Tesco's Are Air Brushing Out ENGLAND

andysstuff_2

To be honest, life's far too short to worry excessively if butter is lavelled English or British. At the end ofthe day, it's a product of these shores, and that means not imported, which is the main thing.

Pink_fluff

I guess you can't win. If it's branded as English then Scottish, Welsh, Irish may take offence, but then it can be the other way around as well, would be the same for English people if Tesco branded something as Scottish, irish or welsh and not English!! Everybody is proud of where they are from, which I suppose is why the poster is so annoyed. How can Tesco win!!!??

cheapscate

Pink_fluff wrote: »

Just another example of English thinking they are better than everyone else!

Pink_fluff wrote: »

I'd just like to say my last post is to the original poster of this thread and is not meant to insult anybody from anywhere in the Uk.

I find your comment insulting even if it is only directed at the OP

uktim29

Someone actually thanked the original post!:rotfl:

Pink_fluff

Well as you have already read on my previous post, no offence was meant.

All I meant was there's nobody on these forums campaigning for Scotland to be splashed all over food, so I was just curious as to why the OP was so upset that the butter in question had 'british' and not 'english' written on the pack.

Sile_Mairin

spankymonkey wrote: »

pffffttttt is it really worth getting your knickers in a twist about it? lol i cannot believe some of the tosh that gets put on here........[/quote

Tosh to you important to others, so sorry that you feel identity is of such little importance but that is your choice not mine..


I do apologise to you Kuohu. I took it as an adult site where topics would be discussed, has no-one ever told you that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and the piece I have posted here was e mailed to me today from a friend who had the said conversation, so yes it was cut and pasted But from a personal friends mail.

echolalia Oh I do have a life and it is far from sad but how sad are you to think that only what you see as important is of value..

As for thinking I am better than anyone else cheapscate glad to say I do not feel so inadequate that I have to assert that I am better than anyone else, how childish would that be.

Sile_Mairin

Pink_fluff wrote: »

Well as you have already read on my previous post, no offence was meant.

All I meant was there's nobody on these forums campaigning for Scotland to be splashed all over food, so I was just curious as to why the OP was so upset that the butter in question had 'british' and not 'english' written on the pack.

The point being made was that it was only ENGLISH that was being ommited from packaging and renamed British with the Union flag, I bought Scottish angus steak bearing the Saltire, Tomatoes grown in Wales portraying the Red Dragon all I want is parity for my country so tell me why is that so wrong, and I feel quite sure that if one of the other nations was treated as a non-country there would be someone from there making the same complaint as me..

cheapscate

actually Sile Mairin I was quoting another poster and taking issue with their post.

Backbiter

There then followed a deep and meaningful discussion. The Scots lady said that every time she came south of the border she couldn’t move for union flags – because apparently, all English people are revelling in their British ident... While in her own country she and all her fellow compatriots were Scots first, second and third.

The whole conversation ended in a vexatious row. She just couldn’t grasp how insulted I felt to have my country rebranded as both a ‘region’ and as default Britain’. There is now a definite shift in strategy. They are now quoting ‘Focus Groups’ from the region of England as justification to rebrand to a British ident – and it’s all coming to a Tesco near you

I find it shocking that the swear filter on the website that the original rant was pasted from won't even allow the word identity to pass uncensored. It probably can't even cope with Saturday.

Pink_fluff

Sile_Mairin wrote: »

The point being made was that it was only ENGLISH that was being ommited from packaging and renamed British with the Union flag, I bought Scottish angus steak bearing the Saltire, Tomatoes grown in Wales portraying the Red Dragon all I want is parity for my country so tell me why is that so wrong, and I feel quite sure that if one of the other nations was treated as a non-country there would be someone from there making the same complaint as me..

Is it perhaps made with ingredients from places other than English or have tesco done it for no apparent/good reason? I understand what you are saying about the scottish beef/welsh tomatoes. I have not said once in any of my posts that it 'is wrong' I don't see that England is treated as a 'non country' Tesco are just idiots full stop, i wouldn't take it as an insult against your country.