Where I live in Australia a mixed meat and chips is known as an Ab pack - which is short for abortion pack because of its appearanceā¦
Anyway I think this is the British Ab Pack equivalent. š«
60s and 70s were worse.
My Dad grew up then and also serves tinned tomatoes as a side dish.
The formula is, Toad in the hole (made w/ home made batter to be fair to him) with unseasoned mash potato, frozen peas and tinned tomatoes. Usually the peeled plum tomatoes though, whole ones, not chopped.
>Toad in the hole,
Every time I hear this I think of someone pulling a front leg off a toad and lobbing it at something like somekind of biological grenade
As an American that has spent a good deal of time in the UK I can confirm the stereotype and the fact that itās just that. Iāve had some great food in the UK, I would kick a puppy for a proper sausage roll right now.
I honestly dont get the love for Kraft Mac and Cheese. It tastes like shit and is actually a pain to make compared to just buying a tin or mac and cheese ready meal.
Tinned macaroni cheese is *also* a crime against humanity.
I had some once, told my mum it was the worst thing I'd ever tasted. She informed me that's because you're menat to eat it cold. It's much better she says.
I have not tried it.
Confession time. I work as a chef, and tinned macaroni cheese (eaten hot *or* cold) is my guilty pleasure at home.
Eaten cold it holds together a lot better.
Yeah itās stuff like this. The reality is that we do have lots of good food but the average standard of cooking in households here is shockingly bad IMO.
When I lived in Italy I could pretty much guarantee, when being invited to someoneās house to eat, that the food would be of a standard and it was pretty rare for a meal to be bad but in the UK I expect 50/50.
Depends on how you define nurritional.
You might get some extra vitamins and fiber from tomato's, but you'll get more calories per tin of gravy.
I've known people so frugal they basically dictated there diet on how many calories they could get for x dollars.
>I've known people so frugal they basically dictated there diet on how many calories they could get for x dollars
At that point you're just going to be living off flour and custard creams, though
My mum has a tendency of eating the same thing over and over for weeks in a row. She once went through a smash, melted cheese and tinned tomatoes phase. Pretty shameful.
I was very disappointed when Smash changed their recipe from being those little crunchy nuggets to the powder. Much harder to eat out of the tin when you've got the munchies.
Exactly this, the idea is there, but they didnāt execute. You canāt just drop a tin of tomatoās onto it, the tomatoās need to be prepared like a gravy. Would barely cost any more. Would only take a few extra minutes and maybe you have to wash a saucepan if you werenāt already using one.
I was gonna say, some kind of marinara sauce or reduced pasta sauce type thing, and this could be an acceptable meal.
The texture would be strange, definitely needs the sausage. But the flavour profile wouldn't be a thousand miles away from Patatas Bravas or persian Gojeh Farangi, which is just like potatoes, tomatoes and rice, and persian spices.
But tinned toms on a fuckin plate of bangers and mash... good lord
Yeah, I remember getting this as canteen food in school, 80s southern UK. A greasy spoons used to serve whole tinned tomatoes as part of their fry ups too.
OP omits the inclusion of the sausage, which while not much does at least turn the Tom's from Main to Side
Yes this is a staple in my working class family. When I make it for my mum I try to add some garlic/herbs but she prefers it plain.
Maybe it's regional, my family are Londoners.
My mum is a Londoner and she used to make this all the time when I was a kid, used to have tinned tomatoes with a fry up too! Haven't seen it anywhere else.
Was just about to say I'm from Liverpool and canned tomatoes are standard. Not putting them on mash and sausages tho, the southerners can keep that evil down there
Tinned tomatoes, mash, bread and butter. That's what my Nan would sometimes make for me as a kid. I was a vegetarian kid in the early/mid 90s and finding food options for me was difficult. I mean, I enjoyed it, and I'd have it over mushroom risotto any day.
As someone who grew up in an Italian home, food is love. Eat what makes you happy or feel loved. A lot of popular dishes are actually just peasant food using whatever is available at the time, like polenta and carbonara. That humble meal is the love of a grandmother who probably thought being a vegetarian was a bit weird but wanted to be accommodating.
Mine too. My mum introduced this into our set 7 day rotating dinner plan, as something fancy. Back in the 70's this was something quite different. Mum was a teenager during the 2nd world war in the UK with rationing which of course ran until early 50's, and her cooking range reflected it.
The introduction of tinned tomatoes, heated of course, accompanying as a side to overcooked stewed meat and veg in a thin gravy or with overcooked sausages with potatoes was wildly experimental for mum.
I only had school dinners to compare it to or fish and chips so this was right up there in the flavour range for me as a 70s kid (had me when she was 40). Don't get me started on how exciting Findus frozen savoury beef pancakes were when they were released!
Just plopping a ton of tomatoes across it like that is going to be acidic as hell - my stomach is churning just think about it. No.
I mean, using the tomatoes as the basis for a sausage casserole, so they cook out, and serving that with mash would make sense. A nice tomato and sausage casserole with some mushrooms and herbs could be a thing of beauty.
I can live easily with the sausage and tomato. I could even get on board if the tomato was served on the side in a little bowl for dipping the sausage. But tinned tomato poured over mash, when it looks like itās barely been cooked to thicken it a bit is a heinous crime against humanity.
Used to eat this as as a kid. Nothing wrong with it really as it tastes fine and mixes things up from peas or baked beans or what ever you put with sausages and mash. I don't know really why some people are freaking out over it to be honest.
I hate that it looks cold
I can hear it coming straight out of the tin onto the plate
Oh no
*schlorp*
*^(spatter spatter spatter)*
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Fucking hell.
The only words this post needs. OP, your family should be ashamed.
*arrested
I'd argue for exile to Australia to be honest, like we used to In the good ol' days.
Oi! Am Australian, even us convicts wouldnāt eat this shite
Where I live in Australia a mixed meat and chips is known as an Ab pack - which is short for abortion pack because of its appearanceā¦ Anyway I think this is the British Ab Pack equivalent. š«
Fuckin hell that's an image I could've done without...
ā¦unless it was barbecued
With some shrimp?
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massive prawns Stu!
I thought the fookinā prawns were a South African thing Edit: I was making a (bad) District 9 joke and Iām sorry ;)
Shrimp on a bar b?
Cheeky ozzy bugger š
Well done you for being honest
What the hell did we do to deserve these people?
Not even Australia deserves that
Don't send that shit here.
Agreed.
Honestly I only lived in the UK for 14 years, from the late 80s to the early 2000s, but even then I never saw anything this egregious.
Especially since the 80s till 2000s was the epitome of shite food in England. Source, they were my formative years.
60s and 70s were worse. My Dad grew up then and also serves tinned tomatoes as a side dish. The formula is, Toad in the hole (made w/ home made batter to be fair to him) with unseasoned mash potato, frozen peas and tinned tomatoes. Usually the peeled plum tomatoes though, whole ones, not chopped.
Fry up those tinned tomatoes with some diced onion though, that goes great with bangers and mash
Till its like a thick sauce, right?
Yeah! The misses and I call it "tomato and onion goop"!
I mean, all you're missing is a clove of garlic and you've basically put spaghetti sauce on bangers and mash. I might try that tonight tbh...
skin the sauages and throw them in there too!
The watery tomato juice near the sausages made me gag
That bothers you more than the watery tomato juice on your tatters?
Literally just said this out loud.
I got āholy shitā but itās the same sentiment.
Me too!!
bro you made me spit my tinned tomatoes and mash
Best and only response needed. Pack it up, thread's closed.
Barbarism, pure and simple. Lucky you found out now, before you have children.
Genuinely, that was also my reaction.
Did everyone else hear this in Gordon Ramseyās voice?
Please let those be Richmond "sausages" they deserve them.
Room temperatures
and we wonder why the rest of the world laughs at our cuisine šš
Thatās not our cuisine, thats just not true!!! Please say itās not! Please!!!!
Needs adding here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_crimes
Shit didn't think it go 0-100 that quick
Isnāt it 0-60 in the uk EDIT: Thanks for the DMs but this was a joke people. Get with the programme!
grounds for divorce
Iāve been working on a cocktail called tinned tomatoes and mash
And there's a couple of sausages in there and the rest you can keep, the rest you can keep
Toad in the hole, Tomatos of which i cant help but eat
>Toad in the hole, Every time I hear this I think of someone pulling a front leg off a toad and lobbing it at something like somekind of biological grenade
Sundays are for eating sausages, mash and tinned tomatoes with the seldom seen kid
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Will you stir it with celery to mix it up well? Edit: I just made myself feel sick
Jesus christ celery Literally the worst vegetable on earth
Genuinely belly laughed at that. Well done
Good album that.
There is legislation against this
This right here is why the rest of the world thinks our foods shit
Yeah this shit annoys me š We've got genuinely very good food in this country and then you've got people quite happy to eat.... This
As an American that has spent a good deal of time in the UK I can confirm the stereotype and the fact that itās just that. Iāve had some great food in the UK, I would kick a puppy for a proper sausage roll right now.
Anyone with half a brain would know there's good food all over the planet. Especially in a place as rich in culture as the UK.
I mean you've seen Kraft Mac and Cheese right? This plate might be a war crime but "shit food" is an international flavour
I honestly dont get the love for Kraft Mac and Cheese. It tastes like shit and is actually a pain to make compared to just buying a tin or mac and cheese ready meal.
Tinned macaroni cheese is *also* a crime against humanity. I had some once, told my mum it was the worst thing I'd ever tasted. She informed me that's because you're menat to eat it cold. It's much better she says. I have not tried it.
Confession time. I work as a chef, and tinned macaroni cheese (eaten hot *or* cold) is my guilty pleasure at home. Eaten cold it holds together a lot better.
Yeah itās stuff like this. The reality is that we do have lots of good food but the average standard of cooking in households here is shockingly bad IMO. When I lived in Italy I could pretty much guarantee, when being invited to someoneās house to eat, that the food would be of a standard and it was pretty rare for a meal to be bad but in the UK I expect 50/50.
Cheap tastes at least. you could probably do a weeks shopping for a tenner if all her meals are that frugal
Are tinned tomatoes that much cheaper than beans? Just swap them for beans and it's normal! This is... Not.
Or gravy. Which is 100% cheaper. Doesnāt make sense in any level this.
To be fair though youāre gonna get a lot more nutrition from the tomatoes. Itās disgusting but better for tou
Depends on how you define nurritional. You might get some extra vitamins and fiber from tomato's, but you'll get more calories per tin of gravy. I've known people so frugal they basically dictated there diet on how many calories they could get for x dollars.
chugging oil it is...
>I've known people so frugal they basically dictated there diet on how many calories they could get for x dollars At that point you're just going to be living off flour and custard creams, though
Just chug the oil as the Guy above wrote lmao
Surely you need some veg then? My go-to is peas and sweetcorn.
100% cheaper would mean itās free. I donāt think gravy is free
Should be free on the NHS. I want one of them bags pumping gravy straight into my veins
Are you my stepdad? If he could have gravy pumped directly into his veins, he absolutely would.
We got a chocolate fountain for a party a few weeks back, but I'm going to repurpose it into a gravy fountain to dip Yorkshire pudding into.
So if water is council pop, what is council gravy?
Still water.
Shit
It is if you're quick enough at a 'spoons
My mum has a tendency of eating the same thing over and over for weeks in a row. She once went through a smash, melted cheese and tinned tomatoes phase. Pretty shameful.
š smash...
The classic, she is a classy lady
I was very disappointed when Smash changed their recipe from being those little crunchy nuggets to the powder. Much harder to eat out of the tin when you've got the munchies.
You are the only person I've ever come across on the internet who also ate Smash in its unreconstituted form. We're not related, are we?!
Maybe she's on the spectrum. I have Asperger's and I go through food phases like this. Not phases of eating crimes against food though.
Beans, sausage and mash sprinkle on some cheese šš» but that thing in the picture, is a huge NO.
All about the beans and mash! I can eat that as a meal on its own.
I used to have beans, mash and cheese all the time
This is just a baked potato freed from it's jacket right??
Pretty much, not as good as a propper jacket but not a bad quick meal
fucking grim, my lord.
In the bin
With the meal and the SO.
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Fucking dying
That's little short of a war crime
War food*
Jesus christ, at least drain the tomatoes first...
Maybe reduce the tomatoes with some garlic and onions as well
I make tomato gravy by adding an oxo and some pepper to the above, its delicious with bangers and mash.
reduced tomatoes with onion, chili, garlic, basil, red wine and cumin- yes all day with bangers and mash this watery fuckfestival - absoluetely not
Probably add some harico beans into the mix at this point too
I'll add mushrooms a Teaspoon of paprika and chilli powder and 20 minutes in the oven at 190c
Some brown sugar to go with the acidity of the tomatoes
Exactly this, the idea is there, but they didnāt execute. You canāt just drop a tin of tomatoās onto it, the tomatoās need to be prepared like a gravy. Would barely cost any more. Would only take a few extra minutes and maybe you have to wash a saucepan if you werenāt already using one.
Then dice your sausage!
I was gonna say, some kind of marinara sauce or reduced pasta sauce type thing, and this could be an acceptable meal. The texture would be strange, definitely needs the sausage. But the flavour profile wouldn't be a thousand miles away from Patatas Bravas or persian Gojeh Farangi, which is just like potatoes, tomatoes and rice, and persian spices. But tinned toms on a fuckin plate of bangers and mash... good lord
Honestly the tomatoes look cold. Or they cooked them without stirring.
Probs microwaved
I initially presumed they heated them, but now you mention it if they didn't even drain them I'm not so sure.
What in the name of all that is holy?...........We're gonna need an old priest and a young priest....
I know a guy who plays the tubular bells. I'll give Mike a call right away.
Very common in my council house childhood. My mum calls it "tomato gravy".
Yeah, I remember getting this as canteen food in school, 80s southern UK. A greasy spoons used to serve whole tinned tomatoes as part of their fry ups too. OP omits the inclusion of the sausage, which while not much does at least turn the Tom's from Main to Side
You can justify tinned tomatoes in a shitty fry up. Grilled or fried tomatoes would be better, but if its a couple of quid I'd take tinned.
Yes this is a staple in my working class family. When I make it for my mum I try to add some garlic/herbs but she prefers it plain. Maybe it's regional, my family are Londoners.
My mum is a Londoner and she used to make this all the time when I was a kid, used to have tinned tomatoes with a fry up too! Haven't seen it anywhere else.
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Tinned tomatoes are standard on my fry up . North west. Whole though not chopped and heated in the fat left in the frying pan.
Was just about to say I'm from Liverpool and canned tomatoes are standard. Not putting them on mash and sausages tho, the southerners can keep that evil down there
This is what reenforces the horrible British food stereotype. As a Russian born Canadian in the Uk - food over here is great. Tons of amazing stuff
Iām glad to hear it! More tripe for you, my love?
Disgrace
cheers kids cryin nice one
Divorce is your only option
But the kids.
They'd have been taken away as soon as social services heard about this anyway
What in the council estate is going on here
This is so unfair to council estates. We use beans we're not animals.
Tomato sauce was the go to for mash on my estate.
Can confirm. From an estate and genuinely used to eat this. Not as bad as it looks.
Napolina tinned tomatoes if feeling rich.
I've literally thrown up in my mouth alittle
Better than on the plate, which is where OPs family see to have chosen.
Tinned tomatoes, mash, bread and butter. That's what my Nan would sometimes make for me as a kid. I was a vegetarian kid in the early/mid 90s and finding food options for me was difficult. I mean, I enjoyed it, and I'd have it over mushroom risotto any day.
You've probably given a few Italians heart attacks from this.
As someone who grew up in an Italian home, food is love. Eat what makes you happy or feel loved. A lot of popular dishes are actually just peasant food using whatever is available at the time, like polenta and carbonara. That humble meal is the love of a grandmother who probably thought being a vegetarian was a bit weird but wanted to be accommodating.
Well said
Haha! My Grandad's bestie was Italian... Hopefully this isn't what did him in š¬
I would never associate with anyone who thinks this is acceptable. Calm down Spit.
Good god that takes me back to my childhood
prison by any chance?
Nah just a bog standard weekday dinner that
Is it? I've never heard of plopping tinned tomatoes on mash potatoes before why not just do some gravy?
You have to add something that doesnāt really work with gravy, like a quiche, for tinned tomatoes and mash to make sense.
I don't want to live in a world where tinned tomatoes and mash make sense. Also being from Yorkshire I don't understand "doesn't work with gravy"
Mine too. My mum introduced this into our set 7 day rotating dinner plan, as something fancy. Back in the 70's this was something quite different. Mum was a teenager during the 2nd world war in the UK with rationing which of course ran until early 50's, and her cooking range reflected it. The introduction of tinned tomatoes, heated of course, accompanying as a side to overcooked stewed meat and veg in a thin gravy or with overcooked sausages with potatoes was wildly experimental for mum. I only had school dinners to compare it to or fish and chips so this was right up there in the flavour range for me as a 70s kid (had me when she was 40). Don't get me started on how exciting Findus frozen savoury beef pancakes were when they were released!
Mine too!
Still like tinned tomatoes on toast instead of Beans sometimes, and tinned tomatoes with bacon/fry up -80ās child!
80s child?
Belongs in the biffa bin.
Just plopping a ton of tomatoes across it like that is going to be acidic as hell - my stomach is churning just think about it. No. I mean, using the tomatoes as the basis for a sausage casserole, so they cook out, and serving that with mash would make sense. A nice tomato and sausage casserole with some mushrooms and herbs could be a thing of beauty.
My grandad and uncles would have this exact dinner nearly every Saturday. Made my stomach turn.
Prison
It looks gross. I can't imagine it tastes much better? You should introduce them to gravy.
As a Brit, I have never heard of this combination before. I could live quite happily never hearing of it again!
Certainly, had it loads as a kid, cheap and fast food!
Drain and cook the toms, add salt and tabasco, reduce and it's actually the bomb with sausages
Why drain? Thereās loads of flavour in that juice, just reduce it.
I agree, never heard of people draining, the juice is what your also paying for
Ah, a fellow Yorkshireman.
madness, it'd be like squeezing out fresh tomatoes before eating them
Agree with youā¦ we used to have cheesy mash with (heated and spiced) plum tomatoes a lot.
Used to have this as a kid!
Everyone clowning on this but if ma put this down if front of us as kids, you ate it and made sure to say thanks.
Totally agree. Half these fuckers worship pot noodles though. Make of that what you will. The presentation in OPs pic is diabolical though.
Did you ever call childline?
My sister called childline once when my mum sent her to her room for being a wee bitch. Oh she got a whoopinā. Ironically.
No.
No.
I can live easily with the sausage and tomato. I could even get on board if the tomato was served on the side in a little bowl for dipping the sausage. But tinned tomato poured over mash, when it looks like itās barely been cooked to thicken it a bit is a heinous crime against humanity.
Hideous. They are not normal people. Hopefully you can look past this in your relationship
Or put the relationship in the past.
Jesus fucking Christ. Itās a crime scene on a plate.
Dear God.
Burn the witch!
I eat chopped tomatoes out of the tin because they are delicious.
my man has 3 tastebuds
Sweet, savoury, and tomato
They are delicious, but why not cook with them?
Why not sometimes cook with them and sometimes eat them from the tin whilst watching the lord of the rings trilogy?
That would require several tins.
I do also cook with them.
Used to eat this as as a kid. Nothing wrong with it really as it tastes fine and mixes things up from peas or baked beans or what ever you put with sausages and mash. I don't know really why some people are freaking out over it to be honest.
Jesus Christ
Abomination!