[Travel] Diddly Squat Farm

[Raleigh Chopper]

I just about managed to plough through it.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I did quite enjoy the series but basically he's conned Amazon into paying him millions to make an advert for his farm shop.

I see what you're saying but he had a product they needed. He sold himself and in the process made a highly entertaining series. One in which he showed that boorish behaviour doesn't always negate a person's humanity.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

I did quite enjoy the series but basically he's conned Amazon into paying him millions to make an advert for his farm shop.

It may have been a joke to begin with but then they accidentally ended up with a very enjoyable and popular show. So a con that accidentally gave value maybe?

I learnt loads about country life and found the staged silliness (like country boy in the big city) to be the least interesting part of it all.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I did quite enjoy the series but basically he's conned Amazon into paying him millions to make an advert for his farm shop.

Wasn't it more to do with the fact that Covid meant The Grand Tour had to be canned, but Amazon still needed some sort of content to fill the terms of the contract between it and JC/TGT? He had the farm, someone had the idea and, all of a sudden, everyone's a winner (baby)!

 

[nicko31]

Whilst traveling through the Cotswolds last week I thought I'd treat my Daughter to a trip to Diddly Squat Farm, that well known establishment owned by Jeremy Clarkson. As we turned the corner and the sign came into view the screams from the back of the car proved the journey to be worthwhile. Then the queues came into view. Blimey. We parked up and took a wander around. Expensive is an understatement. Took around 1 hour to get into the shed sized shop where very little is available. Candles £22, beanie hats £22 and other souvenirs. Biggest seller was a 1 litre milk bottle at £6.10. But to cap off the day Jezza himself turned up driving his JCB with a pallet full of said bottles. Sadly he didn't drop them all.
It's a farm shop with no real farm shop goods (£7 pork pies was all I saw) but the money going through the till will certainly make the owner very very rich.

Dalesford Organics is a far better off rip off

£6.10 for litre of milk, are you serious?

 

[schmunk]

Dalesford Organics is a far better off rip off

£6.10 for litre of milk, are you serious?

Milk is £1 a litre at Diddly Squat Farm: https://diddlysquatfarmshop.com/collections/all/products/coy-juice

It looks like the £6.10 includes a "bottle for life" - no, me neither.

 

[Official Old Man]

Milk is £1 a litre at Diddly Squat Farm: https://diddlysquatfarmshop.com/collections/all/products/coy-juice

It looks like the £6.10 includes a "bottle for life" - no, me neither.

No, the bottle is £6.10. That's the bottle, no contents, just the bottle. In fact the cow juice machine was broken (the machine dispensing it, not the cow) and so there was no milk. He turned up with a pallet full of more bottles. Reckon they must cost him 50p each and he sells 100's every day. It was the cheapest 'souvenir' hence everyone bought one.

 

[Titanic]

Milk is £1 a litre at Diddly Squat Farm: https://diddlysquatfarmshop.com/collections/all/products/coy-juice

It looks like the £6.10 includes a "bottle for life" - no, me neither.

We buy milk from our local farm shop in darkest West Sussex... £1 per litre to refill a "bottle for life" which you buy, wash and re-use. Seems like a good plan to me, and right on our doorstep.

 

[Dr Q]

Despite all the 'staged' idiocy by Clarkson, it was an entertaining series that highlighted the day to day operational and economic issues farmers in the UK face. Done more to highlight such issues in 6-7 episodes than BBC's beige chocolate box Countryfile* has in 20 years!!
(*also known as the Islington residents view of the countryside)

 

[Stat Brother]

Despite all the 'staged' idiocy by Clarkson, it was an entertaining series that highlighted the day to day operational and economic issues farmers in the UK face. Done more to highlight such issues in 6-7 episodes than BBC's beige chocolate box Countryfile* has in 20 years!!
(*also known as the Islington residents view of the countryside)

For me it was funny seeing JC morph into 'Top Gear Man' - "this is how they do it, but I think I have a better way".
2 minutes of 'hilarious' typical Jezza high jinx doomed to failure, as was the skit.

Then he reverted back to fish out of water man which was thoroughly entertaining, funny and honest.

For season 2 I don't for one minute imagine his ego will completely relinquish Jezza, but hopefully he'll take even more of a back seat.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Despite all the 'staged' idiocy by Clarkson, it was an entertaining series that highlighted the day to day operational and economic issues farmers in the UK face. Done more to highlight such issues in 6-7 episodes than BBC's beige chocolate box Countryfile* has in 20 years!!
(*also known as the Islington residents view of the countryside)

Love it and can't wait for Series 2.
Another one to watch if you have Discovery+ is Richard Hammond's Workshop. Starts up his own garage restoring Classical Cars.

 

[Codner's Wallop]

Alex James from Blur has a cheese farm near Jezzas and it supposed to be very good.

What’s it called, The Grate Escape?

 

[Dr Q]

What’s it called, The Grate Escape?

Quark Life.