RANT CORNER

[Derek27]

Do people have their brains removed before starting work in a supermarket, so they place reduced to clear labels over the packet description, so you don't even know what you're buying?

[jimibt]

Do people have their brains removed before starting work in a supermarket, so they place reduced to clear labels over the packet description, so you don't even know what you're buying?

yes!! that said, you'd need to have your emotional cortex removed to deal with some of the types you encounter in supermarkets...

[Derek27]

Introduce £500 fines for people who spit chewing gum on the streets, or make them clean it up. What is wrong with these demented morons?

[Trader Pat]

Imagine a world where chewing gum didn't exist...

Alex Ferguson wouldn't have been half the manager he was

[greenmark]

Do people have their brains removed before starting work in a supermarket, so they place reduced to clear labels over the packet description, so you don't even know what you're buying?

Actually Derek, though I enjoy your rants, I can't fault my local supermrket workers over the last year. They were brilliant. The public were selfish and horrible. For me supermarket workers are right up there with all frontline workers that deserve to be applauded. Sorry. Rant over

[Derek27]

Imagine a world where chewing gum didn't exist...

Alex Ferguson wouldn't have been half the manager he was

That's a good idea - an outright ban on chewing gum. Treat it as a class C drug. Community service for people caught in possession, prison for suppliers.

[Derek27]

Do people have their brains removed before starting work in a supermarket, so they place reduced to clear labels over the packet description, so you don't even know what you're buying?

Actually Derek, though I enjoy your rants, I can't fault my local supermrket workers over the last year. They were brilliant. The public were selfish and horrible. For me supermarket workers are right up there with all frontline workers that deserve to be applauded. Sorry. Rant over

I could hardly fault my supermarkets over the last ten years. I moved two years ago, my old supermarket was full of young, very attractive girls. Sadly, my new store is full of women as old as I am! But that aside, they both have very nice people who bend over backwards to help (including making sure you don't catch covid by walking the wrong way down the aisle or cause damage to the environment by using plastic without paying for it).

I just wish they'd train the idiot who stamps reduced to clear labels.

[ShaunWhite]

my old supermarket was full of young, very attractive girls. Sadly, my new store is full of women as old as I am!

Hey don't knock women of a certain age, a lot of us here are married to one !

Tbh you can forget the young attractive ones if you're basket is full to Reduced to Clear labels. They're not looking for a sugarfree daddy.

[darchas]

my old supermarket was full of young, very attractive girls. Sadly, my new store is full of women as old as I am!

Hey don't knock women of a certain age, a lot of us here are married to one !

Tbh you can forget the young attractive ones if you're basket is full to Reduced to Clear labels. They're not looking for a sugarfree daddy.

'sugarfree daddy' is amazing!

I used to work for the COOP way back when and all the staff knew exactly those customers that would follow the poor girl round with the reduced to clear gun!

[Derek27]

I always have a look at the reduced to clear shelf if I'm going round the whole store but I don't queue up or get involved in the riots when they used to occur frequently.

[greenmark]

Do people have their brains removed before starting work in a supermarket, so they place reduced to clear labels over the packet description, so you don't even know what you're buying?

Actually Derek, though I enjoy your rants, I can't fault my local supermrket workers over the last year. They were brilliant. The public were selfish and horrible. For me supermarket workers are right up there with all frontline workers that deserve to be applauded. Sorry. Rant over

I could hardly fault my supermarkets over the last ten years. I moved two years ago, my old supermarket was full of young, very attractive girls. Sadly, my new store is full of women as old as I am! But that aside, they both have very nice people who bend over backwards to help (including making sure you don't catch covid by walking the wrong way down the aisle or cause damage to the environment by using plastic without paying for it).

I just wish they'd train the idiot who stamps reduced to clear labels.

I'm not sure 'idiot' is correct terminology. Cunning would be more apt. I bought a chunk of rump (hopefully to make several pasties) only to discover it had been packaged and labelled to conceal that there was zero meat under the labelling. Doh! How can i still get duped by these nefarious techniques. But it ain't the people on the shop floor you need to worry about, it's the grey cynics in the background.

[Derek27]

Actually Derek, though I enjoy your rants, I can't fault my local supermrket workers over the last year. They were brilliant. The public were selfish and horrible. For me supermarket workers are right up there with all frontline workers that deserve to be applauded. Sorry. Rant over

I could hardly fault my supermarkets over the last ten years. I moved two years ago, my old supermarket was full of young, very attractive girls. Sadly, my new store is full of women as old as I am! But that aside, they both have very nice people who bend over backwards to help (including making sure you don't catch covid by walking the wrong way down the aisle or cause damage to the environment by using plastic without paying for it).

I just wish they'd train the idiot who stamps reduced to clear labels.

I'm not sure 'idiot' is correct terminology. Cunning would be more apt. I bought a chunk of rump (hopefully to make several pasties) only to discover it had been packaged and labelled to conceal that there was zero meat under the labelling. Doh! How can i still get duped by these nefarious techniques. But it ain't the people on the shop floor you need to worry about, it's the grey cynics in the background.

I'm sure that was just coincidental. I doubt there's a Mr Big in the supermarket office giving the floor staff instructions about where to put labels.

In my case, I had a jar of Sharwoods mango chutney in my trolley knowing I'm only going to use a quarter of it and chuck the rest away. Came across what looked like dips on the reduced to clear shelf for 15 pence each. Luckily somebody had already done the hard work of carefully peeling back one of the labels without destroying what's underneath it so I could see it was mango chutney.

I cooked a curry with a jar of cook-in sauce when I was really pissed, forgot to garnish it with the mango chutney - I just needed to get it down my gob before I pass out. So the reduced to clear mango chutney got wasted anyway.

[greenmark]

I could hardly fault my supermarkets over the last ten years. I moved two years ago, my old supermarket was full of young, very attractive girls. Sadly, my new store is full of women as old as I am! But that aside, they both have very nice people who bend over backwards to help (including making sure you don't catch covid by walking the wrong way down the aisle or cause damage to the environment by using plastic without paying for it).

I just wish they'd train the idiot who stamps reduced to clear labels.

I'm not sure 'idiot' is correct terminology. Cunning would be more apt. I bought a chunk of rump (hopefully to make several pasties) only to discover it had been packaged and labelled to conceal that there was zero meat under the labelling. Doh! How can i still get duped by these nefarious techniques. But it ain't the people on the shop floor you need to worry about, it's the grey cynics in the background.

I'm sure that was just coincidental. I doubt there's a Mr Big in the supermarket office giving the floor staff instructions about where to put labels.

In my case, I had a jar of Sharwoods mango chutney in my trolley knowing I'm only going to use a quarter of it and chuck the rest away. Came across what looked like dips on the reduced to clear shelf for 15 pence each. Luckily somebody had already done the hard work of carefully peeling back one of the labels without destroying what's underneath it so I could see it was mango chutney.

I cooked a curry with a jar of cook-in sauce when I was really pissed, forgot to garnish it with the mango chutney - I just needed to get it down my gob before I pass out. So the reduced to clear mango chutney got wasted anyway.

I think that might be the most hysterical culinery description I've ever read. Good to know someone else battles with these really banaal things.
Tomorrow will be wrestling with puff pastry. They make it look so easy on the tv. In reality, it does not want to form anything remotely like a pasty.
More like an amorphous pastry blob with puncture holes from which precious ingredients erupt and burn.

[Derek27]

I think that might be the most hysterical culinery description I've ever read. Good to know someone else battles with these really banaal things.
Tomorrow will be wrestling with puff pastry. They make it look so easy on the tv. In reality, it does not want to form anything remotely like a pasty.
More like an amorphous pastry blob with puncture holes from which precious ingredients erupt and burn.

We should have a cookery thread. I remember making my first pizza. 20 minutes rolling out the dough trying to get it roughly in a round shape. Then I flipped it in the air a couple of times like chefs advise you to do, to spread out the dough. It came back twice as big and with flipping holes in it!!

[ShaunWhite]

So the reduced to clear mango chutney got wasted anyway.

Things like that are perfect for putting in the freezer, forgetting about for 6 months and then throwing in the bin. A jar is the perfect shape for trying to balance your ice cube tray on, apparently