Originally posted by ~Craig~
Alternatively, get yerself over to eBay and snap up a bargain: La Pavoni Europiccola Espresso and Cappuccino maker
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Call yourself a contractor?! What's half a day's fees in return for a lifetime of truly superb coffee?! It's the only coffee machine you will need, ever again. To be fair, my sister-in-law bought me mine, but if you want the best, you need to get the bucks out.
Alternatively, get yerself over to eBay and snap up a bargain: La Pavoni Europiccola Espresso and Cappuccino maker -
I've got a Krups top of the range and it's fine. Just make sure it has a high Bar.
On the subject of food, just come back from Rome, coffee to die for and ate like an emperor. I just love spaghetti vongole.But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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Well actually i don't, because i'm notOriginally posted by Lucifer Box
i'm still yet to make the leap so at the moment i reside in under-paid permidom.
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Was in France 2 weeks ago and thought what I've always thought. Why do tomatoes taste of tomatoes in France and steaks taste of steaks? Why does any food taste much better? Is it something in the soil?Hard Brexit now!
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I think it's just the case that the general attitude in France is still very much "does it taste good?" rather than "how cheap is it?". In the UK the most important thing to the general buyer is the price, closely followed by what it looks like. What it tastes like just doesn't enter into the reckoning. In France/Italy/Spain etc it is the quality. If you tried selling the standard UK supermarket tomato (normally from Holland) in France no one would buy them because they taste like tulip and you wouldn't persuade them otherwise with the argument that that doesn't matter because they're cheap and all look perfect.Originally posted by sasguruComment
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It's not to do with the soil, per se - it's that as Brits, where happy to eat complete and utter bollox if it's quick/cheap - preferably both. The French have significantly different standards. At Chez EO, my plan B, we use traditionally reared, local meat, and as much other local produce as is humanly possible - the tomatoes and steaks do indeed taste as they should.Originally posted by sasguru
We have no-one to blame but ourselves for the poor quality food which is sold here.
I shall get down off my soap box before I fall...The squint, the cocked eye and clenched first are the cornerstones of all Merseyside communication from birth to graveComment
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Beat me to it, you barsteward.Originally posted by Lucifer BoxThe squint, the cocked eye and clenched first are the cornerstones of all Merseyside communication from birth to graveComment
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In which case I suggest you join the queue at your local Salvation Army chapel. I hear their coffee isn't too bad.Originally posted by ~Craig~Well actually i don't, because i'm not i'm still yet to make the leap so at the moment i reside in under-paid permidom.Comment
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Great minds think alike, EO.Originally posted by EqualOpportunities
All the top quality food is there and you can get steaks and tomatoes just as good here, just not from a supermarket as it's not the market they're aiming at (in the main).
Like EO I buy all my meat direct from the farms where I know the quality is tip top, the animals humanely reared, and so on. Same with vegetables, buy direct from the grower and cut the rapacious supermarkets out of the chain.
The cost is only a little more (in some cases when the produce is in season, it's less because the whatever it is isn't being flown to Poland to be washed and bagged) but the taste is a lot more. You pays your money and you takes your choices.
As with almost everything:
Q. Why is this so cheap?
A. Because it's tulipe.Comment
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Yes but I am a mere nipper compared to ye olde LuciferOriginally posted by Lucifer Box
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