Was I expecting too much?

SummerSunshine2

I don’t understand vegetarians. Won’t eat meat but eat animal products. It’s all the same to me.

Nodding_Donkey

LilElvis wrote: »

Just checked a pack of M&S mincers and they're made with vegetarian suet - apparently a mix of vegetable oil, palm oil and rice flour.

Poor Clyde :eek:

Kim_kim

I think it’s a generation thing, lots of young people don’t know what ingredients & non fast food items are.

I was in Waitrose a couple of weeks ago looking for their short grain pudding rice.

I expected it to be with the baking goods. I asked, the young girls just didn’t know what I was on about :-)
Anyway I found it with the tinned fruit. Oddly Waitrose separate out the dessert type stuff from the baking - if I were laying it out I’d put all that together.

charlotte1994

I once asked for marshmallows in a shop and got taken to the chocolate isle and given a box of tunnocks tea cakes. |:

charlotte1994

Kim_kim wrote: »

I think it’s a generation thing, lots of young people don’t know what ingredients & non fast food items are.

I was in Waitrose a couple of weeks ago looking for their short grain pudding rice.

I expected it to be with the baking goods. I asked, the young girls just didn’t know what I was on about :-)
Anyway I found it with the tinned fruit. Oddly Waitrose separate out the dessert type stuff from the baking - if I were laying it out I’d put all that together.

What does this even mean? :rotfl: of course we do!

Also do you mean rice pudding? I've never heard it been called pudding rice!! :think: maybe a regional thing!

spadoosh

Pudding rice is the rice you use to make rice pudding. Young people dont say pudding rice because rice pudding comes from a tin. If you had made rice pudding from scratch before (properly), you wouldve bought pudding rice. That said im 31 and regularly eat home made rice pudding.

As to the OP, its not that i think you expected too much i just think you expected something more than someone who really doesnt care about your christmas pudding eating habits with their main focus being to have as little contact with customers as possible.

Takmon

spadoosh wrote: »

Pudding rice is the rice you use to make rice pudding. Young people dont say pudding rice because rice pudding comes from a tin. If you had made rice pudding from scratch before (properly), you wouldve bought pudding rice. That said im 31 and regularly eat home made rice pudding.

As to the OP, its not that i think you expected too much i just think you expected something more than someone who really doesnt care about your christmas pudding eating habits with their main focus being to have as little contact with customers as possible.

Pudding rice is just a British name for a specific type of short grain rice. You can make rice pudding with any type of rice deepening on what you kind of texture you want and using other short grain rice is just as good in my opinion.

I wouldn't say it's not made properly if you don't use pudding rice. We don't even grow rice in the UK and where it's grown they certainly wouldn't be calling it pudding rice.

Mistral001

I think it is OK for the staff not know what somethings in their store are called - especially in large supermarkets. If they are temporary staff or new staff they cannot know everything.

I remember once going to the checkout of Lidls and the young person at the till held up the aubergine I was wanting to buy and asked me what it was. I told her, she looked up her price list and entered the sale in the cash register. I was OK with it. I think we all have to expect staff to be able to learn on the job and not expect them to act like experienced shop assistants from day one.

spadoosh

Sorry shouldve used 'traditional' instead of proper.

You can use other rices, but in order to make traditional rice pudding you need to use pudding rice as it offers the creamiest results.

Same as risotto, you can use any rice, theres a reason people use round small grain though, its tried and tested as offering the desired results.

KatrinaWaves

I definitely wouldn't consider it a generational issue with 'fast food' and not knowing what ingredients are. I could say the 'older gens' are more traditional in their food and wouldnt know some more international cuisine ingredients either, but I won't, because I am not generalising

Its more what you are exposed to and know about. I went shopping for my Mum and she wanted some maggi seasoning. I was with a friend who didnt have a clue what I was on about, because his Mum had never used it therefore he doesnt either, and had never heard of it. I'm sure there are some things I don't know about because its not something I was exposed to growing up and haven't accessed in 'adult' life.

I would expect Christmas puddings to be with Christmas cake, especially after Christmas when they are probably lumped together in a small section with anything remotely Christmas packaged. You weren't necessarily expecting too much, I reckon most people generally know what a Christmas pudding is, but tbh, a 16 year old Christmas temp at Christmas may not know, Im sadly out of touch with 16 year olds, but I do think its nothing to moan about. Generally though I would know from experience that everything remotely Christmassy would have been shoved out onto an end aisle come December 26th/27th and there would be no stash of Christmas puds out back.