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From: Mike Cawood, HND BIT on 23 Feb 2007 10:57 "Leslie" <science.fiction(a)ukonline.co.uk> wrote in message news:evidnaFsrJZHBkDYnZ2dnUVZ8tqqnZ2d(a)pipex.net... > car park > an immaculate Triumph Acclaim it was in pristine red and the interior in > brown > > I was under the impression that they had all rotted away > > ........................Leslie > From time to time there's an immaculate Ford Anglia 105E type in my local Asda car park. Mike.
From: Brimstone on 23 Feb 2007 10:59 Huge wrote: > On 2007-02-23, conkersack(a)yahoo.com <conkersack(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> I'm not afraid of being a food snob at all. Thinking about it, my >> idea of what most people buy at the supermarket probably bears no >> relationship to what 'they' actually buy. > > I am frequently appalled by the contents of other people's trollies > on the rare occasion I'm in a supermarket these days. (SWMBO does the > shopping, on account of being retired.) It seems to consist mostly > of brightly coloured sugar, salt and fat moulded into the shape of > food. > > Makes me wonder who watches all the food programmes on the TV. It's probably a case of those that can do, those that can't watch and dribble (rather than drool).
From: Steve Firth on 23 Feb 2007 11:07 On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:15:31 -0000, Conor wrote: > In article <th856i2gxhr1$.xpjacjiidvhg.dlg(a)40tude.net>, Steve Firth > says... > >> >> Asda do well on this, the milk they offer at their stores in Hampshire >> comes from ... Hampshire. They identify which farm supplied the Asda >> branded milk at each store. >> > That'll be a good trick. I'd love to know how they manage to do that. Because the farms they use have their own dairies. Still not as good as the system in Italy where we buy milk at the farm gate.
From: Dave Plowman (News) on 23 Feb 2007 12:34 In article <th856i2gxhr1$.xpjacjiidvhg.dlg(a)40tude.net>, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > Ah. But I've never seen multiple brands of "normal cow milk" in the > > same stores... Not like baked beans. > Asda do well on this, the milk they offer at their stores in Hampshire > comes from ... Hampshire. They identify which farm supplied the Asda > branded milk at each store. > I suppose being "Associated Dairies" menas they have some interest in > dairy products because they don't seem to do the same with other food > (they sell American watercress in the middle of the UKs biggest > watercress growing area). Also being AsDa the cheese on sale is iffy, > and they tend not to do good version of foreign cheese, which is where > Waitrose excels. They *were* Associated Diaries. Belong to Walmart now. -- *Failure is not an option. It's bundled with your software. Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.
From: Dave Plowman (News) on 23 Feb 2007 12:36
In article <1bj7eeyhmk1ub.r4ikea84btw6.dlg(a)40tude.net>, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > Lidl's a great supermarket, the products they have are good quality, > Drivel. Lidl have been caught passing off products in the past and I > doubt that they have given up their ways. For example Lidl sell what > they claim is Italian olive oil at less than the cost of producing the > oil. How can they do that, I wonder? I'm sure you could find a similar story about any supermarket chain. But Extra Virgin Italian olive oil ain't the sort of thing I'd go shopping for in Lidl... -- *Caution: I drive like you do. Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |