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[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used to eat mustard and mayo sandwiches when on struggle street.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I used to eat just mayo or mustard pickle on a slice of bread.

Or tomato sauce and spam sandwiches if you had spam. A cousin of the baloney/devon sandwich

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My WWII grandmother passed on her appreciation of corned beef sandwiches to me. Even though I've mostly stopped eating meat I still feel like reaching for it in Aldi. My other gran gave me a taste for Fray Bentos pies, which are their own culinary abomination.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I used to love corned beef when I could eat it but I tried the tinned one from Aldi many years back and it wasn’t very good. A lot of gloopiness and connective tissue, not very tasty, kind of reminded me of how dog food looks and smells.

I’d eat it if I was starving (and able to digest meat) but it fell a bit below even my low standards :(

I wouldn’t be above one of the Frays pies though, they just look like tinned pot pies

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

They go really nice in the airfryer