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Post by Q-pee on Mar 27, 2024 8:05:13 GMT -5
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Post by wombatrois on Mar 27, 2024 8:05:52 GMT -5
We have basically a two supermarket (grocery store) duopoly here. The domestic airline duopoly was demonised (eventually) and there are noises about doing the same to supermarkets.
Lidl pulled out of the idea of opening in Australia because of the Coles and Woolworths factor.
Personally I shop at IGAs and Aldi (because you can't buy toilet paper at farmers markets)
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Post by groo on Mar 27, 2024 8:06:19 GMT -5
... and bought our sdibles from grocery stores that delivered as a matter of course.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 27, 2024 8:09:04 GMT -5
lol at the idea of artisanal farmers market toilet paper
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Post by shilgia on Mar 27, 2024 8:11:41 GMT -5
Hasgen dazs is on special at Woolies this week. I don’t shop at Woolworths on principle. Curious - what principle? |
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 27, 2024 8:42:44 GMT -5
I'll take a guess and Phar can correct me. Was it this? www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/24/woolworths-australia-day-merchandise-ceo-response-bradford-banducci-peter-dutton-boycottAustralia Day commemorates the day white people turned up in Australia and established a settlement. For most of my life, and Phar's it's been little more than an excuse to have a barbecue and go to the beach. There were usually summer events including some special sports things. But now it's being looked more critically, as Aussies (like other nations) try to come to terms with their colonial past. And it's a day of mourning or protest for many Indigenous Australians. Woolies decided not to sell the regalia that went with the white people's typical celebration of the day. That made some people grumpy. |
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Post by groo on Mar 27, 2024 8:59:20 GMT -5
I suspect that Woolies made a decision made on commercial realism rather than idealistic fervour, but yes - I'd be interested in Phar's reasoning.
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Post by shilgia on Mar 27, 2024 9:58:36 GMT -5
I'll take a guess and Phar can correct me. Was it this? www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/24/woolworths-australia-day-merchandise-ceo-response-bradford-banducci-peter-dutton-boycottAustralia Day commemorates the day white people turned up in Australia and established a settlement. For most of my life, and Phar's it's been little more than an excuse to have a barbecue and go to the beach. There were usually summer events including some special sports things. But now it's being looked more critically, as Aussies (like other nations) try to come to terms with their colonial past. And it's a day of mourning or protest for many Indigenous Australians. Woolies decided not to sell the regalia that went with the white people's typical celebration of the day. That made some people grumpy. Ah, ok. Thank you. |
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Post by tucano on Mar 27, 2024 11:32:54 GMT -5
You all seem to have access to more upmarket brands than we do in the UK (London is probably different). There are a couple of really good ice cream/gelato places in Brighton.
I love gelato in Italy, anything hazelnut is great. I had the best raspberry sorbet on a hot day in Verona.
If I get ice cream in a cone my favourites are mint choc chip, toffee crunch and raspberry ripple from New Forest Ice Cream, which is mostly only found locally.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 27, 2024 14:45:50 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 27, 2024 16:17:55 GMT -5
I just had some Haagen-Dazs mango gelato at my mom's, and it was tasty. (I forget which a has the dieresis.)
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Post by Webs on Mar 27, 2024 18:08:10 GMT -5
I hate talenti because I the lid is very hard to open and then whe you do get it open it's hugely disappointing. On the otherside, those jars are useful for storing thing.
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Post by groo on Mar 27, 2024 19:21:53 GMT -5
I don’t shop at Woolworths on principle. Curious - what principle? From Twitter this morning: Gary Fallon reposted Pup Fiction @jjjove Just went to Woolies and there are no hot cross buns on sale with icing outlining the Australian flag on them or easter eggs wrapped in Australian flag aluminium foil. How am I supposed to celebrate Easter with appropriate patriotism? I am outraged at this woke madness!! 12:22 PM · Mar 27, 2024 · 4,203 Views |
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Post by wombatrois on Mar 27, 2024 21:12:45 GMT -5
Snort.
J is on twitter, but I refuse to be as I don't have time to be sucked in. He does tell me a lot of the funny stuff though.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Mar 28, 2024 3:50:27 GMT -5
We have basically a two supermarket (grocery store) duopoly here. The domestic airline duopoly was demonised (eventually) and there are noises about doing the same to supermarkets. Lidl pulled out of the idea of opening in Australia because of the Coles and Woolworths factor. Personally I shop at IGAs and Aldi (because you can't buy toilet paper at farmers markets) I don’t buy toilet paper at the supermarket I get Who Gives a Crap delivered. |
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Post by wombatrois on Mar 28, 2024 4:09:55 GMT -5
I thought it was better to support local industry rather than loo paper from China, but I know lots of people buy who gives a crap (so no judgement).
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Post by romily on Mar 28, 2024 4:28:02 GMT -5
I love Italian gelato, you can get the real good stuff in Germany as well (many Italians emigrated there). Never got into the heavy cream based ice cream.
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Post by Q-pee on Mar 28, 2024 4:38:29 GMT -5
I just had some Haagen-Dazs mango gelato at my mom's, and it was tasty. (I forget which a has the dieresis.) It's not a real language so don't worry about it. |
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Post by sprite on Mar 28, 2024 9:00:43 GMT -5
I hate talenti because I the lid is very hard to open and then whe you do get it open it's hugely disappointing. On the otherside, those jars are useful for storing thing. Huel powder containers are also fantastic storage containers, and very good for growing Mint, or anyt other plant that needs long roots. My friend introduced me to vanilla powder. I think it's basically dried and ground vanilla bean, but it's a lot easier to work with, and gets around the problem of alcohol in vanilla extract, or of the vanilla extract adding too much liquid. |
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Post by Webs on Mar 28, 2024 20:15:03 GMT -5
Holy crap that stuffs expensive.
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Post by wombatrois on Mar 28, 2024 21:48:04 GMT -5
There's a gelato brand here that has those screw top containers that are great for storage. I've stopped buying it now I have enough containers :-D
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Post by shilgia on Mar 28, 2024 22:02:34 GMT -5
I just looked at their website. I didn't realize Huel had branched out to, well, real food. Like pasta, chili, etc.
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Post by jimm on Mar 29, 2024 0:17:43 GMT -5
Many an Aussie shed and garage has these jars full of nails and screws etc.  |
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Post by sprite on Mar 29, 2024 9:42:09 GMT -5
I just looked at their website. I didn't realize Huel had branched out to, well, real food. Like pasta, chili, etc. I can vouch that the pasta is bearable. It's not real pasta, but for fitness or camping, acceptable. |
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Post by vinnyd on Mar 29, 2024 9:46:40 GMT -5
Häagen-Dazs's name really bothered me when it first came out. There was a map of Scandinavia on the lid, but I didn't know of any Scandinavian language that could have a zs, or of any Scandinavian language (or any European language, maybe any language at all) that could have an ä with an umlaut immediately followed by an a without one.
It was a while before I learned that it was entirely made up, as others have mentioned here, and had no actual connection with Scandinavia, and I could sleep again.
Similar thing happened with the now defunct US sandwich chain Quizno's. I couldn't imagine what language that name came from. And then I learned that the founder had read that Q and Z were the most memorable letters for English speakers, and played around with various combinations. I should have suspected as much.
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Post by sprite on Mar 29, 2024 9:46:47 GMT -5
Holy crap that stuffs expensive. The Huel or the powder? I use the powder sparingly, like in stuff that won't be cooked, or sprinkled on the top of something just before serving. I'm now slightly annoyed because I lived just fine without it for decades, but now that I know about it, I want to keep using it, and it's hard to track down from a trustworthy source. |
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Post by Webs on Mar 29, 2024 10:08:25 GMT -5
Both.
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Post by sprite on Mar 29, 2024 10:12:12 GMT -5
Huel knows their market; with his first order, partner was gifted a T shirt that made his biceps look bigger and his belly look smaller.  |
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Post by shilgia on Mar 29, 2024 10:15:47 GMT -5
Hahaha!
Huel actually looks remarkably cheap for what it is. I'm not super comfortable with the processed nature of it all, but if you believe their claim that a "meal" is an actual meal (i.e. that doesn't have to be supplemented with other food), then their meals tend to cost between $2 and $4. Not that much.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 29, 2024 11:16:04 GMT -5
vinnyd - there are so many things nowadays that aren't real words from real languages that I don't even notice anymore, which is kind of sad.
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