Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:30 pm  

Dally wrote:

Do you mean Panorama? It's on now - 8.30PM.

Of course, silly me.

That's why I mentioned a channel that was not the BBC and a programme that has never appeared on the BBC

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Mon Feb 18, 2013 10:08 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

Of course, silly me.

That's why I mentioned a channel that was not the BBC and a programme that has never appeared on the BBC

Silly me, thinking you wouldn't watch such a chavy channel. Did they squeeze it in between multiple episodes of 'Come Dine With Me'. Or, perhaps it was an equine edition of the show?

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:50 am  

Dally wrote:

Silly me, thinking you wouldn't watch such a chavy channel. Did they squeeze it in between multiple episodes of 'Come Dine With Me'. Or, perhaps it was an equine edition of the show?

You obviously missed this from the TV thread:

cod'ead wrote:

Today and until 23.59hrs, I have been boycotting the BBC in support of the striking journos.

Dispatches has, in many ways, overtaken Panorama in investigative journalism

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:03 am  

I agree that Panorama has been a joke for years now. There is very little investigation and the sort of one-eyed, inane, lowest common-denominator 'journalism' that I have come to expect from of the Mail or Guardian.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:09 am  

cod'ead wrote: Interesting results of a survey in The Grocer The aspect I find disappointing is that 50% of people wouldn't be willing to pay more for their food. Hence, manufacturers will continue to find ways of using cheaper ingredients that those consumers wouldn't necessarily want in their food. Personally, I would rather pay a little bit extra for my actual food and forgo the Mars Bar and the Coca Cola.

cod'ead wrote: Interesting results of a survey in The Grocer The aspect I find disappointing is that 50% of people wouldn't be willing to pay more for their food. Hence, manufacturers will continue to find ways of using cheaper ingredients that those consumers wouldn't necessarily want in their food. Personally, I would rather pay a little bit extra for my actual food and forgo the Mars Bar and the Coca Cola.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:41 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

The aspect I find disappointing is that 50% of people wouldn't be willing to pay more for their food.
Hence, manufacturers will continue to find ways of using cheaper ingredients that those consumers wouldn't necessarily want in their food.

Personally, I would rather pay a little bit extra for my actual food and forgo the Mars Bar and the Coca Cola.

I think that, for many people, there are very serious issues about the rising cost of living – not least, housing costs – and food being seen as one thing that can be trimmed when times are tough. Some of that is still based on the myth that convenience is cheap and the lack of cooking skills. But that's not just it.

It does astonish me – and I've had the conversation more than a few times – that some people, who think nothing of paying several quid for a packet of fags or a beer, or a fiver for a McDonalds meal, think that food is too expensive.

Now they're entirely within their rights to decide that they will prioritise the beer or the cigarettes, but how, when compared to those things, they can consider, say, £2 for a loaf of bread exorbitantly expensive is beyond me.

And the idea that food should be cheap as chips (so to speak) has been pushed for years by the high-profile price wars between, in particular, Tesco and Asda (Wal-Mart), plus the likes of Iceland, whose hypocritical boss seems to have conveniently forgotten that.

As a slight aside, I wouldn't answer 'yes' to spending more on meat if asked in that survey, on the grounds that I already buy from farmers/producers that I can trust – most of the time, directly, without a middle-man. And I'm in the fortunate enough position to be able to pay for that.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:59 am  

Mintball wrote:

As a slight aside, I wouldn't answer 'yes' to spending more on meat if asked in that survey, on the grounds that I already buy from farmers/producers that I can trust – most of the time, directly, without a middle-man. And I'm in the fortunate enough position to be able to pay for that.

It's a pity The Grocer didn't supply a demographic split for the graph, as they did for the table below it

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:55 am  

Mintball wrote:

... the likes of Iceland, whose hypocritical boss seems to have conveniently forgotten that...

On the Panorama programme he was so sweepingly dismissive of the questions that the impression he gave was as simply not credible, no-one would trust him I'm sure.
The Gerald Ratner of food retailing.

Mintball wrote:

... As a slight aside, I wouldn't answer 'yes' to spending more on meat if asked in that survey, on the grounds that I already buy from farmers/producers that I can trust – most of the time, directly, without a middle-man. And I'm in the fortunate enough position to be able to pay for that.

Hmm, yes, you are already spending the "more" that they were asking about.

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:03 am  

cod'ead wrote:

It's a pity The Grocer didn't supply a demographic split for the graph, as they did for the table below it

That would have been interesting.

El Barbudo wrote:

... The Gerald Ratner of food retailing...

Yes, indeed!

Re: Tesco Horse Burgers : Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:15 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

On the Panorama programme he was so sweepingly dismissive of the questions that the impression he gave was as simply not credible, no-one would trust him I'm sure.
The Gerald Ratner of food retailing.

The only positive thing I could say about him was that he made a refreshing change from the usual PR orientated clones. But he did himself and the company no favours.