market or supermarket?

[cacian]

where would you rather do most of your shopping?


give me a market anyday ;)

[Volya]

If I'm shopping for food (which, given I'm only 16, is pretty rare anyway), I go to supermarkets. They're much more convenient.

Although, markets like Camden Market are pretty cool places.

[cacian]

If I'm shopping for food (which, given I'm only 16, is pretty rare anyway), I go to supermarkets. They're much more convenient.

Although, markets like Camden Market are pretty cool places.

Hi Voly I do not remember the last time I was sixteen ;) that must have been a long long time ago oh and I did get the chance to get to the market on time my mother. what a pleasure that was. not one supermarkets on sight I remember. it was great!!! :D

Camden market is cool. How about Portebello? that is more food shopping as well as other thing. Have you been?

[Volya]

Camden market is cool. How about Portebello? that is more food shopping as well as other thing. Have you been?

Nah, I don't really go shopping much. I only went to Camden because a friend told me I would like it.

[Lokasenna]

I would rather shop at a market - the produce at my local market is fantastic. Sadly, there's a whackingly huge Tesco a 2 minute walk from my front door, which is also cheaper than the market that is a 40 minute walk away. Convenience and economy must take priority when one is on a student budget/academic lifestyle.

I do so love Cacian's polls - what's next, I wonder? Do you prefer socks or communism..?

[Paulclem]

I do so love Cacian's polls - what's next, I wonder? Do you prefer socks or communism..?

Socks - socks of one's own. Communism - your socks are everyone's. Just imagine the matching up difficulties...

[kiki1982]

I prefer a market really, like in France or Belgium, but sadly I don't have one in my town (one market stall with comparatively expensive veg in the car park of a Saturday morning is the market).

If it isn't too expensive, I like buying from stalls better than from supermarket, because at least you're giving it to the source and the people who are selling it get to know you after a while.

But at home, we do all our shopping in the supermarket, sadly. :(

[cacian]

I would rather shop at a market - the produce at my local market is fantastic. Sadly, there's a whackingly huge Tesco a 2 minute walk from my front door, which is also cheaper than the market that is a 40 minute walk away. Convenience and economy must take priority when one is on a student budget/academic lifestyle.

I do so love Cacian's polls - what's next, I wonder? Do you prefer socks or communism..?

I do not trust Tesco products. they sell horse meat and tell you it is beef. Tesco is dishonest. I much prefer Sainsbury's for what it is anyway.
oh an about socks and communism it is interesting you put them together. I sometime cannot tell the difference between the two. they both ware out in the same way. it is a rather cunny resemblance I have to say.

and to answer your question I cannot stand socks I never wear them and so I would chose neither. :)

[Lokasenna]

I do not trust Tesco products. they sell horse meat and tell you it is beef. Tesco is dishonest. I much prefer Sainsbury's for what it is anyway. I would boycott Tesco tomorrow if I could only I cannot be bothered.

Not that I partake of Tesco ready-meals anyway, but horse meat doesn't bother me. I rather like horse-flesh - it's like slightly sweet beef. Yum. The only reason we don't eat it in this and other Germanic countries is because of the cultural hangover of the medieval Church's prohibition of it as a means of supressing pagan religious practices.

As for the comparison between socks and communism, I meant that entirely in jest. If you can find some deeper meaning then... well... good for you.

[Volya]

Nothing wrong with a bit of horse every now and then. I doubt Sainsbury's or any of the other big names are any more trustworthy.

My socks tried to stage a revolution a few weeks ago... They claimed I wasn't paying them well enough.

[cacian]

Nothing wrong with a bit of horse every now and then. I doubt Sainsbury's or any of the other big names are any more trustworthy.

My socks tried to stage a revolution a few weeks ago... They claimed I wasn't paying them well enough.

I object to eating horse full stop. a horse is for riding if I am to eat it there will be none left by the time i finish.
i like to draw the line between what i can have and cannot have because i can. my diet is therefore restricted to cattle meat and that is where it stops. at least i know their usage is not as practical as that of a horse.
i compare a horse to a dog they are both human companions. one does not eat a dog, or at least i would like to think so , and so i do not eat a horse. :)

about Sainsbury they were first before Tesco. Tesco is the cheaper version of Sainsbury's. their food quality is not as good and their meat is very cheap.

[cacian]

Not that I partake of Tesco ready-meals anyway, but horse meat doesn't bother me. I rather like horse-flesh - it's like slightly sweet beef. Yum. The only reason we don't eat it in this and other Germanic countries is because of the cultural hangover of the medieval Church's prohibition of it as a means of supressing pagan religious practices.
well i am very glad to see the UK has got some sense when it comes to meat. after all they would not have their horse racing and their pagan displays if it were not for the horse. i find it distasteful to eat an entire animla such as a horse when there is so much other meat to be had. one has to draw the line between what one wishes to do with animals, either eat them or use then but cannot have both that would not be fair.


As for the comparison between socks and communism, I meant that entirely in jest. If you can find some deeper meaning then... well... good for you.
i understood it was a jest. as for a deeper meaning i do not think i have any for they both have neither. :)

[Volya]

I wouldn't mind eating horse, or dog. Not MY dog of course, but if it were a dog raised for meat, then why not? They eat dog in some parts of the world I think.

[cacian]

I wouldn't mind eating horse, or dog. Not MY dog of course, but if it were a dog raised for meat, then why not? They eat dog in some parts of the world I think.

well if you think about the dog diet it is very different from other consumable farm cattle. i would not want to touch a dog because of what they could potentially eat.
cattle is better because their diet is controlled.

[Lokasenna]

I've eaten dog. I wouldn't rave over its taste, but I have no ethical issues with eating it.

[Volya]

I'm sure that dogs bred for eating are just as safe to eat as cows. Wild/domestic dogs might be a bit different.

[cacian]

I've eaten dog. I wouldn't rave over its taste, but I have no ethical issues with eating it.

Oh no!!!!

[LitNetIsGreat]

Sheffield market is being closed down because it is a bit of a dump. Some of the stalls are relocating to other premises, others can't afford it and so have probably gone bust. I liked the market (even thought it was a dump) because in general you were getting better quality food at lower prices. Sometimes you could a bag of 30 bananas for a quid, as they were selling them off - still yellow and everything. I would also buy large 20 packs of eggs for about £2.20. The meat I bought was also direct from a local butcher. I would also get fresher fish than the supermarkets could hope to provide. So overall I preferred the market, though we still probably got more general stuff from the supermarkets.

[cafolini]

I've eaten dog. I wouldn't rave over its taste, but I have no ethical issues with eating it.

Fortune cookie says:
Next full moon brings enchanting banquet.

[kiki1982]

All this stuff about horse is a cultural thing. But the shock about the horse meat in the lasagna was not so much the fact it was horse, but probably that there was something in it at all that wasn't on the label. Possibly even horse meat from dodgy Romanian horses that had been given a certain drug that shouldn't be in the food chain in the first place. If they do that with horse and beef, then what else could there be in all those ready meals?
I mean there have been scandals about chippies in Belgium using motor oil for frying their chips in, processed meats containing fat supplied by a company using fat that had gone off to mix it with fresh... etc.

All this labelling, good for nothing. You might as well just do away with it and only sell fresh food.

Although the church having prohibited the consumption of horse meat is an interesting point. Next time someone says something against the Jews or Muslims not eating pork, I shall bring up that fact. Only the English don't come with 'God forbids it.' That's then the only difference, so they seem more nobly principled, because they come sith, 'But a horse is a noble animal.' aah.

I would know whether I would really pick horse to eat per se. Maybe I should do that once, just to see what it tastes like. My grandparents liked horse too, in the distant past (it became less and less popular from WWII to the 1980s in Belgium, like organ meat). As to dog, I don't think you would ever know, because you can't understand the menus in these countries. I'm sure they raise their dogs like cattle. Surely they wouldn't just pick a dog up from the street. There wouldn't be enough meat on it. Whether it is safe, is another question, but I'm sure with all the commercial chickens these days being put through a course of chemicals after they've been slaughtered and before they are sold, because they are full of bacteria, I think we would come back to where we started.

As to communism and socks, after a while both start to show holes and the holes will only get bigger until they make the fabric fall apart.
We lit fans are trained to look for deeper meanings :D

[cacian]

I'm sure that dogs bred for eating are just as safe to eat as cows. Wild/domestic dogs might be a bit different.

I hope they will never. god forbid. dogs are supposed to be pets. cannot eat them as well.
I am not keen on the idea because dogs are different in that keep people busy in a different to eat them would be big time wrong. plus I cannot fathom the idea of eating something I call a pet.
that's me :)

[cacian]

Fortune cookie says:
Next full moon brings enchanting banquet.

Yeah that. thank god for a full moon hey ;)

[cafolini]

Like Loka. I have no ethical problem with the Chinese choice.
The Chinese have often considered Americans very childish and, in a way they are correct, because we love children and place our hopes on the ultimate value of youth. But in many other ways they don't make sense.
I remember when city authorities, somewhere in Northern California, Eureka or thereabouts, gave a dog the honorary keys to the city and declared him mayor, the Chinese newspapers were printing the joke, as they viewed it