Style My Secret Shame

[Crimson Azure]

Well what is it? Don't need to hear them all at once but we all have a habit, food, song, TV show, movie, quaint OCD/tic thing and anything else that we don't/didn't like to admit.

My first one I'll admit to is Spam. It used to be a hankering I would cave to once a year, spam and eggs for dinner. Now I have embraced said shame I probably have it once a month. Spam, eggs and fried tomato on toast is a thing of beauty.

Our patron saint:

 

[Proper Gander]

I like to think I am a bit of a foodie and I love cooking and have an amazing coffee machine and the best stocked pantry in the universe. But there are a bunch of food things that should be beneath me but I adore them:

• cocktail frankfurts
• Kraft peanut butter (not that bleh organic freshly pounded no additives stuff)
• Kraft cheese singles (I avoid these because of the crappy amount of plastic in the packaging, but also because if I had that stuff around the house I would smash it in two hours)
• twiggy sticks
• Big Mac special sauce (not the burger, that’s terrible, but I love the sauce)

I’m very ashamed of this list

 

[Crimson Azure]

I like to think I am a bit of a foodie and I love cooking and have an amazing coffee machine and the best stocked pantry in the universe. But there are a bunch of food things that should be beneath me but I adore them:

• Kraft cheese singles

You stole my second secret shame!

All my friends say I’m a foodie too because I am extremely fussy about a lot of things. One friend calls me an enigma as he can’t get that I make a lot of stuff from scratch but love spam and Kraft singles.

 

[Bluelegs]

I am very susceptible to clickbait.

I'll see one of those insane Daily Mail headlines like "King Charles tells Kier Starmer to nuke Ireland" and I won't believe it but I'll be so dumbfounded as to how they can justify writing such a blatant lie that I need to see the mental gymnastics in action.

Usually what happens is they fill 99% of the article with basic facts letting you know that King Charles is the current monarch and head of state of the UK and Kier Starmer is the prime minister and Ireland is another country within the archipelago that makes up the British Isles. By this point I'm so annoyed that I forget why I even clicked in the first place and exit the article.

 

[Proper Gander]

My favourite TV show ever is a kids show called Press Gang which I rewatch regularly.

I also have DVDs of the complete Degrassi Junior High

 

[Proper Gander]

Oxo cubes

 

[Proper Gander]

Also I use a bit of tandoori food colour when I make tandoori chicken

 

[Crimson Azure]

Cheese on toast with Kraft singles. My secret shame is I love when the cheese turns black under the grill.

 

[Proper Gander]

Cheese on toast with Kraft singles. My secret shame is I love when the cheese turns black under the grill.

That’s the best.

 

[Proper Gander]

He Crimson Azure !

I made a whole embarrassing and shameful breakfast just now! This is Gander/McDonalds Bacon and Egg McMuffin.

I confess I upgrade a few ingredients and cooking methods, I don’t buy cage eggs for example and prefer streaky bacon rather than the circle of loin bacon. Also I fry the muffins in some butter to get a tiny bit of toasting, and actually fry the bacon - I get the impression Maccas just heat the bacon with rays or something.

But the two shameful requirements that can’t be replaced are crap home brand muffins and cheese single - and the only thing nicer than a plastic cheese single is one died orange American-style.

 

[Proper Gander]

I should point out that I haven’t made a nice hollandaise sauce there - it’s a decent attempt at a weird McDonalds sauce that never made it to Australia called breakfast sauce. I became addicted to it when I lived there in the 90s. It’s basically crap mayo, lemon juice, liquid smoke and dried dill with some table salt.

I adore it and have tested all manner of ways to recreate it. I got partner PG to taste test it as I went. When it got to the point where he said it was revolting, I knew I had a winner.

 

[Crimson Azure]

He Crimson Azure !

I made a whole embarrassing and shameful breakfast just now! This is Gander/McDonalds Bacon and Egg McMuffin.

I confess I upgrade a few ingredients and cooking methods, I don’t buy cage eggs for example and prefer streaky bacon rather than the circle of loin bacon. Also I fry the muffins in some butter to get a tiny bit of toasting, and actually fry the bacon - I get the impression Maccas just heat the bacon with rays or something.

But the two shameful requirements that can’t be replaced are crap home brand muffins and cheese single - and the only thing nicer than a plastic cheese single is one died orange American-style.

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That looks amazing! Yes orange cheese is a thing of beauty.

I'm planning some istra bacon with eggs this morning. It's specifically named on every restaurant menu in Daylesford and Hepburn but was really good so I brought some home. It's a smallgoods producer in the area.

 

[Crimson Azure]

I should point out that I haven’t made a nice hollandaise sauce there - it’s a decent attempt of a weird McDonalds sauce that never made it to Australia called breakfast sauce. I became addicted to it when I lived there in the 90s. It’s basically crap mayo, lemon juice, liquid smoke and dried dill with some table salt.

I adore it and have tested all manner of ways to recreate it. I got partner PG to taste test it as I went. When it got to the point where he said it was revolting, I knew I had a winner.

Lol, I was thinking that was hollandaise. My shame is if I ever get a bacon egg muffin from maccas I have to put a hash brown and ketchup in it. Never put it or tomato sauce with any egg/bacon combo apart from this.

 

[Proper Gander]

That looks amazing! Yes orange cheese is a thing of beauty.

I'm planning some istra bacon with eggs this morning. It's specifically named on every restaurant menu in Daylesford and Hepburn but was really good so I brought some home. It's a smallgoods producer in the area.

Istra bacon is nice. I think I found it in Daylesford. I quite like travelling there, or heading south to the Otways, but being a lazy, strolling type of person I run out of ideas of what to do pretty fast and always emerge with vaccum-sealed bacon, weird goats cheese and small alpaca toys for the cats to carry around.

 

[Proper Gander]

Lol, I was thinking that was hollandaise. My shame is if I ever get a bacon egg muffin from maccas I have to put a hash brown and ketchup in it. Never put it or tomato sauce with any egg/bacon combo apart from this.

I stick in sauce when I buy a McMuffin

 

[PerfectFooty]

I always cry at the end of the first pokemon movie

 

[Crimson Azure]

I always cry at the end of the first pokemon movie

And that my friends is why this thread exists.

 

[Crimson Azure]

I often like tinned vegetables over snap frozen or even some fresh.

Tinned green beans and peas at the front of this queue.

 

[Proper Gander]

I reckon I haven’t seen more than 2 simpsons episodes in full. And not a single Seinfeld

 

[Crimson Azure]

I reckon I haven’t seen more than 2 simpsons episodes in full. And not a single Seinfeld

Perma ban ASAP!

Please give them a go. the two shows I quote more than any other. Maybe Blackadder too.

 

[Headless]

I played a game of werewolf and did really well. I nearly won!

 

[Bluelegs]

I reckon I haven’t seen more than 2 simpsons episodes in full. And not a single Seinfeld

If you want to experience life as an Australian kid growing up in the 90s you should start binging it from season 2 onwards starting at 6pm every weeknight, then watch an episode of Neighbours then continue watching the simpsons until 10pm.

Then stop watching the show altogether somewhere around season 11

 

[Bluelegs]

If you want to experience life as an Australian kid growing up in the 90s you should start binging it from season 2 onwards starting at 6pm every weeknight, then watch an episode of Neighbours then continue watching the simpsons until 10pm.

Then stop watching the show altogether somewhere around season 11

Oh and somewhere during the run you should replace the Simpsons with two straight weeks of back to back news footage of 9/11

 

[Crimson Azure]

Robertio I think you'll like this thread.

 

[Robertio]

Robertio I think you'll like this thread.

Tell Headless i won two games of Werewolf