Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[Richey Edwards]

2 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

 

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f**k Red Bull Leipzig. Lucozade Leipzig aw the way.

[Miguel Sanchez]

Before the sugar tax, orange Lucozade had about 50% of your daily recommended amount of sugar in it. This went down to ~16% after the tax came in. I didn't mind that new taste and I don't mind the new one either. It's still quite syrupy and tastes like an orange was involved somewhere in the manufacturing process, rather than just chemicals.

[Hedgecutter]

Earlier I had a sandwich advertised as 'ham, tomato & cheese, which was a PTTGOYN on two levels:

1) It contained ham, tomato, cheese & lettuce.  I'm not sure what I expected them to do tbh given that you can't list every ingredient on a label, but it irked me that  only the lettuce was omitted.

2) Shirley it should read 'cheese & tomato', not 'tomato & cheese'.

Won't be back.

[Doctor Manhattan]

4 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

Earlier I had a sandwich advertised as 'ham, tomato & cheese, which was a PTTGOYN on two levels:

1) It contained ham, tomato, cheese & lettuce.  I'm not sure what I expected them to do tbh given that you can't list every ingredient on a label, but it irked me that  only the lettuce was omitted.

2) Shirley it should read 'cheese & tomato', not 'tomato & cheese'.

Won't be back.

Aye, f**k that stealth salad! They all do it, but M&S are the worst offenders. If my sandwich has ~50% spinach in it I at least expect to see that mentioned somewhere in the small print, but no. 

[Shotgun]

38 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

2) Shirley it should read 'cheese & tomato', not 'tomato & cheese'.

Won't be back.

They’re supposed to list the proportionately larger ingredient first, aren’t they? For example. a potato and meat pie has a higher tuber to dead animal ratio  than a meat and potato pie.
I think. 

[Silvio Tattiescone]

I hate ordering a steak pie in a pub and getting something that's 50% meat lumps of indeterminate origin and 50% mushrooms. 

[mathematics]

3 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Earlier I had a sandwich advertised as 'ham, tomato & cheese, which was a PTTGOYN on two levels:

1) It contained ham, tomato, cheese & lettuce.  I'm not sure what I expected them to do tbh given that you can't list every ingredient on a label, but it irked me that  only the lettuce was omitted.

2) Shirley it should read 'cheese & tomato', not 'tomato & cheese'.

Won't be back.

I hate stealth cucumber. An absolutely disgusting ingredient which taints everything it touches.

[Venti]

Noel Fielding.

Unfunny fanny.

[TxRover]

4 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Earlier I had a sandwich advertised as 'ham, tomato & cheese, which was a PTTGOYN on two levels:

1) It contained ham, tomato, cheese & lettuce.  I'm not sure what I expected them to do tbh given that you can't list every ingredient on a label, but it irked me that  only the lettuce was omitted.

2) Shirley it should read 'cheese & tomato', not 'tomato & cheese'.

Won't be back.

It’s also inconsistent with the concept of sandwiches like BLT’s. There the lettuce is advertised and the ingredients are in alphabetical order…maybe it should be a “cheese, ham, lettuce and tomato” sandwich?

[Melanius Mullarkey]

1 hour ago, Newbornbairn said:

I hate ordering a steak pie in a pub and getting something that's 50% meat lumps of indeterminate origin and 50% mushrooms. 

Location?

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

Location?

Fish.

[Soapy FFC]

9 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

Before the sugar tax, orange Lucozade had about 50% of your daily recommended amount of sugar in it. This went down to ~16% after the tax came in. I didn't mind that new taste and I don't mind the new one either. It's still quite syrupy and tastes like an orange was involved somewhere in the manufacturing process, rather than just chemicals.

When I was but a lad, Lucozade was a drink you bought in the chemist for when you were ill and couldn't eat, and was intentionally sweet. Nobody then would have ever thought of drinking it as a normal day to day drink. 

[Ooooft.]

37 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said:

When I was but a lad, Lucozade was a drink you bought in the chemist for when you were ill and couldn't eat, and was intentionally sweet. Nobody then would have ever thought of drinking it as a normal day to day drink. 

Yep. It had crinkly amber coloured paper round it too. I remember it well.

[supermik]

1 hour ago, Soapy FFC said:

When I was but a lad, Lucozade was a drink you bought in the chemist for when you were ill and couldn't eat, and was intentionally sweet. Nobody then would have ever thought of drinking it as a normal day to day drink. 

1. Tea.

2. Lucozade.

3. Fanta Orange.

4. Scottish tap water.

5. Lager.

[Shotgun]

Lucozade's advertising slogan was "Lucozade aids recovery" until the mid-80s. Not sure what happened then to make them rethink the branding. 

[RH33]

ScotRail seem to pull train services at the hint of bad weather. A day if rain in the west of Scotland in October, nothing to Helensburgh and west or north of Perth already.

[Silvio Tattiescone]

England's cut off 

[GordonD]

12 hours ago, Newbornbairn said:

I hate ordering a steak pie in a pub and getting something that's 50% meat lumps of indeterminate origin and 50% mushrooms. 

 

11 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

Location?

Inside the pastry, I would assume.

[Swarley]

1 hour ago, Newbornbairn said:

England's cut off 

Reasons to be cheerful thread for this Shirley? 

[mathematics]

8 hours ago, Shotgun said:

Lucozade's advertising slogan was "Lucozade aids recovery" until the mid-80s. Not sure what happened then to make them rethink the branding. 

Lucozade’s marketing of the brand from the late 90s onwards has been an exceptional success story.