Reply to: Rotten onions

[Zippy]

There's dozens of 'em around here.

It's coz we's poor, see.

And we loves spanners.

You can never have enough spanners, trust me on that.

Our nearet one had offers on compressors and bongos the other week. I got there too late, sadly.

[cailin maith]

There's dozens of 'em around here.

It's coz we's poor, see.

And we loves spanners.

You can never have enough spanners, trust me on that.

I'll take your word for it!

[OwlHoot]

I don't buy normal onions anyway. I prefer shallots, because they're tastier. Never had any trouble with those.

[EternalOptimist]

Yes.

But where's your Lidl and Aldi?

We have to know.

isn't it Llidl boyo ?

[Gentile]

I must say the veg has been OK recently in my local Sainsburys. But there have been times when the carrots have been distinctly past their best.

Maybe it's all this rain we've had over the last several months

I blame global warming.

Yes, I like Sansbury's. They've got a great bakery, with lots of nice made-in-store produce.

Their fruit and veg is always good too.

[OwlHoot]

I must say the veg has been OK recently in my local Sainsburys. But there have been times when the carrots have been distinctly past their best.

Maybe it's all this rain we've had over the last several months

I blame global warming.

[cailin maith]

Yes.

But where's your Lidl and Aldi?

We have to know.

There is an Aldi not far from me I like it for cheese & meat (like Serrano & Parma ham) and other random tulip

No idea where the nearest Lidl is though.

[cailin maith]

that's the one.
it's normally ok

someone ^^^ said there was an announcement about weather damaged crops. but that would apply to asda as well. wouldn't it ?

Yeah, it's not bad - just huge!! Takes me ages to get round it.

I would have thought a tulipty onion crop would affect all supermarkets. Bizarre.

[ctdctd]

Asda have better radiation to nuke them with so they last longer

(I've had a few manky onions this year as well - from Tesco and Sainsbury's)

[EternalOptimist]

Do you go to that massive tesco in Walkden? I go to that and the veg isn't too bad. M&S is my fave for fruit & veg - always lasts the longest. Jnr loves fruit so the variety there is brilliant too.

that's the one.
it's normally ok

someone ^^^ said there was an announcement about weather damaged crops. but that would apply to asda as well. wouldn't it ?

[cailin maith]

Asda is a twenty minute drive
Tesco is a fifteen minute walk


when making onion-based decisions, all factors, including Harry Enfield have to be taken into account

Do you go to that massive tesco in Walkden? I go to that and the veg isn't too bad. M&S is my fave for fruit & veg - always lasts the longest. Jnr loves fruit so the variety there is brilliant too.

[EternalOptimist]

Asda is a twenty minute drive
Tesco is a fifteen minute walk


when making onion-based decisions, all factors, including Harry Enfield have to be taken into account

[Gentile]

I find Tesco's fruit and veg are generally crap and nearly off. I don't bother anymore. I find Asda's fresh produce much better.

+1 for Asda.

Although I do find that the staff in Asda just can't leave you alone in peace to shop. If it's not some bored shelf stacker trying on some lame chat up lines whilst you're out for a late-night shop, it's their staff at the checkout trying to herd you into the aisle they'd prefer you to use for some inconceivable reason.

Our local Asda has two self-service areas, one with only enough space to pack a single bag, and the other with room for around 4 or 5 bags. If you lift your full bags off of the small area to fill more bags, the machine starts complaining that the weight is wrong, so the small area is completely useless if you've got more stuff than will fit in a single bag. Yet invariably when you're waiting with more items than will fit in the small packing area you find that some prat will come up to tell you that there's a till available on the other side, in a tone that suggests you must be blind or stupid.

Usually it's a staff member with whom you'll have had the self-same conversation in which you've corrected their misconception before. These days I just say "so there is" without looking to where they're pointing, and let them work out from the fact that I'm nonetheless staying put that their 'advice' was profoundly irrelevant to me and that they should go away now.

Even when you try to queue for a staffed checkout to avoid the above, grating, groundhog day discussion, you often find you get some OCD staff member coming up and informing you that there's a checkout at the other end of the shop that has no-one at it. Their implication is that you should walk fifty yards to that one and risk someone else getting there in front of you rather than just wait thirty seconds where you are for the customer in front of you to finish. I'm all for queue busting, but there's helpfully directing people to quieter areas at the busiest times, and there's trying to herd people like sheep when it's quiet anyway.

I find it particularly annoying that they don't just say what they mean. Instead, their 'advice' always just takes the form of telling you something blindingly obvious that you'd need to be stupid not to already know, and to imply by their tone that you should change where you've decided you want to be served based on their unsolicited and often profoundly irrelevant advice. It really grates after the hundredth time you've been subjected to it. It's like their whole workforce has been modelled on that annoying "you don't wanna do it like that!" Harry Enfield character.

[norrahe]

Its pretty common to get crap veg in cloggers, I'm assuming all the veg that actually is good quality and tastes nice gets imported to the UK.

[Gentile]

>>> insert obligatory "not knowing your onions" pun here <<<