Food prices

[Busaholic]

However, I'm still of the opinion that, evident though the cost of living crisis is, and deepening rapidly (unless you are a potential millionaire PM who "feels your pain"....obviously! ) despite what the supermarkets say, they've been avaricious enough to quietly increase prices, and subsequently profits / dividends / bonus's under the convenient guise of blaming Covid / Ukraine...and Brexit.

Ditto supermarket petrol/diesel prices: no movement in my town for over a week, when prices should have gone down by at least 6p per litre.

 

[johntea]

Even McDonalds are at it now...if you thought 99p for a hash brown was expensive...they're now £1.19 a piece or 20% more expensive!

Yet you can still buy a hamburger for 89p or a cheeseburger for 99p

 

[Gloster]

Yet you can still buy a hamburger for 89p or a cheeseburger for 99p

Not any more you can’t: the BBC are reporting that the cheeseburger has gone up to £1.19. No news about the hamburger. (Am I bothered? No, I have been boycotting McSatan’s for years.)

 

[Busaholic]

Not any more you can’t: the BBC are reporting that the cheeseburger has gone up to £1.19. No news about the hamburger. (Am I bothered? No, I have been boycotting McSatan’s for years.)

Apparently it was 99p for the last thirteen years. Can't remember how much it was when I last ate one in the 1990s!

 

[takno]

Apparently it was 99p for the last thirteen years. Can't remember how much it was when I last ate one in the 1990s!

I think maybe it went from 79p to 99p. At the time the non-cheese burger was 59p

 

[DannyMich2018]

Apparently it was 99p for the last thirteen years. Can't remember how much it was when I last ate one in the 1990s!

I can't stand McDonald's. They sell overrated unhealthy rubbish which doesn't fill you. If I want a burger for a treat I'll go another takeaway or make one myself. Not going to shed any tears about their increase in price cause I don't go!

 

[birchesgreen]

I can't stand McDonald's. They sell overrated unhealthy rubbish which doesn't fill you. If I want a burger for a treat I'll go another takeaway or make one myself. Not going to shed any tears about their increase in price cause I don't go!

I used to think that as a kid, but as a middle aged man i find a MaccyD fills me up now.

Can't beat a filet-o-fish, fries and a milkshake (vanilla of course, i'm not a deviant)

 

[ABB125]

I can't stand McDonald's. They sell overrated unhealthy rubbish which doesn't fill you. If I want a burger for a treat I'll go another takeaway or make one myself. Not going to shed any tears about their increase in price cause I don't go!

If I want a burger (or anything) for a treat, fast food is not where I'd go. It's entirely for when you're travelling and can't/don't want to get something better, or are in a foreign country where you have no idea where to go etc.
I can't understand why people would go there regularly for their daily meal(s). Madness!

 

[DelayRepay]

When I was a boy, we went to McDonalds once a year on my birthday as a treat.

I still remember a day when I was about 7, when there was a gas leak at home. Mum took me to McDonalds because she couldn't cook anything, and I thought all my Christmases had come at once.

Now I can't stand their burgers. The breakfasts are ok, but were better when they had the bagels on the menu.

 

[ABB125]

When I was a boy, we went to McDonalds once a year on my birthday as a treat.

I still remember a day when I was about 7, when there was a gas leak at home. Mum took me to McDonalds because she couldn't cook anything, and I thought all my Christmases had come at once.

Now I can't stand their burgers. The breakfasts are ok, but were better when they had the bagels on the menu.

Personally I find the breakfast menu dire (though that may be due to, amongst other things, me not liking fat on bacon, or eggs etc, which rules out most of it!) and have never partaken of any of its offerings.

 

[Gloster]

It looks as though the Co-op have raised the price of their cheapest strawberry jam from £1 or £1.10 to £1.40. (Unless they have decided to only stock more expensive options.)

 

[Lost property]

If I want a burger (or anything) for a treat, fast food is not where I'd go. It's entirely for when you're travelling and can't/don't want to get something better, or are in a foreign country where you have no idea where to go etc.
I can't understand why people would go there regularly for their daily meal(s). Madness!

Ah but, went to Toulouse on a project a few years ago with a new ahem (polite term) "colleague " as he'd been there before I said so you'll know where to eat then....certainly he said....and headed straight for McD's !..which I declined...it got a lot worse in the hotel as he refused to speak even basic French...and wondered why I got served loooooong before he did.

Food prices ? well before Christmas, Tesco were selling Bisto chip shop curry, nothing like the real thing, but hey ho, that's marketing for you, pots at 90p....last seen, in passing yesterday, now a mere £1.85 !

 

[contrex]

Ah but, went to Toulouse on a project a few years ago with a new ahem (polite term) "colleague " as he'd been there before I said so you'll know where to eat then....certainly he said....and headed straight for McD's !..which I declined...it got a lot worse in the hotel as he refused to speak even basic French...and wondered why I got served loooooong before he did.

Food prices ? well before Christmas, Tesco were selling Bisto chip shop curry, nothing like the real thing, but hey ho, that's marketing for you, pots at 90p....last seen, in passing yesterday, now a mere £1.85 !

I like Flunch, where les gourmets rencontrent les gourmands (or they used to) three in Toulouse. They usually to have one main item at least each day à volonté (all you can eat), today it's moules 12 € 95 and the vegetables including frites are always all-you-can-eat. When we used to go to Nice on a budget, part of the fun was sitting in Flunch next to the gare SNCF watching all the diners.

 

[Lost property]

I like Flunch, where les gourmets rencontrent les gourmands (or they used to) three in Toulouse. They usually to have one main item at least each day à volonté (all you can eat), today it's moules 12 € 95 and the vegetables including frites are always all-you-can-eat. When we used to go to Nice on a budget, part of the fun was sitting in Flunch next to the gare SNCF watching all the diners.

Well quite, it's notoriously difficult to find anywhere to eat in France as everybody knows, hence McD's was his oasis...in Copenhagen, it was KFC and /or Burger King. In the hotel, frankly embarrassing ..."steak, well done, and chips ! "....no please or thank you btw.

Nice little ploy in Morrisons....every shelf and product just about with yellow stickers saying "Two for £xx "...single item price not as visible as it should be.

 

[Gloster]

I like Flunch, where les gourmets rencontrent les gourmands (or they used to) three in Toulouse. They usually to have one main item at least each day à volonté (all you can eat), today it's moules 12 € 95 and the vegetables including frites are always all-you-can-eat. When we used to go to Nice on a budget, part of the fun was sitting in Flunch next to the gare SNCF watching all the diners.

I used to have a map of where the various flunches were, which was useful if I wanted a quick meal. More recently they seem to have moved out of the centres to wherever the out-of-town shopping centres were.

Nice little ploy in Morrisons....every shelf and product just about with yellow stickers saying "Two for £xx "...single item price not as visible as it should be.

Morrison’s have (on and off) for some time used yellow stickers to give the impression that a product is in some way reduced. It is legal as there is nothing on the sticker saying, or even directly implying, that the item is reduced or on offer, but I bet it catches people.

 

[Busaholic]

Morrison’s have (on and off) for some time used yellow stickers to give the impression that a product is in some way reduced. It is legal as there is nothing on the sticker saying, or even directly implying, that the item is reduced or on offer, but I bet it catches people.

Their latest ploy (almost said trick) is to advertise any three or more of their 'The Best' wine range at 25% off, with yellow stickers below the relevant wines. The problem for the unobservant shopper is that about as many of their other wines have the same size and colour stickers, but don't come at 25% discount. I would almost call it sharp practice i.e. possibly just this side of legal. I fell foul of it a couple of days ago, but accepted that I should have been paying more scrutiny on that occasion. However, if they also contInue to place wrong bottles of the grape variety in the spaces above the stickers words will be exchanged.

 

[davehsug]

Just one rise to report today. 340g tinned corned beef, last week £2.25 today £2.75.

 

[contrex]

I used to have a map of where the various flunches were, which was useful if I wanted a quick meal. More recently they seem to have moved out of the centres to wherever the out-of-town shopping centres were.

That's happened in Nice. The one in Avenue Thiers next to the SNCF station (they had SNCF passenger info screens on the wall) has closed and you have to go to either Saint-Isidore or Lingostière. Only handy if you have a car. It's a shame. Some of the happiest times I can remember were in Flunch. The jambon rôti à la découpe (à volonté !!!) where the motherly lady put it on my plate and wanted to know what I wanted with it - 'Avec ?' she went. 'Euuuh avec...' I said. 'Avec avec...' she went, grinning all the while. The French are such lovely people.

 

[yorksrob]

Bought a small carton of milk for £1.05 today. Sure it was 55p a few weeks ago !

Hope the cows are getting a payrise out of it.

 

[Gloster]

Something related to food prices. Over the last few weeks I have noticed that the basket in my local Co-op for donations of goods to the food-bank is much emptier. It is emptied on a Friday morning and usually by Thursday afternoon it would be full, even overflowing on occasions. For the last few weeks it has only been about half-full on Thursday and today it wasn’t even that.

 

[Baxenden Bank]

Bought a small carton of milk for £1.05 today. Sure it was 55p a few weeks ago !

Hope the cows are getting a payrise out of it.

Saw them going to the milking parlour in a stretch limo the other day.

 

[yorksrob]

Saw them going to the milking parlour in a stretch limo the other day.

Only Waitrose silage from now on !

 

[route101]

Personally I find the breakfast menu dire (though that may be due to, amongst other things, me not liking fat on bacon, or eggs etc, which rules out most of it!) and have never partaken of any of its offerings.

They took the two best things on breakfast menu off, bagel and wrap. Tim Hortons breakfast is no match.

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Even McDonalds are at it now...if you thought 99p for a hash brown was expensive...they're now £1.19 a piece or 20% more expensive!

Yet you can still buy a hamburger for 89p or a cheeseburger for 99p

Who buys a single hash brown at McDonalds ha

 

[Jimini]

They took the two best things on breakfast menu off, bagel and wrap. Tim Hortons breakfast is no match.

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Who buys a single hash brown at McDonalds ha

I know of a couple of colleagues who routinely add a bonus second hash brown to their McMuffin meal deal of a morning!

 

[Darandio]

I know of a couple of colleagues who routinely add a bonus second hash brown to their McMuffin meal deal of a morning!

I thought everyone did?

 

[Jimini]

I thought everyone did?

Haha -- hat tip to @Bletchleyite on this topic as well -- today I did the "add a third sausage patty" trick to a double sausage and egg McMuffin, this morning. Haven't eaten anything since 10:30am!

 

[yorksrob]

Haha -- hat tip to @Bletchleyite on this topic as well -- today I did the "add a third sausage patty" trick to a double sausage and egg McMuffin, this morning. Haven't eaten anything since 10:30am!

I'd need a round of gaviscon after that !

 

[Jimini]

I'd need a round of gaviscon after that !

I didn't see that on the list of optional extras when ordering, but I guess you could add them from your own supplies just underneath the egg as required if so

 

[yorksrob]

I didn't see that on the list of optional extras when ordering, but I guess you could add them from your own supplies just underneath the egg as required if so

Perhaps thet could crumble some into a novel McFlurry

 

[Bletchleyite]

Personally I find the breakfast menu dire (though that may be due to, amongst other things, me not liking fat on bacon, or eggs etc, which rules out most of it!) and have never partaken of any of its offerings.

I particularly love the taste of the sausage patties (hence knowing about adding an extra one). By the way, the very distinctive taste of them, if you fancy making your own from pork mince, is nothing artificial but just dried sage!