Most depressing product in a supermarket?

[threebikesmcginty]

Agree, is just runs round the edges of your fried egg.

We're Branston now except for when Mrs 3BM buys healthy sugar/salt free ones, this is easily remedied by adding extra sugar and salt.

 

[Ganymede]

[QUOTE 3889582, member: 259"]Swiss chard. Once the preserve of good lifers who were too useless to grow spinach - now bought by people with enormous beards on fixies.[/QUOTE]
Oh god yes. We grow it because it stands so long in bad weather but we hardly ever actually eat it except in curries. I grew proper spinach this year and it was wonderful, but it bolted of course.

The other thing is supermarket runner beans. NO. Always shoyte. Grow them or get them from a friend!

 

[srw]

What a bunch of moaners! (Apart from the bit about the Daily Mail - as I was queuing up at the checkout no fewer than three people reached over me to pick up their fix of misery, presumably because all the other aisles had run out)

I have cheerfully come back from the supermarket this morning with all of life's treats - @rvw is playing away this week so I've made hay with the things she likes less than me. Swiss chard (sorry @Ganymede - it's lovely stuff, and dare I say it better than spinach because of the stalks), cavolo nero, cobnuts, early apples, kidneys (sadly from down under - nothing fresh in stock apparently), and avocado.

And beer. Which is another thread in itself.

 

[Profpointy]

How do you know that it was cruelly killed?

A lot of halal slaughter is pre-stunned.

yebutt it's done by them dodgy foreign lookin' people innitt

 

[vernon]

yebutt it's done by them dodgy foreign lookin' people innitt

And criticised by folk with a dodgy knowledge of slaughterhouse practises.

 

[Ganymede]

Swiss chard (sorry @Ganymede - it's lovely stuff,

You know what - I've made a gratin with the stalks and I loved it. But when I pick a load for the greens I carefully collect the thick white stalks (I grow this variety especially) and then lose the energy to do it! (I'm currently injured so I have an excuse).

And what supermarket do you go to that stocks cobnuts!!?

Also - good hint, if you like cavolo nero, Russian red kale is worth a try, eveb better in my book, if you can lay your hands on it.

 

[srw]

And what supermarket do you go to that stocks cobnuts!!?

Waitrose, of course.

Mind you, I'm in Buckinghamshire. I presume they don't bother in rural Kent because they know you can just pop next door to the farmer.

 

[Ganymede]

Waitrose, of course.

Mind you, I'm in Buckinghamshire. I presume they don't bother in rural Kent because they know you can just pop next door to the farmer.

Or indeed, down my garden path...

 

[Tin Pot]

Just because its on the shelf doesn't mean that it's being purchased.

If it's on the shelf regularly, then I'm afraid it does!

 

[Scotchlovingcylist]

Own brand gold blend ain't too bad but this, bleugh

 

[TheDoctor]

Instant coffee. Yuk!

 

[Mattonsea]

UHT milk

 

[Mattonsea]

chewing gum... what's the point of that sh!t?

To pebble dash the pavement?

 

[jefmcg]

"There was a soft drink bottle on the windowsill. Its label boasted that it contained no nourishment whatsoever."
- Kurt Vonnegut

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Do loyalty cards not bother anyone else? I reckon they help turn the shoppers themselves and their shopping habits into products of the supermarket.

Edited in the interests of literacy.