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Convex posted:loving hell food prices seem to be going up a bit. Popped into Tesco after the school run and a standard pack of Lurpak was £4.50?! Don't buy Danish butter then
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The own brand stuff is certainly cheaper though I don't know if there are any big domestic UK butter brands, it's all Irish or continental.
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Mar 25, 2021 13:52
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Haramstufe Rot posted:Even down at the peripherique you'll still have one boulangerie per block that would qualify as "best bakery in the region" in other countries like UK or Germany.  This will have a Nachspiel.
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Mar 25, 2021 13:53
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OwlFancier posted:Where the gently caress are you shopping? It was the spreadable one in a tub, normal sized. This was a Tesco Express though so probably a mark up, still stared at it for a solid 30 seconds though.
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Mar 25, 2021 13:54
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Haramstufe Rot posted:Don't buy Danish butter then I get the Lidl own brand one which is about £1 something, just noticed it when I was getting milk
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Mar 25, 2021 13:55
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Convex posted:It was the spreadable one in a tub, normal sized. This was a Tesco Express though so probably a mark up, still stared at it for a solid 30 seconds though. The spreadable should still be much cheaper than that. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/253886894 I don't think there is a tesco express near me so I dunno how much they normally mark them up.
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Mar 25, 2021 13:56
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petit boulangerie
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Mar 25, 2021 13:59
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Antigravitas posted:
Every single Boulangerie in Paris owns the pants off of any Bäckerei. In Germany, a bakery where they make every single thing inhouse and have a window where you can see the bakers working is a "Hipster bakery". In France, it's just a bakery. German bread is technically far superior to French bread, but then Germans also only buy the very very cheapest of everything. Don't get me started on cheese and wine, bro.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:00
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OwlFancier posted:The own brand stuff is certainly cheaper though I don't know if there are any big domestic UK butter brands, it's all Irish or continental. Most of the own brand ones up north of the border say they're Scottish milk so idk
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Mar 25, 2021 14:06
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Haramstufe Rot posted:German bread is technically far superior to French bread Wut. German bread is their worst crime against humanity. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpernickel A German colleague keeps banging on about how the red wine from Pfalz is the best wine in the world, while overlooking that our office is a 1.5 hour drive from Beaune.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:07
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OwlFancier posted:Where the gently caress are you shopping? Tesco Metro notoriously set prices compared to local shops, not big supermarkets, and once they've driven all the local competition out of business what do you think happens?
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Mar 25, 2021 14:07
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lmao at german technical bread superiority.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:08
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OwlFancier posted:The own brand stuff is certainly cheaper though I don't know if there are any big domestic UK butter brands, it's all Irish or continental. Anchor are the biggest brand of butter in the UK by like a pretty huge distance.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:08
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Is that real dark salty bread German? That poo poo is top tier
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Mar 25, 2021 14:08
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Rye bread (not pumpernickel) absolutely bangs Also Italian cheese is superior to French. Fight me, frogs
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Mar 25, 2021 14:12
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Anchor are the biggest brand of butter in the UK by like a pretty huge distance. I wonder if I forgot about them because lurpak has the nice silver packaging so you notice it more.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:12
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder if I forgot about them because lurpak has the nice silver packaging so you notice it more. Apparently they charge you more for the nice packaging, too!
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Mar 25, 2021 14:19
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Oh sure which is why I wouldn't necessarily bother with it but a lot of the others seem to go for gold packaging which makes them all blend in a bit.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:21
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I always confuse Lurpak with cream cheeses like Philladelphia because the packaging doesn't make me think of butter.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:23
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I can't believe it's not Tory joke w/ Keith's face on't.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:24
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder if I forgot about them because lurpak has the nice silver packaging so you notice it more. Lurpak also had some very famous and memorable Aardman Animation-made adverts through the 80s and 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jdkEcw2jn8 so it's entirely possible they've entered your brain through cultural osmosis. It's notable that most of the thrust of the original adverts is "Listen we know it's not International Signal Yellow or 50% salt but it is, still, technically butter, trust us". I now also have the Country Life butter jingle stuck in my head, a good quarter of a century after it was last transmitted. Advertising is some seriously loving powerful poo poo. Apropos of nothing, a few months ago I genuinely thought I'd got covid because my morning toast tasted really, really loving weird and was extremely panicky until I noticed I'd picked up unsalted butter by mistake.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:25
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I got like 2kg of Lurpak from Costco for a very reasonable price and actually mostly just use it for baking now...
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Mar 25, 2021 14:27
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stev posted:I always confuse Lurpak with cream cheeses like Philladelphia because the packaging doesn't make me think of butter. It honestly reminds me of the cigarettes my grandmother used to buy.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:28
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Revealed: police barred from searching Queen's estates for looted artefactsquote:Police have been barred from searching the Queen’s private estates for stolen or looted artefacts after ministers granted her a personal exemption from a law that protects the world’s cultural property, the Guardian can reveal. There goes the plan to fund new police tanks with nazi gold i guess
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Mar 25, 2021 14:28
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My "Not involved in looting artefacts" law has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the law.
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Mar 25, 2021 14:31
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That's just them hiding Prince Andrews personal collections
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Mar 25, 2021 14:31
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A friend requested a primer on "politics"; they have not been interested in this, ever, but it seems they might be starting to notice that Bad Things are Happening. The recommended reading for this thread seems a bit heavy, though. Any thoughts on what/where I could send them?
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Mar 25, 2021 14:57
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Convex posted:loving hell food prices seem to be going up a bit. Popped into Tesco after the school run and a standard pack of Lurpak was £4.50?! What’s that Elsie??? an opportunity to tell people how to make their own spreadable butter!!!!!! kenwood mixer + the ball whip (fneh fneh) attachment. You want two large double creams, set it going at 3 and let it go from standing constituency till it starts to break down into a yellow liquid. Panic that you hosed up, keep it going until all of a sudden your ball is full of butter, and the rest is butter milk. Pour the butter milk off and keep for pancakes and Extract butter from between wires. Now loads of people wrap the butter in muslin at this point but I can never be arsed, plunge into cold water and kneed and squeeze till butter milk stops coming out. Put back in food processor with 1/4 tsp of salt and beater attachment, set it going and add a splash of olive oil to make it spreadable. Use quickly or freeze half for later use because you’ve done it in your kitchen and it’s the buttermilk you won’t have got out that will send it off in a week.
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Mar 25, 2021 15:04
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is there any reason to do that other than "it's cool"? like, don't get me wrong, that's a good reason, but does it work out cheaper or does it taste appreciably nicer to churn your own butter? were i to do that it'd be a case of getting supermarket cream, rather than popping down to see my friendly neighbourhood cow, so it's not a case of starting from better ingredients
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Mar 25, 2021 15:08
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Eddy-Baby posted:A friend requested a primer on "politics"; they have not been interested in this, ever, but it seems they might be starting to notice that Bad Things are Happening. The recommended reading for this thread seems a bit heavy, though. Any thoughts on what/where I could send them? In this circumstance, if it's a friend friend, the best way I've found is to just have a chat with them, try and find out what they already know, and work from there as objectively as you can, making sure they're aware that anything they hear from you will be necessarily biased from your viewpoint. Most people have the nebulous idea that unelected power and money are really in charge, so you can start from there with something like "For better or worse, the Conservatives are, or were created originally, as the party to defend and represent those interests democratically, whereas Labour.." and so on and so on. In my view it's like, what are we Marxisming for at all, if we aren't ready to rise to these kinds of occasions whenever they pop up unexpectedly, and put things in plain unradical terms anyone can understand. It's good practise for oneself as well. Ok I go lurk again now 
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:is there any reason to do that other than "it's cool"? like, don't get me wrong, that's a good reason, but does it work out cheaper or does it taste appreciably nicer to churn your own butter? “It’s cool” with occasional “oh poo poo this cream is about to go off” (e; you do get the butter milk as well which makes it ever so slightly profitable) It is way more delicious than your supermarket own brand butters though - I do a thing where I combine it with black garlic and then spread it on toast.
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Eddy-Baby posted:A friend requested a primer on "politics"; they have not been interested in this, ever, but it seems they might be starting to notice that Bad Things are Happening. The recommended reading for this thread seems a bit heavy, though. Any thoughts on what/where I could send them? That's kind of vague to be helpful in recommendations. Do they know absolutely nothing and so need to understand what 'parliament' and 'liberal' and 'socialist' means or are they ready for 'why capitalism is killing you' but not so blunt?
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:is there any reason to do that other than "it's cool"? like, don't get me wrong, that's a good reason, but does it work out cheaper or does it taste appreciably nicer to churn your own butter? When we were kids my folks had goats. (see what I did there haha) The main reason for getting them was I had terrible eczema and in those days it was believed to be allergy to cow's milk. Naturally, given that the goats were producing 18 pints of milk a day, I refused to drink it because it tasted foul. Anyway, dad used to churn butter and cream from the goat's milk. (Also, the accommodation that came with dad's job had a large orchard which the goats helped keep under control. One of the nanny goats got jealous of my mother and if she was ever sitting on the garden swing when dad wasn't around, this goat would charge at mum from behind.)
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I mean if you omit the actual butter-making part and just do the "whip olive or other vegetable oil into butter" bit you get spreadable butter that is considerably cheaper and better tasting than most spreadable butter (I think they always overdo the oil in shop-bought spreadable, it always has a slightly funny taste to me).
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Cookie Cutter posted:In this circumstance, if it's a friend friend, the best way I've found is to just have a chat with them, try and find out what they already know, and work from there as objectively as you can, making sure they're aware that anything they hear from you will be necessarily biased from your viewpoint. Most people have the nebulous idea that unelected power and money are really in charge, so you can start from there with something like "For better or worse, the Conservatives are, or were created originally, as the party to defend and represent those interests democratically, whereas Labour.." and so on and so on. I would also suggest talking if possible, the thing that convinces people is the environment in which they are exposed to information, not the information itself, generally, so being told to read a book probably won't work that well. Failing that I would probably suggest some lefttube videos, they're usually easy to digest and listen to and there are enough different creators that it can help to create the desired echo chamber effect.
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Mar 25, 2021 15:13
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Turn up with both volumes of Capital, a bag of shrooms and a cocked eyebrow.
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Mar 25, 2021 15:21
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When I was 7 or so my mum was pretty hippy dippy at the time and made butter. Once. It was pretty good, I asked why we couldnt have it again, and it's because it took her like 2 hours to make a tiny little pat of the stuff (by hand, no food processor involved, not sure we even owned one in 1984). Something similar happened when one of her mates got her a freshly killed pheasant (or something, I forget what type of bird) and she had a go at defeathering and butchering it from scratch herself. Never tried it myself. I have tried making cheese (but, I was aiming at feta and ended up making blue cheese, oops) feedmegin fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 25, 2021 15:26
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Sounds like you traded up in the world tbh.
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Mar 25, 2021 15:28
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I mean it smelled pretty good but I'm still not going to eat blue cheese that wasnt actually intended to be that.
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