Food Prices around Europe

[DimPrawn]

That's swung it for me.

My house is up for sale, and I'm off to CZ in search of this potato mountain.

Fill yer boots!!!

[hyperD]

I've noticed in Eastern Hungary, those on low incomes will shop in Tescos for the cheap plastic tupperware, plates, cookware, bleaches, cleaning products and packet teas and other condiments. There's an attraction that "everything is under one roof" and avoids the dodgy radiactive stuff being sold in the Russian markets.

However, when it comes to food, the quality is better and cheaper at the local markets.

The ready meals are still viewed as a tasteless, overtly expensive waste of money although I've noticed over the last few years that this section of the market has grown significantly.

Funnily enough, this is true here as well.

Personally, I wouldn't buy a packet of Tesco salad that has had its nutrients removed due to washing in chlorinated water and packed in Modified Atmospheric Packaging when it takes 5 mins to prepare a salad from scratch.

Still, according to the adverts, I'm just a busy person that simply can't afford the time to cook nowadays... thank allah for ready made halal meals.

[milanbenes]

Hyper,

you seen that Tescos in Budapest it's a monster.

Milan.

[hyperD]

Hyper,

you seen that Tescos in Budapest it's a monster.

Milan.

Hi Milan - no I haven't, I tend to spend most time in the eastern rural parts although have been to Budapest many times and can normally be found eating steak tartare and quaffing some Egri Bikaver (while keeping up the pretence that I actually like it) in the Kempinski.

I hear the store is quite large?

[Joe Black]

Spartacus,...could it be that the supermarkets have monopolised food retail and have free reign over their pricing in the island market place of the UK ?

Milan.

Milan, I'm beginning to worry about you. Was your life in the UK that bad?

Joe in "I hope expat-syndrome is not contagious" mode.