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[bsharpish]

I hasten to add i buy very little eeeenglish food as I didnt come here to eat the same old shit and live the same old life !

However, while looking for some frozen fish ( a futile search for scallops) I noticed -

Iceland Smoked Haddock .... package price £4.50

Awfulledies price............. wait for it ............ 11.45 euro

are they freaking kidding me , is the computer crazy or is the spotty russian with the pricing printer on LSD

So I looked at other Uk products and found similar mark-ups evident.

Guess chilli's , uk direct, GB's etc etc are going to keep expanding and god help them with the expat market if a proper discount supermarket chain ( sssshhh you know who) gets established here.

I'm usually supremely unmoved by this sorta issue but 100+% mark up is just plain old theft

[CBBB]

Most of the supermarkets here have to pay much higher wholesale prices than in the UK, this is not only due to transport costs, but also the fact that their suppliers have to wait for more than a year to get paid!

The supermarket you mentioned is a specialist at doing this, so the wholesalers have to charge a premium for their products (apart from the fact that they are all greedy bastards).

[beverley10]

I buy as much Cypriot produce as possible but like you I sometime feel a bit nostalgic for something familiar (as Cypriots in UK do) but the prices as you say are just daylight robbery so I go without and sulk!!! Thank goodness for the visitors who bring the odd treat out when they come to stay.

[Gasman]

Yeah - there's the exchange rate and also the cost of getting it here. I don't understand the yearning for 'Brit foodstuff'. Most of it is processed shite. I smile when I see the proud banners in big shops proclaiming FROM ICELAND IN THE UK! My kids nag me for still calling it BEJAMS - that's what it was called when I last shopped there - I bought a BEJAM Microwave cooker!

Today I went into the Cash & Carry on the Airport Road. I was bemused to see, in their freezers, labelled on the boxes:

YOU ASKED FOR IT! Mr Brains Pork Faggots with more gravy!

Oh Yuk!, Bleedin' YUK! Who, in their right mind, would import lousy processed pork products from the UK when they live in Cyprus? Pork Products complete with toenails, eyelashes, arseholes, nostrils, - everything but the squeal - that's what they say about pork butchery in the UK.

[CBBB]

I cook English mealsm such as roast pork and crackling, but using local produce.

Sometimes I do eat dodgy British products like haggis and black pudding, which are not produced locally.

[Gasman]

CBB I was already chuckling at 'Robber Barons! (made me think of Pantomime!) when I read your bit about black pudding etc. Congealed blood isn't it? The Scots love it. (And I believe they top the Heart Disease League!)

[CBBB]

CBB I was already chuckling at 'Robber Barons! (made me think of Pantomime!) when I read your bit about black pudding etc. Congealed blood isn't it? The Scots love it. (And I believe they top the Heart Disease League!)

If you haven't tried it, don't knock it! It is not just the Scots that love it, it is enjoyed up north (anywhere past the Watford Gap).

[Raymanoff]

spotty russian with the pricing printer on LSD

Would you mind to elaborate?
You Chavs have a very old fashioned stereotypes...