Originally posted by Jeff Maginty
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Originally posted by Jeff MagintyMy opinion:
The following should have been top of the list:
"You always pay your credit card bill(s) in full every month without fail (without having to compromise your lifestyle to do so), and the only other debt you have is a mortgage with no more than 3 x your gross annual salary left to pay off."
I suppose people don't think of things like that in "Debt-dependent Britain".
How if you talk about income then that's a different matter.....
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostI must give their beef a try next time I'm over that side of town. I prefer fatty meat; that's where the flavour lives.
Something to look for when I next find myself north of the border
They have crappy tiny supermarkets ( my family's shop is bigger), that never have consistent stock and really naff quality food.
*sigh*
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostThe Waitrose beef is very good, far higher quality than the other supermarkets, their mince is very fatty though which maybe a preference thing, consumers want super lean beef then flood the stuff with olive oil, the modern way, maybe Waitrose just don't think like that.
Originally posted by minestrone View PostTheir sausages are a bit hit and miss, I have a pack in my fridge just now and they are a day out of date so I was not running to them, Ill probably eat them tomorrow. I just don't really like 'quality' links, they make them too thick which people equate with expensive but the middle just ends up a squelching unappetising fatty mess.
I pity the rest of the UK, you will never know the absolute and true expression of sausage that we Scots have that is the Lorne.
I used to make 20kg of these every Tuesday for 5 years
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The Waitrose beef is very good, far higher quality than the other supermarkets, their mince is very fatty though which maybe a preference thing, consumers want super lean beef then flood the stuff with olive oil, the modern way, maybe Waitrose just don't think like that.
Their sausages are a bit hit and miss, I have a pack in my fridge just now and they are a day out of date so I was not running to them, Ill probably eat them tomorrow. I just don't really like 'quality' links, they make them too thick which people equate with expensive but the middle just ends up a squelching unappetising fatty mess.
I pity the rest of the UK, you will never know the absolute and true expression of sausage that we Scots have that is the Lorne.
I used to make 20kg of these every Tuesday for 5 years
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I've shopped at Waitrose. It's just a big scam really. The sausages clearly come out of the same factory as the ones at Sainsbury's and M&S - in fact M&S have a range that are superior to any of the Waitrose ones.
The Waitrose bacon also has nothing to commend it over equivalent bacon at Sainsbury's.
As far as I can tell, the only reason people shop at Waitrose is because it allows them to think wasting money on foreign-sounding muck like "foccacia" (l??? I have no idea, and don't care, and it's made in Walsall and you're being conned) is normal, because other people are buying it. Wake up, morons: you're in England. Leave foreign bread to the foreigners, and eat English food. Which, BTW, is cheaper for the same goods at places other than Waitrose
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Originally posted by barrydidit View PostYou're not thinking of Kerry Katona's prawn ring are you?
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Originally posted by Alias View PostThey're at Iceland for a fiver...
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostIf you get your lobster at Lidl for a fiver, does that mean you're a success or not?
I don't really class having a big TV and one in every room as a sign of success, either.Originally posted by administrator View PostI saw the Lidl lobster but had no room in the freezer - hope they have them again soon
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostIf you get your lobster at Lidl for a fiver, does that mean you're a success or not?
I don't really class having a big TV and one in every room as a sign of success, either.
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If you get your lobster at Lidl for a fiver, does that mean you're a success or not?
I don't really class having a big TV and one in every room as a sign of success, either.
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