BFTD Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 (edited) 17 minutes ago, coprolite said: Aldi doing two things in each box, and leaving the unpopular half until it’s finished instead of putting a new box out. Also, the fact that the only example that’s coming to mind is their loads of flax but no chia left, which makes me sound like a hipster. Lidl were always big on that too. For example, they'd get jars of their own-brand jam with three flavours in each box - Strawberry, Raspberry, and Satan's Fermenting Turds. Everyone bought options A and B, so they'd end up with hundreds of jars of Satanic jobbies that nobody wanted. Every six months or so, they just wouldn't order anything new in for a few weeks, and the store would be full of the flavours that nobody wanted, like they thought everyone would just buy stuff they didn't like out of necessity. I guess it must work, but it just put me off shopping there after a couple of times realising that this was going to become a regular thing. Why do they always include a f**k-awful option anyway? Crates of cereal containing corn flakes, rice krispies, and leper's fingers, each in the same quantity. It's like when Billy Connolly said that boxes of chocolates used to include a flavour nobody liked, like ginger, as if Cadbury had a massive ginger stockpile they were forcing the country to help them work through. Edit: 1 minute ago, Hedgecutter said: This recent change to food firms hiding the cooking instructions on the reverse side of the label, meaning you have to open the packaging to see what's required. Always good on fucking pizza, where cheese sticks to the shrink wrap and drops everywhere while you're trying to see the recommended cooking time. Edited June 26 by BFTD 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 10 minutes ago, BFTD said: Lidl were always big on that too. For example, they'd get jars of their own-brand jam with three flavours in each box - Strawberry, Raspberry, and Satan's Fermenting Turds. Everyone bought options A and B, so they'd end up with hundreds of jars of Satanic jobbies that nobody wanted. Every six months or so, they just wouldn't order anything new in for a few weeks, and the store would be full of the flavours that nobody wanted, like they thought everyone would just buy stuff they didn't like out of necessity. I guess it must work, but it just put me off shopping there after a couple of times realising that this was going to become a regular thing. Why do they always include a f**k-awful option anyway? Crates of cereal containing corn flakes, rice krispies, and leper's fingers, each in the same quantity. It's like when Billy Connolly said that boxes of chocolates used to include a flavour nobody liked, like ginger, as if Cadbury had a massive ginger stockpile they were forcing the country to help them work through. Edit: Always good on fucking pizza, where cheese sticks to the shrink wrap and drops everywhere while you're trying to see the recommended cooking time. The Jam is a problem at low quality chain hotel breakfast buffets. Just chuck the blackcurrant out, no one has ever eaten it more than once. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 2 minutes ago, coprolite said: The Jam is a problem at low quality chain hotel breakfast buffets. Just chuck the blackcurrant out, no one has ever eaten it more than once. I don't get why they insist on equal quantities for everything; if you've got a box of 24 jars, you'll want maybe 16 strawberry for normal people, 6 raspberry for the difficult contrarians, and throw in a couple of blackcurrant for the perverts. Everyone's happy, and you don't end up with Freaky February, catering exclusively for people who clearly aren't going to be eating any of the things they're buying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 9 hours ago, TxRover said: F**king Energizer button battery packaging! Three button cells in a blister pack… 1) Slide nail under edge to lift plastic top cover, and it pops off, happy as can be, with a thin remainder of paper/cardboard across the bottom. 2) Try to push cell out through paper…won’t budge. 3) Poke through paper to find the f**king battery is enclosed on both sides with plastic. 4) The inner/lower cover will not press out, regardless of all attempts. 5) Got the kitchen shears, and have to cut around about half the blister to be able to lever the inside cover open enough to get the battery out. 6) Repeat twice more…because each one is packaged individually. I mean, no one would ever buy a three pack instead of a one or two pack and want all three batteries at once! If I ever find the c**t responsible for that packaging decision, it’ll be first degree murder! More likely to be assault on battery. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 1 minute ago, BFTD said: I don't get why they insist on equal quantities for everything; if you've got a box of 24 jars, you'll want maybe 16 strawberry for normal people, 6 raspberry for the difficult contrarians, and throw in a couple of blackcurrant for the perverts. Everyone's happy, and you don't end up with Freaky February, catering exclusively for people who clearly aren't going to be eating any of the things they're buying. Where’s my apricot you strawberry fascist? Also “jars”; your low quality chain hotel is obviously a cut above mine with the wee plastic tubs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Just now, coprolite said: Where’s my apricot you strawberry fascist? Also “jars”; your low quality chain hotel is obviously a cut above mine with the wee plastic tubs. I'm still moaning about low-cost supermarkets, although I'd imagine the chain hotels are a step down from there too. Apricot is for middle-class Waitrose shoppers who avoid driving past the new Lidl in case their car breaks down and somebody from the PTA sees them. Although, you've given me a terrible notion of apricot jam now, so I may risk it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'WellDel Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 On the jams/preserves etc topic, is lemon curd still a thing? Just randomly popped into my head while reading this and, although I've not actually looked for it since it wouldn't be on my shopping list, I honestly can't remember having seen a jar of it for years. Used to seem like a staple in my mum's kitchen when I was young, granted I am now rather un-young. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 2 minutes ago, 'WellDel said: On the jams/preserves etc topic, is lemon curd still a thing? Just randomly popped into my head while reading this and, although I've not actually looked for it since it wouldn't be on my shopping list, I honestly can't remember having seen a jar of it for years. Used to seem like a staple in my mum's kitchen when I was young, granted I am now rather un-young. Yeah, I bought a jar from Morrison's last week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 30 minutes ago, 'WellDel said: On the jams/preserves etc topic, is lemon curd still a thing? Just randomly popped into my head while reading this and, although I've not actually looked for it since it wouldn't be on my shopping list, I honestly can't remember having seen a jar of it for years. Used to seem like a staple in my mum's kitchen when I was young, granted I am now rather un-young. Tremendous on sandwiches. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Mmm, Lorne and lemon curd rolls. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 I must be the weirdo here. My favourite jam is blackcurrant, and I love ginger biscuits and chocolate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 1 hour ago, 'WellDel said: On the jams/preserves etc topic, is lemon curd still a thing? Just randomly popped into my head while reading this and, although I've not actually looked for it since it wouldn't be on my shopping list, I honestly can't remember having seen a jar of it for years. Used to seem like a staple in my mum's kitchen when I was young, granted I am now rather un-young. Weirdo 1 hour ago, GordonD said: Yeah, I bought a jar from Morrison's last week. Weirdo 39 minutes ago, scottsdad said: Tremendous on sandwiches. Weirdo 37 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said: Mmm, Lorne and lemon curd rolls. Weirdo 34 minutes ago, Soapy FFC said: I must be the weirdo here. My favourite jam is blackcurrant, and I love ginger biscuits and chocolate Good lad 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 1 hour ago, scottsdad said: Tremendous on sandwiches. Would you put butter under it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 2 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: Would you put butter under it? No way. I'm not strange! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 4 hours ago, BFTD said: I still have a cable for attaching an external hard drive (which I never owned) to a computer that I haven't owned since 1997. Clearly I'm subconsciously waiting for when the president needs to recover some ancient nuclear deactivation codes from a Reagan-era Atari ST storage unit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 3 hours ago, Cosmic Joe said: Would you put butter under it? Wondering if on top was an option here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 (edited) Why was Ally McCoist in any way whatsoever, surprised to hear AC/DC at a football match? The more I see sends ups of this, thr more the original annoys me Edited June 26 by Bairnardo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 28 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: Why was Ally McCoist in any way whatsoever, surprised to hear AC/DC at a football match? The more I see sends ups of this, thr more the original annoys me Probably doesn't realise that most teams don't play constant watered down bigotry before the match starts 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 8 hours ago, 'WellDel said: On the jams/preserves etc topic, is lemon curd still a thing? Just randomly popped into my head while reading this and, although I've not actually looked for it since it wouldn't be on my shopping list, I honestly can't remember having seen a jar of it for years. Used to seem like a staple in my mum's kitchen when I was young, granted I am now rather un-young. I came across (feck off, Kenneth) a jar of Bonne Maman Lemon Curd in our local Aldi a couple of weeks ago and threw it in the trolley on impulse. Would recommend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 9 hours ago, 'WellDel said: On the jams/preserves etc topic, is lemon curd still a thing? Just randomly popped into my head while reading this and, although I've not actually looked for it since it wouldn't be on my shopping list, I honestly can't remember having seen a jar of it for years. Used to seem like a staple in my mum's kitchen when I was young, granted I am now rather un-young. Lemon curd on scotch pancakes or hot cross buns is fucking tremendous 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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