Pitta bread is crap

[snackhead]

Sprinkle a little bit of water on them if toasting in toaster. Otherwise gently warm for about 3 mins in the oven. Then nibble off the edges round one side and use a knife to gently open out. Easy.

Love pitta bread stuffed with lamb cubes, mint and lemon juice paste, and turkish yoghurt...felafal and humous too...drools.

(pitta bread)

When I read that bit I heard Hannibal Lecter's voice in my head

 

[internetstalker]

If you try to make a sandwich with it.

I made myself a falafel houmus and lettuce sandwich for lunch and boy was I looking forward to it but the pitta bread always crumbles and breaks and everything falls out and all in all it's just shitbags.

pitta breads are fine for just dipping in things, but try and put anything in them other than wafer thin ham then they are useless. USELESS!

I use pitta bread for my samiches every day, I never have this problem!

 

[Melinda]

I love this kind of thread!

Poster after poster coming on to post the same advice!

"Sure there have been 20 posts, but no one will have thought of this gem...!"

Love, love, love you all!

 

[snackhead]

It's the waiting room until the start of the "what's your favourite pitta filling" thread

 

[electrogirl]

I use pitta bread for my samiches every day, I never have this problem!

maybe i'm just greedy and try and put too much falafal in. but then, when can you have too much falafel?

i just think there's not enough room in there for proper fillings without the pitta going 'aaaaagh' and popping open.

i'm going to use wraps in future. sturdier.

 

[Melinda]

Wraps are so floury though. Taste horrid unless you warm them through first.

 

[internetstalker]

maybe i'm just greedy and try and put too much falafal in. but then, when can you have too much falafel?

i just think there's not enough room in there for proper fillings without the pitta going 'aaaaagh' and popping open.

i'm going to use wraps in future. sturdier.

you need to split the pitta in half. and use it like 2 slices of bread!

 

[electrogirl]

you need to split the pitta in half. and use it like 2 slices of bread!

but they're too cardboardy for that, you know, to squish the filling in, there's no soakability.

 

[internetstalker]

but they're too cardboardy for that, you know, to squish the filling in, there's no soakability.

how do you mean?

 

[Chester Copperpot]

The trick is to warm them without actually toasting them. If you over do them they're rubbish. I use one of those panini toasters to warm mine.

 

[Melinda]

*awaits snackhead!*

 

[electrogirl]

how do you mean?

it;s hard to explain, you knwo how you could squish falafel and houmus between 2 bits of normal bread, and it would all stick together?

Well if you did it with 2 bits of pitta, it would still all fall out one side or the other because it's too cardboardy. you know what i mean?

 

[Vintage Paw]

it;s hard to explain, you knwo how you could squish falafel and houmus between 2 bits of normal bread, and it would all stick together?

Well if you did it with 2 bits of pitta, it would still all fall out one side or the other because it's too cardboardy. you know what i mean?

I know what you mean. No soakability. Absolutely.

 

[Sadken]

All the filling falls out down your top, over your face - it's all over the shop. They're a nightmare and history will judge electrogirl as a visionary leader in The War Against Pitta.

 

[oomfoofoo]

I only ever cut one side so the filling can't fall out, unless of course the filling is quite liquidy like cottage cheese or summut, then it'll make the pitta soggy and seep out anyway.

 

[internetstalker]

it;s hard to explain, you knwo how you could squish falafel and houmus between 2 bits of normal bread, and it would all stick together?

Well if you did it with 2 bits of pitta, it would still all fall out one side or the other because it's too cardboardy. you know what i mean?

no sorry, I don't know what you mean.

It works just like 2 bits of bread for me!"

 

[electrogirl]

no sorry, I don't know what you mean.

It works just like 2 bits of bread for me!"

why do you lie?

 

[internetstalker]

why do you lie?

I don't!

 

[electrogirl]

All the filling falls out down your top, over your face - it's all over the shop. They're a nightmare and history will judge electrogirl as a visionary leader in The War Against Pitta.

too right.

i'm not taking this cardboardy nightmare as a subtitute for bread anymore. i've had it.

today i ended up picking up bits of the falafel that had fallen out, and the lettuce, and kind of balancing them on the bits of cardboardy pitta that had crumbled away from the mainframe and then shoving it in my mouth hurriedly before they fell off again.

i don't ever want to have to put this much effort into lunch ever again. EVER.

 

[Vintage Paw]

You know them stand-up taco shells that are on telly at the moment? How on earth do you eat them? Surely it's a messy, tragic mess? They make it look like such fun, with all the spooning of fillings, the sprinkling of cheeses, and the grinning of small boys, but really, they are just waiting to watch you fail.

 

[electrogirl]

You know them stand-up taco shells that are on telly at the moment? How on earth do you eat them? Surely it's a messy, tragic mess? They make it look like such fun, with all the spooning of fillings, the sprinkling of cheeses, and the grinning of small boys, but really, they are just waiting to watch you fail.

oh man. don't get me started on tacos. they are in a league of their own. they make pittas look like a walk in the park.

 

[Vintage Paw]

oh man. don't get me started on tacos. they are in a league of their own. they make pittas look like a walk in the park.

I'm not even going to try to eat one. I couldn't take the fail.

 

[electrogirl]

I don't!

well i think this magical soaky pitta bread you talk off is fictitious.

i'm sorry i just do.

 

[electrogirl]

I'm not even going to try to eat one. I couldn't take the fail.

i've tried it.

eating has never made me so frustrated.

 

[Sadken]

You know them stand-up taco shells that are on telly at the moment? How on earth do you eat them? Surely it's a messy, tragic mess? They make it look like such fun, with all the spooning of fillings, the sprinkling of cheeses, and the grinning of small boys, but really, they are just waiting to watch you fail.

I had those the other day, they're actually really good and shouldn't be considered a target of TWAP.

 

[electrogirl]

I had those the other day, they're actually really good and shouldn't be considered a target of TWAP.

oh i don't know sadken, i think they could be part of a TWAP splinter group imo.

 

[internetstalker]

well i think this magical soaky pitta bread you talk off is fictitious.

i'm sorry i just do.

well when you split it in half it no longer is cardboardy!
plus the pitta I use (wholemeal from morrisons) isn't any way. stuff sticks to it like bread innit!

 

[cyberfairy]

I love pitta bread but why is it hotter than the sun when you take it out of the toaster? Toast behaves far better on the fingertips but makes a shitter lunch cos you can't fill it with as much crap and then feel healthy cos you had pitta bread (stuffed with 18 sorts of cheese)

 

[becki1701]

I've never tried eating tacos, I think I would fail miserably! I don't understand how you can put mince and veggies in a hard shell and then not spill it everywhere???

 

[Sadken]

oh i don't know sadken, i think they could be part of a TWAP splinter group imo.

Fuck's sake, this is exactly how I ended up getting booted out of Al Qaeda...