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Amy D.

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  1. Amy D.

    Crisps

    Seabrook's are my favourite too, favourite are the beefy ones but the salted are great too. I though it was regional thing as I first had them when I after I moved upto Bradford from Gloucestershire 23 years ago, don't recall seeing them before then. When we first moved to Derbyshire I could get Seabrook's in Morrisons but they sell them in most supermarkets here now.
  2. Love those chilli broad beans, but know what you mean about being wary of your teeth. They remind me of pork scratchings in that some are perfect texture and some are just a bit too crunchy but you never really know which it'll be! We're off to Sheffield on Sunday to see their lunar New year celebrations. We saw the lion dancers last year through luck but this year the city is putting on quite a few activities in the centre. There seems to have been quite an influx of students from China in the last ten years which is great for diversity but also because of all the amazing little eateries popping up that are catering for the new demographic. So it appears the city are wanting to help celebrate.
  3. It'll depend on where you will be based but larger amounts are available eg https://andrewsgreengrocers.co.uk/groceries/breakfast-bakery-and-dairy/milk-and-cream/brands/longley-farm/longley-farm-full-fat-yorkshire-cream-cheese-1kg.html You're just more like to get it via smaller businesses who could order it in for you. Mascapone tends to come in bigger packs. Other wise most councils have good recycling collections.
  4. Amy D.

    Lidl

    Thanks - lazy late night writing I should have googled. They ended up just being refused to as the chocolate square thingies in our house, either way they are very moreish
  5. Amy D.

    Lidl

    I love lidls Xmas range, have been in ours yet this year but quickly ate through several packets of those dowinos(?) last year. And the chocolate speclous and the mini stolen bites
  6. Very much this. While booths have decided it doesn't work for them this is possibly due to their customer demographic. The stores are usually in fairly affluent but rural areas. last time I went in booths (though admittedly about ten years ago) it was a high end supermarket which specialises is locally produced and artisan food, a dream supermarket for many egulleters but with the high price tag to go with it. So their customers tended to be either financially well off or the elderly who would rather pay the high prices than have to get the bus to the next town. Both of who may have preferred the customer experience of serviced tills where they might even pack your bags for you too. Most of the other supermarkets here have a mixture of self service and normal tills and after the years of teething and both companies and customers learning how best to use the self service I really cannot see self service going away. The majority of customers here want to get through the checkout as quickly as possible and it is rare these days to see more than one trolly queued in front of you (unless it's Aldi where we tend to form one queue for all the tills), so the option works well.
  7. I'll take a slice of the pure brown tart. Looks like a perfect treacle tart. I used to buy mini ones this colour from a small local bakers that was only open for a couple of months, but this coincided with being pregnant with my second child so I ate a fair few tarts those few months, and have dreamt about them ever since. Can you please share the recipe/source.
  8. Very sad news, I have enjoyed reading many of @Anna N's posts and blogs over the years and will truly miss her witty observations.
  9. Amy D.

    Dark soya sauce?

    Looks like I can get Haday in light and dark if this is the same brand
  10. Amy D.

    Dark soya sauce?

    @liuzhou thank you. As with most good food in any country I'm sure the best stuff doesn't make it out of the country. I'll have to have a proper look to see what else is available here
  11. Amy D.

    Dark soya sauce?

    This post has just made me want to stock up on different soy sauces to try out. I haven't cooked with dark soy sauce for years because I didn't like the almost bitter molassy aftertaste but tbh that's probably from using an inferior product so I should re-investigate. It's interesting @liuzhou that you say pearl River brand is preferred in china to LKK as in the UK Chinese supermarkets it always used to be the cheaper brand to buy (so the one I always picked up) until more recently years where LKK is now ubiquitous (found in normal supermarkets). Would it be more typical for a Chinese household to have one light soy sauce and one dark or several of each? I ask as for example pearl River sell several different qualities of light soy sauce (silver, gold etc)
  12. So the media keep telling us and yes things are more expensive but people are still buying plenty of takeaways and the high street and town are still very busy with lots of people spending money. We are very privileged with the quality of life that we have here and the variety and options we have that it really annoys me just how negative all the news reporting is.
  13. It's described as mini but it will fill a dinner plate. Chippies went through a phase of offering ever increasing portions to beat the opposition. Now they are readjusting. Undoubtedly traditions are changing, though Friday still sees the longest queues at any chippie. But is the change a bad thing. In the small town I grew up in Gloucestershire 30 years ago the only takeaway option was from half a dozen chip shops and one Chinese. Now there are at least half a dozen different cuisines offered all from independent businesses. Yes some of the pubs have closed down, but instead if having ten poorly run businesses there are a few really well run and characterful pubs offering great selections of brilliant locally produced drinks. Nostalgia is great but change isn't alway bad.
  14. Just another doom and gloom article that the British media love to produce. Yes things are more expensive and yes people and businesses are struggling. Is it the end of the industry. Not at all. The vast majority of towns will still have multiple chippies. The more successful ones will provide a superior product that people with pay the premium for or just make the portions smaller ( no one needed a fish the size of your forearm and a sack of chips anyway). At Matlock bath in deepest Derbyshire yesterday it was £6 for a mini fish, chips and peas. At Scarborough last week it was £8 but that also came with a fishcake and was fried in beef dripping and the sea air. Both meals were more than enough calories for two adults. But most importantly tastes have also changed in the last 20 years. With the takeaway and restaurant industry providing a far more diverse range of cuisines.
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