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Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls |
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls "
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat. |
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"I love my local farm shop, yes it’s expensive but their meat and vegetables are far better than anything you can get in a supermarket."
Same here. Some fruit /veg are way too expensive, so I don’t bother, but others are excellently priced and rally good quality. And the butcher in our local farm shop is really good.
Very happy to support locals, and local farmer’s market. |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls "
I use farm shops in Berkshire. No Range Rover, I’m afraid. |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat."
Did you enjoy the chicken? |
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Did you enjoy the chicken? "
I stuck with my liver and onions I had bought previously. |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Did you enjoy the chicken?
I stuck with my liver and onions I had bought previously."
Hope the bread was good then.
Ours is good for fruit and veg, lots of local beers, very good butcher, and fantastic local fruit juices.
What do you go to your farm shop for? |
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"They are good to get a treat but that's all there good for. "
Reading this thread, they are also good if you want to sneer at people who you think are paying over the odds … dfl/ Jacinda / Range Rover etc
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Did you enjoy the chicken?
I stuck with my liver and onions I had bought previously.
Hope the bread was good then.
Ours is good for fruit and veg, lots of local beers, very good butcher, and fantastic local fruit juices.
What do you go to your farm shop for? "
We just go for drives, often into West Sussex. Few villages have many shops and we often stop at a farm shop along a road just for a nose and maybe some local veg.
Yesterday we bought asparagus, broad beans, a brown pepper and some bacon to go with the liver. |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Did you enjoy the chicken?
I stuck with my liver and onions I had bought previously.
Hope the bread was good then.
Ours is good for fruit and veg, lots of local beers, very good butcher, and fantastic local fruit juices.
What do you go to your farm shop for?
We just go for drives, often into West Sussex. Few villages have many shops and we often stop at a farm shop along a road just for a nose and maybe some local veg.
Yesterday we bought asparagus, broad beans, a brown pepper and some bacon to go with the liver."
Asparagus is probably near the top of the list of most frequently bought farm shop items for me too. |
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Did you enjoy the chicken?
I stuck with my liver and onions I had bought previously.
Hope the bread was good then.
Ours is good for fruit and veg, lots of local beers, very good butcher, and fantastic local fruit juices.
What do you go to your farm shop for?
We just go for drives, often into West Sussex. Few villages have many shops and we often stop at a farm shop along a road just for a nose and maybe some local veg.
Yesterday we bought asparagus, broad beans, a brown pepper and some bacon to go with the liver.
Asparagus is probably near the top of the list of most frequently bought farm shop items for me too. "
I grow my own but not in great quantities. I never buy it out of season and can easily live without it. |
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My family has a farm shop, all meat is local,eggs/veg are local, bread local, were big on supporting local/british & small businesses. Its absolutely thriving especially since brexit, our farm meat/dairy has gone through the roof.
I personally havnt shopped in a supermarket for many many years.
People generally are more cautious about what they're putting in their body now, our prices rival supermarkets and you shop differently so typically waste less and the black big goes out virtually empty not full of non recyclable packaging   |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Did you enjoy the chicken?
I stuck with my liver and onions I had bought previously.
Hope the bread was good then.
Ours is good for fruit and veg, lots of local beers, very good butcher, and fantastic local fruit juices.
What do you go to your farm shop for?
We just go for drives, often into West Sussex. Few villages have many shops and we often stop at a farm shop along a road just for a nose and maybe some local veg.
Yesterday we bought asparagus, broad beans, a brown pepper and some bacon to go with the liver.
Asparagus is probably near the top of the list of most frequently bought farm shop items for me too.
I grow my own but not in great quantities. I never buy it out of season and can easily live without it."
Same here in terms of buying out of season. Buying local during the short asparagus season be something that tastes like wood and has been shipped from chile … |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat."
I can get jeans in Tesco for £10, or Levi’s for £70. I’m not sure what your point is, other than locally produced items are more expensive than cheap mass made stuff? |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
I can get jeans in Tesco for £10, or Levi’s for £70. I’m not sure what your point is, other than locally produced items are more expensive than cheap mass made stuff?"
But a loaf of bread in my house is needed daily which becomes totally unaffordable. A pair of jeans is only needed once a year if that. |
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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago
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Yesterday we bought asparagus, broad beans, a brown pepper and some bacon to go with the liver."
A brown pepper? This has excited me... what is a brown one like? |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
I can get jeans in Tesco for £10, or Levi’s for £70. I’m not sure what your point is, other than locally produced items are more expensive than cheap mass made stuff?
But a loaf of bread in my house is needed daily which becomes totally unaffordable. A pair of jeans is only needed once a year if that. "
Pretty sure that my youngest pair of jeans are at least 10 years old. And I definitely have some that are closer to 20. |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat."
Unless the bird was a Poulet de Bresse, I wouldn't be paying that money.
In Scotland, there's a saying: "Was it a shop wi' big windaes? Because they say you coming!" |
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Up here, in Fife there’s a farm shop that sells the most gorgeous savoury bread, ay £4.50 it’s not something you’d have with your sausages at breakfast, but tasty enough to have on it’s own with just butter. It’s Leek & cheese & utterly delicious |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
I can get jeans in Tesco for £10, or Levi’s for £70. I’m not sure what your point is, other than locally produced items are more expensive than cheap mass made stuff?
But a loaf of bread in my house is needed daily which becomes totally unaffordable. A pair of jeans is only needed once a year if that.
Pretty sure that my youngest pair of jeans are at least 10 years old. And I definitely have some that are closer to 20. "
And equally there are people who buy new jeans several times a year. My point is the same!  |
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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago
In a ball gown because that's how we roll in N. Devon |
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Yesterday we bought asparagus, broad beans, a brown pepper and some bacon to go with the liver.
A brown pepper? This has excited me... what is a brown one like?
Not eaten it yet."
If you could update when it has happened that would be great, please and thank you. |
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I love farm shops, we have lots of little ones as well as vending machines at farms which sells everything from cheese to meat and milk
Must admit I visit the milk shack everyday for milk, they also do milkshakes in every flavour you can think or. I also the farm shop once a week to buy cheese butter and ice cream |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat."
White? |
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
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Yesterday we bought asparagus, broad beans, a brown pepper and some bacon to go with the liver.
A brown pepper? This has excited me... what is a brown one like?
Not eaten it yet.
If you could update when it has happened that would be great, please and thank you."
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Unless the bird was a Poulet de Bresse, I wouldn't be paying that money.
In Scotland, there's a saying: "Was it a shop wi' big windaes? Because they say you coming!""
I would happily pay that much for a decent sized free range chicken. Wouldn’t buy a battery chicken at any price |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
White? "
Apparently so. Just one aspect of the lame stereotype being painted though. |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
I can get jeans in Tesco for £10, or Levi’s for £70. I’m not sure what your point is, other than locally produced items are more expensive than cheap mass made stuff?
But a loaf of bread in my house is needed daily which becomes totally unaffordable. A pair of jeans is only needed once a year if that.
Pretty sure that my youngest pair of jeans are at least 10 years old. And I definitely have some that are closer to 20.
And equally there are people who buy new jeans several times a year. My point is the same! "
Agreed. Might have lasted so long because I bought decent jeans in the first place |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
I can get jeans in Tesco for £10, or Levi’s for £70. I’m not sure what your point is, other than locally produced items are more expensive than cheap mass made stuff?
But a loaf of bread in my house is needed daily which becomes totally unaffordable. A pair of jeans is only needed once a year if that.
Pretty sure that my youngest pair of jeans are at least 10 years old. And I definitely have some that are closer to 20.
And equally there are people who buy new jeans several times a year. My point is the same!
Agreed. Might have lasted so long because I bought decent jeans in the first place "
Argh. They don't sell jeans at farm shops.  |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Unless the bird was a Poulet de Bresse, I wouldn't be paying that money.
In Scotland, there's a saying: "Was it a shop wi' big windaes? Because they say you coming!"
I would happily pay that much for a decent sized free range chicken. Wouldn’t buy a battery chicken at any price "
£16 for a CHOOK?! Are you having a  ? |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Unless the bird was a Poulet de Bresse, I wouldn't be paying that money.
In Scotland, there's a saying: "Was it a shop wi' big windaes? Because they say you coming!"
I would happily pay that much for a decent sized free range chicken. Wouldn’t buy a battery chicken at any price
£16 for a CHOOK?! Are you having a ? "
No. Large, delicious chicken and not raised in a crate. |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Unless the bird was a Poulet de Bresse, I wouldn't be paying that money.
In Scotland, there's a saying: "Was it a shop wi' big windaes? Because they say you coming!"
I would happily pay that much for a decent sized free range chicken. Wouldn’t buy a battery chicken at any price
£16 for a CHOOK?! Are you having a ?
No. Large, delicious chicken and not raised in a crate. "
I don't spend £16 on any item of food for my family. Pass. |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I use farm shops in Berkshire. No Range Rover, I’m afraid. "
So do I (maybe the same ones?) and nor have I. 
The butcher in my village farm shop is excellent.
But I won’t buy overpriced other goods, like a jar of pickle for £4.99 for example.
They can ruddy well go spin on that! |
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
White?
Apparently so. Just one aspect of the lame stereotype being painted though. "
Really? We’re you there? |
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
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Yesterday we bought asparagus, broad beans, a brown pepper and some bacon to go with the liver.
A brown pepper? This has excited me... what is a brown one like?
Not eaten it yet.
If you could update when it has happened that would be great, please and thank you."
Ate it yesterday. Very sweet cooked over the bbq x |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Unless the bird was a Poulet de Bresse, I wouldn't be paying that money.
In Scotland, there's a saying: "Was it a shop wi' big windaes? Because they say you coming!"
I would happily pay that much for a decent sized free range chicken. Wouldn’t buy a battery chicken at any price
£16 for a CHOOK?! Are you having a ?
No. Large, delicious chicken and not raised in a crate.
I don't spend £16 on any item of food for my family. Pass."
I do. Far more likely than splash out on luxury food items and wines than on clothes or cars. |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
Unless the bird was a Poulet de Bresse, I wouldn't be paying that money.
In Scotland, there's a saying: "Was it a shop wi' big windaes? Because they say you coming!"
I would happily pay that much for a decent sized free range chicken. Wouldn’t buy a battery chicken at any price
£16 for a CHOOK?! Are you having a ?
No. Large, delicious chicken and not raised in a crate.
I don't spend £16 on any item of food for my family. Pass.
I do. Far more likely than splash out on luxury food items and wines than on clothes or cars. "
I don't do that either, but more power to you |
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By *otSoPoshWoman
over a year ago
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Yesterday we bought asparagus, broad beans, a brown pepper and some bacon to go with the liver.
A brown pepper? This has excited me... what is a brown one like?
Not eaten it yet.
If you could update when it has happened that would be great, please and thank you.
Ate it yesterday. Very sweet cooked over the bbq x"
Oooh! Thank you!
In approximately 39 years when North Devon catches up with brown peppers I'm going to try one.
(Or I'll seek them out on t'interweb) |
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"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
White?
Apparently so. Just one aspect of the lame stereotype being painted though.
Really? We’re you there?"
No. But I’m also guessing that the other paired wasn’t present when “jacinda” was having cocktails with the girls and boasting about now much she had spent at the farm shop.
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
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Yesterday we bought asparagus, broad beans, a brown pepper and some bacon to go with the liver.
A brown pepper? This has excited me... what is a brown one like?
Not eaten it yet.
If you could update when it has happened that would be great, please and thank you.
Ate it yesterday. Very sweet cooked over the bbq x
Oooh! Thank you!
In approximately 39 years when North Devon catches up with brown peppers I'm going to try one.
(Or I'll seek them out on t'interweb)"
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By *yron69 OP Man
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Fareham |
"Both. But they do like to ramp up the prices as they know Jacinda in her Range Rover will pay them, just so she can talk loudly about it over cocktails with the girls
I was in one yesterday. £4.50 a loaf and £16 a chicken! But the white middle class customers were paying up without a sweat.
White?
Apparently so. Just one aspect of the lame stereotype being painted though.
Really? We’re you there?
No. But I’m also guessing that the other paired wasn’t present when “jacinda” was having cocktails with the girls and boasting about now much she had spent at the farm shop.
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This was Cowdray in West Sussex. A very white stronghold full of posh stereotypes and the shopped stacked with every expensive morsel known to man.
Nice but very different to my local Asda. |
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The only things we buy from farm shops are the crops that particular farmer grows. Asparagus and strawberries being top of the list. Our favourite asparagus farmer retired and sold up a couple of years ago sadly for us.  |
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Farm and local shops/butchers are all about being a little bit more ethical with your shopping habits...
It's all relative to disposable income.
Don't always be fouled by the products.
I work in industries were I get a sneak peak in how things are made. Think prettier Greg Wallace...
Some farm shop products are made in the same factories as the supermarkets. Only difference is a label and a the price hike.
You have to shop smart.
E.g I can go to a cash and carry and get 2kgs of smoked bacon or get 8 rashers off the exact same bacon from my local butcher for the same price!
Same biltong is in supermarkets as it is a farm shop.
Shop smart... enjoy the produce available from all places..
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By *yron69 OP Man
over a year ago
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"Farm and local shops/butchers are all about being a little bit more ethical with your shopping habits...
It's all relative to disposable income.
Don't always be fouled by the products.
I work in industries were I get a sneak peak in how things are made. Think prettier Greg Wallace...
Some farm shop products are made in the same factories as the supermarkets. Only difference is a label and a the price hike.
You have to shop smart.
E.g I can go to a cash and carry and get 2kgs of smoked bacon or get 8 rashers off the exact same bacon from my local butcher for the same price!
Same biltong is in supermarkets as it is a farm shop.
Shop smart... enjoy the produce available from all places..
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I worked in packaging and met on a course a wheatabix guy. Same factory different lines.. |
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