name & shame shoddy food products

[WasGeri]

All margerine is evil!!!!! None of it tastes good.
Eat butter - it's far far nicer and contains no shite

Flora is nice

Although not as nice as butter, admittedly.

 

[equationgirl]

A food scientist once told me that margerine is a sort of hideous insipid grey colour when it's made and has to be dyed buttery colour....... mmmm....I'll have a huge dollop of that on my jacket potato please!

Tis true, one of my food books says beta carotene is added to give it the lovely yellow butteresque colour. I eat an organic spreadable which is butter and sunflower oil mixed together - makes it spread from the fridge and contains more polyunstaurated fat than butter

I would like to nominate Sainsburys Organic Tomato and Basil Soup as a totally crap product.

Me and my mate had some at lunchtime. I couldn't eat it as it tasted way too salty and just wrong, he manfully perservered for a couple more mouthfuls and then declared it was disgusting - and this from a man who is a walking dustbin. I checked the ingredients afterwards - it was 90% water with 9% tomato puree and the salt content was 4g a tin, unsurprisingly, as there was bugger all else in it.

 

[harpo scruggs]

I got a Broccoli and cheddar cheese soup from Morrison's, disgusting What's wrong with stilton, yummy

 

[Wookey]

I got a Tesco's 'Much More Expensive' range curry t'other night. Cost us more than a tenner for two of us, and it was the nastiest curry I've ever had.

I took it back to the shop the next day, and said that despite a promise on the back of an appearance from Mssrs Garlic, Turmeric and chilli, I could taste none of the above. I got a full refund, and a letter sent to the product sourcing department.

I'd urge everyone to go and get their money back if a product fails to please. Too many companies get away with serving inedible crap, and we need to throw it back in their faces in disgust!!

Instead of weakly chucking the product in the bin, get full refund retribution and waggle that jar at some boss somewhere and give him something to do.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I eat an organic spreadable which is butter and sunflower oil mixed together - makes it spread from the fridge and contains more polyunstaurated fat than butter

What's that and where can I get some!!

 

[Stobart Stopper]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13463679,00.html

Yuck.

 

[sonik]

All New Covent Garden soups, foul disgusting slop. Make your own.
Any tomato ketchup other than Heinz but i suppose you could make your own, anyone do that?

 

[Poi E]

My girlfriend's fruit loaf is fucking horrible. Avoid at all costs.

 

[hammerntongues]

Tis true, one of my food books says beta carotene is added to give it the lovely yellow butteresque colour.

what you say is true but Beta carotene is both natural and good for you , some people even take beta carotene capsules.

 

[fractionMan]

some people even take beta carotene capsules.

Who?

Why not eat a carrot?

 

[hammerntongues]

Who?

Why not eat a carrot?

for the same reason those that take Cod liver oil tablets don`t eat cods livers perhaps ?

marketing and higher concentrations

 

[equationgirl]

What's that and where can I get some!!

I've found two, although I was in sainsbury's the other day and couldn't see their own brand organic spreadable (which was one) and the other is a Yeo Valley organic spread (same people that make the nice yoghurts). Either of them are yummy, and just contain butter, sunflower oil and a pinch of salt.

 

[equationgirl]

All New Covent Garden soups, foul disgusting slop. Make your own.
Any tomato ketchup other than Heinz but i suppose you could make your own, anyone do that?

Now it's funny you should say that, but I tried two of those this week and wasn't impressed with either.

The first one, winter vegetable, wasn't too bad tastewise but did not have the pasta in it I was told to expect by the packet, and the second one, chicken mulligatawny, was just more like a curry sauce than a nice soup and was just overpowering. I couldn't eat it, but what put me off was that it looked like someone had thrown up in a bowl.

And the organic Heinz tomato ketchup is very very good, you have to try to try it. Much better than the normal stuff, which is pretty tasty.

 

[nightowl]

i think there was a survey not that long ago that showed that covent garden products had one of the highest salt contents of any soup

 

[killer b]

the marks & sparks ketchup is lush too.

greggs have been letting me down badly recently - the contents of their 'so nasty they're nice' sausage bean & cheese pasties have dwindles from a scrumptious 7 lumps of sausage when they first appeared a month or so ago to fuck all when i had one yesterday.

and it was cold.

 

[toggle]

I got a Broccoli and cheddar cheese soup from Morrison's, disgusting What's wrong with stilton, yummy

but i'd pick brocoli with cheddder rather than stilton because my other half is alergic to stilton. I'm glad for the warning not to go for that one though. I'll stick to making my own. simple enough to do.

 

[oryx]

I got a Tesco's 'Much More Expensive' range curry t'other night. Cost us more than a tenner for two of us, and it was the nastiest curry I've ever had.

Bet it wasn't as nasty as the Linda McCartney vegetable curry I had the other week. I had to throw most of it away.

Veg curries are usually inoffensive, & it is usually unheard of for me to leave food, never mind chuck it in the bin.

Although I will say it was cheaper than the Tesco one!

 

[Maggot]

All New Covent Garden soups, foul disgusting slop. Make your own.
Any tomato ketchup other than Heinz but i suppose you could make your own, anyone do that?

I haven't eaten on recently, but those soups used to be fine. They were full of fresh healthy ingredients. It's possible that the growth of the company had led to larger scale production and a decrease in quality.

 

[Maggot]

I got a Tesco's 'Much More Expensive' range curry t'other night. Cost us more than a tenner for two of us, and it was the nastiest curry I've ever had.

I took it back to the shop the next day, and said that despite a promise on the back of an appearance from Mssrs Garlic, Turmeric and chilli, I could taste none of the above. I got a full refund, and a letter sent to the product sourcing department.

What's wrong with your local Indian take away? Mine would deliver a hot fresh Indian meal to my door for a similar price.

 

[equationgirl]

I'm with Maggot on that one. My local indian is superb, does the best veggie pakora I've ever tasted.

 

[Wookey]

Veg curries are usually inoffensive, & it is usually unheard of for me to leave food, never mind chuck it in the bin.

Same here, that's why I had to take the boxes back, I was so angry at having to waste food (yeah, I chucked it too, it was too rank to eat, had some toast instead) that I wanted my money back and them to know how foul their Better Than Good cury was. And how do you fuck up a veg curry anyway??

What's wrong with your local Indian take away? Mine would deliver a hot fresh Indian meal to my door for a similar price.

It wasn't gonna be a curry night, it was a 'go to Tesco Metro and see what they've got' night. My local curry house would deliver a far better curry, you're right. I have learned my lesson!

 

[Phototropic]

It wasn't gonna be a curry night, it was a 'go to Tesco Metro and see what they've got' night.

<shudder>

 

[Wookey]

*pokes photo*

 

[cyberfairy]

linda mcartney sausages are foul but i still purchased some yesterday as they were buy one get one free so i could have twice as much of something i don't like
co-ops leek and potato soup is the foulest thing in the world, a grey thin spoop reminiscent of something fed to prisoners in the old soviet bloc. with added water.

 

[gentlegreen]

Whatever it tastes of it isn't pomegranate

 

[WasGeri]

Whatever it tastes of it isn't pomegranate

Agreed - it's minging.

They sell proper pomegranate juice in the Sweet Mart.

 

[ChrisFilter]

I love pomegreat

 

[WasGeri]

I love pomegreat

Have you tried the real thing though? It's like comparing orange squash and orange juice. It's diluted.

 

[ScallyWag II]

for some stupid reason, i know not why, i bought and tried some (warbutons i think) pizza flavoured crumpets recently. They were seriously minging, rank eucccch shitey shite. fucking awful, avoid at all costs...

 

[MarkMark]

I know we've done it to death already...

but cheese spread

for fucks sake.. real cheese does not spread!!

unless you're weird of course