Food Industry is changing at last...

/fetches Nick his spoon

Pepsi Max FTW!



(apart from the awful adverts at the mo...)

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Originally Posted by MrChris

Do you know what i drink the most?

Milk

I mean how can you get better than 40p for 500ml and 71p for a litre??? and it tastes great:mrgreen: :lol:

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I feel sorry for farmers really. All this competition between Asda et al means that the grocers are trying to cut prices left, right and centre. Usually its the buy price which is the one reduced, not the % markup :)

Anyway while we are on about milk - Full fat is only about 4% fat iirc, so why do people look at me as if I'm eating a LARD sandwich with a sugar coating and all go " oooooh..... full fat milk" when I want a nice lovely drink.

4% is a low figure folks regarding fat content, I'm sure that slimfast bar that the same people seem to worship probably has more fat in.

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Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN

4% is a low figure folks regarding fat content, I'm sure that slimfast bar that the same people seem to worship probably has more fat in.

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good point :0 and well made. Just watch out....there's an Auran about, and he knows STUFF about food.

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Originally Posted by menthel

Waitrose do nice meet though.

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Meet is mudder?! :)

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Originally Posted by fuddam

Aspartame seems to be the strongest contender yet for the root cause of ME.

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Aspartame *is* carcinogenic. What bugs me is that they put it in non-diet drinks too (it must be cheaper than sugar then).
R****a tooth-kind my hat - your bowels will drop out before your teeth - woo hoo. :-(

W.

The problem with eating or drink healthy stuff (processed) is that they charge too much.
Why does orange juice cost a bomb when you buy it in a small amount, the gits.

I was going to "let it lie", but I'm afraid that the the soapbox is coming out :eek:

The real enemy is not heartless multinational food companies, evil retailers or even the government, oh no, it is joe public..... yes you and me, the bloke walking his dog across the street, even the girl next door. All of us buy food and then eat it.

Where do we buy it? From a retailer usually because we're too busy to grow our own or not organised enough to find other alternative sources.

Who makes it? Food companies of course, and what do they make..... food that sells well, because thats the only way they can make money. Why does it sell well? because we buy it!!

And who legislates what we should have in our food? The government of course. So who elects them? Guess what we do. Why do they legislate? to appease us and make them voteworthy.

Now does anyone here spot a pattern?

Could it be that we have a certain amount of control over what we eat, what goes in it and where we buy from? Before we start throwing rocks we should look in the mirror first and ask ourselves whether we are trying to avoid the consequences of our own actions by blaming someone else?

Rant over, soapbox put away. But be warned I shall be back tomorrow to pontificate some more :p

Cant argue with that..

The only time that starts to break down is when people are misslead by lack of knowledge, a brand of chrisps marketed as 'healthy' (i think they were called light or something) fooled a friend of mine, because she didn't understand about saturated fat.

Now who's responsible, the government for not educating the public well enough, which is blissfully ignorant of the problems? So the public re-elects them?

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Originally Posted by Nick

I take it you can prove your allegations?

Not forgetting that I worked for JS for five years and I KNOW where a lot of their veg comes from.

I'll just sit here and wait for real proof... so no links to some mad git's website making outrageous claims of baby strangling to increase crop yeilds, show me some proof from a recognised and respected source.

Oh, and nutritional comparisons would be good too, though I think you need to qualify what 'traditionaly grown' veg is, perhaps? (And saying its 'veg grown in the traditional way' isn't good enough, sorry) What traditional way is that?

And while you're on, I'd also be interested in seeing evidence of JS undermining communist ideals too... and perhaps you can supply evidence of all your income being donated to worthy causes, cos, after all, you're not playing the capitalist game, eh? ;)



Oh god, I love winding Rave up so much it hurts sometimes!

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But mate, most of their produce does not include the country of origin!

I am too drunk and tired to say anything other than that my tongue became increasingly firmly planted in my cheek as I wrote my last post:P.

However there was a grain of truth in it and I shall be back....

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Originally Posted by DaBeeeenster

But mate, most of their produce does not include the country of origin!

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Erm, yes it does, cos it's the law that it should.

Not that I'm defending JS, I make it a point not to shop there since they shafted me... In fact the only reason I posted was to crank Rave's top up to immense speeds... :P

(Try highlighting the blank space under my first post! :D)

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Originally Posted by Nick

Try highlighting the blank space under my first post!

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I think you deserve the following award Nick, for the constant baiting of Rave :p

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9909/goldspoon2ir.gif

Anyway, I've had my full fat milk today, all is great again and my coffee tasted much better than if I used semi-skimmed milk :)