Aldi bargains

Another bargain at Tesco

Aldi cod in batter

I don't think we'd had these before, and first impressions weren't very good. This is what the first one looked like upon cutting into it - virtually empty apart from a couple of grey fish flakes. The others were better from the point of view that the batter actually had fish inside it, but the quality of the fish wasn't that good so I don't think we'll try these again.

No food at the inn

Took us four goes this afternoon to get something to eat... First we tried the Cock at Wishaw. We got there just after 2 and after a long wait at the bar I was told that they'd had to close the kitchen because they'd run out of various ingredients. Then we headed over to the Green Man at Middleton but the direction signs conspired against us and we ended up at The Bassett's Pole. There we were told there was a 30-minute wait for a table inside and if we wanted to eat outside we were only allowed to choose from the bar menu. So off we went again, this time to the Bottle of Sack in Sutton. On the tables there were drinks menus and Tuesday food menus. Assuming that for some reason Wetherspoons had designated today as a Tuesday, we chose from that, only to be told that they were using the normal menu...

History (recent)

Do you remember the baked-bean price war of the 1990's? Whenever I see beans these days priced around 50p a tin, I look back with nostalgia to a time when 5p was expensive!

Tesco redux

Tesco must've done something right in order to grow so big, but they aren't perfect by any means. Lured by a £10 coupon, my wife decided to order the groceries online from them. She wasn't impressed, much preferring the Sainsbury's website. An example of one thing we noticed that's worse on the Tesco site is that special offers that run out before the delivery date aren't honoured. Considering that, given the chance, we'd be perfectly happy to pay for the items today, that policy seems ridiculous.

I regularly spot shelf labelling howlers in Tesco. For example:

Don't take orders from children...

For the second time in as many weeks, I've had to tell the staff off in a fast-food place for entering into the till the requests that our 6-year-old daughter has made. Today it was in McDonald's, where my wife was surprised that her order was so expensive, and then noticed that extra items were being loaded onto the tray. When this was queried, the assistant said that my wife had ordered X and our daughter had ordered Y, to which I said "You take the order from the adult, not from the child," and after I repeated this, the extra items were removed from the tray and we were refunded the difference.