name & shame shoddy food products

[rubbershoes]

for fucks sake.. real cheese does not spread!!

this does when it's good and ripe

 

[WasGeri]

Just remembered another - Danepak Lean n' Low bacon.

May as well not eat bacon as eat that filth.

 

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it can't be as bad as vegetarian 'bacon'.

Cook it and it turns from soggy lumps, to cardboard, it smells foul and i wouldn't even get close to tasting it.

 

[gentlegreen]

it can't be as bad as vegetarian 'bacon'.

Cook it and it turns from soggy lumps, to cardboard, it smells foul and i wouldn't even get close to tasting it.

The weirdest thing I vaguely remember was something a shop near me briefly stocked which was effectively "veggie beef dripping" ... or did I imagine that ?

24 years ago when I went veggie and shortly after vegan, I would have starved if I hadn't got to the "health food shop" most weekends so veggie used to mean wholesome too, these days unfortunately I can get all sorts of crap in Tesco which has never seen an animal but is as chock full of salt and saturated fat as anything non-veggie

 

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The weirdest thing I vaguely remember was something a shop near me briefly stocked which was effectively "veggie beef dripping" ... or did I imagine that ?

24 years ago when I went veggie and shortly after vegan, I would have starved if I hadn't got to the "health food shop" most weekends so veggie used to mean wholesome too, these days unfortunately I can get all sorts of crap in Tesco which has never seen an animal but is as chock full of salt and saturated fat as anything non-veggie

yes, vegetarian or vegan dosen't mean healthy, nor does omnivore mean unhealthy.

Vegetarian food takes more planning, more effort though i think, unless you are happy to eat that mock meat shite

 

[gentlegreen]

Tesco own label Mango Chutney.

I remembered it being fairly disappointing but recently bought some to use as the basis for a sauce -yuck ! - I must get my magnifying glass and check the label for aspartasme or "flavouring".

Cross and Blackwell Worcestershire /Tomato sauce

Just plain vile - ruins any food it touches

 

[Juice Terry]

I haven't eaten on recently, but those soups used to be fine. They were full of fresh healthy ingredients. It's possible that the growth of the company had led to larger scale production and a decrease in quality.

I'm pretty sure Covent Garden soups were bought out by some big fascist company, they certainly went from nice to shit fairly rapidly. I tried the Tuscan Bean variety not long ago and it was just a pint of water with a couple of bits of onion and three unidentifiable bits of bean in it, absolutely rank.

 

[gentlegreen]

Fairtrade Chocolate Chip Flapjack

Just eaten - wish I hadn't - just about to email them - I thought it was a bit "cloying" - then I get out the magnifying glass to read the label and see it is "chock" full of condensed milk and hydrogenated palm oil

.

 

[avu9lives]

Homemade chilli con carne Jamie Oliver stylie!!

Trouble is i used cheap lean mince from asda

Tasted and smelt like feckin dog food

Make note 2 self " dont shop at asda!!!

 

[gentlegreen]

"AdeZ" "health" juice drink.

.. it was the "soya" bit that intrigued me ..... they might as well have left out the fruit and used synthetic flavouring - you'd hardly know it contained real mango and apricot.

The small print on the carton was too small. If I'd only spotted "flavourings" and aspartame I would have known to avoid it.

http://www.unilever.co.uk/ourbrands/whatsnew/adez.asp
No great surprise some huge corporation is responsible.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Chicken Tonight mild chicken curry sauce, it's shit in a jar.

 

[nobbythenob]

Youngs admiral pie.....Fucking shite, 3 pieces of brown fish and taste's like cat food smells...Stay away.

 

[northernhord]

chocolate hobnobs have about four different types of suger in em, shame that

 

[gentlegreen]

Duchy Originals "cheese nibbles"

Taste like all butter shortbread, with a hint of not-quite cheese ..."mature cheddar" my posterior.

My mum was no chef, but used to do much better with flour, lard, water, cheese and marmite.

 

[ringo]

Definitely Greggs veg pasties. Reminds me of trying to find veggie food in motorway service stations when on road trips in the 80's. Ginsters pasties were even worse back then; just a fatty pastry envelope half full of sick.
Motorway service station food deserves it's own thread.

 

[piff diddly]

anything from greggs ,particularly nasty is the pizza baguette ,sausage roll, and for a food colouring buzzz the tottenham cake will leave a nasty taste for the rest of the day .fuck you gregg

 

[Herbsman.]

linda mcartney sausages are foul but i still purchased some yesterday as they were buy one get one free so i could have twice as much of something i don't like

I know someone who does that. I think it's known as compulsive purchase disorder.

Here's another vote for Greggs. And that chain called EAT - they're shit too. Overpriced rubbish. And the idiot in Birmingham library, who served me a jacket potato with cold beans. Didn't even bother to warm the beans up FFS she doesn't even know that the beans are meant to be hot! How thick must you be to not know that, and how would someone like that get a job serving food ffs??

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Greggs pizza is shite, but their sausage and bean melt pasties are ace!!!

 

[gentlegreen]

Cold Beans - yum !

Some of us can never find a clean pan to heat beans in.

 

[ohmyliver]

erm, the summerfield 'deli counter' pork pie with brie and grape.... it tasted like miscelanious mechanically reclaimed meat with custard

revolting

 

[pogofish]

M&S Asparagus Lasagne - Foul slop! Like pus on a plate with green tasteless lumpy bits.

 

[Yetman]

Greggs pizza is shite, but their sausage and bean melt pasties are ace!!!

I had one of them for breakfast at t'weekend, cos I felt guilty having a steak bake for brekkie - it was interesting, lumpy orange slime, like puke.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

I had one of them for breakfast at t'weekend, cos I felt guilty having a steak bake for brekkie - it was interesting, lumpy orange slime, like puke.

Its the nicest lumpy orange slime i have ever ever tasted

 

[gentlegreen]

Tesco veggie "treats" :-

"vegetable quarter pounders" - dry, chewy, nasty - triggers flashbacks of the worst burger experiences (I haven't eaten red meat in over 30 years).

Tried these a long time a go and there really is no excuse for their existence - though perhaps veggies determined to savour the "over-cooked barbecue experience" would find them acceptable plastered in sauce after an over-indulgence in New World red....

"chicken-style fillets" - fairly dry, chewy, almost tasteless.

They were out of their quite edible "nut cutlets" yesterday so I opted for "vegetable bakes" - quite tasty - contains cheese, and I also grabbed a packet of the afore-mentioned ersatz "chicken" things - since they are now messing about with prices to make their "two for £3.00" look a better deal than usual.

I ended up dunking them cold in hummus.

 

[stuff_it]

Had an asda own brand veggie 1/4lb-er on the BBQ last night, it seems over the last 12 months they have started adding more water so that it drips lots of 'real meatlike juices' when you bite it......the juice was every but as rank as you can imagine.

It's a shame because I wuote like fake non-quorn meat burgers, I wish they wouldn't muss them about so.

Looks like I will have to drag my arse into Holland & Killits in the town for the rest of the summer...

 

[Greebo]

2 nights ago I opened a bottle of St Hellier Pear Cider with Blueberry flavour. The flavour was okay, but not great, so only had a quarter of the bottle. Pretty shade of turquoise (which I would've preferred not to be the colour of a drink). No other alcohol (or other drugs) that night of any kind.

Woke up with a bad one-sided headache, which lasted 10 hours - not my usual type of migraine. Not a hangover. IMHO it was the colouring, because I've had other types of St Hellier Pear Cider before now (plain, with blackcurrant, and IIRC with forest fruits) and didn't get anything like this after them.

 

[gentlegreen]

Tesco Vegelicious Cheese And Leek Sausages.
Tesco again - Bite me.

... but don't bite these..

I think they missed out "sawdust" in the ingredients list.
I have a couple of their veggie burgers for later.

Their Mexican style burgers are pretty good, but I don't always want spicy.
Their nut cutlets were very good, but my local shop stopped stocking them.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

... but don't bite these..

....do you cook much, or do you mostly buy ready to eat food?
If you cook, this woman is great for tasty vegetarian food.
http://www.vegetarianepicure.com/

 

[kittyP]

Just as it has come up in this thread, I LOVE Greggs veggi pasties.
Yes they are crap. They are like salty baby food in flaky pastry but I love them and really crave them when hungover.

However, back to really shit stuff.
Asda own brand baked beans and spaghetti hoops are vile!!
They have a kind of fizzyness and taste of bicarb

 

[gentlegreen]

....do you cook much, or do you mostly buy ready to eat food?
If you cook, this woman is great for tasty vegetarian food.
http://www.vegetarianepicure.com/

I don't have the energy for cooking these days, but I've only ever cooked rather simple and bland food.