Re: Today in The Mail re women taking allotments!

Welsh Witch wrote: 
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:03:52 +0100, MM wrote:


On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:01:41 +0100, Welsh Witch <ww@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:41:31 +0100, MM wrote:


On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:57:08 GMT, Maria <frustated@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


I will watch it but already know enough not to bother - I always shop
at Lidl's and the quality is superior at two thirds the price. I feel
better and I saved enough money to buy a decent motor!


Hey, ditto! I like the prawns in cocktail sauce, the rye bread, the
salami, the potato salad, even the eggs have yellower yolks compared to
the anaemic ones from the 'main' supermarkets. Rice, noodles,
cornflakes, drinks, chocolate - all vastly better value than anywhere
else.

MM 

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Don't let me disillusion you...but I do have to tell you that farmers
even those supposedly selling free range (not exactly) can feed their
chickens a dye that colours the yolks...I am not sure about the dye maybe
on google? ****************************


Oh, sure! And all those eggs my dad got from our chickens had deep yellow
yolks because he fed them on dye, yes?

MM

NO of course not...chickens genuinely running outside have eggs with very
hard shells and orange yolks....absolutely true...but I do know some
farmers who have their chickens in sheds... I asked him how he managed to
have such yellow yolks in the eggs and he said he fed them something to
colour the yolks. I don;t know if the following includes this can't stop/ 

((OutofRange: Food & Drink Archive
Free-range eggs (fried) - Waitrose Columbian blacktail organic, ... Large food
processors, it turns out, have been adulterating our chicken and other meats ...
www.outofrange.net/blogarchive/archives/cat_food_drink.html - ))


When the late Mrs G and I lived in a village in Warwickshire, our local greengrocer was furious with the Trading Standards People, who'd had a go at him for selling 'free range eggs' without the appropriate documentation or anything.

'How', Trading Standards had asked him, 'do you know they're really free range?'

'Because every time I drive into the farm to collect them I have to watch out not to run over the sodding chickens, of course!'

Steve

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