SatchFan
Q-School Graduate
Stock piling , panic buying.
- Thread starter robinthehood
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SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Ah - and where does much of our pasta come from...?
Wolf
Well-known member
A lot of it is manufactured by a company called pasta foods based in Yarmouth. Just because something is classed as Italian doesn't mean it's only made there ?
Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
????? am laughing coz I cannot believe you have had to explain that to someone.
might start planting a paddy field on me back garden in case there’s a rice shortage in china
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Deleted member 21784
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Full partridge moment with the Irish and the potatoe famine
Well why didn't you just eat something else? Problem solved
Kellfire
Blackballed
Also viruses won’t survive on pasta or packaging...
On the dodgy Dolmio adverts I'm sure in the bottom corner it says something along the lines of produced in The Netherlands
Back to pasta, such a simple product to make, it can be knocked out anywhere. Just because a food type originates in a country or region does not mean it has to be made there (before the pedants kick in, for example, a pork pie can be made anywhere but a Melton Mowbray pork pie can only be made in Melton Mowbray, etc etc)
Skypilot
Assistant Pro
I can't understand why it's always bog rolls people rush out and stockpile whenever there is some sort of crisis.
Maybe people like to binge *** at these times.
Maybe people like to binge *** at these times.
Wolf
Well-known member
I'd avoid those sauces like the plague anyway with all the extra added salts and sugars in the ingredients. Everything is readily available to make a good homemade sauce, but your point stands in that it proves its not made in Italy depsite its name.
People sadly are stupid and assume everything comes from somewhere else purely based on 1 brand or an originating source back in the day.. Was out yesterday in Coningsby and heard people banging on about toilet rolls and they had been stockpiling as they thought the government don't know when the next batch would be imported, imagine their surprise when I informed them the factory that makes, packages them and ships them to the supermarkets in Lincoln are based on the A17 just past Cranwell which is about 16 miles away and is readily shipping daily ?.
We stopped using jars of sauces years ago. Very convenient but as you say, loaded with sugar and salt.
Your second paragraph is all too true and situations like this prove just how stupid so many people are. 'Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public' is a wise comment I was once told. It has been proved correct over and over again.
No toilet roll for our Tesco delivery, went too another 2 supermarkets and none.....
Ended up getting some from poundstretcher, although it is the rubbish type!!
Ended up getting some from poundstretcher, although it is the rubbish type!!
stefanovic
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SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
How true that is.
went in Tesco Ness side last night, no bog roll or Pasta to be seen, they did have hand wash though
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Corn flakes and tinned foods seem to be joining loo roll and pasta as "stockpile " items...
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Managed to get 6 hand wash soaps today
But then 3 bathrooms in my house plus kitchen
Also 3 of them are for my wife's friend who can't get to the shops
But then 3 bathrooms in my house plus kitchen
Also 3 of them are for my wife's friend who can't get to the shops
harpo_72
Journeyman Pro
Well that’s good news for those without bog roll ... ! Suggest they get nail brushes as wellwent in Tesco Ness side last night, no bog roll or Pasta to be seen, they did have hand wash though
need_my_wedge
Has Now Found His Wedgie
Went to Costco yesterday, they were announcing at the door that there was no loo roll. Equally, there was no kitchen paper, very few tissues, and no pasta. They did have hand wash though, and a truck load of TV's.
I don't know that this has been great PR for Costco. The name has now become synomynous with panic buying toilet rolls, even though it applies to supermarkets as well. Somehow the pictures from there seem worse. We have a Costco card for work, we don't buy toilet rolls from them though we have a repeat order set up on Amazon for those, but I would avoid there full stop at the moment as it just has an air of manic behaviour about it right now. Unfair and probably inaccurate but I'll be giving it a wide berth for a while yet. (I do love drooling over the tv's when you first walk in though. Tech porn)
Beezerk
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No pasta? I was hoping to make Mac and cheese later ?
