Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

no comment on my post fred, or can you not determine how to make relevant political capital from it?
yes, we all know you can go off on a tangent to do so, and no doubt you now will

People shouldnt be in a position in a wealthy country like this where they have to live off of handouts from others.

As that never ever passed your mind, or is it a case of one rule for me another rule for the poor plebs.

For Cynic.

Daftness.

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I often bought it when it was at its sell by date as it was "ripe" and reduced in price.

I can't afford the unripe ones.

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Coffee.

As a connoisseur Manuel, if you like "mellow" coffee try Gold Label from Liddle.

I drink more coffee than alcohol about 2 pints a day until my heart rate goes up and then I reduce.

I think the blend has been "changed" slightly.

The other thing is the grind in the freezer, keeps well and often when travelling stored a kilo or more. My wife makes Turkish coffee periodically keeps the "right" blend frozen, rather than sitting on a stool and grinding fresh as she was taught and I was misled to expect.

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But I thought the Supermarkets were addressing the sell by date problem. Doing so is not simple.

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Had a friend who wrote to a letter to her husband which said "you have come to your sell by date, I am off to Paris with Peter".

Lucky bugger!

You can choose which was lucky.

fred - i never drink instant coffee; if not proper coffee, then will drink tea


sticky - that wasn't the point of my post ..... the corollary of my post would also be that if there was not so much (needless) waste, then the supermarket prices might be quite a bit lower ...... in your dreams; their margins would just be higher!!

there will always be people who need benefits of all kinds, whether health or housing or food, though the current level of that problem in uk is certainly much greater than it should be
it is not a political football, though i know you would like it to be, but the result of a great number of facts and events, some of which are "collateral damage" - very sad but true - and a few of which just might have been avoided had assorted actions been taken or not much longer than just 3/5 years ago
as always, hindsight is invaluable and infallible

GF,

It is difficult for some to relate back and empathise with their origins because it appears threatening to them, but also there is a problem for some that they seem stuck in the past restrictions of their past.

But, the "institutions" have been and are responsible the elitism, development of self protective behaviour and lack of empathy with the "lower" echelons of society.


I shall now drink my coffee.

Manuel,

Twit.

The coffee I referred to is ground.

Going back 40 years we used to toast our beans to the dictated amount and grind it ourselves.

Don't think I have drank instant coffee in 50 years.

Think it spoils water. Personal taste.

sorry; sounded like a nestle knock-off ...... one doesn't have the likes of lidl around here ..... perhaps they do in slough or high wycombe ..... sainsbury's is our local paupies super :-)

Either of you two know anything about this Blue Nun white wine?. Her indoors doesnt drink much and Im an ale drinker so havent a clue about wines.

What I have bought is 6 bottles of above and then decided I d ask a few of you on here for a good dry white wine and get another 6 bottles.

Im not wanting anything expensive or top of the range just something which is solid and say under £8 quid a bottle with a bit of a kick.

TIA

blue nun????!!!!!!
f'ing hell .... that was always the cheapest and nastiest german liebfraumilch back in 70s along with black tower, and bull's blood (hungarian red) and sparkling lambrusco!

pop into your local majestic wines - they'll give you excellent advice - or even one of your decent supers ..... they all have some good quality/value wines with short descriptions on a tag underneath

A case of Lambrini would probably compliment the Blue Nun, Fishfinger.

GF,

I drink plonk, it seemed suit the lubrication of tongues when we sat down to a meal or just to talk.

Bearing the above in mine try Limoux AOC at about £7 a bottle from Aldi. (Their wines are as promised.)

But cool it. let it breath for 15mins and ask you wife if she likes it. If so go back and buy the case.

If not send the half full bottle to the address below.

Good luck.

Manuel,

The 70s. Augustus Barnett.

Introduced the masses in UK to wines,

Some beautiful wines a reasonable prices.

Bought 40 year old port from them.

Always wondered how it survived the WW2.

easily; portugal was neutral
but think about 45, 47 and 49 clarets, which were stunning, or so history tells me

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surely limoux is primarily just a cheap sparkling wine
if you want cheap but good sparkling, i'ld be more inclined towards a decent prosecco

Thanks guys, I write a note out and pop down Sainsburys. Appreciated.

they have a decent selection too - or at least they do around here!

don't forget that duty is a flat rate as of course are all the shipping and delivery costs, so the more you can afford to spend, the better value you get, or at least relatively speaking

Of course!

Forgot!

Got a feeling didn't even think of it at he time!

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Don't listen to the wine snobs on here, get some of this

used to sell that as my house wine in my very early days (mid 70s) at the brasserie in portobello

I worked for the company that produced Hirondelle for 8 years (Hedges & Butler, part of the Bass group). The wine came in in tankers and was then chemically stabilised and blended. It was drinkable, I suppose. They sourced it from Bulgaria, Romania etc. They were debating where to get supplies from and had narrowed it down to two major suppliers. They chose an eastern European country over the other. The second supplier was Argentina and the decision was made a week before the invasion of the Falklands; very lucky.

H&B were a really good company with 1st growth en primeur wines (Mouton R), the agency for Sandeman's ports (inc vintage of course) and really good sherry from Gonzalez Byas, and not just the standard garbage either + exotic madeira (i still have a bottle of 1864!) and all sorts of other serious goodies

in due course, H&B disappeared, as did a number of other very fine wine merchants, but fortunately i had already built up a good cellar by that time, and i still have some of it