Read yesterday some supermarkets are asking their suppliers to simplify product lines. It said one currently produces 60 types of sausage and they
want to cut it down a bit. Didn't know there were 60 types.
I have 16 jars of Nescafe Gold Espresso, which is the instant of choice for me, although it has nowt to do with the virus.
It's normally £4-£5 a 100g jar and I pick up a dollop when it's on offer and during Feb and early March I kept seeing it in places as low at £2.50 so filled my boots.
I missed the boat with rice. I usually buy a sack of Tilda Basmati about once every 6-12 months. I ran out in Feb nearly bought a sack but my daughter has come back home and brought a 1kg pack with her, so I'm nearly out of rice.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Wright’s Coal Tar soap for me, Mrs DTR has always moaned as she says it stinks the bathroom out but I like it for its memories of my Grandparents and for its antiseptic properties after a dirty/crappy/thistley run, surprisingly she become quite keen on it after the last couple of weeks.
Not the real thing though:
European Union directives on cosmetics have banned the use of coal tar in non-prescription products, resulting in the removal of coal tar derivatives from the formula and replacement with tea tree oil as the main anti-bacterial ingredient. To cloak this major variance from the original recipe, the new soap has been made to approximate the look and smell of the original product.
Interestingly, when domestic gas started to be made by high pressure catalytic steam - naptha reforming processes in the early 1960s, rather than from coal, the major constituent (hydrogen) had no smell so Gas Boards had to add a "gas" smell, usually tetrahydrothiophene.
When the national system was later converted to methane ("North Sea Gas") this again has no smell but T.H.T was unsuitable and so other compounds were introduced.
So over a period of twenty years the smell of "gas" changed twice and on both occasions the public needed to become familiar with the different smell of "gas".
Last edited by Graham Breeze; 20-03-2020 at 06:01 PM.
"...as dry as the Atacama desert".
Graham you have just burst my bubble being of the camp that if it smells good for you then it probably is I reckon I’m still Ok though, going with this logic I’ll be having a massive Laphroaig on a Monday when I hand my call out phone on to stave off any wee beasties
Not panic buying just eating less to make what we have go further and TBH feeling better for it allready, on the bog roll subject if the worst comes to the worst we stll have flannels and a perfectly good shower so no worries
Now carbolic soap is the one that would bring memories back for me
The older I get the Faster I was
No more toilet rolls required by the turds.
I got in early on the bread flour. I bought a bulk load when all this kicked off. Food tastes better when u know it's in short supply!