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"Cheap 'n' Nasty"

How can people eat things that are so cheap 'n' nasty, I saw a women buy a tin of beans for 7p the other day, and those lemonade and coke 2 litre bottles for 5p uuugghhhh.

They're poor

We buy some Safeway Savers stuff... like tissues, handwash etc

Same stuff just different packaging

We did, but we were allowed a certain amount of rations. Most of it came in silver foil packets though. Like strawberry and cream pudding in a packet, just add water. That's the kind of nasty stuff I hate.

Skorp1on wrote:
> Spending a week on an RAF base eating sh*tty beans under a poncho in
> the pouring rain while people are chasing you through a forest. Not
> that it made the beans taste any different, but that's when I had
> them.

I thought you had to eat worms and learn to catch rabbits and the like?

Unbeliever wrote:
> I agree. Or are you one of these people who go to Waitrose because
> they're food is "better"?
>
> Sheer madness. Then again, people like you, Skorp1on, probably keep
> them in business so keep buying your 50p tins of beans!

Nope, I often shop at tesco or somerfield, sometimes at sainsbury's but they're a bit expensive.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Who says it's low quality food?
>
> You pay for the packaging most the time. I buy a lot of Tesco value
> stuff and it tastes fine, sometimes even better than the more
> expensive stuff.

It's not the shops own brand stuff I hate, it's the really nasty stuff with no flavour. Nothing wrong with shops own brand products.

Ineedsleep wrote:
> Skorp1on wrote:
> no one should have to eat really low quality food,
>
> How do you know that it is low quality food. I get the impression
> that you haven't tried any so what do you base your judgement on?

Spending a week on an RAF base eating sh*tty beans under a poncho in the pouring rain while people are chasing you through a forest. Not that it made the beans taste any different, but that's when I had them.

I agree. Or are you one of these people who go to Waitrose because they're food is "better"?

Sheer madness. Then again, people like you, Skorp1on, probably keep them in business so keep buying your 50p tins of beans!

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Who says it's low quality food?
>
> You pay for the packaging most the time. I buy a lot of Tesco value
> stuff and it tastes fine, sometimes even better than the more
> expensive stuff.

Not the coca cola though? Its rather ghastly.

Who says it's low quality food?

You pay for the packaging most the time. I buy a lot of Tesco value stuff and it tastes fine, sometimes even better than the more expensive stuff.

Nowt wrong with 7p beans.

Or any value stuff (with exception of meat, and any cleaning products, which are crap)

I'm an apprentice (still) and I would rather be without decent food than beer.