Plonk

Sorry for being such a cheapskate, but having got use to paying £1 a bottle for wine when I lived in Hungary, I don't like paying more than £4 a bottle in England. Good news, then, that Tesco have a not-bad Chilean cab sav on offer at under a threer. Shame I'm not a middle-class pisshead.

Nescafe

Last time we ran out of instant coffee, my wife bought Nescafe. All I can say is, it's a triumph of marketing over taste. Terrible stuff.

The OJ paradox

Judging by Aldi and Tesco, there seems to be a trend to having from-concentrate fruit juices in the fridges and not-from-concentrates (NFCs) on the open (a.k.a "ambient") shelves. I quite like Aldi's 750 ml NFCs, and it's good that they don't take up fridge space at home until they're opened. Tesco have started stocking Eager ambient NFCs - I've tried the grapefruit and I'm not that keen.

But what's with stacking the cheapo juices in the chiller cabinets? It must just be to mislead the punters into thinking they're getting something they're not.