I just got back from the Uk
May 2nd 2009, 2:27 pm
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Re: I just got back from the Uk
And guess what we having for dinner? Roast chicken with new season Jersey Royal potatoes... the finest food know to man....yippeee!! 
May 2nd 2009, 2:28 pm
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Re: I just got back from the Uk
What about warm beer ? (And cold women ?)
May 2nd 2009, 2:36 pm
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Re: I just got back from the Uk
when i got back from my holiday in scotland , everything here tasted orrible, the meat tasted verrrrrrrryy dodgy, but the memory of the taste is fading again and everything is edible again
Hopefully in another year i will be so brainwashed that i'll be saying how things are cheaper here (pmsl) and the pavements paved with gold.
Hopefully in another year i will be so brainwashed that i'll be saying how things are cheaper here (pmsl) and the pavements paved with gold.
May 2nd 2009, 3:26 pm
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Re: I just got back from the Uk
And the list of things missing from Oz has now grown....
Pringles with more than 3 or 4 flavours
Toffee crisps
Revels
Malteasers with nice chocolate and proper honeycomb center
Minstrals
finger of fudges
Scotch eggs
Sausage rolls with just sausage meat in them
Pork sausages you actually want to eat
Dime bars
Golden Grahams
Quavers
Hoola hoops.
Pringles with more than 3 or 4 flavours
Toffee crisps
Revels
Malteasers with nice chocolate and proper honeycomb center
Minstrals
finger of fudges
Scotch eggs
Sausage rolls with just sausage meat in them
Pork sausages you actually want to eat
Dime bars
Golden Grahams
Quavers
Hoola hoops.
May 2nd 2009, 3:30 pm
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Re: I just got back from the Uk
There's an easy solution to that one. Buy a breadmaker or if you have the time and inclination, make your own. Tastes lovely and pays for itself in a couple of months. Whichever country you are in.
May 2nd 2009, 3:39 pm
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Re: I just got back from the Uk
Much of their so-called "freshly baked" bread is merely mass-produced "bake-off" bread which is prepared and partly baked offsite by wholesalers, then frozen and sent to the stores, where staff shove it in an oven for a while and put it on display. (For example, in Wales, Morrisons' bake off bread is supplied by Popty Cae Groes). All the supermarkets do this; it's standard practice.
Some stores will have a "scratch bakery" (where bread is genuinely prepared and baked from scratch by properly trained staff) but for the most part, cost-cutting takes priority and a cheap, inferior product with a high markup is preferred. They can sell you a "freshly baked farmhouse loaf" for 70p because someone else has already made it for them at a fraction of the price.
May 2nd 2009, 3:44 pm
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Re: I just got back from the Uk
Morrisons' "freshly baked farmhouse loaf" is not genuinely fresh and has never seen the inside of a farmhouse or anything vaguely resembling it.
Much of their so-called "freshly baked" bread is merely mass-produced "bake-off" bread which is prepared and partly baked offsite by wholesalers, then frozen and sent to the stores, where staff shove it in an oven for a while and put it on display. (For example, in Wales, Morrisons' bake off bread is supplied by Popty Cae Groes). All the supermarkets do this; it's standard practice.
Some stores will have a "scratch bakery" (where bread is genuinely prepared and baked from scratch by properly trained staff) but for the most part, cost-cutting takes priority and a cheap, inferior product with a high markup is preferred. They can sell you a "freshly baked farmhouse loaf" for 70p because someone else has already made it for them at a fraction of the price.
Much of their so-called "freshly baked" bread is merely mass-produced "bake-off" bread which is prepared and partly baked offsite by wholesalers, then frozen and sent to the stores, where staff shove it in an oven for a while and put it on display. (For example, in Wales, Morrisons' bake off bread is supplied by Popty Cae Groes). All the supermarkets do this; it's standard practice.
Some stores will have a "scratch bakery" (where bread is genuinely prepared and baked from scratch by properly trained staff) but for the most part, cost-cutting takes priority and a cheap, inferior product with a high markup is preferred. They can sell you a "freshly baked farmhouse loaf" for 70p because someone else has already made it for them at a fraction of the price.
May 2nd 2009, 3:45 pm
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Re: I just got back from the Uk
Morrisons' "freshly baked farmhouse loaf" is not genuinely fresh and has never seen the inside of a farmhouse or anything vaguely resembling it.
Much of their so-called "freshly baked" bread is merely mass-produced "bake-off" bread which is prepared and partly baked offsite by wholesalers, then frozen and sent to the stores, where staff shove it in an oven for a while and put it on display. (For example, in Wales, Morrisons' bake off bread is supplied by Popty Cae Groes). All the supermarkets do this; it's standard practice.
Some stores will have a "scratch bakery" (where bread is genuinely prepared and baked from scratch by properly trained staff) but for the most part, cost-cutting takes priority and a cheap, inferior product with a high markup is preferred. They can sell you a "freshly baked farmhouse loaf" for 70p because someone else has already made it for them at a fraction of the price.
Much of their so-called "freshly baked" bread is merely mass-produced "bake-off" bread which is prepared and partly baked offsite by wholesalers, then frozen and sent to the stores, where staff shove it in an oven for a while and put it on display. (For example, in Wales, Morrisons' bake off bread is supplied by Popty Cae Groes). All the supermarkets do this; it's standard practice.
Some stores will have a "scratch bakery" (where bread is genuinely prepared and baked from scratch by properly trained staff) but for the most part, cost-cutting takes priority and a cheap, inferior product with a high markup is preferred. They can sell you a "freshly baked farmhouse loaf" for 70p because someone else has already made it for them at a fraction of the price.
May 2nd 2009, 3:47 pm
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Re: I just got back from the Uk
Ahhh..ok... i suggest you get on to the advertising standards people then as Dermot has been advertising on TV all week that their bread is is made from scratch and baked in store unlike other supermarkets, and i know the store i got it from bakes their own as i was watching them do it. And i really dont care that much either way as its still better and cheaper than the shite sold in Aus for double or triple the price... another slice me thinks
i want proof!
May 2nd 2009, 3:52 pm
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May 2nd 2009, 3:54 pm
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May 2nd 2009, 7:44 pm
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Re: I just got back from the Uk
Ahhh..ok... i suggest you get on to the advertising standards people then as Dermot has been advertising on TV all week that their bread is is made from scratch and baked in store unlike other supermarkets, and i know the store i got it from bakes their own as i was watching them do it. And i really dont care that much either way as its still better and cheaper than the shite sold in Aus for double or triple the price... another slice me thinks
Another bigggg noticable difference, the day I left the UK the outside temp was 17 degrees, I got off the plane here and the exact same outside temp of 17! What a coincidence. Then I got home and the house was bloody freezing. I was never cold indoors for the whole 3 weeks back no matter what the temperature outside.
Did I mention, fudge and toffee or even butter tablet? All missing from here unless you spend all day looking for it and even then you wont find a butter tablet!
Rolo's! Theres another
Walnut whip!
(Just trying to remember all the stuff I pigged out on this last 3 weeks that is not here)