pancake day 2009

[Dame Starry]

name='Steve Crook']Not in my supermarket. Flour and lemon juice are all together in the "home baking" section - Lemon sponge anyone?



Eggs aren't on the same shelf, they're on the one next to the home baking section



Steve

In my Sainsburys, lemon juice is with all the flavourings, whereas plain flour is in with all of all the flour; same section of the supermarket (Home Baking) - but different shelves, although possibly the same aisle.

....and eggs are in a different aisle in ALL supermarkets.



Those three items would not be side by side under normal circumstances.



Trust me - I'm a home baker!



DS x.

[Steve Crook]

name='Dame Starry']In my Sainsburys, lemon juice is with all the flavourings, whereas plain flour is in with all of all the flour; same section of the supermarket (Home Baking) - but different shelves, although possibly the same aisle.

....and eggs are in a different aisle in ALL supermarkets.



Those three items would not be side by side under normal circumstances.



Trust me - I'm a home baker!



DS x.

Our Sainsburys must be an unusual one then.

Not all supermarkets are the same. Not all branches of the same chain are the same



Steve

[Dame Starry]

name='Steve Crook']Our Sainsburys must be an unusual one then.

Not all supermarkets are the same. Not all branches of the same chain are the same



Steve

We've got a VERY big one and a little one.



Be honest; where would you see flour, eggs and lemon juice SIDE BY SIDE ON THE SAME SHELF unless pancakes were being promoted?



Photographs of all three in the supermarket in the same frame please!



DS x.

[EHV_Emmetts]

name='davidb']again is there one of those smiley things waving a white flag ?

Do you mean this?

[MB]

Marks and Spencers used to be quite sensible and seemed to deliberately avoid this - which I really liked. But that seems to have gone to the wall and in the last couple of years they have taken a similiar approach. Christmas calenders already out alongside Halloween.



I don't think it is chiefly the rampant consumerism that people are upset about either...it's the affect it has on our 'yearly clock'.... We are so lucky here to have seasonal weather and all the different sensations and changing ambience that goes along with that throughout the year. It's kind of an assault on the senses when they do this.



I suppose they do it to give people more of a chance and avoid panic buying in December, which is awful isn't it..but I'd have far more respect for them if they held out for a bit..

[Steve Crook]

name='Dame Starry']We've got a VERY big one and a little one.



Be honest; where would you see flour, eggs and lemon juice SIDE BY SIDE ON THE SAME SHELF unless pancakes were being promoted?



Photographs of all three in the supermarket in the same frame please!



DS x.

To quote Torquil MacNeil from I Know Where I'm Going, "I have a small one"



I didn't say that all three were side by side on the same shelf.

I said that the flour and lemon juice were in the home baking section and the eggs were further along the same aisle



Steve

[davidb]

name='EHV_Emmetts']Do you mean this?

thats the one where did you find him ?

[davidb]

dame starry and steve crook remind me of that scene in the movie version of the likely lads .where bob and terry bump into each other in the supermarket and terry is unable to find anything but poor old henpecked bob knows where every single item in every single aisle is !

[Dame Starry]

name='davidb']dame starry and steve crook remind me of that scene in the movie version of the likely lads .where bob and terry bump into each other in the supermarket and terry is unable to find anything but poor old henpecked bob knows where every single item in every single aisle is !

I remember that one!



I haven't finished yet either..............

I didn't say that all three were side by side on the same shelf.

It's true that you didn't use the words, "side by side", but you did say:

Most shops would put flour & lemon juice, along with all the other "home baking" ingredients, together on the same shelves.

....and now you have changed that to 'the same aisle' - proving that I was right all along.

name='Steve Crook']To quote Torquil MacNeil from I Know Where I'm Going, "I have a small one"

Don't worry - I won't kick a man when he's down.............



DS x.

[Dame Starry]

PS: Lemon juice/old lemons are wonderful for dissolving limescale.

[Steve Crook]

name='Dame Starry']....and now you have changed that to 'the same aisle' - proving that I was right all along.

I didn't change nuffink



A shelf can run the length of an aisle. A shelf, or an aisle, can have totally unrelated things on it



As I said some time back, different supermarkets (or different branches of the same chain) can display things in different ways.



In yours they might all be some way away from each other, in mine they're all quite close together.



Steve

[Dame Starry]

name='Steve Crook']I didn't change nuffink



In yours they might all be some way away from each other, in mine they're all quite close together.



Steve

I'm not sure I want to know how close together yours are but, as all things are relative, it probably has a bearing on the fact that you have a small one. The distance between mine is my own business.



Safe in the knowledge that I came out on top, I'm going to confuse you all further:







....if only they'd made them in Elvis's day!



Bon appetit!



DS x.

[EHV_Emmetts]

name='davidb']thats the one where did you find him ?

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[hankoler]

Love pancakes just with lemon juice and nothing else, lovely!

[davidb]

where can i find a big omo ? perhaps dame starry and steve crook with their knolwedge of supermarket layouts can help with that one ,ive got a lot of washing to do this week you see .

[yankfilmbuff]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is pancake day?



As for stores jumping the gun on various holidays, it's the same in the States. There are stores with Christmas goods out already. When I was a kid, we never saw a Christmas display until the day after our Thanksgiving holiday which is the last Thurday in November. That was always the "offcial" start of the Christmas season.



It really got bad earlier this year. Most schools let out for summer break on the third Friday in June. This year, some of the major chains like Wal-Mart had their "back-to-school" displays up the next day.

[Dame Starry]

name='yankfilmbuff']Pardon my ignorance, but what is pancake day?

As for stores jumping the gun on various holidays, it's the same in the States. There are stores with Christmas goods out already. When I was a kid, we never saw a Christmas display until the day after our Thanksgiving holiday which is the last Thurday in November. That was always the "offcial" start of the Christmas season.

It really got bad earlier this year. Most schools let out for summer break on the third Friday in June. This year, some of the major chains like Wal-Mart had their "back-to-school" displays up the next day.

We have the same problem with stores and Christmas over here!



When I was in Florida at the end of November in 1989, the Christmas decorations magically appeared overnight in Disneyworld on 1st December - even though Mickey's Christmas Shop is open all year.



Pancake Day is also known as Shrove Tuesday. If you 'click' on the link it'll take you to the page at Wikipedia which explains it.



Our pancakes are not like yours in the States. They are similar to French crepes; thinner and larger and, traditionally, we sprinkle them with caster sugar and lemon juice and roll them up before eating them.



DS x.

[Dame Starry]

name='davidb']where can i find a big omo ? perhaps dame starry and steve crook with their knolwedge of supermarket layouts can help with that one ,ive got a lot of washing to do this week you see .

When you say "a big omo", may I first ask if you are in the habit of dropping your aitches?



If not, you need the Laundry section.



DS x.

[hankoler]

name='Dame Starry']When you say "a big omo", may I first ask if you are in the habit of dropping your aitches?



If not, you need the Laundry section.



DS x.

[davidb]

name='Dame Starry']When you say "a big omo", may I first ask if you are in the habit of dropping your aitches?



If not, you need the Laundry section.



DS x.

what on earth would omoh be then ? i hope its not something smutty