Random musings and general banter.

[Jazzydrury]

I think some food related products are also incredibly poor value in general. I am thinking about meats packs over the years, pies and pasties type items, some of the sweets and chocolates, too. I recall one particular butcher they used some years back quickly disappeared over some hygiene related issue. Not the present butcher I might add.. Something Green - the butcher’s company name, not the colour of the meat…?

There were many stories about meat being ordered to come no later than mid December, and got to Christmas Eve and no meat

 

[merryone]

I think some food related products are also incredibly poor value in general. I am thinking about meats packs over the years, pies and pasties type items, some of the sweets and chocolates, too. I recall one particular butcher they used some years back quickly disappeared over some hygiene related issue. Not the present butcher I might add.. Something Green - the butcher’s company name, not the colour of the meat…?

The food prices are just ridiculous. Off the top of my head the popcorn related products are the biggest joke. I could be dreaming but I'm sure one Christmas they were flogging an advent calendar containing 12 small cans of beer and bags of pork scratchings for £60! Just how demented is that?!

 

[Deleted member 21838]

Who was that dreadfully annoying, slightly bulbous eyed fellow who used to sell the pies and pasties? Troy, was it? A name that didn’t match his look essentially? Brough? Brutus? Ah…Brett. I recall his pasties didn’t go down too well with some buyers in the reviews and then his company apparently disappeared?

 

[Jazzydrury]

The food prices are just ridiculous. Off the top of my head the popcorn related products are the biggest joke. I could be dreaming but I'm sure one Christmas they were flogging an advent calendar containing 12 small cans of beer and bags of pork scratchings for £60! Just how demented is that?!

Because it probably one some award nobody’s heard off

 

[Jazzydrury]

Who is that dreadfully annoying, slightly bulbous eyed fellow who used to sell the pies and pasties? Troy, was it? A name that didn’t match his look essentially? Brough? Brutus? Ah…Brett. I recall his pasties didn’t go down too well with some buyers in the reviews and then his company apparently disappeared?

And if you remember earlier this year, they began selling them on IW, with the lady guest

 

[Deleted member 21838]

Maybe they still have some in the administration fridge?

 

[Jazzydrury]

Wonder what happened to Brodels Leaflets

 

[Jazzydrury]

Because it probably one some award nobody’s heard off

I think they won the Duke of Cheeseio award LOL

 

[aqua]

My all time favourite.

 

[Deleted member 21838]

All the finest romantic prose ends with four flexi pays..

 

[Jazzydrury]

My all time favourite.

WTF was all that about

 

[SiRich]

WTF was all that about

spiked by the looks of it

 

[Deleted member 21838]

Ronald/Peter on a visit to Nottingham in 1896..

 

[SiRich]

a little ditty for rubberhead, passed the fb audition with flying colours!

 

[Deleted member 21838]

 

[Muttley]

spiked by the looks of it

I like the bit where he says "Its unlikely you'll see this again", is that a promise?.

I love the fake sincerity, he must have rehearsed that for days.

 

[SiRich]

I like the bit where he says "Its unlikely you'll see this again", is that a promise?.

I love the fake sincerity, he must have rehearsed that for days.

perhaps even minutes

 

[SiRich]

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good one Duke, can you stick Ryan or H or Haystacks on keyboards

 

[PhædrusR]

Who was that dreadfully annoying, slightly bulbous eyed fellow who used to sell the pies and pasties? Troy, was it? A name that didn’t match his look essentially? Brough? Brutus? Ah…Brett. I recall his pasties didn’t go down too well with some buyers in the reviews and then his company apparently disappeared?

If it was the Real Pie Company, the one in Crawley,c Sussex stopped and think he went onto a different/similar venture and RealPieCo restarted in Huntingdon, Canvas under new buyout owners. Check companies house.

There's a thread on it here.

The Real Pie Company?? wonder whats happend

Yep Shopper we`re practically neighbours. I only moved to this neck of the woods when I remarried 6 years ago but hubby has lived here all of his life. I`ve always lived in the North West and was born not far from Preston and when my first husband was alive we lived in a small village on the...

forum.shoppingtelly.com

 

[PhædrusR]

I think some food related products are also incredibly poor value in general. I am thinking about meats packs over the years, pies and pasties type items, some of the sweets and chocolates, too. I recall one particular butcher they used some years back quickly disappeared over some hygiene related issue. Not the present butcher I might add.. Something Green - the butcher’s company name, not the colour of the meat…?

Think the Buccleugh estate was one butcher on TV QVC. Looked good but not cheap on QVC.

Also Donald Russell butchers. We tried a magazine offer of a £20 + free p&p pack intro of various Angus steak cuts, burgers & 'free' sausages many moons ago and it was very good, but their follow-up catalogue was then £30+ for similar and postage, so their intro offer didn't convert me to a regular.

As mentioned recently and earlier here, Real Pie Company looked good but at £3.50+ per item they were a considered purchase and for a pie I reckoned local for better value was easier.
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