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Old 29-07-2023, 07:23 PM #1
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Saturdays can be overrated. This time of the year there’s naff all for Saturday night TV. So it can feel more like a chore to get through than a nice break.

Let’s not even get me started on Sunday afternoons/evening, lad.
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Asda goose fat is way better than Waitrose’s. A million times better.
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And no shop does a mean pizza like Asda (Waitrose has many strengths but pizza - or in their case olives on wannabe-margarita - ain’t it). I don’t know why so many people out there seem to prefer Tesco of all bloody shops.
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And no shop does a mean pizza like Asda (Waitrose has many strengths but pizza - or in their case olives on wannabe-margarita - ain’t it). I don’t know why so many people out there seem to prefer Tesco of all bloody shops.
Asda Pizza is nice tbf.

I also adore their Tuna Conchiglie Bake.
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Asda Pizza is nice tbf.

I also adore their Tuna Conchiglie Bake.
Yeah, Asda’s amazing. As far as international/continental British shops go I could be a Waitrose snob if I wanted to (not that I can actually afford to shop there more than three times a year; I just keep the bags as unspoken proof of purchase) but Asda is genuinely my favourite. Waitrose (when I actually have the money, which isn’t very often) and Morrisons are good too and there’s something nice about just popping to the Co-Op on a Sunday morning but they all have their specific niches. Nowhere compares to Asda when it comes to pizza and variety of roast chicken whereas Morrisons leads when it comes to fish (they do a mean mackerel). Waitrose has pretentious variety and some of the stuff there is genuinely better quality but not all, not by a long shot.

Big Tesco’s alright but all those little Tesco expresses here, there and everywhere are very average and just too normal/common for me. I have a club-card that takes me there when I want to top up or buy cheap candles and spicy-chicken pasta tubs but to me Tesco’s generally not somewhere to shop for reasons besides pure convenience. The brand just seems a little overused and naff to me.
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Yeah, Asda’s amazing. As far as international/continental British shops go I could be a Waitrose snob if I wanted to (not that I can actually afford to shop there more than three times a year; I just keep the bags as unspoken proof of purchase) but Asda is genuinely my favourite. Waitrose (when I actually have the money, which isn’t very often) and Morrisons are good too and there’s something nice about just popping to the Co-Op on a Sunday morning but they all have their specific niches. Nowhere compares to Asda when it comes to pizza and variety of roast chicken whereas Morrisons leads when it comes to fish (they do a mean mackerel). Waitrose has pretentious variety and some of the stuff there is genuinely better quality but not all, not by a long shot.

Big Tesco’s alright but all those little Tesco expresses here, there and everywhere are very average and just too normal/common for me. I have a club-card that takes me there when I want to top up or buy cheap candles and spicy-chicken pasta tubs but to me Tesco’s generally not somewhere to shop for reasons besides pure convenience. The brand just seems a little overused and naff to me.
I remember Waitrose being really good when it came to Japanese and Korean food from my very rare experiences with the Supermarket.

I also like Morrisons and Co-Op, especially Co-Op Sausage Rolls.

Yeah I agree with you about Tesco being more of an okay Supermarket.

And just to add another controversial opinion to this thread, I liked the Doron Dororon Manga, which given it's 5.97/10 score on MAL I'm gathering is not the most popular opinion to hold.

And to make myself even more controversial, I think that Doron Dororon is better than Bleach & JJK out of Shounen Jump's series, the reason I say this is that they do better on the character interactions than JJK, and it doesn't have the bizarre combination of Chad's blandness meets Orihime's irritating personality that Bleach goes for in the opening arc.
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I hate it when companies reBrand !!

By Sports is now TNT .. sounds like a ‘fake wrestling’ channel now

Also IKEA is now pronounced … ‘hick’ ‘ear’

Plus Oil of Ulay is now Oil of Olay

Nestles Milky Bars are now Nestle Milky Bars

Marathons become Snickers !!!

Agghhhhh !!!


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