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Separating foods/sauces on plate...who does this?
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Ænima
10-05-2013
Oh great, now I have the opening few lines of basket case by greenday stuck in my head
collit
10-05-2013
I do this too, to a certain extent. I never have gravy on a roast dinner. It's not that I dislike gravy, but it just joins everything together.
My 8 year old son won't have gravy either, I assume it's for the same reason.
sweetpeanut
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by annette kurten:
“it`s like baby food. and ketchup, why do some people put it on stuff like roast dinners, it must taste bloody awful.”

I love ketchup on roast dinner also mint sauce mixed into the ketchup then pour the gravy over it
Miss XYZ
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by vosne:
“Oh Kev ”

Lol

Originally Posted by Ænima:
“Oh great, now I have the opening few lines of basket case by greenday stuck in my head ”

That's never a bad thing....
collit
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by sweetpeanut:
“I love ketchup on roast dinner also mint sauce mixed into the ketchup then pour the gravy over it ”

Good God!!!
Mallaha
10-05-2013
I used to insist on separate foodstuffs, but it doesn't bother me so much any more. Not sure why.

I still don't like gravy all over everything though, because I just don't like the taste of English gravy.
sweetpeanut
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by collit:
“Good God!!!”

I know But its the only meal I put anything on at all
sweetpeanut
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by Mallaha:
“I used to insist on separate foodstuffs, but it doesn't bother me so much any more. Not sure why.

I still don't like gravy all over everything though, because I just don't like the taste of English gravy.”

What is English gravy?
Welsh-lad
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by sweetpeanut:
“What is English gravy?”

I excpect they mean the type of gravy made with flour or cornflour to thicken it, and darkened with gravy browning.

They don't do this on the continent. In France they often serve 'jus' which is just the cooking juices of the meat (with added wine sometimes).
Watcher #1
10-05-2013
I'd separate different curries with the rice at the start because I like to taste each one on their own (especially if I'm trying a new recipe). After that, it gradually melds together.

I'm not a sequential eater, but one of my kids is - she'll eat all her meat, then all her potatoes, then all her carrots, then all her broccoli, for example. That weirds me out.

And some foods need to be mixed - haggis, tatties & neeps; mince & tatties; gravy & mash - actually gravy & pretty much anything.

I now apologise to all those I've made feel ill
woodbush
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by annette kurten:
“so you can taste the foods and they aren`t just a massive slop. some things are particularly revolting when mixed - tomato juice or beans mixed with runny yolk : puke: gravy mixed with mash. i feel sick as a dog now. /|\”

I have no prblem with either of those.

I had mash with my Lamb and gravy last night, lovely.
Mallaha
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by Welsh-lad:
“I excpect they mean the type of gravy made with flour or cornflour to thicken it, and darkened with gravy browning.

They don't do this on the continent. In France they often serve 'jus' which is just the cooking juices of the meat (with added wine sometimes).”

Yes, that's what I meant.

Originally Posted by Watcher #1:
“I'm not a sequential eater, but one of my kids is - she'll eat all her meat, then all her potatoes, then all her carrots, then all her broccoli, for example. That weirds me out.”

I used to do that.
The Wizard
10-05-2013
I don't know why but people who spray their chips in ketchup really irk me. It's so so uncouth. Put it on the side and dip it in but not shower the whole plate in the stuff. It just looks so uncivilized.

I have a mate who's a southerner and they don't believe in sauces on chips down south. Try waking into a chippy and asking for gravy, curry sauce or mushy peas and they look at you like you've lost the plot.
Miss XYZ
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by The Wizard:
“I don't know why but people who spray their chips in ketchup really irk me. It's so so uncouth. Put it on the side and dip it in but not shower the whole plate in the stuff. It just looks so uncivilized.

I have a mate who's a southerner and they don't believe in sauces on chips down south. Try waking into a chippy and asking for gravy, curry sauce or mushy peas and they look at you like you've lost the plot.”

I'm in the south, I like curry sauce with my chips and my OH likes gravy. We've never had any problems whatsoever getting them from a chippy down here.
trevgo
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by The Wizard:
“I don't know why but people who spray their chips in ketchup really irk me. It's so so uncouth. Put it on the side and dip it in but not shower the whole plate in the stuff. It just looks so uncivilized.”

I'm with you totally on that.

I think this slightly "autistic" thing about separation of sauces and the like is very common. I'm not that bad about it - certainly no problem with two curries mingling - but certain things I'm very, very particular about. Egg yolk can go nowhere near beans or tomatoes. Only ever eat ketchup with chips, and only a little. I know somebody who eats each component of a meal completely before moving onto the next, and in a clockwise direction. On the other hand, I have a friend who's a multi millionaire foodie who will smother stuff with mayo, ketchup, all the gloop he can. Makes me feel ill!
hopeless case
10-05-2013
Interesting read.

A few of you would benefit from those plastic compartmentalised plates. Save you a hell of a lot of anxiety.
sweetpeanut
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by The Wizard:
“I don't know why but people who spray their chips in ketchup really irk me. It's so so uncouth. Put it on the side and dip it in but not shower the whole plate in the stuff. It just looks so uncivilized.

I have a mate who's a southerner and they don't believe in sauces on chips down south. Try waking into a chippy and asking for gravy, curry sauce or mushy peas and they look at you like you've lost the plot
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What tosh. We are just as uncivilised and a northerner, Some of us do some of us dont just like everywhere else
sweetpeanut
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by Welsh-lad:
“I excpect they mean the type of gravy made with flour or cornflour to thicken it, and darkened with gravy browning.

They don't do this on the continent. In France they often serve 'jus' which is just the cooking juices of the meat (with added wine sometimes)
.”

I and most everyone I know makes it like that and always with a drop or more of wine. We do like to thicken it a little though
MrsWatermelon
10-05-2013
I used to eat everything on the plate separately. Even for dessert I wouldn't pour the custard on, I would eat it on its own. I'm much better now, although I still have the habit of saving the best bit until last
Ber
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by Miss XYZ:
“I'm in the south, I like curry sauce with my chips and my OH likes gravy. We've never had any problems whatsoever getting them from a chippy down here. ”

In our local chippy does gravy, curry sauce and mushy peas too!
Paul1511
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by The Wizard:
“I don't know why but people who spray their chips in ketchup really irk me. It's so so uncouth. Put it on the side and dip it in but not shower the whole plate in the stuff. It just looks so uncivilized.

I have a mate who's a southerner and they don't believe in sauces on chips down south. Try waking into a chippy and asking for gravy, curry sauce or mushy peas and they look at you like you've lost the plot.”

What an amusing insight. I never realised it was possible to have a civil and uncivil method of dispensing condiments.
Mallaha
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by Ber:
“In our local chippy does gravy, curry sauce and mushy peas too!”

Gravy on chips is a disgusting idea.

I live in the north now, and I've yet to find a chip shop that serves battered pineapple rings. I used to have them quite a lot in Northamptonshire.
sarahj1986
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by malpasc:
“I'm the same. Baked beans for example cannot touch anything else on the plate, gravy on a roast dinner has to go on the meat but not the potatoes or veg. Ketcup/mayo/brown sauce etc has to go WITH the food but not ON the food.

I absolutely cannot eat something from someone else's plate either!

Yes, I am a freak too ”

Originally Posted by Ben_Copland:
“Na, I'm the same with stuff off other people's plate's. I can be absolutely starving after finishing my meal but if someone offers me their left overs, I have to refuse, can't stomach it! I get a feeling that their saliva is on the food left over for some reason ”

Originally Posted by annette kurten:
“ditto. or have a bite of someone else`s chocolate bar or whatever and i can`t share a drink with anyone, it`s revolting.

if i have seconds of anything i have to have a clean plate and cutlery [which i scald off first].”

yeah I don't like eating off other peoples plate or them eating off mine. Last year in a pub I had a BBC chicken and chips with BBQ sauce, I was tucking in to it, my friend had a burger and chips then suddenly out of nowhere she decides to dunk a chip in my BBQ sauce, I was like WTF?! It really freaked me out!
chuckleberry
10-05-2013
I have a friend who has a son with Aspergers and she was told that her sons insistence on different food types not touching other food types on his plate was common to many people with Aspergers. Sometimes he has to have a row of separate small plates so that each food type can have its own plate.
chuckleberry
10-05-2013
Originally Posted by The Wizard:
“I have a mate who's a southerner and they don't believe in sauces on chips down south. Try walking into a chippy and asking for gravy, curry sauce or mushy peas and they look at you like you've lost the plot.”

I'm a foreigner but have lived in the South East for several years. I've heard of mushy peas but have never heard of gravy or curry sauce being served in a chippy. I learn something new everyday
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