5P curry -asda

jellyhead

I'm not sure they make a profit on it, but I bet plenty of people pick up the jar and then buy an overpriced pack of the supermarket's ready-sliced chicken strips or cubes.

kittiej

We have it on sausage and chips and it's nice. It's like the chippy curry sauce like someone else said earlier.

geordie_joe

The_Mighty_Gusset wrote: »

Quantify 'essentially' - and then explain to me why it's so much cheaper than buying just plain tomato puree.

Essentially, in this case, means the quantity of tomato puree is more than the quantity of any other single ingredient. This does not mean it is mostly tomato puree, just that there is more tomato puree than any one of the other ingredients.

Why is it cheaper than buying a jar of tomato puree, because all the other ingredients are cheaper than tomato puree, except for the water?.

The_Mighty_Gusset wrote: »

The answer is simple - it's RUBBISH !

Define RUBBISH, then explain why it fits your definition.

The_Mighty_Gusset wrote: »

Think about what you are buying,

Well, I have to admit I have never bought this curry, but I do buy Tesco curry at 4p per tin, and I can assure you it is not rubbish.

The_Mighty_Gusset wrote: »

Think about the packaging, the storage and transportation.
Think about the cost of the machinery involved in it's manufacture and the wages of the people all through the production process.
And then ask yourself how much is left over for the raw ingredients.

All that doesn't matter, as has been said before, it is a loss leader designed to force you to buy something else.

This curry won't make a meal on it's own, almost all sauce. The idea is, some spots the curry at 5p, grabs a jar, or several, but then they have to buy something else to go with it. And as jellyhead points out, more than likely it will be the over priced chicken slices or cubes.

If you look at the ingredients and the packaging it probably only costs 5p to produce the jar. So the supermarket is probably selling it at cost price to encourage people who buy it to buy other things.

It's not much different to them hiking up the price of custard and reducing the price of sponge puddings. Knowing many people will see the reduced price of the sponge pudding, grab some, then grab the custard without thinking.

Petlamb

Lets be honest, some people are just so desperate to have their opinions they don't bother looking into things first!

I love the cheapy curry Had it tonight in fact, with some of the chicken from this week's 'rubber chicken' and some rice [done in the rice cooker so gorgeous]

jellyhead

I still haven't tried it, but I love the stuff they sell in chip shops so I'm expecting this to be similar. The chip shop charges 85p for a small pot of it, so this is moneysaving

Lip_Stick

I saw this sauce but didn't bother buying it. I wanted to see what other MSEs thought of it. Will definitely give it a go since it's like chip shop curry. I generally do my home made curries too hot for my little one so it'll be good for back up.

Vixie_Pixie

it makes a nice vegetable curry.. we just add a few spices (garam masala, chilli, cumin, coriander etc) to give it a bit more oomph!!