Morrisons down South - the biggest British social revolution since the fall of Thatcher?

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It is according to Dave B, anyway.

I've never been into a Morrisons, but they will be all over the country now that they've bought Safeway. I imagine these places are full of exotic Northern Food that you can't get down here yet. This is the thread where all the Northerners tell us soft Southern jessies what we have to look forward to.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

OK I will.

Sainsburys Lite.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Where are the Southern branches? I've been to the one just out of Scarborough but I didn't notice anything that made it any different to other big chains. We bought a nice roast chicken tho.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

they've been down here for some time old boy, just staelthily and in limited locations - there's one in Chingford (complete with hot pie counter) and one in Banbury at least, I believe that there are others too.

and they're far from Sainsburys lite - their price point is about 10% lower, which in fmcg terms is a large amount.

OK I have to stop now, this is too much like work

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

PIE CHARTS please

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I ended up at the one in Bristol for our weekly shop last month (it's near the ParcelForce depot).

To my (Scottish) it's just another supermarket, but does have a couple of notable exceptions:

1) Frozen Square Sausage. I'd rather fresh, obviously, but I'm being picky. Actually, it's not of that high quality - you don't get the abrasions on the top of your mouth from the rough bits like you do from a good butcher's version - but will do the job.
2) Fustenberg. Is there a stranger drink in the world? Only seems to be available in Scotland (till now, natch), yet comes from a private brewery in Germany?

Oh, and recalling another thread, they sell Seabrook's crisps, but only plain, cheese & onion and salt & vinegar. Maybe prawn cocktail, can't remember.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Square sausage?! We were talking about this in the pub last night. It sounds like mentalism.

But Seabrooks crisps, Jaysus... num num.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmmmn, pies......

The one in Chorley's very nice - good ratio of quality, choice and price. the one in Chingford's a bit pikey /snobbishness

They do very cheap household goods as well, we got a very nice thick chopping board for £8.

They also stock those ready to bake croissants, that have that dough boy on them too ;0)

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Meat and potato pies.

And...

BUTTER PIES PLEASE LORD OF MORRISONS PLEASE BRING US BUTTER PIES!!

Square sossidge = num num num. Serve with mashed taters or oven chips. And peas.

Oh my god. If Peckham Safeways suddenly turns into Peckham MORRISONS that will be SUCH a karmic payback for suffering with the crapness fo Safeways that I won't believe my luck. Seabrooks. Mmm. I want some garlic and herb flavour.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Do Safeway still let you scan your own food in as you walk round or was this deemed to be an invitation to shoplift to your heart's content (which is how we interpreted back in our shtowdent days)?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

You want square sausage mentalism? If you ask Scots about round square sausage THEY WILL KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN...

Square sausage is brilliant, and you can fit two bits in a plain bread sandwich. (Something I failed to search Morrisons for, but a lot of supermarkets sell it in their 'Irish' section.) Or between potato scones...

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Square sausage, potato scone, fried onions, roll = Glasgow Diet.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeebers, butter pies could be the downfall of me.

erm, and V, not any more :o(

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Round square sausage? WTF? Scottish people to thread please.

Aldo Cowpat's comments are virtually word-for-word last night's pub conversation, it's weird.

What are butter pies?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Safeways suck large ass. Morrisons might, just might, bring us Holland's pies...please let it be so.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

round square sausage = bevelled i presume

butter pies = thick butter-glazed pastry?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Just imagine a sossidge burger, MDC.

Butter pies are a gift from $deity.

(hoho original typo of "diety", hmmm)

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i covet pie for lunch quite desperately now

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

butter pie - potato and onion verttably stewed in butter and then placed inside crisp shortcrust pastry, best eaten with a steak and onion pie on the side.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Me too.

(What on EARTH has happened to my booze tolerance?! I feel shaky and can barely remember the end of last night and I didn't drink THAT much more than usual, and I had no late doors boozing either! Perhaps it was the McChicken sandwich, o my)

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Macca : Admiral Halsey (song)

Admiral Halsey notified me
He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea
I had another look and I had a cup of tea
And a butter pie Butter pie?
The butter wouldn't melt so they put it in a pie

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Jaysus Cabbage, if that's the way you eat them then YES they WILL be the death of you!

Best hangover food ever. Jamie nearly made me cry with loss, when describing how he can just cross the road to the newsies after a heavy night, buy a can of pop... and a butter pie... *lower lip wibbles*... I nearly ran to Euston to hop on a train up north right there and then (the git).

Jamie is also an example of what too many butter pies can do to a man, heh, bless.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is so great. It's like a nice big hungover pie ridden hug.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i think you are PIE ADDLED

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Life is like a butter pie as soft and gentle as a sigh it's multi colored layers of grease are like my satin wings

― wendy "pie-gob" craig (blueski), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

fear not Sarah, I am banned from such culinary goodness

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Who breaks a butter pie on a wheel?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

So what's Fustenberg then?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Pie-addled is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me!!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Square sausage, potato scone, fried onions, roll = Glasgow Diet.

-- suzy (theartskooldisk...), March 17th, 2004

What are these 'onions' of which you speak?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

That's how my friends who have a flat in Gallowgate have it!

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I am told it's a vegetable. You and your fancy Merchant City ways.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

The pies I really hoped Morrisons would have when I realised they had some Scottish food were:

Bean & Potato pies - Scotch pies with potato on the top, and a wee dod of beans in the middle
Haggis pies - Scotch pie pastry with haggis inside, potato on the top and a wee dod of turnip in the middle
Macaroni pie - Scotch pie pastry with macaroni inside
Rhubarb pie - Scotch pie pastry with rhubarb inside

Can you see a common theme?

Got Fusty wron, is Furstenberg. Comes from the Furstenberg brewery in Donaueschingen, Germany. Much loved by anyone from either Edinburgh or Glasgow (was more common in Glasgow, but used to be on tap in the Pelican), produces puzzled looks from anyone elsewhere in the world.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

What's so weird about it?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Go to a fashion mag and they'll ask you if Furstenberg's a make of wrap dress.

N, I KNOW I KNOW the presence of vegetable matter in Glaswegian snacks is highly suspect and clashes with the pig's eyeball in nitrates element. However, the Gallowgate folks introduced me to it avec oignon and there's nothing I can do to change that. Also, if you declared them residents of MC they'd just call you a deluded English fuckwit for yr. troubles.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

MDC - nothing intrinsically weird about Fusty, a bog-standard 5% German lager. The strange thing about it is that a great many city centre pubs in Glasgow and Edinburgh (actually, right across the central belt, have drunk it in Falkirk and Stirling) stock it AND NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD DOES. The difficulty is, once you reach a certain age, you end up always drinking it when you see it because you can't get it down here...

Back on round square sausage, usually comes as part of a 'breakfast tray'. This is a polystyrene tray with one piece (abou 3" diameter) of each of the following: round square sausage, haggis pudding, black pudding and fruit pudding (the pale one, not to be confused with the big square dumpling thing). Fry them up with some bacon, eggs, potato scones and serve with toast made with plain bread. Yum. The best thing about square sausage (round or square) is the lump that appears in the middle of it as it cooks - I've never been able to work out why this didn't even itself back out when you cooked the other side...

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

scotland is rubbish anyway

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth are you the apprentice Pinefox?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

He kill you now.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

God I am SO going to have sossidge in some way shape or form for lunch.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh lummy I want pie now. Even a cheap/nasty Safeway Scotch Pie would do. But what I have is Boots delicious lardy sarnies, so that'll have to do. Didn't get the sossidge/egg ones, which in hindsight was an error of astronomical proportions.

This is good news though innit. I like cheap-ass supermarkets that sell own-brand amaretto for a fiver. LIDL is my friend.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Do they do potato scones? My girlfriend brings them home by the bagful when she goes to Scotland.

― winterland, Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I've seen 'em in Safeway...probs not as good as yer authentic ethnic ones though.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

'Authethnic'

Neologism hurrah.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Liz,

Shame on you - there is no way you can preface Scotch Pie with 'nasty'. They are God's Own Food, even deep fried. :-)

I'm going to go home now and dig my last bit of square sauagse out of the freezer...

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I read this as Morrissey's down south.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Scottish bread for sandwiches and toasting is the bomb: that wax paper, the height of the bread, the squarishness (I've found a supply at Upper Street Sainsbury's).

However the best thing that could result from a Morrison's rebranding of my local Safeway is BREADCAKE as seen in the Sheffield breakfast roll. The colloquialism is to order a BEST (bacon, egg, sausage, tomato) or a BES (it's not nice to make the BSE joke in the caff) and they're like £1.50 at the most. The roll itself is a bit like a cob or a stottie, but pillow-soft and remains the only bread I won't toast for sandwiches.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

what the fuck's a vegetable?!

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

What the? Fucks a vegetable?

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I am worried that I have actually annoyed Suzy. I was only joking and have no doubt that your friends and many other Glaswegians eat fried onions!

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

London Morrisons is at Enfield next to the B&Q mothership.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Fruit and veg at morrisons is of pretty good quality and value.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

also the Chingford one mentioned above (London One, Enfield is London Two and Erith in Kent is London Three - they have a loose definition of London)

Ed, the fruit and Veg benig crap was the reason we stopped going to the Chingford one

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it rots on the barges coming down from ooop north. I've never been to one south of Sheffield.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The only other ones in the south are in Bristol and Banbury, next nearest = wellingborough and Northampton

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

white pudding! bridies!

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

(x-post) And there was me thinking it was because you were a food ponce and as we had to go to sainsbury's anyway to get all the fancy stuff you couldn't get at Morrisons we got lazy and just got everything at Sainsburys....

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one in Letchworth as well.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and M&S have potato scones in at the moment.

cheeky, those carrots in Morrisons were appalling, and the spuds were k-rub too

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Really Ricky? It's not coming up on the Epos report for them??

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I know two people who live in Letchworth and they were adamant that there's one there.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, no found it, it has a funny name, also one in Cambridge

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

buttries! my god, i'd KILL for one right now.....

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yea, theres one off the a1 near letchworth, is it down as biggleswade or something?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I've logged off but no, it was down as something farm iirc

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i had pie for lunch, Steak & Guiness - it was surprisingly nice - second time in a week they've done good pie here, NEED MORE NOW THOUGH

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Revive!

I had to go to Morrisons at lunchtime as I want to try and make lamb Henry at the weekend and they have the best meat selection of any Bristol supermarket...

Anyway, not only do they now sell fresh square sausage, their 'pie stand' does butter pies now as well.

Num. And, indeed, num. I want another one now. Next time I'll take the advice above and get a steak & onion pie for on the side.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is it called Round Square Sausage? That's the stupidest name I've ever seen. Why not Round Sausage? Bloody Scots.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Because normal sausage is round as well (or would be if you sliced it). This is square sausage, which bears no resemblance to normal sausage, formed into a round shape.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Circular Sausage, then. Just because they slaughter pigs doesn't mean they can butcher semantics as well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ROAD TRIP TO BRISTOL ANYONE???

― BUTTER PIE!!!!!!! (starry), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I have just exploded with joy!

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend Jo is going to Bristol tomorrow - I can ask her to bring back a consignment if you want.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my days. Would you? Really, really, yes yes please! Shall I drop you an email?

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder who Ricardo knows in Letchworth? Likelyhood is I know them cos everyone knows everyone else where I live. I must say the Morissons in Letchworth is fucking excellent. I always manage to find what I'm looking for, the fishmongers and butchers always know what they're talking about and I manage to shave a good 10% off my bill. Went to Tesco in Baldock and it was cack in comparison.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Now, if they start selling Staffordshire oatcakes, I will be the happiest man alive. I just been investigating mail order over this modern interweb of ours and it costs £4:80 for six blimmin cakes!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

just who do you know in Letchworth? I'm curious now.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

We call it sliced sausage or lorne sausage.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bhf.org.uk/homepage/uploaded/pie-tube-card-(landscape).jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Bristol is NOT south.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah it is!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Matt, you've not emailed me yr postal address yet.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I have now...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Good man.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

There has been one in Ipswich for about 3 or 4 years since they converted an old Co-Op superstore. I visit it occasionally when I go and vist my parents.

It has a pretty good (by supermarket standards) fish counter, a reasonably priced alcohol section and does a few things hard to find anywhere else, such as live yeast!

In other areas it resembles a slightly more personal Asda.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt, choo get my email?

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 14 May 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Just discovered this thread and laughing heartily at aldo's descriptions of round square sausage. The thing is, "square sausage except it's round" is so OTFM!

Of course many in the West of Scotland get round the whole round square dilemma by asking for Slice (it's sausage, and it's sliced - you don't ask for sliced sausage, you ask for Slice) which can come in round and square varieties. The really weird thing is some people buy a "bar of square slice" which is a block of square sausage that *hasn't been sliced* :-/

It's not nearly as much fun buying/eating square sausage or plain bread or savoury pies (the proper name for aldo's bean & potato pie) when you live in Scotland :-( I had a real affection for it when I lived in London but now I'm back in Scotland it's just another thing they have in the shops.

Aldo also OTM re Fustenburg, I've never drank it anywhere outside Central Scotland.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

My mother greets the takeover with dismay - her concerns are about quality rather than range of goods. She has noticed that since Morrisons took over her local Safeway there has been a notable decline in the quality of stock, particularly the fresh fruit and vegetables. I imagine her going round haranguing the staff about whether the items are fresh, like some North London versh of Prunella Scales.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It can't be worse than Asda. When I asked an assistant in the fruit & veg dept where the squash was he started to lead me to the drinks section!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

OMG i went into morrisons for the first time for a prolongued period last night, and it is shocking. I cant belive my beloved safeways has been replaced by this shit. It feels manky, It is visually manky, the food is nearly all shit own brand stuff, the beer selection is shit (unlike saefway "best off licence sueprmarket"), I cant bleieve it!
leeds is a total crapfest for supermarkets, for the student scum like me morrisons is the only nearby supermarket., i cant believe i have to buy this shit for a year. those that were extolling the virtues of this desolate place, well, i was thinking of you as looked aroudn the unripe fruit, fucked up cheese , deranged layout and general awfulness of it all.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Morrisons used to be great but now it's become teh suck since buying out Safeways. It's gotten really really expensive to shop there whereas only a year ago it was cheap as chips. I'm sad :-(

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Morrisons! I'd never been to one till they took over Safeway. Now I can get a litre of smoothie for £1.79! Two packets of fresh tortellini for £2.49! Vine tomatoes for 89p! I love it. Apparently their sales in Scotland have been disappointing. I can't understand it. Bloody West Enders.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris and I went shopping in the local morrisons last weekend, after he vowed never to back over a year ago. (it's always been a morrisons) We were absolutely amazed at how much better it was. The veg selection was very big, it all looked good, and has survived well at home too. Big cheese selection, yummy pies!, beer selection, while poss. not as good as safeways was, is in some ways better than waitrose, which was our supermarket of choice. All in all, we have been converted, though some of that was due to the fact that the bill came in at about £20 cheaper than it would have been elsewhere

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I've tried to avoid shopping since our local Safeway became Morrison's. My wife's been ranting about all the negative changes and I know the first time I go I'll be in a bad mood because I can't find the stuff I usually buy.

Even their carrier bags look shit.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The carrier bags are brilliant! They're the right shape, with the handles the right way around for carrying more stuff comfortably.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I'll defend the carrier bags - sturdy although not sure if I like the fact they've made them see-through.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 October 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The one great Morrisons = Rye?

― the bellefox, Thursday, 21 October 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The one I'm currently living behind (coincidentally, also in Leeds - hello Ambrose) is still branded as a Safeway but has now got mainly Morrison's own brand stuff. Their ham is cheap, yet at the same time bloody horrible. Their muffins are too doughy and their apple and blackcurrant pies are a bit too sickly if you eat six in one sitting. Lovely bananas, though, and the pitta bread's cheap and good too (plus you have to heat it up so I can pretend A: that I'm 'cooking'; and B: that I'm eating 'dinner'! Swish!).

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 21 October 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Urgent and key: where can you get apple and blackcurrent pies that *aren't* a bit too sickly if you eat six at one sitting?

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 21 October 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

alba is very wrong.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 22 October 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Morrisons is going to end up selling a lot more - 140 or so - of the Safeway stores to Somerfield than it originally planned because financially it's in such a bad way.

The big 'posh' Safeway in between Stamford Hill and Stoke Newington is one of my favourite places to stock up on a week's worth of grub at a time. The crummy old Safeway on the corner of Stamford Hill Broadway can go suck arse, though.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 22 October 2004 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I have already gone on record as stating that I am exceedingly unhappy with our local Morrisons. It's very bright, exceedingly claustrophobic, with displays of bleached and pale chicken breasts towering over you as you look in vain for the exit, panicking as the trolleys cannon into you in the tight aisles, sending you tumbling into a stack of tinned all-day breakfast to sit stupefied, a special offer sign hanging around your neck as tartrazine-crazed children point and laugh; and the wine sucks.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 22 October 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Basically, what we can derive from the last couple of days is that Ambrose is a complete fucking snob.

Matt, the wine at the Chingford one was pretty damn good, unfortunately we weren't buying as Vic's just done a booze cruise to France but I was very pleasantly surprised. Also Morrisons are selling Caledonian 80 bob = nectar.

Loads of Organic meat too, more than most places, possibly Waitrose excepted.

They are buggers to deal with in a professional sense though

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

The fucking anchovies suck.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm disappointed with our local Morrisons - they don't sell Scottish beef now - it did a couple of months ago when it was Safeway. In fact all of the meat is substandard compared to what it was, and they still don't have a very good selection of fresh ready meals.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

alarmingly OTM. in the transition, the saferrisons amalgam has done away with their delicious garlic pizza breads, the particular non-own-brand of refrigerated pizzas that won awards and was so delicious, their thai chicken soup, and a bunch of other things that were *essential* to my weekly shop. they also don't stock fairtrade fruit as in depth as safeways used to. its grim. i hate it. i want my old safeway's back - i don't have problem paying a bit more for quality, the alternative sucks.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ahem, the "own brand stuff" is very often *exactly* the same as any other supermarket.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You two are always going on booze cruises. I worry that you'll get confiscated one day and that will be the last we hear of you. It will be like 'Last Resort' only for booze cruisers.

I said to my mother only the other day, 'I wish we had a Morrison's'. She asked why and then I was stumped because I was just making idle conversation really.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ahem, the "own brand stuff" is very often *exactly* the same as any other supermarket

the Morrisons garlic pizza bread is markedly poorer than safeways' version, with a consistency akin to soggy cardboard, and a really chemical taste. and they no longer stock an own-brand thai chicken soup at all.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

and if i remember correctly, Sainsbury's don't merely brand other peoples' products, they produce their own products.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I have still never been in a Morrisons. Where is the nearest branch to Lewisham?

Safeways was generally shite, as is the mystifyingly successful Tesco. But then I've always lived closer to a Sainsbury's than anywhere else so they've had me as part of a captive market for years.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Also the pizzas you can get at Sainsbury's these days are getting ever-more gourmet. I approve.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

My local Morrisons is much better than when it was Safeways

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:06 (twenty-one years ago)

their apple and blackcurrant pies are a bit too sickly if you eat six in one sitting.

bless 'im he's all studenty and everything ;)

also Mr Mitchell OTM re Stamford Hill Safeissonses, the big one has a nice fish counter too.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"and if i remember correctly, Sainsbury's don't merely brand other peoples' products, they produce their own products. "

dude, believe me, this is sooooooooo not true. obv can't go into details

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I have got to the point where I will walk an extra half mile to get a Sainsburys pizza instead of those Morrisons abominations. Man, Safeway pizzas were SO GOOOOOOD, why did they change? Stevie OTM, it is the ultimate suck now. :-(

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(Then again, I swear that Safeway pizzas were responsible for at least a stone of my weightgain, so maybe I'm better off without them...)

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus you get an extra half-mile of excercise. Win-win.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think half my hate for Morrisons is cognitive dissonance and half is the anchovies and pizzas oh and the olives and the cured meats and the shitty wire baskets and the Hitler youth security guard outfits, they have started getting in PJ and Innocent smoothies (mmm raspberry and gooseberry) though and the default £1.79 own brand smoothie isn't that bad for £1.79.

The fresh herbs situation is interesting (yes fresh herbs need their own paragraph), you can only buy a plant of basil etc which is actually okay, it's pretty cheap and lasts for a while but the plants always die.

The fish section hasn’t changed much, part from the lack of prepared squid.

There just seems to be less interesting quality foods around of the kind I seem to spend a disproportionate amount of my spare cash on, Physalis fruit anyone?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I had Morrisons arrabiatta pasta sauce last week. It minged (manged?). Lloyd Grossman is the dog's, and my Saferrisons don't stock it.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

its Morriways.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Safeway Pasta was SOOOO GOOOOOD, why did they change it?

Holy shit, I just remembered that I bought up a load of Safeway pasta just before Asshat and I broke up, and I LEFT IT IN HIS FREEZER LIKE AN IDIOT. Wah. I bet it's still there.

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I work over the road from a Morrisons and it's massively reduced my food budget! Used to shop in Sainsburys in Muswell Hill as it's round the corner from my flat but it's unbelievably expensive compared to Morrisons.

Morrisons frozen pizzas are actually pretty good, definitely no worse than any other brand & only cost £1 each!! They always have something nice on buy 1 get 1 free as well.

Things I don't like about Morrisons are:

- they put some things in weird places so you can't find them
- their fresh meat is a bit crappy
- the cigarettes/lottery counter is always understaffed

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It does definitely seem to be cheaper

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently it's good for cereals.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

No it's not. At least, not if you like Muselix (or however you spell it). Even Morrisons Muesulix is worse than Safeway! Ugh!¬

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:55 (twenty-one years ago)

This is information from my parents, so I suppose they mean 2 for 1 offers or something.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the most divisive issue to have hit ILE in years. Strange bedfellows.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 10:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It is class war meets the North-South divide. The stage was set in the thread title and first post.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 22 October 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops I was just about to say that but Matt beat me to it

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Incidentally, is there anywhere where you can get pre-made tomato-based pasta sauce that doesn't taste ridiculously tangy and acidic and utterly minging?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 22 October 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

'Passata' or something. Heinz 'Tomate Frito'. Not strictly sauce, I suppose.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Just use ketchup with some chopped tomatoes thrown in for authenticity.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 22 October 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Half an onion, chopped and sweated off in olive oil with a clove of garlic, crushed then chopped. A tin of chopped tomatoes. Bubble for ten minutes until it goes glossy. Add dried basil with the tomatoes or fresh just before you serve. Half a dozen grinds of pepper is good. Piss easy and very cheap sauce for 2 bowls of pasta.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha - you forgot the ketchup!

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

KNACKERS to you Morrissons haters, I'm with Porky and Vicky on the rise of SUPER MORRISONS is solely because

THEY NOW SELL SEABROOKS CRISPS!!

And as Alba said, cheap vine tomatoes! An increased pie section! And their pizzas look just as nice as the sodding Safeways one which were fneh at best. Morrisons ROOLZ. And the beer selection is exactly the same as it was when it was a Safeways and just as good as the selection in the fair bigger Sainsers down by New X innit!

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The bags are definitely a LOT better - much roomier and stronger

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm presuming from this thread that the gulf in quality between a good Morrisons and a bad one is huge.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i think we should have an ILE taste testing session one day to see if the food really taste that different/better/inferior or if you guys are all just drama queens ;)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, we could, that is IF YOU COULD GET SAFEWAY FOOD ANY MORE!!!

I mean, if it were an alternative, that would be fine. But it's a replacement and that just suX0rs.

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Pasta queens more like (xpost)

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate you're talking Nonce Sense - Safeway own brand, being GOOD??? EVER??? Can I take you back on a journey through the mists of time when all there was was Safeway own brand and young children DIED and all the milk went sour and old women were left to DIE IN THE GUTTER?? Do you REMEMBER??? Safeway own brand = gross, Morrisons = certainly no worse!!

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Although I don't think I've found square sossidge yet.

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

but then i only go to supermarkets to buy chicken thighs. and we have an Iceland here that sells them cheaper than either Morrisons does or Safeways did. The see-through bags are sexxxy. and give an excellent ice-breaker for chatting up girls ('aw hey nice choice of potato waffles.. it goes really well with Heinz ketchup fancy coming back to mine and try it out? I keep it refrigerated and everything' etc).

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Safeway did some things really well. Like pizza, fresh pasta and muselix. YOU CANNOT FULE ME WITH YOUR MYTHICAL STORIES OF WALKING TO SAFEWAY IN THE SNOW, WAISTHIGH SNOW, UPHILL BOTH WAYS old tyme stories because this was only last year.

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

And OLIVES. Safeway olives were a thing of wonder. I would walk five miles in the snow, waisthigh snow, uphill both ways just to get a taste of those olives.

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Olives = too middle class for Morrisons

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I resent even my groceries being dumbed down for the working classes. Grrrrrr. Where are my dogs?

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this is self-delusion!!!

Bring on the "More Reasons to Shop At Morrr-riii-sons" jingle!

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Warning: Ally C and RJG have been known to keep cans of Morrissay's 22p beer to feed to unsuspecting houseguests. "If we put it in a glass and give it to them after they've had a couple of decent beers, they won't notice".

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Dumbed down for the working classes?? FFS Kate, we shop at Aldi!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

...or house of frazer mre recently brmnbmbll bnmnrrlrlr bnbmnlbmr.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

but it is clear that morrisons and safeway were both shite. how i wish there is a proper TESCO near my house. actually i have a car now!! HELLO AGAIN MY DEAR BLUE STRIPES ON WHITE TESCO VALUE GOODS.

http://www.lpbk.net/wallpaper/tesco_value_200.jpg

just look at it!!! the packaging is so reassuringly cheap! you know you're getting good value.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

22 pee beer?! Yow. How cheap must it be at Lidl?!

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard that Aldi is like Sainsbury's in Germany.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Tesco is appalling. They are rub at everything.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I am finding all the old-Safeway love on this thread baffling. Before Morrisons took over, all I ever heard was people bitching about how shit Safeway was. I used to hate the Stoke Newington one, and longed for a nearby Tesco or Sainsbury's.

MORRISONS 4EVER SAFEWAY NEVER

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

strangely, if you search for safeway savers on google image search you get back a photo of Matt DC's evil brother.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Tesco and I share the same birthplace.

Still, I am a Sainsburys girl, or at least I am when there is no Waitrose in riding distance.

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i like Tesco best, but i always seem to end up in Sainsburys, curse you Oliver etc.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I don't really get all the 'Sainsbury's have lost the plot' talk. They are still my favourite. Apart from Waitrose, of course, but we can only dream of such things in Glasgow.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

try as they may, sainsbury's economy's packaging still contains too much dignity for it to be as sucessful as the TESCO value.

ihttp://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dettmer/website/books/sains.gif

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1035000/images/_1036980_mush150.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Excelsior lager at LIDL in Newport the other week. I roffled. Their strange germanic produce is a nice change, but I don't think I could do my shopping there all the time. Ooh, also they had a Family Breakfast pack with square sausage in it, oddly enough for South Wales.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a regional accent therefore I am disbarred from shopping at Waitrose - they have staff posted at the door to keep the riff-raff out. Give me Morrisons or GIVE ME DEATH!

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been to a waitrose in glasgow!!

it was southside, even!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god, this is splitting along the class divide, isn't it? Oh no!

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

lidl is surely the absolute bottom of the heap. along w/wilco.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Southside's posh! Ish!

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

is it true they sell horse's arse up there?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The Waitrose in Wiltshire had an operational water trough where you could tether your horse and everything! I miss that Marlborough Waitrose a lot more than I miss Joe.

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

.... you're kidding right?

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

but, deep in my heart, i missed the Kwik Save "No frills" brand the most :(

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Hang on, forget all this class divide nonsense. I am too busy being shocked and horrified by THIS!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Waitrose exists in a strange dimension of its own: you step through the door and you're nowhere near Holloway Rd, but rather in a pleasantly-scented, quiet haven where posh nannies float up and down the aisles and children never cry.

Loyalty to supermarkets is meaningless. Buy more from local shops for local people.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Waitrose in Wiltshire had an operational water trough where you could tether your horse and everything!

in France they call this 'le trap'

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the best thing about Safeway was their booze buyer had a bit of nouse and an eye for the unusual tipple, other than that there's not much difference at all. Safeway's background stystems were far more sophisticated mind, and fortunately Morrisons are looking like they'll be adopting them in the long run.

JS have lost the plot completely, but I'm saying too much already

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

have they put a man on you?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The only time I was ever tempted to go back on my veggie status was in the Wiltshire Waitrose, for the wild boar and pear sausages. Man, you won't find that at Morrisons, will you?

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you can get a nice bit of lunch for a reasonable price in the cafeteria at Morrison's too, possibly 2 for the price of 1.

Ken, they have singles nights at some supermarkets. There's less chance of getting nutted.

Is the Byres Road Safeway's now a Morrison's? What will the people who always used to say 'this is the most expensive Safeway's in the country!' do for kicks now?

I have been to Waitrose in Marlborough. I did not see a trough, but there is a nice stream out the back if your horse needs watering. It is nicer than Somerfield over the road.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

the Morrisons in Scarborough is heavenly

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the floodgates are all open now - i just realised how much i really did miss the no frills stuff. :((((

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

so the c is for chav!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:01 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I was lying about the stream being a trough, but there is a post for tying horses.

I never even noticed the Somerfield - we always kind of got distracted by the CHEESE STALLS as we were crossing the market.

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to work in a SOLO, beat that

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't make me wake up the Americans and start the Grand Union vs. Ghetto Chopper vs. Food Emporium debate!

― Kissing Time At The Pleasure Unit (kate), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I recently discovered that Lidl do The Best Jaffa Cakes In Teh World for some ridiculously low price. Jaffa Cakes are Good For You*.

*unless you eat a whole packet in half an hour

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

What of Netto? There is one on Rye Lane but I have never ventured inside... very pleasingly YELLOW see also SCANDANAVIAN FOR VALUE!

BTW: No Frills digestive biscuits = YUM YUM YUM

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Starry - do you ever go to the fruit and veg market on Choumert Road? That's where I grew up, that is.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, is Netto Scandi? Must try that one around Manor House. Mmmm cheapo ginger biscuits.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, not actually on a fruit and veg stall, but on that road.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Loyalty to supermarkets is meaningless. Buy more from local shops for local people.

This is the only true bit of wisdom in this thread.

I've heard that Aldi is like Sainsbury's in Germany.

Aldi in Germany is nothing like Sainsburys. Germany doesn't have the same culture of supermarkets as they still have a good infrastructure of local bakers, butchers, markets and people who actually use them. And in addition also have cheap, good quality pub, café, take-away and restaurant food (If you like your salt).

It is however, a fucking pain to buy any groceries between 2pm on Saturday and 8am on Monday.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Sainsbury's have lost the plot - I dunno. I haven't been to a full-sized one in ages, butI find our Metro and Local ones very good. The big flaw was the lack of decent veggie sandwiches, but this has now been addressed in the Metro ones at least with the introduction of Cranks branded ones.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Were you a cheeky chirpy barrow boy, Alba?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, yes I was.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Outside our Morrisons there is a huge sign that says:

Reason 16: Your Morrisons is now open.

What exactly were reasons 1-15.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

c'mon mums, get your gums, around his plums

xpost

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm ginger biscuits. N I am sorry to report that I rarely venture further past Peckham Rye station and have never been to that fruit and vegetable market, as I buy most of my F&V from... MORRISSONS, HURRAH!

(Or actually hem hem Tesco Goodge Street)

Also: local shops for local people = Costcutters, "Food and Wine Emporium", or Morrisons, peon.

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess it is different if one goes to... Dulwich?

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"well i'm off to Threshers to do the weekly shop"

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Interesting Rye Lane supermarket fact that I may have mentioned before:

When I first lived there (in 1979) it still had a non-self-service Sainsbury's, with a long counter and lots of staff to fetch things for you. It was one of the last two left in the country, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course there's the Farmers Market but apparently you hve to get up before 3pm at the weekend to go to that.

― Starry (hello chickens), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, Alba. Did they send you your change and receipt via a pneumatic tube-thing? I used to like that very much.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm afraid I have no idea what you are talking about.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OK.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I do, they were great.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The only pneumatic change-related tubes I am familiar with are the ones the cashiers sometimes put their bundled notes (in plastic mushroom things) up. I thought this was a fairly recent phenomenon, though thinking about it, I haven't seen it happen for a while.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, like that, only old fashioned. They've got one at Leicester Costume Museum or Textile Museum or whatever it is.

Perhaps it was an East Midlands thing.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(the tubes I am thinking of went upstairs, to some money counting department, I assumed). Why would they give customers their change through a tube? I am intrigued.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Because they can!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 22 October 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps they didn't. Something was sent away, and some time later, something came back. I think the cashier was in a kind of cage.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 22 October 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

N: even in Blackheath we cannot even, or can only, dream, of Waitrose.

I share your view on Sainsbury's also, on the whole, though they've just put their prices up. We are agreeing today!

― the bellefox, Saturday, 23 October 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently, there are NO delicatessens, in aberdeen.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 23 October 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

bless 'im he's all studenty and everything ;)

Who'd'a thunk it, etc.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 23 October 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

This morning I went to Sainsbury's and I bought 'Toulouse Sausages' - Taste the Difference! I hope they will make a nice change.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 24 October 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i saw them in morrisons. will try them next time. morrisons sausages are a good thing btw, so far, anyway,.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I have mixed feelings about Toulouse Sausages.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 October 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i wuv toulouse sossies, especially in GIANT CASSOULET.

i bought a very nice pork roast from the big stamford hill morriways yesterday, it was good for four and a half quid.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 25 October 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Do they repeat on you?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 October 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm, not so i've noticed, depends on how sensitive you are to garlic i guess, two days of garlicy burps was it?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 25 October 2004 08:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it's the garlic, I get through quite a lot of that without any ill-effects. They just seemed quite resistant to digestion. I blame the genuine pig's stomach sausage skins. Also BBC1 had disappeared, which I found quite distressing. Monarch of the Glen had turned into Top Gear. I guess the GIANT CASSOULET helps too.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 October 2004 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's more likely to have been intestine, but i get your drift. GIANT CASSOULET always helps...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 25 October 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I had to change my plans from Twinings Cranberry, Raspberry and Elderflower tea to Sainsbury's Pure Camomile Tea! Et voila!

Oh yes, stomach is what our friends in the Scotland region eat, I forgot.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 25 October 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Morrisons sells 114 Safeway shops

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah - thankfully not my beloved Partick one. Bye bye Byre's Road though. See if the hataz like it when all they have is crappo Somerfield.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Presto -> Gateway -> Somerfield, right?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Galbraith's beat them all

― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Think so Alba.

Bring back William Low!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Did Wm Low get taken over by Tesco? I seem to remember the one in Whitehaven going that way. It was a massive improvement.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I believe so.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

is the byres road safeway a "compact" one then?

i hate somerfields :( and their adverts were the worst!! (the one with this lady appearing in the end making some stupid profound one-line comment that didn't make sense)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

and they were responsible for the death of No Frills :((

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

A new Somerfield opened up near me a few months ago. At first, they had lots of interesting/organic stuff, but after a week it all had yellow labels on it and it wasn't re-ordered. Now you're lucky to find fresh coriander or chillis. However, the wine section is very good - I've heard they have the best (supermarket) buyer in the country.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Shite. That's including the one I'm living behind now. Somerfields just seem... scuzzy.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

No Frills Meat Paste, classic.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

the No Frills "orange juice" was amazing.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

No Frills Meat Paste? More like No Meat Meat Paste

― Deadaismus? (Dada), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Somerthing rubbish.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

no paste meat frills

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"pneumatique de paris". I think frank o'hara wrote about it.

there are morrisons in aberdeen.

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"reseau pneumatique de paris".

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay, Somerfield are buying our Safeway/Morrison bastard store.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

someone said, that the safeway on byres road sells the most alcohol, in scotland, of any supermarket.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay, Somerfield are buying our Safeway/Morrison bastard store.

that's not a yay!! that's a little like iraq being "saved" by the coalition (actually it's nothing like that)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

There's one of the those wee Sainsbury's opening up near me thus removing the need for me to go near Holloway Road ever again - hooray!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

That Safeways on Byres Road - it should be in the Guiness Book of Records as the supermarket that appears most times in the Guiness Book of Records.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

is holloway road...tesco-free?

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

yes, it is! im glad there's a bit of this grey and pleasant land, unsullied

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

has anyone been to the morrisons in gibraltar?

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 1 May 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

No, want to drink some beer later?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 1 May 2006 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

ok maybe, depending on study

yesterday would have been better!

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 1 May 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

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