Re: Food excess in Britain

MM wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:34:22 +0100, "Norman Wells" <norman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

MM wrote:

If the local shops have closed down, then one has little choice but
to dance to the supermarkets' tune. But now, shoppers are shunning
the Tescopoly and flooding into the discounters like Aldi and Lidl
because their financial predicament has forced them to economise.

Er, but they're still supermarkets, and shoppers are still 'dancing
to their tune' apparently. So, what is your point?

Aldi and Lidl do not rip customers off. They sell their products at
considerably lower prices.

Then stop criticising supermarkets in general.

This, to my
mind, exactly describes the process of controlling one's own
impulses and destiny.

Meanwhile, I buy my two sausages and two rashers of bacon from the
local butcher.

Seven times a week presumably. Go to Tesco, buy more and at lower
price, put them in the freezer. You know it makes sense.

Do you think I live on sausages? I might only buy a couple every other
week. I like variety. Stuffing a freezer with sausages is the very
opposite of variety.

The thing about a freezer that you clearly don't understand is that you can keep food in there for quite a long time and bring it out when you want. It's how it works, you see. You can have as much variety as you like. You can even eat things like rasperries out of season. You can buy when things are cheap, and eat when they're expensive. If you're that way inclined, you could even laugh yourself silly at Tesco's expense when you do that, thinking of how much the item would be if you bought it today. Wonderful!

By all means avoid Tesco if you're feeble minded and really can't resist the siren call of a bin-liner BOGOF when you've gone there to buy two loose potatoes for your evening feast, but please don't criticise them when they give us the opportunity to eat what we like when we like. It's because they do that that we spend one pound in every seven on food there.


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