What are you a snob about?

Heyho2

I do not like any parmesan apart from the Italian ones. I like parmigiano reggiano or grana padano. No others. They’re alllllll bad. Anything you won’t do budget on?

SatansWoman

Coffee

Tea

Milk

Bread

Pasta

Canned Tomatoes

Heyho2

SatansWoman

Yeah, I have a complicated relationship with groceries. Don’t buy cheap milk because of the farmers. Try to buy Australian tomatoes to support local. Love a really good sourdough, but my kid thinks wonderwhite is a special treat 😅

tomson

Everything…

Heyho2

tomson

Oooh, please do expand.

tomson

Heyho2

I was being silly, and didn’t read your whole post - didn’t see the won’t do budget part (my snobbery extends way beyond what we eat 😆 )

SatansWoman

Heyho2

As an Italian I am extremely fastidious and painful with food …. I wish I could enjoy Australian canned tomatoes but, i feel bad about it but it’s not the same, “Mutti” is the only brand I can eat.

CassandraNORI

Coffee. Parmesan - I can get behind Parmesan snobbery. Mullets.

Sabrina

Butter

Heyho2

Sabrina

We occasionally get a Tasmanian cultured butter. That cut into chunks on a hot cross bun… omg heaven.

Heyho2

tomson

Awwwww! Be a snob with me… share 😁

Dawnshade

Clothes to a degree. I just can’t get on board with Kmart clothes.

Heyho2

We got organic milk delivered in glass bottles when my kid was a baby. Think it was Elgar’s dairy? Something like that? Yuuuuuuummmmm.

AnnHiggins

lol, well, i live in in sydney inner west - so - apparently everything!

coffee

yes, powdered parmesan (reggiano or padano are what i use - wedges)

meat (only like it from a butcher)

powdered onion (just, no)

don’t get me started on French Onion Soup mix

wine (no your $5 Aldi wine isn’t nice. i will die on this hill)

holiday homes - if i can’t see or at least hear the ocean, then, why bother

probably heaps more. i’m a wanker 😀

Morrigan

Kids swearing. Not cute.

tomson

OK, You did insist…

Food - brand loyal, no no-name items, no Aldi shopping, no mince/pasta/rice

Clothes - no fast fashion

Speech - I can’t stand youse, wanna etc

I could go on, but probably shouldn’t

Heyho2

@tomson

Pretty sure I had ‘wanna’ in my response to you before I edited… phew! That was close 😁

tomson

Heyho2

Very close!

Jane-Jetson

I was thinking, “nothing”. I like sick cheese (the Parmesan that comes in the green tin); instant coffee (I’m in it for the caffeine not the taste); Aldi wine (look, let’s face it. I have no tastebuds left. I burned them all off with vindaloo); I say “haitch” and “youse” (though I prefer y’all these days. I find it very important to have a second-person-plural pronoun to distinguish from the singular) and when I’m not at work I cheerfully produce linking commas and ignore the Oxford; and my favourite bread is $3.20 a white sliced loaf from the bakery round the corner.

But then there’s dairy. I’m weird about milk. I like full-fat non-homogenised milk and will “settle” for Norco gold or that jersey cold-pressed By Cow stuff. With the big cream plug at the top. And I’m strange about butter. Margarine is a filthy word that will not be uttered in my house. Butter should be proper expensive weird stuff found in the expensive weird dairy section at Supabarn.

Edit: Oh yeah, and free-range eggs. None of that Pace Farms stuff, they own battery farms too!

PuddingPlease

Jane-Jetson

I can relate to all of that, I’m fully aware that when push comes to shove there are very few things I won’t substitute when our finances get tight. Margarine is probably one of the few places I will not go, I’d stop eating bread before eating it and I don’t think my kids have ever tasted the stuff. I will make a lot of sacrifices before I stop buying large tubs of lurpak and, even with the recent belt-tightening, we still get the milk with cream on top for the kids.

I also agree with the PP who talked about Italian tinned tomatoes. I feel bad about it but Australian ones always seem to be less creamy and sweet.

In terms of parmesan, I prefer pecorino (bonus points if it has pepper) because I don’t really like ‘heat’ in cheese. I don’t do washed rinds for the same reason. If I am buying parmesan I prefer the taste of the chunky Millel Australian one.

Luna

Cutlery (nothing worse than a cheap teaspoon in an fancy looking coffee shop)

Kids shoes. Sorry i dont buy kmart crap here.

Toilet paper. I just cant