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    #11
    Originally posted by Diestl
    order of price vs quality in supermarkets is
    Lidl/Aldi - Dirt Cheap - Low Quality
    Asda - Cheap - Ok Quality
    Morrisons - Low Price - Quality
    Sainsburys - Pricey - Good Quality
    Marks&Sparks - Expensive - High Quality

    Anyone remember Finefare?
    Local farmers' market for me.

    All of the big 4 supermarkets offer poor value for money and sub-standard quality.

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      #12
      Originally posted by madhippy
      when I was a lad I remember you could get them in humongous sizes - like the size of a small dog. Or back in the day were potatoes actually bigger?
      Perhaps dogs were smaller.

      I used to nick them from the farmer's field behind my house in Norfolk, and cook 'em in a bonfire.

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        #13
        Dodgy that. Stealing off your relatives.
        Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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          #14
          The worrying thing is that stealing and cooking dogs is probably legal in Norfolk.

          I lived there for a few years (parents still do) and it has to be said some of the best 'British' food is to be found there... quality of vegetables and beef for example that can be bought either direct from a farmer, through a market or shop is way ahead of the artifically ripened Dutch tomatoes etc...
          Vieze Oude Man

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            #15
            Originally posted by Diestl
            Anyone remember Finefare?
            Budgen?
            International?
            Gateway?

            Where are they now?
            We must strike at the lies that have spread like disease through our minds

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              #16
              Originally posted by Lucifer Box
              Local farmers' market for me.

              All of the big 4 supermarkets offer poor value for money and sub-standard quality.
              As always, LB speaks the truth. Remember your baking potatoes from supermarkets will come from the overfarmed and over-pesticided mega-Dutch fields producing tasteless roots that lie in warehouses for 6 months or longer. They will then be washed, selected on size and rotundness, packaged using MAP (modified atmospheric packaging, containing ozone which will destroy most of the surface vitamins within days) and sent to your local supermarket.

              Notice the words freshness and taste have been conveniently omitted from the above scenario. That's why farm shop English potatoes, dirty and ugly bastards, taste wonderful.
              If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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                #17
                Just like IT contractors then. The dirty ugly bastards are the best.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Diestl
                  Anyone remember Finefare?
                  We used to have one in Borehamwood, another place I lived.

                  Borehamwood is different to Norfolk in that you don't marry your sister, you beat her up. Then you go down to The Crown pub by the station and have a fight, then up to the Bull and Tiger for some drugs and another fight.

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                    #19
                    Come on admit it... who shops at Sainsburys/M&S during the good times and Asda/Tesco when you're 'resting'?

                    I usualy 'downgrade' after my 4th week of 'resting' but as soon as i get that phone call it's back to looking down my nose at the trash that is Asda.
                    Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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                      #20
                      Marks and Spencers have removed EVIL transfats from their foods. So, I shall only be shopping with them. Everyone else can save their money in exchange fro cancer.
                      The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

                      But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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