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Over on Robyn's Food Snobbery thread F19585?thread=5048652 I posted a link to the White Trash Cookbook (yeah I know, but there was already thead drift going on...)

http://whitetrashcookbook.com/category/uncategorized/

Afterwards I started wondering if inside every food snob there also lurks a food philistine with a shameful secret desire.

So, what do you eat only when you think nobody is watching?


azahar

Fried egg sandwiches with HP sauce.

Pringles. I know it's a drity, shameful habit but I just can't quit.

Blätterkrokant - a kind of German brittle toffee with hazelnuts.

I'll eat it normally - but when nobody's watching, I peel off the chocolate with my teeth and then the brittle layers one by one

And of course nobody must know about my eating-frozen-peas-and-corn-straight-from-the-bag habit

Prersonally, either a Miss Millies' megabite, a burger king double whopper with cheese and bacon or my current favourite:

Belgian chocolate truffle cheesecake with a dark choc ganache topping...

Oh, and I LOVE cheap buffet food! Those horrible breaded chicken drumsticks are just so delicious!

I also adore, on the odd occasion, a bit of home-made chocolate dessert. A spoonful (or two...) of soft butter or marge, some cocoa, some sugar, stir in properly (and adjust the ratios to suit), eat slowly in front of the telly... The crunchy bits of sugar are so good with the rich buttery chocolate...

One of those savoury things they sell in Greggs - the puff pastry folded over a slice of streaky bacon and covered with cheese....I always regret it afterwards though. Could be worse, my Dad used to eat sugar sandwiches

Mmmmm... nutella sandwich. And doritos and salsa (best in front of a bad horror movie).

Scotch eggs, every time.

Mmmmm... fried egg sandwiches with HP sauce.

I also love Doritos, and of course Orville Redenbacher's

Probably the one food item that grosses me out the most (but that I love anyhow) is chip butties made with buttered white bread, the chips sprinkled with malt vinegar. Luckily they don't have those here in Spain, and they're never the same when you make them at home (believe me, I've tried).

I was having a look through the White Trash Cookbook and came across a recipe that my mother used to make when we were kids - we loved it!

http://whitetrashcookbook.com/2007/07/16/corn-fritters/

I've never had a scotch egg. What's gross and shameful about them?


az

What's not!? Deep fried sausagemeat, breadcrumbs and an egg... YUM!

pork pies

I'm picky with pork pies... Gotta have jelly!

That'll be the snob in you showing, Robyn.

az

Ah yes.

And Pork Farms ones are nasty.

I like theo nes from the farmer's market. Jelly and lumps opf actual pork meat instead of that weird chump you get in the 'service station' ones...

Years ago, when my wife and I were just married, we were broke. Seriously broke. The only money we got was from me labouring on a farm and the fortnightly craft fairs where we sold stuff we made. The craft fair money was our little luxury so we would spoil ourselves by buying a small pork pie each, a packet of crisps and a bottle of cola which we would eat on the way home.

We still occasionally talk about "spoiling ourselves" with pork pies & crisps.

HP sauce

But I'll take the chip butties, and "traditional" British sausages.

In cold weather I sometimes get the craving for chocolate fudge cake and similar delicacies.

Noggin

Oooh - chip butties! And bacon & egg butties!

(Or when REALLY cheesed off battered sausage and chips from the chippie with tomato sauce)

Oo. There's these really tangy cheese puff thingys

Unfortunately, they are loaded with MSG, which always makes my sinuses swell

Fortunately, the village food store rarely stocks them..

Are those the cheesey puff things that send kids doolally?

Has to be MnS pork pies