Jeez; there are some of the less salubrious 'boozers' in Leith where I could get TWO Jack Daniels with lemonade'n'ice for less than £5.70 ........... just sayin'! Anyway, your good manners and reticence to comment on the irony of the tax dodging toerags asking their staff to bump the prices for a charitable contribution did you proud.
And I bet you didn’t gave to pay extra to have those 2 x JDs served in a glass either. The profit margin on coffee must be huge. I blame my teenage daughter for my addiction to frothy cappuccino. She first took me into costa and I can barely go past one now without popping in.
A growing fad by the looks of it. I strolled into a building society at the weekend and whilst conducting my business (important not funny) was asked by the teller / clerk / cashier / customer service operative / whatever the ‘eck they are called these days (delete as appropriate) if I wanted to donate to their, and I quote, ‘chosen charity’ (incidentally at no point was it established what this actually was!). I also did little else than mumble a ‘no’ but next time I go in am seriously tempted to take a book of raffle tickets with me and ask if they want to donate to my ‘chosen charity’.
I have a serious addiction to potato crisps, spicy ones especially. I try to buy only those with what they say is a low salt content (salt is very bad for me), but I think the barstewards are lying! It is difficult for me to walk past the vast 'chips' section in supermarkets, have to don my special blinkers. Even then……….... (My doctor says that I should try popcorn. I said "OK, as long as they are salted, or honey-sweetened". He replied "Get out of here, Mr. Swan")
I tend to buy a large packet of 'Funny-frisch Chipsfrisch ungarisch' from Rewe for the room and dip into these beauties as my gut returns from bourbon, 'Gulaschsuppe' and BBQ wings to other less 'hot' grub! At 'home' I am a sucker for Lidl's six packs of BBQ flavoured (bacon,, steak and chicken) crinkle cut crisps at £0.75 a packet. Healthy eating has not yet reached this auld tosser!
Oh dear, don't get me going. Crisp-wise, our relevant kitchen cupboard is 'Old Mother Hubbard' at the moment! Ah yes, got to go to Edeka in a couple of hours, as Wednesday is the day here for 'Spezial' buying as they have the best price in town. By Thursday the brand is all gone. Must avoid chips section at all costs!
These have been going for donkey's years in Germany in nearly all supermarkets, probably the most popular 'chips' ever here, certainly the most well-known.
Naturis “100% pure Pineapple Juice (from concentrate)” at Lidl. On the side of the carton it says “100% fruit”, so somebody should get the authorities onto them under Trade Descriptions as it cannot possibly be if it was squashed to a pulp somewhere in South America, flown over here and then rehydrated using British water. It tasted like pineapple but I found that if I left the glass standing on the coffee table unattended for five minutes, the pineapple began to settle to the bottom of the glass so I had to swill it around to remix it. I had more than my five portions today, so in order to stop me living longer I need to go out and find some ale...
Apparently from concentrate is the same as fresh squeezed. It was on one time f those consumer programmes. I now go for the cheaper option.
Is it actually the same though or is it able to be classed as the same. On a similar programme I learnt that most free range eggs aren’t actually free range as I would imagine but just meet a fairly loose ‘free range’ criteria.
Same as the EU definition of “organic”. Go to your local Aldi or Lidl and you will find all sorts of “organic” foods which barely differ from normal mass-produced goods.
Apparently they extract the juice from the fruit and ship them separately because it’s cheaper. They then put them together at there destination.
I get my my eggs down the pub. See the ducks and chickens wondering down the lane as we ride by. Out all day lots of double Yolkers.
Regardless, we do probably 90% of our food shopping at either Aldi or Lidl. We have worked out over the years as to what to buy at Aldi and what at Lidl, as do many other families in Germany, I'm sure. I don't pay any attention to this Bio nonsense myself, although the missus does insist on buying eggs from local poultry farms which she checks on regularly to make sure they are what they say they are. Edeka is OK for a few things, but usually more expensive. The food sections of the major department stores here are also out of the question pricewise. The posh place here is Feinkost Käfer, Munich's very own Fortnum & Mason, where the city's Shikimikki shop. They just love to be seen buying a can of baked beans for triple the normal price, I guess!
As this is chicken-gate ......... they are free range on my farm, just penned up at night. And the little fookers go everywhere. And **** everywhere. I've seen one sitting on my car bonnet before now, although as it is a humble Vauxhall Astra, they probably think it IS a toilet. I found one in my motorhome recently - i'd left the habitation door open while loading up for a trip away, when I came back with more stuff there it was strutting up and down. I tried to catch it but it scuttles into the cab area flapped about and shat on the dashboard, I opened the driver door to let the bugger out before more excrement came out of it! Billy Whippet got in the chicken run last year, where he cornered one and started to eat it from the arse end - didn't bother killing it first. I charged in and rescued the thing - it was still alive, albeit minus most of it's bum, but it expired overnight. The eggs are great though PS: It is gone 3am and I still haven't got to sleep yet; this chest infection is bringing me down. My 73 year old body is battling best it can, but doesn't seem to be winning. Just hope it's not losing!
Now, now; this sometime 'Schiki' bumped into Feinkost Kafer when I had to visit the British Consulate-General on Mohlstrasse to arrange travel back to Auld Reekie due to a mishap at a Bamberg music festival where I misplaced (?) my passport. Lovely and tasteful cafe for a white wine sprtzer while waiting for the extended lunchtime closing of the Consulate to pass. I am also not averse to a stroll around Dallmayr to purchase some premium chocolate; this too is usually concluded by a seat at the cafe for a wee slug of bevvy; oops my Leith upbringing overtook my Schikikikki there! To return to proper rub-a-dubs there used to be three (now only one remains) wee 'dives' on Riederstrasse leading from the 'Viktualmarkt' where, when you passed through the curtained entrances, you returned to the 1970's. There were people sleeping at the benched tables, much leather and denim adorned the patrons plus Black Sabbath and Creedence Clearwater Revival on the jukebox! I thought I had arrived in heaven!
Yes, you certainly were a Shikimikk at times on your visits! Never took to Käfer much, Feinkost or their restaurants. Remember drinking those ridiculous little Bellinis at Käfer (not a Bellini Cocktail in a Champagne flute) in a small glass shaped something like the thumbnail sketch below. My mate and our wives drank our way merrily through half the afternoon. My pal invited us originally, but he was a crazy guy who didn't have a lot of money, and guess who ended up paying? I nearly fell off the bar stool when I got the bill. Dallmayr is OK, not a bad place at all.
