What brings out your inner food snob?

--Cheap/industrial cheese....like green can Parmesan and pregrated mild cheddar (coated in celllulose & mold-inhibitors)
--American style soft sandwich bread....Bunny/Evangeline Maid/Sunbeam is just VILE. Would rather go without than eat it.
--Goopy seafood pastas loaded with processed cheese. No, thank you, I don't want any mushy crawfish fettucini made with Velveeta.
--Crap chocolate in fancy wrappings. Bad chocolate is still bad chocolate, even if it is European and in a designer tin.

for me, it's usually just ignorant people talking about others likes, dislikes and preferences..

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Ole Geauxt

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Always the voice of peace and love.

to you, OG.

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Using Italian dressing for anything other than salad

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Stupid. It's also good on sandwiches and as a grilling marinade for chicken.

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Marinating quality steaks

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Is a very useful tool when using lower grade meat, and is excellent for flank steak. Not everyone is using prime aged kobe beef.

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Using Cream of ________ soup in a recipe

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Cream of mushroom soup is excellent for many crock-pot meals and baked dishes.

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Cooking meats on the grill wrapped in foil the entire time.

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wrapping meats in foil on a smoker has its place, but I agree in that it should never be done for the entire time it's cooking.

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Meatloaf burgers

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Can be good. Different strokes for different folks. I generally don't prefer them, but I had a "meatloaf" burger yesterday that really hit the spot.

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What brings out your food snob?

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red jambalaya
seafood in a jambalaya
sour cream on mexican food
too much mayo and/or not enough seafood on a po'boy
not seasoning a hamburger patty
cooking MY steak to well done (I don't have a problem with other people getting steaks at well done as long as mine is no more than a medium)
american cheese
gooey cheese sauce
raw onions instead of cooked

Nothing. But my food snob alarm goes off about every third thread I read here.

I'll eat recipes with cream of ___ soup all day and will 99.9% of the time enjoy it. I'll eat frozen pizzas with no care. I'll eat cheez-wiz on a cracker and not even blink an eye. I even like the gum in those old baseball card packs.

But if some a-hole gives me a knock-off brand Oreo, we are fighting.

I have to draw the line somewhere.

None really. Give me a cold beer and hot sauce with anything and I'll eat it.

I don't have a inner food snob

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red jambalaya
seafood in a jambalaya
sour cream on mexican food

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I couldn't imagine it any other way. I can't remember the last time my Jambalaya wasn't red or had shrimp in it.