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)

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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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