Reply to: Ripoff or what?

[threaded]

Six big bottles of them little white onions in vineger £5

[AtW]

I was personally suprised loss leaders are even allowed - anti-dumping legislation should have kicked in immediately - selling at a loss as a regular thing is unfair competition.

[tim123]

What was in that basket - burberry hooded tops?

normal things.

Bread, milk etc.

UK supermarkets use these things as loss leaders in order to get you in to buy the higher margin stuff. Foreign supermarkets don't (usually) do this.

tim

[Lucifer Box]

Can one buy pickled quail's eggs?

D'accord.

Pickled Quails Eggs

I pickle my own. As hyperD has pointed out, most commercial pickles now use aspartame rather than sugar. Besides, your own pickled eggs and onions taste far superior and it takes only a few minutes to do. Waiting for them to mature is agonising though. Still, it's nice when they're ready!

[AtW]

The last time I saw this done the highlights were as you have posted, but the UK total basket cost was actually about the second lowest. Something which ths newspaper was completely silent upon

What was in that basket - burberry hooded tops?

[OwlHoot]

I just buy the normal cheaper sized pickled onions and take off a few layers till they're tiny ones. Not had the same success with the pickled eggs though.

Can one buy pickled quail's eggs?

[tim123]

EU study of prices in different countries (2005):

A large 2 litre bottle of Coca Cola
UK £1.13, France 78p
Colgate toothpaste
UK £1.28, Spain 76p
Drinking chocolate
UK £1.02, Germany 52p
A bottle of Evian
UK 99p, France 44p
Ground coffee
UK £1.29, Germany 80p
Butter
UK £1.02, Netherlands 84p
Full fat milk
UK £1.33, Spain 78p

Tell me again how the EU is making prices in Britain so high.

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Sorry, but a comparison of different things with different countries is cheating.

Only a comparison of a total basket is valid because different countries may have different mark ups on each product type.

The last time I saw this done the highlights were as you have posted, but the UK total basket cost was actually about the second lowest. Something which ths newspaper was completely silent upon

tim

[hyperD]

Humph. I always thought of silverskin pickeld onions as peculiarly British (don't ask me why I want them). They have dropped off the shelf in the UK now, but I just popped into a little Alber Heijn in NL and found 3 different kinds, including the budget line at 0.29c.

Are they sweetened with Aspartame or Saccharin?

They always seem to do this here in the UK instead of using sugar, which is why I never buy them.

[PAH]

Which one? I go to Tesco and Waitrose, and neither have the really tiny silverskin onions any more (except at Christmas, bizarrely), just ordinary pickled onions.

I just buy the normal cheaper sized pickled onions and take off a few layers till they're tiny ones. Not had the same success with the pickled eggs though.

[FiveTimes]

EU study of prices in different countries (2005):

A large 2 litre bottle of Coca Cola
UK £1.13, France 78p
Colgate toothpaste
UK £1.28, Spain 76p
Drinking chocolate
UK £1.02, Germany 52p
A bottle of Evian
UK 99p, France 44p
Ground coffee
UK £1.29, Germany 80p
Butter
UK £1.02, Netherlands 84p
Full fat milk
UK £1.33, Spain 78p

Tell me again how the EU is making prices in Britain so high.

That said, the price of foodstuff varied significantly between countries. For example, cornflakes were cheaper in the UK than in most other EU countries, as were Mars bars and granulated sugar.

but imagine the cost of traveling to all the countries when trying to do the weekly shop

[PAH]

The things that are more expensive are the branded products or particularly British products.

That's so they can still rip off the expats that buy this stuff out of sentimentality, or because they're accustomed to the taste so think those products are superior.

[KathyWoolfe]

Which one? I go to Tesco and Waitrose, and neither have the really tiny silverskin onions any more (except at Christmas, bizarrely), just ordinary pickled onions.

But perhaps we digress from the thread....

Morrisons.....I have them with the cheese & bacon loaded potato skins that I have once a week

[expat]

I get them all the time from the supermarket........

Which one? I go to Tesco and Waitrose, and neither have the really tiny silverskin onions any more (except at Christmas, bizarrely), just ordinary pickled onions.

But perhaps we digress from the thread....

[KathyWoolfe]

Humph. I always thought of silverskin pickeld onions as peculiarly British (don't ask me why I want them). They have dropped off the shelf in the UK now, but I just popped into a little Alber Heijn in NL and found 3 different kinds, including the budget line at 0.29c.

I get them all the time from the supermarket........

[expat]

Having lived and worked and holiday'd in a great deal of the mainland I have been telling people this for years.
The UK has been consistantly conned by interested parties twisting the facts.
You have partly shown how.
Most things are cheaper in Europe. The things that are more expensive are the branded products or particularly British products.
If you just compare butter or milk then you find out how expensive the UK is, but if you check kellogs cornflakes or branston or haggis then the UK seems cheap.
The shopping basket used by HMG to compare prices contains.........?

Humph. I always thought of silverskin pickeld onions as peculiarly British (don't ask me why I want them). They have dropped off the shelf in the UK now, but I just popped into a little Alber Heijn in NL and found 3 different kinds, including the budget line at 0.29c.