Are you a food combiner?

[May Kasahara]

Salad on a plate with main meal is another shocking crime.
Warm leaves! Eurggghh!
Salad is for between courses and cleanses the palate between one rich dish and another.

And you accuse me of being well weird about food! I dunno Orang Utan, first it's no tv in the bedroom, then one foodstuff at a time...where will it end?

 

[Orang Utan]

And you accuse me of being well weird about food! I dunno Orang Utan, first it's no tv in the bedroom, then one foodstuff at a time...where will it end?

Illegalising ketchup, unless used on bacon sarnies or burgers?
Illiegalising brown sauce, unless used on sausage sarnies?

 

[Looby]

Illegalising ketchup, unless used on bacon sarnies or burgers?
Illiegalising brown sauce, unless used on sausage sarnies?

Noooooooooooo, that's the wrong way round.
Brown on bacon, ketchup on sausages.

 

[pembrokestephen]

Take your typical Sunday dinner - meat, spud, carrot, brocolli.
When you eat your dinner, do you mash it all up and mix it so all four foods are tasted simulataneuously or do you eat it all one by one?
Apparently I'm some sort of weirdo food freak cos I'm a food separatist.
I think it's the combiners who are freaks.

I'm a separatist. I don't know why it is, but when I've cooked food and put it in front of the sort of people who combine, it really gets to me.

The Small One here does it: I put all the food on a plate, hand it to her, and she then spends the next 5 minutes with a knife and fork doing an "I'm-making-concrete" impression. It's irrational and unreasonable of me to get riled by it, but riled I bloody get! Although I don't show it...

Me, I like to do my combining on a fork-by-fork basis. "Oooh, bit of spud and maybe some green veg...no, this time I'll have a bit of vegeburger with it, now, let's see, green veg and vegeburger or a spot of spud...".

Hours of fun

 

[pembrokestephen]

There is nothing more annoying than the unscrupulous eater leaning over and nicking those last few prized morsels off your plate, on the grounds that 'I thought you were leaving them cos you didn't like them' *innocent expression*.

Grr.

I generally find that once people like that have been stabbed in the hand with a fork more than about 3 times, they've normally broken that habit.

 

[EastEnder]

Illegalising ketchup, unless used on bacon sarnies or burgers?
Illiegalising brown sauce, unless used on sausage sarnies?

I usually put some ketchup and brown sauce on every meal.

Apart from corn flakes. That would ming.

And I don't even eat bacon, burgers or sausages.

 

[Orang Utan]

I usually put some ketchup and brown sauce on every meal.

heresy!

 

[Tank Girl]

aye, my girl is like that too, the amount of times I've been 'told off' for allowing curry to touch rice. It's friggin near impossible to keep them apart!!! Separate plates is the way forward

ah, now see that's where I'm ok. it's things like baked beans all over the fry up that's just wrong!!

(I hope milesy doesn't read this )

 

[Poot]

There is nothing more annoying than the unscrupulous eater leaning over and nicking those last few prized morsels off your plate, on the grounds that 'I thought you were leaving them cos you didn't like them' *innocent expression*.

Grr.

Leaving the best until last is usually the preserve of those of us who are from small families and therefore unused to the possibility of an older brother coming along and nicking the cherry/meat/chips from our plates.

 

[Orang Utan]

Leaving the best until last is usually the preserve of those of us who are from small families and therefore unused to the possibility of an older brother coming along and nicking the cherry/meat/chips from our plates.

We have a big family and that never happened. If anyone tried that in my family, blood would be drawn.

 

[marty21]

ah, now see that's where I'm ok. it's things like baked beans all over the fry up that's just wrong!!

(I hope milesy doesn't read this )

I do keep them apart in the main, they are only united on the fork

and beans all over the fry up is definitely wrong, although i will allow yolk to mix with the beans

 

[Kanda]

Seperatist and save one final *favourite mouthful* as a finale

 

[Poot]

We have a big family and that never happened. If anyone tried that in my family, blood would be drawn.

Well, Mr. 'Tan, clearly yours is a civilised large family. I've known people who've been brought up spitting on their dinner to avoid the their siblings' thieving mitts!

 

[sojourner]

Well, Mr. 'Tan, clearly yours is a civilised large family. I've known people who've been brought up spitting on their dinner to avoid the their siblings' thieving mitts!

Hand up here. There was only me and me brother, but we used to spit on our bread so neither one got more than the other.

 

[Orang Utan]

Well, Mr. 'Tan, clearly yours is a civilised large family. I've known people who've been brought up spitting on their dinner to avoid the their siblings' thieving mitts!

That's not right - isn't a parent watching over?

 

[Termite Man]

I'm a fence sitting semi seperatist , I'll eat half of everything on it's own then the other half I'll eat in combinations . That way you get the complex tastes of mixed food but also get to savour the individual tastes as well

 

[stroober]

mince + tatties + peas > mashed into a homogenous mash = Heaven

 

[Binkie]

the vegetables must all be eaten first

 

[pembrokestephen]

mince + tatties + peas > mashed into a homogenous mash = Heaven

Bleurgh

 

[oneflewover]

Combiner, not a masher (that should be illegal) it's all about tastes and textures.

Sauce users on other than sandwiches, heathens.

Side salad, yes please, with my pasta dishes, taste, texture, temperature.

It's all about the stimulation of your mouth.

Confession... ..i'm a shoveller.

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

It depends on the food and it depends what you mean by 'combine'. Mashing stuff together = wrong, you might as well eat babyfood. Putting 2 or more things on the fork = Good. For example if are a 'food seperatist' and you had a mediterranean pasta bake, would you really sit there and eat each slice of courgette, each slice of red pepper, each chunk of aubergine and each piece of pasta seperately?

 

[Orang Utan]

It depends on the food and it depends what you mean by 'combine'. Mashing stuff together = wrong, you might as well eat babyfood. Putting 2 or more things on the fork = Good. For example if are a 'food seperatist' and you had a mediterranean pasta bake, would you really sit there and eat each slice of courgette, each slice of red pepper, each chunk of aubergine and each piece of pasta seperately?

Combining is sticking two or more things on a fork.
A pasta bake, whilst not being a very classy dish, is different cos everything's been cooked together.

 

[astral]

mince + tatties + peas > mashed into a homogenous mash = Heaven

we used to do that as kids too it was my favourite dinner when I was small. Haven't had it in ages though.

I combine on occasion, and separate as well if I'm having salad with something really, I don't like mixing hot and cold foods. I never save a final mouthful though as I don't usually finish what's on my plate. I tried for a while making up smaller and smaller platefuls of food in the hope I could figure out the perfect amount that would allow me to clear my plate, but I think it's a mental block, I have to leave something

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

Combining is sticking two or more things on a fork.
A pasta bake, whilst not being a very classy dish, is different cos everything's been cooked together.

How about an english breakfast then?

 

[Orang Utan]

How about an english breakfast then?

You've not been reading the thread!
English breakfasts are an exception - I still wouldn't put stuff together on the fork, but it's grand to dip sausage in beanjuice and, especially, bacon in yolk.

 

[Callie]

I quite like mixing up food into a big mush - usually if there mashed potato and some sort of saucey stuff. I try not to do it in public because it is quite childish and some people don't like it.

I also used to make faces in mashed potato with peas.

 

[sojourner]

I see a split developing between the fundamentalist separatists and the moderates

 

[Maggot]

I voted no cos I don't mash everything together (who does?). But after reading the thread I realise I am a combiner cos I put more than one thing at a time on my fork.

Also pasta and rice dishes - especially curry - have to be combined, cos rice and pasta on their own are really boring.

 

[Binkie]

...I think it's a mental block, I have to leave something

Classic rebel posture. Told as a child to 'eat it all up', he has to leave something. Next.

 

[Termite Man]

What if you put one thing on your fork but then shovel the next thing into your mouth really quickly so then the half masticated first bite is combined with the fresh new flavour ?