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They spend a much higher percentage of their disposable income on it,
that's for sure.

 

Not many of them to a pound.


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R C Nesbit posted:

135g of pork produces 100g of cured/dried product. Not rocket science.

 

I once went to meet a bloke and he said "On the Netto car park", so that's
where I went. When he arrived, we went in there to get some ciggies and it
was quite an experience. It really *was* the worst shithole I've ever seen
that sells food.

I'm just glad that cigs come wrapped in cellophane.


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Have you ever tasted Richmond sausages?


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They should be capable of handling much more than that.


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I don't think he goes that far south of the river.

 

What's the difference in spend?

 

It's been some time since I looked at it. Last time I looked, the
average UK spend on food and beverages (not counting alcohol, takle-away
food or eating out - just grocery bills) ) was something silly like £20
per head per week. Average French spend, IIRC, represented something
like 15% of disposable income.

Googling gives an official figure (Office of National Statistics) of
£17.64 in 2000, so £20 a few years later sounds right.

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OK, USDA stats suggest 8.5% of UK disposable income in 2008, and 12.6% -
so 50% higher - in France.

 

Like Stella Artois and Heineken, you mean?

Lidl / Aldi sell much the same food

They aren't round here[1]. YMMV obviously. I suspect SteveH will have
something to say about the demographics of the target market in question.

You seem to profess to know quite a lot about it, for something you
don't do.

[1] TBF you don't get the normal cross section of 'normal' people round
here.


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You lose water in the drying process. My question would be more aimed at
what sort of pork was the 135% to start off with.

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You're saying Cheddar is?

 

Looks like I got the first one in Nottingham Aldi, got a few accessories
as well.

Nice new store, not that pikey. Picked up some alky as well, but the
food didn't look great, so avoided.

 

Although somewhat better than knob cheese, I'm told.

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That sounds like a wonderful euphemism.

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I think food is, however, generally cheaper in the UK (at least, when
compared to NL).

Not that I consider Tesco Value products to be 'food' but, there's no
chance of getting food that cheap over here.

 

Elly has cooked some glorious meals using Tesco Value ingredients. I
have a feeling you say it's not food purely out of some kind of
snobbishness.

 

Indeed. A bag of rocha pears is a bag of rocha pears. 78p for a blue stripe
one. £1.49 for a bag with "kids size" and an endorsement from Disney
emblazoned on it.

Some TV stuff is too cheap and rubbish e.g. bread & pies. Other stuff is
either in large bags or odd shapes and very palatable e.g. salmon offcuts,
corner gammon joints.

 

If you're buying raw vegetables, there's very little difference.

I visited a factory not long back where they were packing ready-prepared
veg.

There were 2 lines - one doing 'normal' branding and one doing 'value'
branding.

When I asked what the spec. difference was, my guide gave a knowing
smile.

I'll happily buy value fruit and veg, but nothing else.

 

(SteveH) wrote in :

Ditto. With 1 exception. Mushrooms. Your lot seem to think supplying half a
punnet of compost with the value mushrooms is okay.