Fuck me, rice gone dear

[Herbsman.]

yuck!

 

[PacificOcean]

Uncle Bens "Express" rice hasn't gone up

 

[crustychick]

yuck!

heathen.

can you actually get wholemeal/brown rice in those large sacks too? as I can never find 'em.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Has short grain at places like wing yip gone up too?

 

[aqua]

Uncle Bens "Express" rice hasn't gone up

yes but we're talking about FOOD

 

[Lea]

Has short grain at places like wing yip gone up too?

Our local Chinese supermarket See Woo used to do 10kg bag of rice for about a tenner. It's gone up to about £15 now but we usually buy Thai fragrant rice which is slightly more expensive.

 

[Sadken]

I just can't fight the feeling that Lidl is what supermarkets would be like if the Nazis had won; a totally joyless experience, not even so much as a hint of a frill and loads of posters repeating the same mantra "Lidl is cheaper" "Lidl is cheaper" "Lidl is cheaper" until it's drilled in and appears in your dreams.

 

[PacificOcean]

yes but we're talking about FOOD

It's still rice!

Just easier.

 

[Cid]

In fairness this was inevitable and we do thoroughly deserve it... Easy to say when I can afford the changes mind you, can't be good on benefits.

 

[zenie]

I just can't fight the feeling that Lidl is what supermarkets would be like if the Nazis had won; a totally joyless experience, not even so much as a hint of a frill and loads of posters repeating the same mantra "Lidl is cheaper" "Lidl is cheaper" "Lidl is cheaper" until it's drilled in and appears in your dreams.

Lidl's German, it's not Nazi owned. You want your supermarket with frills, then you pays the money innit.

 

[HackneyE9]

Only problem with Lidl is, is that to save money, a la Wetherspoons, you have one check-out girl, a queue 30-people long, all of whom have two trolleys, two baskest and two wheelie bags, and appear to be stocking up for the apocalypse.

I can, and have, spent seven minutes doing the shop, and 27 minutes waiting to pay for it. Only solution is to go mid-morning (early morning and you're fighting the drunks who go there for the cheap tinnies).

 

[zenie]

Only problem with Lidl is, is that to save money, a la Wetherspoons, you have one check-out girl, a queue 30-people long, all of whom have two trolleys, two baskest and two wheelie bags, and appear to be stocking up for the apocalypse.

What do people do with all those loo rolls and tins of tomatoes?

I can, and have, spent seven minutes doing the shop, and 27 minutes waiting to pay for it. Only solution is to go mid-morning (early morning and you're fighting the drunks who go there for the cheap tinnies).

yeh queuing can be a pain but c'est la vie, I'd rather wait and get cheap food.

 

[HackneyE9]

Has brown rice gone up? (Quite hard to find it here in Paris, outside of health food shops, so can't compare)

 

[scifisam]

What do people do with all those loo rolls and tins of tomatoes?

I'm one of those people - we always have about fifteen hundred loo rolls and tins of tomatoes in. My GF uses an awful lot of tomatoes in cooking, so I just pick up boxes full of them.

 

[HackneyE9]

What's more perturbing is what do people do with those crates and crates of crap sugary pop? yeeugh.

 

[baldrick]

I just can't fight the feeling that Lidl is what supermarkets would be like if the Nazis had won; a totally joyless experience, not even so much as a hint of a frill and loads of posters repeating the same mantra "Lidl is cheaper" "Lidl is cheaper" "Lidl is cheaper" until it's drilled in and appears in your dreams.

and supermarkets aren't totally devoid of joy normally?

dunno where you shop, but Waitrose is hardly fucking Nirvana.

it's just snobbery though, isn't it?

 

[DotCommunist]

and supermarkets aren't totally devoid of joy normally?

dunno where you shop, but Waitrose is hardly fucking Nirvana.

it's just snobbery though, isn't it?

loving the new waitrose ads 'everybody deserves waitrose'

but for those who cannot afford, eat your nettos prole-pap and feel sad! seems to be the subtext

 

[Herbsman.]

heathen.

can you actually get wholemeal/brown rice in those large sacks too? as I can never find 'em.

I've never seen it. No doubt there wouldn't be enough demand to make it worthwhile. I've tried to like brown rice, because it's bloody good for you compared to white, and I do like the taste of it, but it's just too bloody stodgy and heavy. It takes me about 4 years to digest it!

I used to like quinoa, when I first tried it. But after a few times, the novelty wore off, CBA with it now, nor vulgar wheat.

 

[Pip]

I've never seen it. No doubt there wouldn't be enough demand to make it worthwhile. I've tried to like brown rice, because it's bloody good for you compared to white, and I do like the taste of it, but it's just too bloody stodgy and heavy. It takes me about 4 years to digest it!

I used to like quinoa, when I first tried it. But after a few times, the novelty wore off, CBA with it now, nor vulgar wheat.

I don't think it can be used in the same way as white rice (well obviously it can, but not tastily). I always use white if I'm making a stew or curry, whereas brown is actually better if I'm making a salady type thing where rice plays only a small part. It's alright in stir-frys too.

 

[PacificOcean]

and supermarkets aren't totally devoid of joy normally?

dunno where you shop, but Waitrose is hardly fucking Nirvana.

it's just snobbery though, isn't it?

No, Waitrose has shelves.

The Lidil in Tottenham Hale just has stock chucked on the floor like a jumble sale with people trampling all over it.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Our local Chinese supermarket See Woo used to do 10kg bag of rice for about a tenner. It's gone up to about £15 now but we usually buy Thai fragrant rice which is slightly more expensive.

Shame, I kind of thought that Japanese/chinese rice crops might not be affected. Mind you I expect most it from the US.

 

[ViolentPanda]

yes but we're talking about FOOD

aqua said it so I didn't have to!

 

[ViolentPanda]

I just can't fight the feeling that Lidl is what supermarkets would be like if the Nazis had won; a totally joyless experience, not even so much as a hint of a frill and loads of posters repeating the same mantra "Lidl is cheaper" "Lidl is cheaper" "Lidl is cheaper" until it's drilled in and appears in your dreams.

It's actually like a lot of German supermarkets - not so much money wasted on bullshit promotional displays, more like what supermarkets in the UK were like in the 1970s.

 

[rover07]

Eh rice expensive, you're having a laugh surely. How much rice do you eat in a week

 

[twistedAM]

No, Waitrose has shelves.

The Lidil in Tottenham Hale just has stock chucked on the floor like a jumble sale with people trampling all over it.

The one in Streatham is really nice after the recent refit. Actually nicer than my local Sainsburys and anywhere is nicer than Brixton Tesco.

 

[scifisam]

I've only just realised that this thread title is short for 'fuck me, rice has gone dear!' as in expensive, rather than 'fuck me, the rice has gone, dear' as in sweetheart. It did seem a slightly odd phrasing.

 

[Ms T]

Pasta is much more expensive now as well. Found a packet from a few months ago at the back of the cupboard which was a third cheaper than the same brand now.

 

[baldrick]

It's actually like a lot of German supermarkets - not so much money wasted on bullshit promotional displays, more like what supermarkets in the UK were like in the 1970s.

Indeed.

 

[Sadken]

Gotta say, I don't mind paying for a bit of bullshit promotional displays then, few 80s soft rock tapes, that sort of thing. There's a weird atmosphere in Lidl.

 

[Herbsman.]

Eh rice expensive, you're having a laugh surely. How much rice do you eat in a week

All of it!