Yes, I know Idris is still available, but it's annoying that the shop on my direct route home from work that used to do it has stopped...
Plain Harvest Crunch would be preferable in itself to either of the raisin or apple-and-strawberry versions, IMO, but I've never seen any anywhere - I suspect they think it's too boring to sell without throwing some Stuff into it first.
I wasn't under the impression I was being victimised! What gave you that idea? If what's been happening to me is beyond the bounds of plausible coincidence (which is by no means clear, statistics being the tricky beast it is) then I'd be far more likely to think that my taste in food was in some way unusual than to suspect conspiracy :-)
I'm never entirely sure about the Cambridge Cheese Shop. I've been in there a couple of times and they tend to have a big display full of nothing I've ever so much as heard of, and no other cheeses visible anywhere in the shop, which usually puts me off buying anything (to say nothing of making me think of Monty Python!). I should probably get round to asking next time I go past...
big display full of nothing I've ever so much as heard of
Isn't that sort of the point? That it has rarer cheeses that the supermarkets can't or won't sell?Actually, the cheeses you have heard of are mixed in, and if you look hard enough you'll find what you want, probably...
big display full of nothing I've ever so much as heard of
Er, yes, certainly it's a good thing that it has rare cheeses. The important bit of that sentence was "no other cheeses visible anywhere in the shop". Where should I have been looking?
big display full of nothing I've ever so much as heard of
>Actually, the cheeses you have heard of > are mixed in, and if you look hard enough you'll >find what you want, > probably...
They're mixed in among the cheese you've never heard of - hard cheeses in the display on the right, soft in the display on the left. Alternatively, you can just ask...?
big display full of nothing I've ever so much as heard of
Clearly we have different experiences of the CCS; I did look carefully at the entire display, and found perhaps two cheeses I'd heard of, but nothing I actually wanted to buy.
Yes, I know I can ask; that's why I said "I should get round to asking" a few posts ago.
(Dear me, I seem to be getting crotchety here. I'm sure the people responding to this entry aren't really trying to tell me I'm stupid and lazy, but I keep having to remind myself of that quite hard at the moment. Perhaps it's the weather.)
I wasn't under the impression I was being victimised! What gave you that idea?
The way you were ranting about how sick you were of supermarkets doing this to you, and how it couldn't possibly be just a coincidence -- it sounded like you felt it was a personal affront to you and your tastes in food!
To be honest I don't think your experience is unusual -- everybody finds that supermarkets stop stocking (or companies stop making) the things they like from time to time. Sainsburys stopped doing the croissant dough that I liked, and (years ago now) St Clements (now Barr I think) stopped doing the cola I liked, and EVERYBODY puts aspartame in EVERYTHING (I'm particularly annoyed about Vimto), and Schweppes stopped doing 'Schizan' (and had started putting saccharin in it anyway), and you can't get Cherry 7Up in big bottles any more, and ... I could go on. But generally I find something else I like instead eventually. But then I'm not really a creature of routine when it comes to food. <shrug>
I'm never entirely sure about the Cambridge Cheese Shop. I've been in there a couple of times and they tend to have a big display full of nothing I've ever so much as heard of
Try something new? You might find a new cheese that you like even more than the ones you can't get any more. :) Okay, so you don't know, but you can tell from looking at a cheese whether it's hard/soft/blue/etc. (if you have particular preferences or whatever-the-opposite-of-preferences-is for any of those), and I'm sure they'd be happy to answer questions (and possibly let you taste stuff before buying). And you can always just buy very small pieces of things if you're not sure about them. (Sainsburys/TescOS deli is good for that too, but their selection is a bit variable.)
Hmm. I'd intended to imply that the problem (if any) was that my taste in food was inconveniently nonstandard, not that I'd been personally affronted. (In particular, I thought it ought to be obvious that my last paragraph was meant in a Murphy's Law sense rather than a genuine they're-out-to-get-me sense.) Perhaps I didn't communicate as well as I'd intended.
"TescOS"? Does that sell Blue Cheese of Death? :-)
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Plain Harvest Crunch would be preferable in itself to either of the raisin or apple-and-strawberry versions, IMO, but I've never seen any anywhere - I suspect they think it's too boring to sell without throwing some Stuff into it first.
I wasn't under the impression I was being victimised! What gave you that idea? If what's been happening to me is beyond the bounds of plausible coincidence (which is by no means clear, statistics being the tricky beast it is) then I'd be far more likely to think that my taste in food was in some way unusual than to suspect conspiracy :-)
I'm never entirely sure about the Cambridge Cheese Shop. I've been in there a couple of times and they tend to have a big display full of nothing I've ever so much as heard of, and no other cheeses visible anywhere in the shop, which usually puts me off buying anything (to say nothing of making me think of Monty Python!). I should probably get round to asking next time I go past...
> are mixed in, and if you look hard enough you'll >find what you want,
> probably...
They're mixed in among the cheese you've never heard of - hard cheeses in the display on the right, soft in the display on the left. Alternatively, you can just ask...?
Yes, I know I can ask; that's why I said "I should get round to asking" a few posts ago.
(Dear me, I seem to be getting crotchety here. I'm sure the people responding to this entry aren't really trying to tell me I'm stupid and lazy, but I keep having to remind myself of that quite hard at the moment. Perhaps it's the weather.)
The way you were ranting about how sick you were of supermarkets doing this to you, and how it couldn't possibly be just a coincidence -- it sounded like you felt it was a personal affront to you and your tastes in food!
To be honest I don't think your experience is unusual -- everybody finds that supermarkets stop stocking (or companies stop making) the things they like from time to time. Sainsburys stopped doing the croissant dough that I liked, and (years ago now) St Clements (now Barr I think) stopped doing the cola I liked, and EVERYBODY puts aspartame in EVERYTHING (I'm particularly annoyed about Vimto), and Schweppes stopped doing 'Schizan' (and had started putting saccharin in it anyway), and you can't get Cherry 7Up in big bottles any more, and ... I could go on. But generally I find something else I like instead eventually. But then I'm not really a creature of routine when it comes to food. <shrug>
I'm never entirely sure about the Cambridge Cheese Shop. I've been in there a couple of times and they tend to have a big display full of nothing I've ever so much as heard of
Try something new? You might find a new cheese that you like even more than the ones you can't get any more. :) Okay, so you don't know, but you can tell from looking at a cheese whether it's hard/soft/blue/etc. (if you have particular preferences or whatever-the-opposite-of-preferences-is for any of those), and I'm sure they'd be happy to answer questions (and possibly let you taste stuff before buying). And you can always just buy very small pieces of things if you're not sure about them. (Sainsburys/TescOS deli is good for that too, but their selection is a bit variable.)
"TescOS"? Does that sell Blue Cheese of Death? :-)