How on earth can people enjoy this stuff? It’s vile.

Guy on the next desk has opened up a tupperware container of some veggie and chicken thing which would look nice except it’s smothered in some kind of vinegary dressing and the stench is really making me nauseous. It’s like someone’s spray painting or using an industrial adhesive, except way worse.

Ugh.

Real stuff is amazing. Quite sweet. The stuff we get in the UK is a poor comparison

It’s so acrid. Vom.

People like different stuff to you, who’d have thought that was possible 🙄

philistine, you’re dead to me… 😆

In another life, I handled the warehousing of some very very expensive wines that went to some well known resturants and hotels. I got chatting with one of the chefs at a well know london place once and made the comment that the wine was probably some of the most expesive items they had to buy.

“oh no” he said “balsamic vinegar, more expensive than anything, by a mile”

Some of the really expensive ones are about $1000 for a litre.

People like different stuff to you, who’d have thought that was possible

There’s plenty of stuff I don’t like but I can understand people eating. Like cauliflower for example. But this stuff is like paint stripper fumes. It’s not just ‘not to my taste’.

Freaks, all of you.

There is only one permissible vinegar….

It should only ever be used in this situation….

Anything else is an poncey, inedible middle class affectation that nobody actually likes. Like Hummous.

now that stuff is vile…

Vinegar in your guacamole? you’re just a wrong un Binnres

Out household gets through about a bottle a month, along with a bottle of decent olive oil. Join the Mediterranean brotherhood.

Vinegar in your guacamole?

That’s not Guacamole, that’s Manchester Caviar..

It’s not just ‘not to my taste’.

I think you’ll find it is.

I love the stuff, mix it with olive oil and dunk bread in it, noms!

The stuff we get in the UK is a poor comparison

I picked up a bottle of Balsamic when off-loading euros at the end of my last trip to Italy. Got home, same stuff in Lidl.

Strawberries and balsamic FTW

Perverts. Do you have no noses?

Recently bought Diet Balsamic Dressing in Tesco earlier this week, it manages to be both tasteless and taste horrible at the same time.

Balsamic vinegar on an avocado is the dogs danglies.

I’d rather eat a dogs danglies than that! 😯

What on earth is wrong with you people?!!

There is only one permissible vinegar….

[quote]It should only ever be used in this situation[/quote]

Get out.

Pickled onions, pickled eggs for starters.

Good balsamic is fantastic. The sweet syrupy stuff that’s always more than £20. Most supermarket U.K. stuff is as the OP described

i go to italy for work sometimes, i tend to fill a plate with balsamic, olive oil & salt, then just mop it up wi’ bread! amazing.

Some of the cheap balsamics I’ve had have been lovely.
All still from Modena.

About a quid from Aldi 🙂

Its why I hate the eating at the desk culture, gonna stink all afternoon

Lots of it does into my bruchetta recipe.

Cheap stuff does me fine for dribbling over roast veg, or steamed veg especially broccoli – Yum…yum, oe mix it with a nice olive oil for a salad dressing, I get through a 500ml bottle at least every fortnight.

Strawberries, Telicherry black pepper and balsamic vinegar, yum!

Expensive balsamic is nice as well but i don’t go over £10 for a bottle.

the wife does a wonderful beef stew with balsamic, so sweet and delicious 🙂

i go to italy for work sometimes, i tend to fill a plate with balsamic, olive oil & salt, then just mop it up wi’ bread! amazing.

I do the same but use a Greggs sausage roll instead of bread, amazing.

so sweet and delicious

I’d agree, she is 🙂

Its why I hate the eating at the desk culture, gonna stink all afternoon

Dining al desko is banned at our place. It’s not so bad if someone’s got a ham sandwich, but there always has to be some fin du cloche who turns up with microwaved cod or something and then the office smells like a mucky woman all afternoon.

Cougar, is your first name Mike?

Perverts. Do you have no noses?

After an afternoon of spectacularly musical bottom burping I can confirm mines is fully functional.

I do the same but use a Greggs sausage roll instead of bread, amazing.

What kind of animal are you? Theres only one thing a Greggs sausage roll should be dipped in

*Adds Gary_M’s name to zee list*

Strawberries
Strawberry flavour stuff…

urgh…. everyone who likes those = weird…

It’s not just ‘not to my taste’.

Like ^^^ said, it is just not to your taste, nothing else. It’s like me & cucumber, *borks* at the thought of eating that devils penis of a ‘food’

There is a massive difference between a £2 bottle and a £20 bottle. The nice vinegar is almost syrupy and the cheap stuff is like water. Simply not worth even bothering with the cheap stuff.

Not balsamic but recently developed a love of Worcestershire Sauce – can’t get enough of it.

Doesn’t sound like Balsamic if it’s stinks.

Real stuff is amazing. Quite sweet. The stuff we get in the UK is a poor comparison

Only if you but the wrong stuff.

Cougar, is your first name Mike?

I’m clearly missing a reference here.

There is a massive difference between a £2 bottle and a £20 bottle.

Yeah, about eighteen quid.

Balsamic is great. love it. Actually a kinda related question, i’ve been eating olives all week in majorca,, big handfuls along with breakfast lunch and dinner, they are so much better, where’s a good place to get real olives? supermarket stuff is rotten in comparison here. or do they just prepare hem differently/more fresh?

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Cougar, is your first name Mike?

I’m clearly missing a reference here.
No, its a genuine question. I presume not.
I’ve never heard anyone else use the phrase fin du cloche apart from a good mate in IT.
I swear you’re him, so many parallels, but clearly you’re not as you’re northern and he definitely isn’t.

Hah.

I’m not Mike, no. Sounds like he must be awesome though.