Comments on: Tesco sell something English

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:01:55 +0000

Incidently, I made a call to Trading Standards yesterday and I’m waiting for a call back.

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:01:19 +0000

Not at all, I turned the registration on a while ago and then turned it off a few days later because it got spammed. I turned it back on last night after tweaking it slightly (and temporarily breaking the admin pages) to make it less recognisable to spambots.

By: Charlie Marks

Charlie Marks — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:37:07 +0000

Ah, I must be stoopid. I’ll register now.

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:29:15 +0000

Charlie, I don’t know what you’re doing to have so many problems! Just click on the register link on the bottom right and register. Once I’ve activated your account you can log on and you won’t have to fill in the captcha box.

By: axel

axel — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:17:00 +0000

I doubt that but…..

The supermarkets are huge, absolutely enormous, so alternate labelling would be easy. Have you ever seen a Scothch Pie in your local shop? Guessng you are from Brum, you probably have’nt however you may have seen Mutton Pies, they are identical, made in the same factory but we get different labels up here on them.

And anyway there are 50 million of you and only 10 million of us grumpy savages. Surely the maths say, you buy and eat more?

By: A brummie

A brummie — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:32:38 +0000

I think the reason the supermarkets do it is because if produce that was made in England was marked as such – the Scots & Welsh would not want to buy it.

By: Charlie Marks

Charlie Marks — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:48:51 +0000

oh fuck. I’ve posted the same thing twice. Wonko, does it really need to be so confusing to make a post?

By: Charlie Marks

Charlie Marks — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:47:38 +0000

Some are better than others in this regard. M&S have the St George’s flag on their milk, I recall. Don’t shop there myself – too expensive. My milk’s from the farmer’s co-operative – Dairy Famers of Britain. Cheaper than supermarkets and of top quality.

By: Charlie Marks

Charlie Marks — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:45:22 +0000

I note that some are better than others on this. M&S have the St George’s flag on their milk. Not that I shop there, or anything. Too expensive. I get milk from the unfortunately-named Dairy Farmers of Britain – it’s cheap and of good quality, too.

By: axel

axel — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:20:29 +0000

I don’t understand it myself, why they don’t do it, I would and I’m sure I’d make a bucket of money out of it.

English cheeses, Somerset hams! These are well known brands that should be marketed. If i was into them, I would but badged cheeses and be prepared to sopend a bit more on them, like I do with tghe premium scottish things I buy.

I am actually suspicious of the union flag on foods, what does it mean?

To me it implies that the Melton Mowbrya Pie in my fridge is not real Melton Mowbray but some kind of faux Glaswegian construct.

Remember the M&S advert for high quality christmas food? It started off with ‘Alaskan Smoked Salmon’ but when that proved to be a controversial choice in scotland, where our own salmon aint to pishy, that part was pulled. So there is consumer power, use it, be strong

By: JD

JD — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:32:37 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this… maybe there’s a new approach.

All the supermarkets are bending over backwards to be as “green” as possible – if we could pressure them to put England on English produce as a method of helping the consumer to reduce food miles and their carbon footprint blah etc.

Might work?

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:24:36 +0000

Yep, the Ulster flag is a Cross of St George with a 6 pointed star topped with a yellow crown and a red “Hand of Mordor” in the middle of the star.

By: axel

axel — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:51:55 +0000

Is the ulster flag not the St George cross too but with a badge?

Would that confuse a thick jock like me?

By: wonkotsane

wonkotsane — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:57:11 +0000

I’m going to give it a try. They label Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish products as coming from that country. It’s therefore logical to expect that something with a British flag on it comes from more than one “British” nation. If it only comes from England then that’s not the case and it’s misleading labelling.

By: Alfie the OK

Alfie the OK — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:24:28 +0000

I’ve already tried that – I complained saying that their labels were innaccurately labelled.

Trading Standards got back to me saying that there was nothing they could do as England was in Britain – and the British flag was the Union Jack.