clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Just seen panic buyers referred to as "pasta nonces" on Twitter.
Added to vocabulary.
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Added to vocabulary.
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The crazy thing is the Tesco where I tend to do our shopping - Durrington - has had mountains of pasta on clearance price for months now.
It’s all the stuff that they clearly sourced from Italy - as it’s all weird and wonderful brands they don’t normally sell - when the last panic buy was in full swing.
Regular stock lines returned to normal and they’ve been trying to get rid of the other stuff ever since. I think I got 509g of penne for about 25p last week. I expect it will be a different story when I do the shop this week.
Just back from my usual weekl;y shop at Tesco Durrington.
Pasta shelves pretty sparse, although amusingly the leftovers from Panic Buy #1 I mentioned previously, were still in quite good supply reduced on the first aisle in the store.
Flour was all but gone, eggs also and bog roll is clearly Very much in vogue again. I'll confess that although we don't need any this week, we would next week, so I bought a single pack of 9 rolls..
This was the loo roll isle Tesco holmbush Tuesday and much busier than normal ....totally daft
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This was the loo roll isle Tesco holmbush Tuesday and much busier than normal ....totally daft
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Had to mix with the ghastly council estate gammons in Asda today. Shelves nearly bereft of anything that one could conceivably wipe the rim of one’s muck-hole with. There were some packs of four left. Only a few and rather base in design. Only two-ply, quite grainy in texture and void of any perfumes or balms.
I decided, or rather circumstance decided for me, that I would buy some.
I only have three rolls of Waitrose aloe infused, three-ply, cushioned left and then it’s into the badlands. My poor dinner dumper won’t know what’s happening.
I’ve placed a roll of it on the shelf by the thunder box so I can subliminally get used to the idea. Looks like I could sand down a brick with it.
No wonder poor people always look so defeated.
I did consider opting for some wet-wipes but that’s like being fingered by a ghost, so I quickly passed by those.
Bad timing as well. I’ve recently begun courting a young lady, things might be moving to the physicals soon. My fear is, before an evening of romance she’ll pop to the en-suite, use these grit strips and think me a heathen. Or worse still, come to the conclusion if my plop-hopper can handle this grade of toilet roll that it’s a no holds barred ram-hole that can take anything she cares to dish out.
What a world.