What food things piss you off?

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Appropriate-Cheek970@reddit

Getting nachos in the cinema and they put the cheese over the nachos so it's now all a soggy mess.

That and cold chicken bakes at Greggs.

Potato peeler - peel away from you bruv.

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resident_queerdo@reddit

Oooh I love the soggy mess. Pisses me right off if there are any crispy ones left. Sounds like you merely need to team up with the right person for cinema night.

Also, I detest burnt popcorn. Do you by any chance like that?

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EzriDaxwithsnaxks@reddit

I hate soggy nachos but I do love burnt sweet popcorn.......

It's a date if I'm allowed to get a Pepsi Max

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resident_queerdo@reddit

Perhaps I should mention that I also adore fizzy drinks that have gone flat... Just in case that might be helpful.

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Appropriate-Cheek970@reddit

Are you offering to go on a cinema date? Okay I am in ;).

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Thundercunt247@reddit

Where would you have them put the cheese, other than on the nachos? Nachos without cheese is not nachos, it's just corn chips.

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tinkerballer@reddit

But it has the convenient finger hole in the middle so you can hold it still!

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insanityarise@reddit

Warning you can't cut many bagels this way.

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FatJamesIsBack@reddit

I picked up a bagel slicer from a charity shop years ago for a quid. I expected it be a load of JML gimmicky bullshit, but it actually worked really well.

I lost weight and reduced my intake of daily bagels wnd took it back to a charity shop for someone else to enjoy.

The moment I got home, I'd put the 3 stone back on and reverted to wonkily cut bagels. It pisses me off having both the top half and bottom half both half underdone and half burnt.

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Xenozip3371Alpha@reddit

Bro what the fuck were the replies that the moderator had to remove them.

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Anyway, yeah, I can never slice bagels properly.

Have you tried the New York Bakery Lighter Bagels, unlike the other bagels they come pre-sliced and they're a lot softer than the other bagels.

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Midnightraven3@reddit

Back in the day I watched The OC and got a bagel guillotine just like Sandy Cohens, totally rubbish when bagels are really fresh, I use a bread knife

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BabyBelz_@reddit

I did the same thing. It was great for about a week and then totally useless, easier to use a knife and accept one thick half and one thin half.

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FinancialBread4660@reddit

I use a bread knife too, it just never goes in a straight direction 😭

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MiskonceptioN@reddit

Mate, we're a bit beyond that word now. It's like describing a black person as "coloured".

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ValuableAngle7731@reddit

Mayonnaise in bottles. If you know you know.

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Im anti mayo myself, but other half goes gaga for mayo. We found that the Kenko Japanese mayo (you can buy it in Morrisons) doesnt stick to the sides so you can get literally every drop of mayo out of the bottle. I get this gor my sushi business through my Wholesaler, but I have to hide the bottles of mayo. I ordered 5 bottles the first time and he finished 3 bottles in 10 days.....

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LoudCar7846@reddit

Pomegranate seeds, the pink/red flesh is sweet but I find the white seed bitter, and when you buy a whole pomegranate, a lot of it is inedible (mesocarp).

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insanityarise@reddit

Pomegranate juice is the tits though

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blackcurrantcat@reddit

I despise this thing of chucking pomegranate on salads couscous or whatever. They look like juicy beads of ambrosia but they taste like small pieces of wood.

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cbawiththismalarky@reddit

The seeds are very good for you as well as the aril, they have punicic acid, which is good for heart health

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blackcurrantcat@reddit

That doesn’t make them nice to eat, for me anyway.

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cbawiththismalarky@reddit

Sure but at least if you do you know there's some positive to it

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Free_Ad7415@reddit

I went to the co-op yesterday- one pack of chocolate digestives, one tiny pack of mini ‘cake bars’ (two mouthfuls each, not even collectively the size of a normal slice of cake), a small pack of plain crackers and some babybels

£22.50

Because it’s all gluten free stuff (I needed food and that’s all I could have)

SUCH a rip off

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insanityarise@reddit

the co-op is crap, the one near where i live closes when it rains hard and I go in at midday and the sandwich fridge is practically empty some days, don't know how they stay open.

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insanityarise@reddit

Milk being in everything.
Isinglass.

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PlatJC@reddit

When I slice cheese, no matter how straight I think my cut is the block always ends up on a diagonal. But my OCD doesn’t like that, so I cut the end bit off and eat it, so it’s a square. But the same thing happens, and suddenly I’ve eaten half a block of cheese trying to make it square.

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insanityarise@reddit

cut across not down

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ceehred@reddit

:-D Had similar when we'd cut bread as kids. The look of disgust from my Da at the state of the loaf after our attempts at creating our slices was priceless.

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--BooBoo--@reddit

This is my husband - he's an engineer and a really precise person so in all other things in his life everything is straight and precise. Give him a bread knife and a crusty loaf and he starts hacking at it like an axe welding maniac and we end up with a lump of bread shaped like a door wedge. He then leans into the chaos and uses the bread knife to gouge lumps of butter out of the tub to butter his wedged shaped hunk of bread.

If we ever get divorced it will probably be over him making a sandwich.

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CaptainMcClutch@reddit

I'm the same, I also end up cutting thick wedges. When I try to cut a normal portion the top half breaks off and makes my cheese block even more diagonal and annoying to cut from.

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AcesAgainstKings@reddit

Get yourself a cheese slicer. Seriously.

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Potterheadsurfer@reddit

Ngl, I’d still end up with diagonal slices

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Inner-Floor-5827@reddit

😂😂 this gave me a good laugh...

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Mysterious_County154@reddit

The amount of calories in pizza

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jamnut@reddit

Just don't read the packaging and then it's zero

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Disc2jockey@reddit

If you get Domino’s or Papa John’s, yes, if you get Italian style thin crust, then you are looking at around 800-1200kcal, depending on how much you load it, unlike the 2000kcal+ from Domino’s!

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

This is why any pizzas I eat at home are supermarket these days. Not only are they cheaper, the nutrition is also so much ~better~ less worse.

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Appropriate-Cheek970@reddit

The amount of pizza in your calories.

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anon1992lol@reddit

Why are all the calories in the stuff I like, but so few of the calories in the stuff that’s good for me?

Some boffin should fix that. We’ve got zero calorie drinks, make zero calorie chips.

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Pretend-Commercial68@reddit

"Fat is flavour" hence why lettuce is the soggy sock of the food world.

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Kim_catiko@reddit

OMG, thank you! Whenever someone asks me why don't I eat lettuce, I always say it is not that I don't like it. It doesn't actually have enough flavour in it to be liked that intensely or not. It is the opposite of Marmite. It is so bland that it doesn't inspire any feelings in me.

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MaintenanceInternal@reddit

Try cold lettuce inbetween buttered toast.

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jamnut@reddit

Try turning yourself in to the police

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Polish_Shamrock@reddit

Nah, but i like it on a fish finger sarnie to add some texture.

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Gnomio1@reddit

No thank you, don’t think I will.

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gigglesmcsdinosaur@reddit

How about deep-fried, battered lettuce with chips?

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Morganx27@reddit

It's got an unbeatable textural crunch though

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darthpaul1978@reddit

Yes. Used to hate lettuce but have aged into appreciating the crunch when paired with ham and cheese. That little bit of oomph makes the sandwich now.

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mattl1698@reddit

nah, pork crackling crunch beats lettuce crunch every day of the week

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

Even rabbits will object to iceberg lettuce. Those handsome devils need Romaine at least.

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WeLiveInASociety420s@reddit

Its got texture and thats it

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paolog@reddit

...and why we add fat to salads, in the form of mayonnaise. Either that or sweetness (ketchup), saltiness (salt, of course) or sourness (vinegar), or all three.

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practicalcabinet@reddit

Yep. In order to make food that tastes fantastic, aim to make it the last meal someone eats before they die of heart failure.

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Sea-Climate6841@reddit

Ha, “soggy sock of the food world”. Love it, stealing it for future use. Fanx x

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blarfblarf@reddit

Why are all the calories in the stuff I like, but so few of the calories in the stuff that’s good for me?

You won't believe this, but there's a fantastic hack... you don't actually need high calorie food, the fact the good food is low calorie and good for you is a joint feature... you can eat all of the good food you want

The problem is your brain, it's telling you that you want to eat, you need to trick your brain into accepting the situation... which I agree is difficult, you are the brain, can you trick yourself?

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anon1992lol@reddit

Hello friend. I feel you have taken a joke too seriously. No worries, I’m sure you’ll catch it next time!

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blarfblarf@reddit

Are you going to say that to everybody that replied?

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anon1992lol@reddit

Depends how bored I get.

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blarfblarf@reddit

Sounds like you need a hobby.

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anon1992lol@reddit

Everyone on Reddit does.

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blarfblarf@reddit

Some subs are specifically about hobbies, so that cant be true.

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anon1992lol@reddit

Must you live so relentlessly in the real world?

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blarfblarf@reddit

Read my lips...

Yes.

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anon1992lol@reddit

Listen, fair play

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Yomi_Lemon_Dragon@reddit

On the subject of calories: listing the calories in a way that's completely unhelpful so you have to do maths just to figure out what you're eating. E.g.:

157kcal per 100g. The packet is 280g. So now I have to count how many slices/pieces/whatever (let's say 16), so it's (157×2.8)÷16=27.475. OK so rounded up I'm eating about 28kcal per slice. JUST SAY IT'S 28KCAL PER SLICE ON THE BOX.

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Jealous_Parsnip_4619@reddit

ok like "64 cals per 100g boiled as per instructions" like bruh what if my potato absorbs more water than u did

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paolog@reddit

That's why they give the calories per serving as well, and tell you a serving is so many pieces/slices/whatever.

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

Yup. Not everyone has the numeracy to be able to do the maths and not everyone can be bothered.

The nutrition information should include what's in the pack you're actually buying.

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Jealous_Parsnip_4619@reddit

guys trust me oven roast ur veggies with a little olive oil it tastes like heaven

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Jealous_Parsnip_4619@reddit

microwave it. tastes like mcdonalds

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keyholes@reddit

Same. I remember watching an episode of Star Trek Next Gen where Troi is eating a chocolate dessert and she talks about how it tastes exactly like actual chocolate but she knows it's actually nutritionally balanced and I have never been so envious in my life. I wish I could eat sugary treats for every meal that weren't bad for me. My genetics already predispose me to T2 diabetes, I feel like with my sweet tooth that I'm trying to swim against a riptide.

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Mehchu_@reddit

So even with that the issue would be about portion control. Cause unless they can make a chocolate dessert that is nutritionally balanced that also tricks the brain into thinking that it is full for longer/more than it actually is. Then it doesn’t matter how balanced it Is, i can still end up overweight eating 3 of them. Whereas the amount of effort it takes to eat 3 lettuces I don’t think I ever would.

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paolog@reddit

An episode of Channel 4's What Not To Eat explained this: stuff that is full of calories is often soft or melts in your mouth, so it's easy to gobble down a lot of it. Eating the equivalent amount of calories in raw vegetables takes longer, but just because you gave to eat more, but because you have to chew them.

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lizhurleysbeefjerky@reddit

Fat, sugars, salts were in earlier times rare and hard to come by. We're hardwired to enjoy the taste and want to binge on them.

Lettuce, not so much

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paolog@reddit

Have you seen cows eating grass? They look so bored. If chips grew in fields, cows would frolic like lambs.

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Stephen_Dann@reddit

There is food that is good for your physical health and food good for your mental health. Unfortunately they are mutually exclusive

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Naolini@reddit

This has become a problem for me. Baking and eating tasty treats is a fave hobby of mine and good for mental health. Getting fat is bad for mental health. Have to stop baking and eating all the tasty treats because mental health is tanking due to weight gain. Get more depressed because not baking and eating tasty treats.

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

Being overweight is a nightmare. The only way to fix it is to basically strip your diet back to nothing and make time in a busy schedule for exercise.

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Latte-Addict@reddit

I've just started to bake a lot...my excuse is the items I review for Amazon, baking tins and the like, luckily I don't get to eat much of what I do as I take them into work for colleagues (none of who are in the slightest bit thankful).

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Master_Piccolo_9178@reddit

They did invent a "calorieless" fat substitute called Olestra. Unfortunately it literally makes you shart.

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tinkerballer@reddit

They tried to make zero-fat crisps in the 90s using olestra, but they were discontinued because they turned out to cause anal leakage

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Steamer1145@reddit

The ice cream here in the UK compared to other countries, literally vanilla flavoured oils

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PoetryBeneficial6447@reddit

Brioche buns for everything I just want a bacon butty on white bread

Food served on planks It's a restaurant not a wild camping expedition.

Green stuff sprinkled on everything. If I wanted green I'd ask for salad

No salt or pepper because the chef seasons everything perfectly. Perfectly to their taste.

I could go on.....

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_theySeeMeScrolling@reddit

Why does every burger bun have to be brioche? It doesn’t make it fancier just because it’s brioche

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Accurate_Dot542@reddit

I hate it! When I manage to find some decent burger buns I buy loads and freeze them now. Most the shops just don't sell normal burger buns any more.

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mistakenforzen@reddit

If you can find a burger big enough, oven-bottom muffins are the superior bun

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the_beer_truck@reddit

For burgers, nice crispy ciabattas are where it’s at.

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darthpaul1978@reddit

Also, bagels.

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batteryforlife@reddit

Im not bothered about the bun, I just dont need a burger to be a foot high so I have to unhinge my jaw like a snake to get it in my gob!

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Sea-Climate6841@reddit

I want the old seeded buns back, they were great…but I’m fucked if I can find them in any supermarket anymore!

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thedonkeyman@reddit

I'm in the minority I suppose, but I hate seeded buns! I honestly can't stand them.

Seedless > brioche >>>>> sesame seeded.

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legalmac@reddit

Tesco still sell them! Normal, seeded burger buns pack of 6 for about 95p.

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Sea-Climate6841@reddit

Wot!!…I clearly haven’t been looking hard enough, or just been overwhelmed by the sheer amount of brioche in the aisle - thanks, I’m headed there tomorrow so will take a closer look!

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imalwayshungr@reddit

To be fair, the sheen coming off the brioche prevents being able to using our fucking eyes properly!! -.-

I, too, am a lover of the seeded bun with a burger.

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legalmac@reddit

Found the link. It's a pack of 4 for 95p. Happy shopping! Tesco seeded burger buns

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FinancialBread4660@reddit

Yeah I hate sweet burger buns 😭😭😭

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buford419@reddit

Hey mama, those are some sweet burger buns you got there. Shake that brioche.

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buford419@reddit

i don't know why the hell i posted this

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Xenozip3371Alpha@reddit

This, I've no idea why brioche is so popular, it's disgustingly sweet and the texture sucks.

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Baconmancy@reddit

Brioche stays fresh longer. It's a purely financial decision. Fuck it's depressing.

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djwillis1121@reddit

I don't get the hate for brioche buns tbh. I don't even think they're excessively sweet, at least not the ones I buy. I always find it strange when people say they taste like cake because that's not my experience at all

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_theySeeMeScrolling@reddit

I don’t actually mind it that much tbf but I don’t like the lack of choice. It’s like Gordon Ramsey did a brioche bun once on TV and everyone else just followed

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smellthecoffeebeans@reddit

They fall apart and are sweet?! Give me a lightly toasted potato bun. It is, quite literally, perfect for a burger.

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Limp_Chemical9814@reddit

I think the trend started in the US where sugary bread is normal. I just want my sesame seed bun back.

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_theySeeMeScrolling@reddit

Yeah if I want it sweet then I’ll add BBQ sauce or something. Just can’t stand brioche.

We need to have a “white, brown or granary” option for burgers like we do sandwiches

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Fucked-to-fit@reddit

Anytime I say this people look at me like I’m a weirdo

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Z_starmix@reddit

I’m seeing an influx of ‘Japanese milk rolls’ in supermarkets atm. Yet to try…

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AllYouNeedIsRawk@reddit

There's a Japanese fusion restaurant in London that does burgers in these, went there quite some time ago but have to say they were well yummy. Better than fucking brioche anyway.

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Morganx27@reddit

Brioche is lovely stuff, but it's not structurally correct for a burger.

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KimbaTheLion@reddit

I put this on my tinder a while ago and I got so much hate I had to take it off. I thought I was the only one. It's like using a donut as a burger bun.

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D5LLD@reddit

I love brioche buns with my burgers. I toast them in a frying pan, and get them as black and burnt as I can. Proper tasty.

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teeth_grinding_teeth@reddit

The last time I saw this, someone mentioned a recipe for potato buns; they’re great, I followed a recipe on YouTube. I would make them more if I had the time and space.

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Japhet_Corncrake@reddit

I haten brioche buns for burgers. Pack it in.

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Hyperion2023@reddit

And no structural integrity

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MaintenanceInternal@reddit

I hate how people go mental for Empanadas etc and theyre considered a fancy dish but there's no love for the noble pasty.

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--BooBoo--@reddit

I totally agree with what you are saying, but let me reassure you that I personally have a deep, passionate, and undying love for the noble pasty.

Our local garden centre have a butchers / deli counter and they make fricking amazing pasties - we went off piste from our normal traditional one yesterday had a lamb one that had just a hint of mint sauce and it was amazeballs.

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MaintenanceInternal@reddit

That does sound banging.

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Difficult-Bet-2522@reddit

When you are slicing something and the previous slice sticks to the knife and proceeds to roll off the board and probably onto the floor when you cut the next slice. I’m looking at you, potatoes.

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit (OP)

Fking hell, this pisses me off too.

I see all the tv chefs hacking away on their chopping board. Everything stays on it.

I chop some spring onions, half of it rolls away.

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gavo_88@reddit

Difference between us muggles with fairly decent knives, and chefs £200 ones that are always sharp as a ninjas blade.

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_Frog_Enthusiast_@reddit

Chef knives are no joke. The chef at work cut his hand open super bad with just a glancing blow

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mistakenforzen@reddit

The first time in used a kitchen mandolin, I ended up in hospital. But that was mainly my arrogance rather than the tool itself. We settled our differences and have a good relationship now.

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YogurtclosetThen7959@reddit

Cut them at a slight angle

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Unique-Scientist8114@reddit

As someone said, wet the knife blade - another option is knives with divots like these as it prevents a seal forming

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emmiewag@reddit

I have a santoku knife and never thought to use it for vegetables (so they don't stick)! Will try this - thanks!

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tuskel373@reddit

Doesn't work, I also got one for that reason and the veggies still stick.

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Sad_Introduction8995@reddit

Do report back… we have a wusthoff knive with divots and food still sticks to it.

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Voltalox@reddit

Onions are the worst for this. I keep meaning to invest in some sort of onion dicer thingymajig to make my life a bit easier, as I chop onions for nearly all my home made food.

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affogatohoe@reddit

This has cucumber written all over it

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Jessi_L_1324@reddit

Absolutely carrots.

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Academic-Jackfruit-2@reddit

You can get knives with little dips in the balde, much better for cutting veggies!

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silentv0ices@reddit

Wet the knife blade.

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chemo92@reddit

Trying to sweep bits of cheese on the countertop. Just smears everywhere. Feel like I should get a little brush just for that.

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Glass-Lead-5946@reddit

THIS OMG

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Winter_Parsley8706@reddit

People who "cheers" what they are eating with the person they are with. Like you would a drink.

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TheDaemonette@reddit

People saying there is a ‘right’ way to cook certain things like steak or pasta. If you like your pasta soft then that’s the right way to cook it ‘for you’. If it is safe when cooked, then variations are fine - the right way to cook everything is so that it is ‘safe to eat’. After that it is just individual taste.

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onionsofwar@reddit

Because if you boil pizza you're just not getting the vest version of it.

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TheDaemonette@reddit

That rather depends on the consumers taste.

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Wulfweard24@reddit

I hate videos where people are criticised for cooking things to their liking. I don't understand why people are so bothered by another person enjoying food their own way.

Similarly, when they criticise people for not coating their food in seasoning. Not everything needs to be seasoned to the point where you can't taste the base ingredients. I personally like my food fairly bland or with just salt and garlic powder/granules.

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pajamakitten@reddit

Salt and garlic powder is seasoning though.

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Wulfweard24@reddit

I never said it wasn't. I just meant I tend to just use those. Some people would consider that not seasoned enough.

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affogatohoe@reddit

I hate it when people completely forget that herbs are also flavour and seasoning and assume that if you've not blasted your food with paprika and 700 different types of chilli then its flavourless crap and youre a heathen

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

Yeah I think some people equate seasoning with spiciness which I think plays into a lot of the 'Americans make fun of British food for being bland' when our traditional flavour profile tends to be more herby

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MiskonceptioN@reddit

I had this argument with my wife's grandad. He insists that "if you don't cook sausages with something, they just taste like sausages". Yeah. That's the point. I like the taste of sausages.

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Wulfweard24@reddit

A lot of sausages tend already be seasoned anyway.

And you can get flavoured sausages too.

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Spikyleaf69@reddit

I like soft pasta and don't even mention al-dente rice!

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FinancialBread4660@reddit

Amen to that 🙏

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Alwayslearnin41@reddit

2 "Ripe and Ready" avocados. 1 is rock hard, the other is a collapsed mess.

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ChrisRR@reddit

People who are convinced that the air fryer is some technical meatball have never used the grill in their oven

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AlternativeAd1984@reddit

More repulse than annoy - when you’re cutting up a pepper and it’s pregnant with a little baby pepper, dunno why but it just grosses me out so much.

The layer of gunk that accumulates on the rim of a tub of cream if you don’t use it fast enough. Then again, I could just wipe it after each pour 😂

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affogatohoe@reddit

I have to compost the nasty little pepper baby, the whole set up just grosses me out so much. Abomination.

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Alwayslearnin41@reddit

My stomach hurts from the amount of laughter I just let out about pepper babies.

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saludpesetasamor@reddit

Same. It’s never occurred to me that someone might eat the pepper baby before. That seems nasty.

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit (OP)

I feel the same about pregnant oranges. It just feels wrong to eat it

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Charming-Objective14@reddit

Having the Bottle Top attached to the bottle I'm not a child I have two hands I can hold it.

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jackog420@reddit

Hot honey and spicy mayo. Hot honey is just disgusting, never seen a good use case. Mayo I absolutely hate and a lot of places make stuff with a “spicy” version but they just put spicy mayo on it.

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paolog@reddit

Put your raspberries in a sieve instead and rinse them that way. Then even if they fall apart, they don't end up in the sink.

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Japhet_Corncrake@reddit

"Peel here".

Biggest lie ever told.

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HowUtterlyGhastly@reddit

Hah yes....

The worst is when there's 2 separate layers of film, so you peel one off, and there's still an entirely intact layer underneath somehow.

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tuskel373@reddit

Tesco packaging is still half-decent that way, but Morrisons ones have got right rubbish since the company was sold off to americans.

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pajamakitten@reddit

Especially if the film is not recyclable but the tray is. Now I cannot recycle the tray because half the film is still attached to the tray.

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Fudubaders@reddit

Rubbish packaging gets the rage going every time.

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fearlessfannyflutter@reddit

When you bite into a cheese and ham toastie and the steaming hot ham comes out and smacks you in the face.

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darthpaul1978@reddit

Guffawed at this. I ince burnt my lip two days running (in the same place too) on the plastic cheese doing the same thing. So painful.

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fearlessfannyflutter@reddit

Aw fuck that with plastic cheese would be like lava 😂

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darthpaul1978@reddit

Slaw. I fucking hate slaw.

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martinhayman@reddit

Supermarket replacements! I asked for paella and they replaced it with macaroni cheese! WTF?

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darthpaul1978@reddit

That's the sort of thing which put me off online supermarket shopping twenty years ago. Sounds like zero improvement.

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BerkshireGent@reddit

Supermarket bacon so full of injected water it produces poached bacon in a sea of white snot in the frying pan.

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smellycoat@reddit

Ugh bacon jizz is the worst.

Sainsbury’s air dried bacon is the only one I’ve found that doesn’t do that, other than bacon direct from a butcher

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lurcherzzz@reddit

Aldi have very excellent thick cut dry cure bacon. I highly recommend it.

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djwillis1121@reddit

I try and only ever buy the premium bacon from the supermarket as a minimum. It's much better

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OptionalQuality789@reddit

Buy dry cured bacon

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jonewer@reddit

Exactly this. Yes, it seems more expensive until you realise you aren't paying for bacon that's 70% water

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kylehyde84@reddit

I recently started doing this. It's a revelation!

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no-puedo-encontrar@reddit

Tesco sell a brand called Simon Harris. You may be able to get it elsewhere, IDK, but so far in the pan, it does not produce the bacon cum sea.

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Squidgyness@reddit

Getting screwed on side items. You’ve all seen meals where you get a steak the size of a head accompanied by 5 chips, or a burger that you can barely fit in your mouth with a basket of fries smaller than a teacup.

This notably peeves me at chip shops. If I’m getting something with a LARGE chips, I want a ton of chips. Im ordering fried battered foods, I’m not here for my health and anyway if I wanted a tiny portion I’d order a small portion. I get you have costs like heating, wages etc that make up a large portion of the price, so stick another 50p on and give me 50p worth of potatoes and I won’t care. £3.50 for a filling portion will make me happy, £3.00 for a stingy one will not. Don’t even get me started on getting less food from a sit down fish and chip restaurant vs. The takeaway next door, yet paying more. Same thing, you need to charge more for eating in I get it so charge me another quid and give me a quid more chips!

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--BooBoo--@reddit

Definitely this - generally sides are made from cheaper ingredients than the main part of the meal so why be so stingy with them? Ive had two Sunday roasts recently, both of them at pretty posh restaurants as they were birthday meals, and both of them had a decent portion of meat, which must surely be the most expensive thing on the plate, but one came with only three miniscule roast potatoes, and the other one the only veg was a tiny ramekin of cauliflower cheese. Potatoes are cheap, carrots are cheap so why not give decent portions of those and leave your customers feeling like they have had a decent sized meal?

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Squidgyness@reddit

Yeah, roast potatoes are always skimped on for sure. Its odd, they are relatively easy to make either fresh or bought into the restaurant frozen, just bung a few more on!

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

I wish the default for burger buns wasn't brioche, they work for some burgers but not others and sometimes it's way harder than it needs to be to find a classic burger bun

I also hate calorie info that has an unrealistic portion size like when a chocolate bar says 'per 1/3' as I'm generally not eating 1/3 of a snickers

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--BooBoo--@reddit

Or the supposedly healthy option crisps - the packaging says "only 91 calories per pack" then you open the packet and find out that's because there is only about 4 crisps so you have to eat 3 bags to get a normal amount.

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

Oh that too,

Also earlier I was buying some granola and had an option between a normal one and a protein one and then realised the protein one wasn't really that much more protein than your standard granola

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--BooBoo--@reddit

There is loads of that around at the moment - like protein yoghurt is just greek yogurt at £2 more a tub.

They are starting to do it with fibre too - I saw a can of chickpeas the other day labelled as "high fibre chickpeas" at 30p more, and they were just normal chickpeas.

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Happiest_Mango24@reddit

bottle lids that don't fully detach

getting them back on is really annoying

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Hair_of_the_cat_@reddit

Satsumas that look good but are dry and flavourless. Also OP- try a sharper peeler (all metal is best)

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--BooBoo--@reddit

Or those really big oranges that look fantastic but most of the time they are sour as hell or dry and flavourless, but every now and again you get one that obviously is actually properly ripe and tastes amazing so you keep buying them and getting disappointed.

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snarkmaiden5@reddit

Clingfilm! The most annoying thing ever. It won't simply rip along the teeth things on the box, oh no, instead it just stretches an goes out of shape. Then when you do tear a piece off it clings to itself but never clings to the bowl etc to keep food fresh..

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--BooBoo--@reddit

And the serrated edge strip always lifts away from the box before you have finished even half of the cling film, making it even harder to rip.

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

All sandwiches, BBQ rolls etc. having butter slapped on with a plastering trowel.

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Tea-n-crumpet@reddit

Yoghurt lid spraying stuff all over a black top whilst I'm at work...

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fojo81@reddit

Pineapple 🤔

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Simbooptendo@reddit

Poppadom packaging you can't peel off

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit (OP)

The same with meat packaging, mate

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PutAutomatic2581@reddit

Any kind of sliced meat they always have to layer it so the top slice is at the other side of the package from the side you open it. Why?!

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Latte-Addict@reddit

Because they hate you, and hate you even more when you buy a packet of nice looking Tesco roast beef slices...only to see the last two slices at the bottom are full of fat.

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ScottOld@reddit

Morrisons curry meal deals, peel back film lid, would mate but the corners just peel the edges off

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AllYouNeedIsRawk@reddit

This seems to be the default now for loads of different meals, and not even just in Morrisons. You take off all the excess plastic only, leaving your hermetically sealed (save for the fork piercings, but it's still raging hot) package. You try and use a knife or fork to stab in and rip the film off around the inside edges. it only rips in a very ragged way and half of it goes in your food, and then flicks that food back onto you as you try and pull it back with your fork.

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DarthScabies@reddit

Very vivid description. 😂

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AllYouNeedIsRawk@reddit

I get very verbose when triggered

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DarthScabies@reddit

Asda bacon packets are like that. Fucking things.

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kai_enby@reddit

I've never met a bacon packet that wasn't like that, Sainsburys and Tesco don't peel either

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OldOllie@reddit

Yes, this. Same with any of that type of plastic tray with film lid type packaging.

"Just peal here", total bullshit.

It either will not come off at all or tears into a tiny strips surely in the age of amazing technology we have now we could work out how to package stuff. I remember going to the butchers and they just wrapped it in a bit of grease proof paper and a paper bag, this was a better way.

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hoody13@reddit

All meal deal sandwiches being smothered in mayo. Not great when you either don’t like or are allergic to it and you’re in a rush!

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rocketscientology@reddit

Except for the cheese sandwiches which proudly specify “no mayo” and then are dry af. Why specify no mayo if the mayo alternative doesn’t actually exist? What if I want a cheese and mayo sandwich? What then??

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CaptainMcClutch@reddit

I never used to notice, but when I eventually did... it's in every single one. The wraps are even worse because you get a full blob of mayo somewhere in them.

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Sate_Hen@reddit

Ordering burger and chips and they give you burger and fries

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CaptainMcClutch@reddit

Getting judged for liking steak very well done, I've had other variations I just enjoy it more when it's a little charred.

I've had a waiter try and talk me out of my own preference before, but more often than not they usually nod then bring me a medium rare steak.

I don't get why people are so concerned about me "ruining" my own steak.

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Rosy-Lee-1974@reddit

That watery stuff that comes out of the mustard bottle if you forget to shake it

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CaptainMcClutch@reddit

When you do shake it and still get the water!

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Danube47@reddit

Every. Time

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit (OP)

The pre-mustard

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floatinginagravyboat@reddit

When they give you 100 napkins you don't need but you have to beg for 1 packet of sauce

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CaptainMcClutch@reddit

You get a regular fries and they give you twenty packs of salt when like half a pack is more than enough.

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit (OP)

I don’t know why some places are so precious about their sauces, lol. They look at you like you’ve murdered their whole family.

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AuroraDF@reddit

Toaster crumbs. I don't like those on my worktop.

How fast berries go off.

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concrete_marshmallow@reddit

Ikea type store sells clear plastic boxes for stacking in the fridge. Just buy a lid, turn it upside down, put the toaster on that.

No more crumbs and bonus is you can slide the toaster around easily.

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mogrim@reddit

My toaster sits on a small metal tray.

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AuroraDF@reddit

Hmm. I will think about this. I might even do it! Thanks.

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DoubleTapX1@reddit

All these foods that advertise how they don't have MSG in it.
You know MSG tastes really good? It's like they're leaving potential flavour on the table!
Have they checked it with MSG? Did it taste better?

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RecentTwo544@reddit

And it stems from an urban myth that some people get bad reactions to MSG, which has been proven to be false.

Most likely being getting bad reactions to overly greasy Chinese takeaway food, and people blaming MSG because that used to be one of the only cuisines that used it.

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Limp-Attitude-490@reddit

The stupid garlic press. All that scraping and wasting.

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RecentTwo544@reddit

I got one from Procook which is amazing. Works, doesn't get jammed up, can totally remove the crush plate to clean it properly.

Realised I'd finally hit middle age when me and some mates were talking about it in the pub and genuinely enjoying the conversation.

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BoringTruckDriver@reddit

crush with a knive then have at it with clumsy chopping is the way

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D1789@reddit

Crumbs.

Bloody crumbs everywhere.

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Flimsy-Detective7643@reddit

I keep one of those desk mini hoovers in the kitchen for this exact purpose

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soundman32@reddit

Too right DM.

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releasethekaren@reddit

On that topic, nature valley bars. Need a fuckn ashtray to eat one

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit (OP)

It’s how the French control their intake. Have their croissant crumbles on to the floor.

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JohnnyOneLung@reddit

Re the ketchup. Dont remove all of the plastic covering. Just punch a hole in it in the middle

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JohnnyOneLung@reddit

Are you using a traditional peeler or the Y shaped peeler?

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DependentRounders934@reddit

That i can drink my daily calories on one milkshake, and yet they are the most delicious thing on earth

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Appropriate_Tell6746@reddit

And that you can eat/drink enough calories in a day to gain like 4lbs but it take a month to lose it

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tuskel373@reddit

Yeah, that's a total scam! What the hell, I want to enjoy the delicious food!

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Inner-Floor-5827@reddit

Had a milkshake for dinner. Just the milkshake, well with added protein powder.

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DependentRounders934@reddit

Delish! I had a sausage casserole with courgette pasta because i drank too many milkshakes lst month 😭

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feckarse-drinkgirls@reddit

You must hate your toilet

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Inner-Floor-5827@reddit

I would have to drink an equivalent of 3 litres of milk to have any sort of stomach issue... I actually used to be lactose intolerant, but I kept ignoring it and now I'm not.

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SubstantialLion1984@reddit

Onion peel. That papery shit gets everywhere and never comes off cleanly.

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fussyfella@reddit

Over stuffed sandwiches which spurt their contents all over you and disintegrate as soon as you try to take a bite - that is if you actually can take a bite without dislocating your jaw.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

Tangentially about food, but more about people.

The double standard when it comes to people being labelled a "picky eater" for not eating things they don't like.

You wouldn't call someone a "picky filmgoer" for saying they don't like a specific genre of film, or a "picky listener" for not liking certain genres of music or artists, but you get almost militant weirdos calling you a picky eater because you don't like pickles and ask for something without them.

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chez2202@reddit

There’s something worse than ketchup everywhere.

I call it ketchup piss. When you squeeze the ketchup bottle without taking it to B&Q to shake it up on the paint mixing machine first and you get a wet puddle of something that looks like urine with blood in it.

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Boboshady@reddit

I have shaking the ketchup built into muscle memory at this point. I also still shake milk without thinking, even though I ever get semi-skimmed.

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CapnFap@reddit

It’s like pre cum

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Stabbykarp@reddit

Definitely ketchup pre cum, it grosses people out when I say about it

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gavo_88@reddit

I agree, the consensus has always been its pre-cum.

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thehoneybadger1223@reddit

Pre-Ketch

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chez2202@reddit

You should probably be telling your doctor this rather than me.

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SM_83@reddit

I get that a lot with mustard in particular. Ruins my hot dog

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roughhexagon@reddit

I call it the Tomato Piss Water

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Accomplished-Job7830@reddit

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Rodge6@reddit

Not a great look with mayo this one

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EasyCheesecake1@reddit

Pre prepared food like peeled garlic or grated cheese that is more expensive and usually has more packaging.

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Boboshady@reddit

Sounds like your peeler is either blunt, bent, or cheap. Spend a few quid extra on a new one, you'll never look back.

And if it still does it, you're either applying too much pressure, or the angle is wrong and you're basically clogging the gap with too much shaved potato.

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littlerabbits72@reddit

This is the answer - I spent years resenting every potato I had to peel. Eventually bought a new peeler, game changer.

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girlsunderpressure@reddit

Bent peelers? That's a job for Ted Hastings

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catsaregreat78@reddit

Like the battle

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FinancialBread4660@reddit

Eating healthy is hard in my household when you’re the only person who wants salad. If I want a salad, I have to buy one whole lettuce or a bag of lettuce, a cucumber or half a cucumber that always feels a bit soft, a bunch of radishes and spring onions……then the rest just rots because I am only 1 person….

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littlerabbits72@reddit

And if you don't want to waste anything you have to pay about 8 times as much if you buy the ready prepped stuff.

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Sufficient_Alps8989@reddit

Learning some things reading this. Never heard of anybody putting Parma ham in a sandwich before, try wrapping it round a breadstick and eating it that way or around some asparagus… oh and I hate the taste of lettuce it seems bitter to me..

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Remarkable_Ad_6939@reddit

I'm 100% with you on the peeling rage. How do they do it?!?

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NoisyGog@reddit

I want a plate at a restaurant. Not some stupid slab of slate.
Not a bit of driftwood.
Not a chopping board.
I don’t want my chips in a separate mini saucepan or steel cup which is then placed on the plate exactly where the chips would go, just put them on the fucking plate.

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Morganx27@reddit

My low stakes, almost certainly correct conspiracy theory is that the chips are served in a tiny basket because that amount of chips on a plate would be pitiful. I've never had chips in a basket and gone "wow, that was the correct amount of chips, I certainly don't want any MORE chips".

People criticise wetherspoons for their paltry chip count but at least they have the stones to just put it on the plate and tell you to fuck off.

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NoisyGog@reddit

I don’t think that’s it. Most gastropub type places give more than enough chips.

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Imtryingforheckssake@reddit

r/WeWantPlates

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SparklyRainbowAngel@reddit

This!!!

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FancyAd3294@reddit

Sick and tried of everything being low-fat, sugar free, or anything else that's designed so you can eat more of it with less guilt. As someone with low food drive it actually infuriates me that more and more calories are being taken out of food just so people can shove more of it in their mouth.

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Odd-Accident-3287@reddit

This is More Just a ick , but beans touching other Foods , especially on a breakfast near eggs , I have to have them Separate in a pot even know it’s all going down The same Place , it actually makes me feel sick if I see It

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ShadowWood78@reddit

Same. I keep them on the plate but have to separate the beans with a barrier of sausages.

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Odd-Accident-3287@reddit

Haha yes like do not touch my egg

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lemonherring@reddit

Tomato ketchup sachets. Fuck off, you cheap lazy bastards.

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Interesting_Fish309@reddit

The mince in the vacuum pack. Its annoying to cook. I can cook it I just hate it. It's all mushed up n horrible. Really annoys me haha

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Interesting_Fish309@reddit

It says shake b4 use. But I did the same with my brown sauce other day hahaha

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dexington_dexminster@reddit

When you squeeze the ketchup bottle,
None comes out, and then the lot'll.

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Prestigious_Emu6039@reddit

Shake Ketchup before squeezing

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blackcurrantcat@reddit

Avocado.

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Puzzled-Job9556@reddit

Adults who don't eat proper food.

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toon_84@reddit

Chips.

I just want chips.

Not loaded fries or skin on fries or salt and pepper chips or 5 baked potatoes in a tiny metal bucket.

I just want chips.

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_bubble_butt_@reddit

Plastic bacon tab labelled “tear here” straight up just ripping off

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maya_clara@reddit

In healthy foods, that the ones I like are the lesser healthy options. I like white rice? That shitty dry ass brown rice is the one you should go for. Don't like nuts but like peanuts? Well peanuts are a legume and the other nut options are really what you want to go for. Love chicken thighs? Well if you really want a lot of protein you gotta eat the dry ass chicken breast.

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skyye_ellise@reddit

Bloody ketchup bottles exploding when you just want a normal squeeze is honestly a shared trauma 😭 and peelers clogging every 3 seconds feels like a design flaw in life itself. Also, anything that looks solid until water touches it and it just disintegrates instantly is pure rage fuel.

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Master_Piccolo_9178@reddit

First, shake the bottle making sure to hold the lid securely to avoid redecorating the room to look like a murder scene (I hate it when people don't do this because the ketchup separates and the watery stuff comes out first otherwise, meaning the ketchup will gradually become the wrong consistency). Then make sure there's no air at the squirty end. Squirt away without sharting.

It's not that difficult.

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pyotia@reddit

Everything being 0 sugar, low salt. I eat really healthy and if I decide that I want a super salty bag of popcorn, which is still not an unhealthy snack, then by god I want it to be ACTUALLY SALTY! I am a grown adult, let me make my own choices.

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ClericalRogue@reddit

Can lids that refuse to come off. Its not common but when it happens, its frustrating as hell.

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_YOUR_INSIDE_BEAST_@reddit

Why does every burger bun have to be brioche.?

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Debinze@reddit

Pears that start to rot before they even get soft

Sourdough is all crunch and holes

Avocado is tasteless slime

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PresterJonny@reddit

Hash browns have nothing to do with an Emgkish breakfast. Makes me a little angry even thinking about it

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iwantmorewhippets@reddit

That everything has gluten in it and I can't have gluten. I really wanted some cake today but didn't feel like baking, and gluten free cakes from shops are nowhere near as good as my cakes. I will have to bake soon.

I would love a Chinese too, but everything has gluten.

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Morganx27@reddit

I used to think I hated gluten free cakes because they were always shit. I can have gluten and I have loads of it, but my boss at work couldn't so she'd always bring in these rancid bitter abominations.

Anyway, when I was home baking my boyfriend informed me I'd accidentally been using rice flour in my brownies, and they tasted fucking divine. I don't know why cake manufacturers for shops can't get their heads around that.

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___MorningLovely@reddit

avocado, it's just boogers!

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tinkerballer@reddit

*bogies

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Difficult_Narwhal_72@reddit

The crusts at the end of a generic loaf of bread. I'll always skip the first one and bin them both once I eat the slices get to the end!

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Xenozip3371Alpha@reddit

Yep, what I've started doing is putting the bread in air tight freezer bags, stays fresher for way longer even without putting them in the freezer, they're really cheap from Tesco.

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Xenozip3371Alpha@reddit

I want to put a bit of vinegar on my chips, instead it pours out of the bottle, and pools at the bottom of the plate, drowning the bottom layer of chips in vinegar, which fucks with their texture, ruining them.

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Potterheadsurfer@reddit

How presliced ham is packaged in the big packets, where it’s all even slices, but they’re folded over each other in a mildly inconvenient way so that you can never easily tell which other slices you need to move to get the top one. Like cmon I just want a sandwich

And not food, but food adjacent.

The. Fucking. Lids on bottled drinks.

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Z_starmix@reddit

Hard-to-open things. Peel back this, stir and recover that. WITH WHAT, PLEASE?! WE NOW HAVE SHARDS OF PLASTIC!

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mentaldriver1581@reddit

Oh, don’t get me started me started on the vegetable peeler. It’s fine for carrots, but I’ll be damned if I can peel a potato with it.

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blarfblarf@reddit

The peeler thing is about having a good peeler, practice, and most importantly, holding it properly.

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Sea-Climate6841@reddit

Food-adjacent…

This new wave of restaurants and even bloody cafes adding a discretionary service charge to the bill, but don’t actually present the bill to you when you’re finished, just the card reader. It creates an (granted, incredibly) minor issue when British politeness may be at stake when we ask them for the actual paper copy of the bill to check it through, then the second issue of asking them to remove the service charge and adjust the bill accordingly.

I’ll tip, don’t get me wrong, if the service and/or food is good, and I always check that it goes to the staff when I pay on card, but to add a service charge for 1/2/3/4 seat tables is crazy, and at risk of sounding off…an imported US service industry custom which is becoming popularised over here.

[I do understand it for large group bookings, as this can pull a lot of staff from the rest of the customers for a while].

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mhoulden@reddit

Supermarkets replacing best before dates with a semi-cryptic code so they can claim to be reducing food waste. With Asda it's replacing the month with a letter from A-L followed by a number, so 25 April would be A25. With Sainsburys they go for the format J MM DD S, so J0425S.

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BraveFaithlessness16@reddit

When you squeeze the ketchup bottle is it comes out at a fucking right angle, seems to happen a lot lately with the lidl ketchup.

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Latte-Addict@reddit

Prince's beef spread, or similar. The jars do my fucking head in...trying to get the last bit out.

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greenfence12@reddit

Edgy pizza places always have one topping on each pizza that spoils it

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CameronFuckedmyPig@reddit

I love salami Milano on pizza- that’s all though, I don’t want bloody chilli all over it.

Also, I have to ask them to put the salami on just when it’s done, otherwise it just turns in to shite.

There’s enough residual heat on a freshly cooked pizza to warm the salami without melting all the fat and burning the meat to a crisp.

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ScottOld@reddit

Whatever phase of chocolate it is this year

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Darth-__-Maul@reddit

Soup. Is it a drink? Is it a food? Infuriating.

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moonlight_xpress@reddit

Overcooked supermarket scotch eggs. I swear they were not this rubbery before, it usedto be a good work lunch option.

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CameronFuckedmyPig@reddit

It’s because they use pre-boiled, shelled eggs. They are brined to give them a long shelf life, which affects the texture of the egg white, giving them that rubbery feel.

There’s a local firm up here in Newcastle called The Yolker which makes scotch eggs for a lot of the independent bars, and they are absolutely glorious.

Soft white, jammy yolks, and a variety of flavoured sausage wrapping.

I’ve just looked them up and you can order online

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smushs88@reddit

Seems to be a recent phenomenon but trying to take the cap off milk the first time after buying it, half the bottle now seems to twist itself up before the lid comes loose.

Had it with both 2 and 4 point bottles recently.

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nameunknown345@reddit

And then you have to remove the little silver foil thing that seals the bottle but when you try to peel it off the little tab thing breaks off so you end up having to stab it to death with the smallest knife you can find to access the milk

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westofcentre@reddit

May Contain.
If your processes are so sloppy that you can't keep things clean then what are your hygiene standards? That's how I see it, their lawyers may disagree though: I once got a carton of orange juice at M&S that "may contain" nuts.

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No-Round6844@reddit

When the butter is slightly too firm and as you go to spread it on your sliced bread, it tears an arsehole into it

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frikadela01@reddit

Hellmans mayo bottles. How they got past the design stage I'll never know.

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DifferentWave@reddit

Trying to find that optimum 30 seconds with an avocado between rock hard and over ripe.

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rowbain@reddit

When something falls off the counter/table but instead of simply landing on the floor where it could be easily picked up, it hits the top of your foot and shoots forward under said counter/table.

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Feedmybeast1@reddit

Calling out Heinz here, what genius decided to update the squeeze bottle mechanism to remove the valve? Every time I squeeze even a little ketchup or BBQ sauce out it continues to stream out uncontrollably until the pressure equalises.

I refuse to buy heinz sauce now purely for how bone-headed that idea was.

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GayDrWhoNut@reddit

Nutrition info based on "when cooked according to instructions". No, I don't want to cook your thing according to instructions, I want to cook a bunch of things together. You know, for flavour. Just let me weigh it out and add it to the pot. Why do you assume your way is the only way to cook something?

(Side note, am type 1 diabetic and this is actually important 😅)

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Spaghetti3000@reddit

Thick yoghurt scum around the edge of the pot and on the lid urghhh

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GeneralSEOD@reddit

Bananas.

They never seem to just... go right. I once had an asda bunch that just all turned black rather than going that spotty way, they were horrible.

Then you tear into the semi green/yellow ones, and it doesn't peel, they just mush into the skin internally.

Then if you do get a decent one, it's black in like two bits and you can only eat a certain part of it.

Aw, get in the bin.

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Andurael@reddit

When you’re chopping veg nice and neatly, then a piece falls the wrong side of the knife and oop now you’ve cut that lovely round in half.

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kermitor@reddit

Hearing people ask for food pisses me off, not "i would like this please", "Can i Have Please", "Please". its turned in to "I Want that Boss man", "ill Take a", "Ill have a"

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TablePanic@reddit

Can i get a

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Trappedinawrap@reddit

Depends on context, as a guest in my home I agree. In a food establishment, nah. The customer is here to pay for food, they aren't asking they're ordering a service in return for payment.

Please and thank you still mandatory.

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JadedSignificance990@reddit

I think the sandwiches you get at train stations should have one that doesn't have margerine on them.

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lordrothermere@reddit

Steak.

Pre cutting steak.

Talking about steak like it's something to write home about.

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seven-cents@reddit

Life pro tip: Never buy squeezy bottles of anything

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Emotional_Pick9327@reddit

Them little butter squares you get bloody frozen won’t spread , pees you off first thing in the morning

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Boboshady@reddit

Assuming you're in a hotel, I put them in my pocket or under my plate when I pick them up so they warm up a bit by the time I'm back at my table.

If they're already on the table, then the pocket trick still works, so does half-sitting on them but obviously watch out for squashing them too much. Normally I'll just hold them with my cup of tea for a minute or two.

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kai_enby@reddit

If I'm in a hotel, the butter is in foil packets, and they have a communal toaster I put the butter on top of the toast as soon as its done so the warm toast softens the butter

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Wulfweard24@reddit

My ex's mum put one on top of the bread toaster while toasting her bread. Didn't quite work as she intended. It became pourable.

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit (OP)

I once witnessed a classmate warm it up the sexy way. She slid it down her cleavage for a few mins.

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QueenSashimi@reddit

Oh god, my eyes skipped over a couple of comments and I thought you were referring to scotch eggs.

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Pr1ncifer@reddit

Even sexier.

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Mr4528@reddit

Fruit

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MiskonceptioN@reddit

I bought a pack of cocktail sausages as a treat for my dog and it had that nasty, cheap film on the top. Pulled one corner and it ripped off immediately. Pulled another corner same thing. I ended up getting pissed off and just took a knife to the thing.

Shame really. I'm gonna miss that dog.

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Immorals1@reddit

Vacuum packed mince.

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affogatohoe@reddit

I kinda love it, its so small and oerfext dor popping in the freezer

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globetrotter555@reddit

Heinz tomato sauce in a glass bottle, such a nightmare to get out

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SparklyRainbowAngel@reddit

Stop puting basil in everything. I hate it and it upsets my tum. Couldn't find a pasta sauce that didn't have basil in it yesterday. (I'm disabled and can't cook, so don't tell me to make my own, please)

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Zealousideal_View47@reddit

No matter how I store potatoes they seem to start going gross almost immediately. The second I look away they begin sprouting

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PKblaze@reddit

When you get fruit, like strawberries and they just die over night.

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Dancinglemming@reddit

Coriander. The end.

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PsychologicalDish430@reddit

Salt drowning everything

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Difficult_Bad1064@reddit

My ketchup always comes out at 45°. Hate that.

You need a new peeler.

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mtmp40k@reddit

You need to sort the hole out before you give it a squeeze!

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Difficult_Bad1064@reddit

No man. This is brand new bottles with the seal properly removed. Going through the silicone cap with a cross cut in it. I assure you it's not to do with congealing.

There must be an easy solution to it. I might try removing the silicone bit.

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DarthScabies@reddit

Heinz have taken the silicone bit out now. Just a regular hole.

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Difficult_Bad1064@reddit

Thanks! Gonna try it. I buy own brand as the ones I checked have way more tomato in them than Heinz.

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit (OP)

You’re talking about the m&s one aren’t you

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Difficult_Bad1064@reddit

Asda no added sugar, usually.

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mtmp40k@reddit

Seems like you have been affected by an affliction, likely of a demonic nature. I shall pray that your sauce shoots straight!

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Difficult_Bad1064@reddit

I knew it would catch up with me eventually, somehow, someday.

It's lucky I eventually read the label and started keeping it in the fridge.

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Ok_Manufacturer_5790@reddit

Cooking instructions underneath the fricking label so I have to open the god damn thing to find out how fricking long something will take to cook. I like deciding on what to make based on how much of a faff it is to cook.

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ljr69@reddit

Rice Krispies! They’re always f’ing snapping at me.

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idontlikemondays321@reddit

Going to a someone’s house for dinner and getting served a smaller dinner than my husband

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Waste-Ad4797@reddit

wtf, I've never seen this before. You've got screwed up friends.

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LahmiaTheVampire@reddit

Mushrooms. Everything the fantasy genre taught me about them is a lie. Vile rubbery nasty texture things.

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insertitherenow@reddit

Even worse is sauce pre cum on your food.

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Careless_Soup_109@reddit

Trick is just to dribble it a bit in the bin or sink first.

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NoodleDoodlesocks@reddit

When followin the same recipe results in different consistency as before.

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SgtBushMonkey69@reddit

When people mix ketchup and baked beans, it’s silly but it really bugs me

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Serious-Top9613@reddit

I burnt my toast this morning. Was fine when I checked it before going to set my place at the table (only took me a few seconds). Returned to find pitch black bread (toast?) 😒

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kipha01@reddit

Over packaging, 2-3 or even 4 times the amount of packaging used than is actually necessary.

And Easter Eggs, so much packaging for a hollow egg that could be, if solid, would need very little packaging.

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit (OP)

I don’t believe that some of these products must use the sort of recyclable material that can only be diposed of in a special place.

Some of these materials act exactly the same, but one can be recycled at home, whilst the other one must be taken somewhere.

That’s just going to deter people from making an effort.

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beeurd@reddit

Ahhh potato peelers, something about them is just incompatible with me I think! When I peel potatos I end up with peelings all over the place, they just fly everywhere and then I drop each potato 3 times... nightmare. Worth it for some home-made roasties though tbf.

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