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Hi. In Ontario do any of the large supermarkets have internet food shopping similar to what Tesco or Asda have in the UK?

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http://www.grocerygateway.com/

Are you an invalid of some sort?

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No, Just find it easier and handy, Mr Tired Member

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DB - you're in the Diplomatic Corps right? :p

You have to realise that this has taken off in a big way in the UK. No one wants spend a whole hour driving to a supermarket and choosing their own food any longer. I mean, you have to wait in a queue with the hoi pollo FFS!

Much more civilised and sanitary to get some stranger (probably an immigrant), who's pulling in a minimum wage to fondle your vegetables (:blink: ) and pack your fruit gently into a bag for you.

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<giggles>

Oh, I understand why people do it but I love eating and I love the mechanics of it all; what we don't buy from farms (or from that illegal raw milk bus) we get from the St Lawrence market. I like to sort through the mussels or the beans or whatever and haggle over each one. I want to take home a whole sack of pig parts in just one sack; no trays, no shrink wrap, food that looks like food.

It seems to me that shopping is a major part of the experience of a place and that, if you're just going to get stuff delivered you may as well stay in front of the TV you have as move to another one.

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Hi guys. What Madmac said is exactly right, plus the cost of petrol here is a lot higher than Canada, it often works out very cost effective way to shop. Plus a lot easier as I can do it when kids are in bed.
Tired member what are you referring to with the illegal raw milk bus? We probaly don't watch any more tv here than in Canada, we save time by internet shopping so we have more leisure time!

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Raw, unpastuerised milk is banned in Canada. Some think it is healthier to drink the untreated coo juice and certain dairy farmers try to get around the law by allowing members of the public to become shareholders in the business and in effect become 'family member's' who are allowed to drink said milk.

I believe in personal freedoms and the rights of the individual so if you think it's okay to drink the untreated mammary secretions of a bovine, supplied by a (generally unlicensed) diary bloke than that's okay dokay by me.

I'll pass on the increased chances of salmonella, listeria, strep, mengi-coccul whatever...cheers, now pass the real ale please. ;)

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We call it moonshine here.

Rich.

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I don't eat and drink for health reasons but for pleasure. There's no point fussing about health if you breath the air here, still less so if you've a long history of smoking, drinking and having unprotected sex with strangers.

In truth, it doesn't much matter to me if people want to eat supermarket food or even the stuff at McDonalds (though one should draw the line short of Wal-Mart). I just hate grocerygateway because their vans block the street while they unload. It's very selfish to make all the neighbours wait while they haul in your microwaveable mechanically reclaimed chicken parts. Selfish that is, unless you're really wheelchair bound, hence the original question.

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I agree. I'd choose to eat natural, straight from the slaughterhouse (Mmmm - Rich, MEAT - you know you want to ;) ) meat and direct from the farmer vegetables/fruit because it does in general taste better. Unfortunately I'm a lazy hypocrite. :huh:

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Internet shopping saves time and money.

Better 1 van on the road full of 15 families weekly shopping, rather than 15 cars on the road for the same thing.


Means you can spend more time enjoying the outdoors and beauty of Canada.

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If you're already in Guelph risk buying a box of cow parts from Crusty

http://www.rawhide-adventures.on.ca/beef/AboutUs.html

he may be mad but the beef's excellent and his place would be a nice afternoon drive (perhaps less so in winter).

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I'm just leaving now to wipe the drool from my keyboard. Might be worth a drive once the roads are open. Ta.

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As long as it is him that is mad, and not the beef, then that's alright !!

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I can't say I've tried eating him but the beef's done me no harm.

He's a bit different, he's essentially recreated a bit of the wild west. His horses are mustangs adopted from the BLM

http://www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov/index.php

and the cattle free range even though there are roads and traffic and all. He sounds French so it's like getting your cow parts from Lucky Luke.