packaged foods have their places - especially if you're short on time - but I do not, have not, and will not ever use Hamburger Helper. It's not hard to brown a pound of hamburger, add chopped onions and peppers, throw in some tomatoes and tomato sauce, season, and cook your own pasta to stir into it.

I don't buy ice cream very often, but I agree about ice cream - I buy premium ice cream. I also don't like to buy the ice cream in the thin square cardboard containers, because once you open them, the ice cream tastes stale, like "freezer."

I don't usually make value judgments on people based on what they serve. I was fortunate to learn how to cook from a very young age, and I like to think I'm pretty good at it. If other people don't know how, aren't interested, or aren't good at it, then they will obviously make different shopping choices than I do.

Edited to add coffee too. I'm really snobby about coffee.

[GOPisEvil]

17. Mayonnaise.

For store-bought mayo, it HAS to be Hellman's/Best Foods.

[The empressof all]

30. My husband wouldn't eat Best's

When we moved to the West Coast he swore it wasn't the same as Hellmans. He eventually came to understand that it was the same product-different name.

[Nicole]

18. Baked goods

I won't use a cake mix, prepared pie crust or frozen bread dough. It's all from scratch. If I don't have the time to do that then I just don't bake.

[Karenca]

19. I am a complete food snob nt

[Starlight]

24. You are what you eat. And I don't want to be junk. n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. Beer

And I don't care if people think I'm snooty because of it. :beer:

[miss_kitty]

21. now that my diet is somewhat restricted

as in amounts-I want the best of whatever it is I consume. If I want a sweetie, I'll buy Paul Newman stuff, pay more and get less. Or organic cocoa. I use expensive olive oil. I buy expensive cheese and crackers. I don't drink much, but when I do, again, gotta go for the best.

[dbt]

22. I am a Turnip Greens snob.

They must be grown within a five-square-mile area of Hot Spring County, Arkansas, where the soil imparts just enough bitterness to make them piquant.

They must be washed, as my Grandmother taught me, in three waters until all traces of grit are gone. After that, they should be cooked for several hours (preferably an odd number) with a large section of pig meat and salt-to-taste until the pot liquor is a velvety dove gray.

Serve them steaming hot with fresh cornbread (no sugar, ya heathens), sweetmilk and pepper sauce!

:loveya:
dbt

[MonkeyFunk]

23. Pork Rinds

[SmokingJacket]

25. Everything.

I'm a total bitch.

My friends are worse, though, so it's okay.

[transeo]

26. Chocolate, wine, pastries

All of them have to be top quality, and I want my chocolate dark, damn it! None of that milk or white chocolate B.S. Gimme some rich, dark bittersweet chocolate.

I love to bake, so I'm really picky about pastries & baked goods. If it tastes store-bought, I don't want it in my kitchen.

[HEyHEY]

28. All of them - especially pasta

I'll never lower myself to eat catelli..if it's not imported it's not pasta

[goodbody]

32. fish sticks

blech!

[frictionlessO]

33. If I judge them by their culinary tastes than I judge them on their

culinary tastes... no value only taste.

Having said that Im one of those snobs thats into the best of what I can get, Ive been known to blow 2 weeks of work on 3 days worth of food.

However most times if Im eating low budget I try and enjoy the represntative quality of the food. What kind of emotional imagery does the food provoke in me, is sometimes more important to me than the actual quality/taste of the food.

Damn I am needing munchies, I think I stil have some osetra left over from dinner.:9 just foolin'!

edited to add::smoke:

[SOteric]

34. Cheese.

Now, - don't get all meanypants on me, I grew up with an chef for a mum and a gourmet foods importer for a dad. The stuff that is marketed and sold in America as cheese is often some kind of bland, dead, flavoured wax. (Yes, we do have some excellent cheeses here, they're just few and far between). Much of Europe has food laws. You can't call something gouda, or edam, or fromage blanc, or stilton, or Parmesan, unless it meets very exacting specific criteria. One of those criteria involves the strain of bacteria that make the cheese...well...cheese.

Much of what Americans sell as cheese has no active cultures. It's dead. And it hasn't nearly the flavour, the texture, the aroma, the nummyness of a cheese with an active culture and exactingly prepared to standards.

That said, Tillamook aged cheddars are something approaching this, the Sonoma Valley produces a wide variety of amazing cheeses, and Sally Jackson creates goat cheeses that rival those of France.

[The empressof all]

35. You are so right

I would much rather buy a little good quality than eat some of the stuff that passes for cheese. I've also noticed a big difference in taste depending on region. The mozzerella in NY is different from what I can get in Seattle. It's a subtle difference but I can tell. I frequently save up to make a purchase from igourmet.com to get the real stuff since i don't have a good cheese monger close by.

I do however like American Cheese on a grilled cheese sandwich.

[Jean Louise Finch]

42. Also a cheese snob.

Though this came about from living in Switzerland for three years. I would cross the border to a tiny French town for the weekend market and get my selection of Emmental, Gruyere, Comte, and whatever other deliciousness existed. There is very rare cheese consumption in my life now that I've left -- I just can't enjoy it!

[Hillaryin08]

36. Sushi

Its gotta be the real stuff. something about a Hispanic rolling a California roll just offends me. I want the guy to resemble Pat Morita at least. And it has to be fresh. Rolled in front of me. Preferably with caviar.

[Lisa]

43. putting mayonnaise on sushi!

My (Japanese) great-aunt said she'd smack me upside the head if she ever saw me using mayo to glue sushi together.

[jdots]

37. I only like the most artifical food

none of that health crap for me ! a good lard sandwich on wonder bread washed down with a yoo-hoo then topped off with a Little Debby treat or 10 yummy ......

[Taverner]

39. Coffee

It's gotta be good...and starbucks is sub-par IMO...

For the TRUE coffee snob - try Cuban. It's better than Blue Mountain was in its day...

[The empressof all]

40. One of the things I miss from home is Cuban Coffee

I loved going into the Bodega down the street for my morning fix when I lived in NYC. Now I search out the Espresso drive throughs for Cafe D'Arte or Lavazza since I've been in PNW