ASDA Food is ABSOLUTE CODSWALLOP

Freddie_Snowbits

Well Freddie and Freda were out yesterday a little longer and normally we go and get some buns, cheese and ham from a local supermarket, butter ‘em up ourselves and make buns.

Well yesterday we could not find a decent shack, so had to resort to ADSA, no problemo there. WRONG!

The place was full of CHAVVY foods, pizza, Chicken Tikka. Now Freda is carefull about her meat, and we could not find any British Meat! All was cheap and product of the EU. I do not care for these foods, as I support British Farming. So OK, I will go for some Salmon. Wrong, it was like looking at grey misted pieces of eight. OK, we will have the prawns instead.

Biggest Mistake of our lives and I hope the seagulls liked them, they were awfull. When I started work in 1978, in a food factory, I was always told to be aware of double processed foods. These prawns were with added SALT.

I am blissfully aware that salt hides bad food, in this case, ASDA, you are ABSOLUTE CODSWALLOP.

NoSatisfaction

Tesco was recently berated for wrongly labelling meat on Watchdog!

Unfortunately, local butchers, fishmongers and green grocers have shut down because they just cannot compete with supermarkets.

The competition is not the only problem. Tesco can build police stations for the community when the local butcher cannot.

Supermarkets can build on cheap out of town sites, when local shops have to compete with high street rents and rates.

Supermarkets can sell shoddy food because all real competition has now gone!

It seems strange that veg can be shipped in from Africa by air cheaper than it costs to grow here.

It all seems totally screwed up!

DCFC79

Its what todays world has come to freddie

DCFC79

NoSatisfaction wrote: »

It seems strange that veg can be shipped in from Africa by air cheaper than it costs to grow here.

well they pay the pickers less dont they and they most likely get a discount to freight it over as it gets shipped over with other goods for other supermarkets(just a theory so could be wrong)

LisaLou1982

Agree with you totally Freddie - Asda fresh food is rubbish.

Local butcher for meat everytime. Likewise with the local fishmonger. We are lucky as we live 5min walk from the city centre so can get into town v easily and buy from the market.

I actually quite like Morrisons for fruit and veg and Sainsburys are usually good too.

Freddie_Snowbits

In Dursley, they got a lovelly new Fire Station, a rebuilt school and the community got its free car park demolished and a superstore, just on the edge of town. And which ways do the doors and entrance face?

You have guessed it, away from the town.

As for the foods from Africa, I am against the stealing of food from the mouths of the needy. Next time you are in TesDaSains and think how nice it is our over educated PC buyers are, think of the starving in Africa as well. Then ask why it probably rots outside the store, raather then feeds the starving.

anared

We do an ASDA shop once a month because they are cheaper for a lot of things (cleaning products, toilet roll, diswasher tabs, washing powder etc). Their cold meat is disgusting and I never buy it. I think their steak mince is ok though and they do sell organic chicken breasts which are normally really big (and taste nice!).

I think you just have to know what they do that's good and what's not. We top up at Waitrose every week for nice stuff (mainly meat and fresh veg) but I wouldn't discount Asda, some of their stuff is ok.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

NoSatisfaction wrote: »

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It seems strange that veg can be shipped in from Africa by air cheaper than it costs to grow here.

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Maybe not.., google Thanet Earth and look at what they are doing.

the fault is all down to the consumers desire to get thigns as cheap as possible. For that to happen food needs to be grown in places where labour is cheaper.

Vote with your feet and wallets

paddyrg

I Agree with the Buy British sentiment, and better buy local and accept a slightly higher price in order to keep your local shops. Yes, it costs more, but visiting Asda is such a soulless experience compared with a local grocer/butcher/etc., that you can't measure everything in £££ alone.

Jeff_Bridges_hair

paddyrg wrote: »

I Agree with the Buy British sentiment, and better buy local and accept a slightly higher price in order to keep your local shops. Yes, it costs more, but visiting Asda is such a soulless experience compared with a local grocer/butcher/etc., that you can't measure everything in £££ alone.

People do though. And they always will..

themull1

i don't always buy British. i buy cheapest.