Tub of 500g Lurpak in Iceland ..... FIVE QUID !!!

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    Exact same recipe Norpack butter, to the last detail, butter content etc, in Aldi ... £2.15.
    How or why is this happening?
    World's gone bonkers.
     
    Mr Badger, Jun 24, 2022
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    Presumably because someone pays it. Lots of people buy branded food items when many of the supermarkets own label products are produced in the same factory. Sometimes it's a minor recipe tweak and sometimes it's simply just different packaging.
     
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    Bachmann MEA wagons £15 quid each. I bought 6 for £32 in 2002.
     
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    Norpak was £1.49 earlier this year
     
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    News article on shopping. Saying people are buying less food.
    Massive shift from named brands to shops own.
    People at till telling the cashier to stop putting further items through. when the bill reaches eg £30. Leaving the rest.
    Far less fuel being purchased.
     
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    The car hire companies flogged most of their fleets during the pandemic apparently. The industry seems to be as good as dead here at the moment.
     
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    There is a tub of lard in Rwanda atm.
     
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    Don't know if it's the same recipe but it sure doesn't taste the same.
     
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    At half the price I’m sure it would taste better to me.
     
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    Well it's not far off !
    Same recipe, same colour, same texture.
    Remember the old ads in the 70s? Can you tell the difference between Stork and butter?
    I flippin well could.
    Does anyone still eat margarine any more?
     
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    This is one thing about " journalism " that boils me piss. "One man says", "This woman was horrified" ..... ONE PERSON. ONE. Do some research. The woman was horrified that the sky was blue. Grow up. If that sells papers, then they can all go bust for me.
     
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    They'll be the interns out of uni.. being told to fill pages..
     
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    I always thought Iceland was marketed as a cheap shop. It never had been when I've been in.
     
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    Some good news at last because it's gone down in value :D Instead of two 500g at a tenner you can get a 1kg for this.

     
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    I'd be trying to find someone with a looser arsehole.
     
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    Lurpack spreadable: take an expensive ingredient (butter) and water it down with cheap ingredients (water and veg oil), make it taste nowhere near as nice and charge a bucket load more.

    If only there was a different solution like, ooh, I don't know, taking the cheaper, better, regular butter out of the fridge.
     
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    It's not even spreadable from the fridge, rips holes in your bread trying to spread it
     
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