Category Archives: ALDI
UK’s Top Ten Supermarkets: How They Rate
At Number 1 is Waitrose.
Score: 9.5 /10
Price v Value for Money: Waitrose’s own label prices for weekly staples (sliced bread, butter, milk…) are very competitive and often as not will be at a similar level to ones at Sainsbury’s & Tesco. But stray away to the more enticing products at your cost! Read more
Don’t waste it – Fridge it
The ‘Don’t waste it – Fridge it’ information below , may help a little if you’ve just bought or rented your first house and you’re now catering for yourself. Moreover, If you’re one of the many second year University students that can’t wait to get your keys to your own pad! Remember that by not wasting it, there will be more to spend on boo… Books of course!
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Caveat Emptor for Bourbon Drinkers
Unlike Ireland, where there is three year apprenticeship to be barperson, most of the part-time staff that work behind the bar of our British pubs, have very little knowledge of the spirits that they sell from the back shelf. Read more
The Cola Cake
The world’s cola market is a very big cake indeed! Dominated for over century by Coca-Cola and Pepsi; two of the biggest soft drink manufacturers in the world. Not surprisingly then, that many of the world’s major supermarket’s have over the years introduced their own-brand of colas to grab a slice of this very rich cola cake!
Food’s fifth taste and it’s not umami
There is a growing momentum in the restaurant world to promote umami, the natural flavour enhancer in some types of food, to the elevated position of the fifth taste! The first four are: sweet, salty, sour and bitter. Sorry guys. You are a thousand or so years too late. Food and drink’s fifth taste is – terroir!