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[Food] New Normal - Where you buy your food
- Thread starter clapham_gull
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That was my guess too, based on searching for pictures of giant naan breads, seeing that a small chain called Akbars seems to specialise in them and noting where their restaurants are: https://www.akbars.co.uk/branches
Me and my xl Albion shirt laugh in the face of your inferior, puny teeny-tiny Naan bread.
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Do that with a hot naan on a recent shirt and you’ll have an iron-on transfer flavoured naan.
pearl
Well-known member
Thank you. As I went past Sunny Foods yesterday it dawned on me that the man behind the counter was a baby when I first shopped there
m20gull
Well-known member
I'm hoping our new habit does become the new normal. We are 2 minutes from a large Tesco and used to shop there every day. We have not been once since lockdown. We have used a mix of online sources:
A local shop for fruit and veg that introduced home delivery
A wholesale delivery for other groceries
A Smithfield butcher
Piglets obvs.
A local micropub for fresh beer from local breweries
M&S at the local garage via Deliveroo for instant deliveries, especially cream and eggs
Amazon for everything else
The produce has been so much better quality than Tesco, and no more expensive, that I will be disappointed if we revert to the old normal.
A local shop for fruit and veg that introduced home delivery
A wholesale delivery for other groceries
A Smithfield butcher
Piglets obvs.
A local micropub for fresh beer from local breweries
M&S at the local garage via Deliveroo for instant deliveries, especially cream and eggs
Amazon for everything else
The produce has been so much better quality than Tesco, and no more expensive, that I will be disappointed if we revert to the old normal.
southdownswolf
Active member
They do "table " naan's in a few of the Balti houses in Brum, especially around Ladypool Road. They used to put them down the length of the table, but tend to hang them like this now.
It's nice to have a thread that gets, replies, disagreements, advise and talk of the giant Naan breads available in Rotherham and Birmingham.
Insel affe
HellBilly
We (I) still go and do the big shop once a week at Sainsbury's, but I am a bit pissed they stopped issuing nectar bonuses during lockdown.
The shop is obviously more expensive as we are all at home and eating out is not really an option anymore. We try and get one take out a week as a treat depending on who's delivering, but over all because we would be out more over the weekends we are spending less on the over all spend of shopping.
The one thing we have changed and will keep is using the milkman once a week, every Friday for a lacto milk for me that sees me through a week and one normal semi milk and a lovely block or organic cheddar cheese, it is marvelous.
I wish we could shop more locally, but there is not really a great selection on Lewes Road anymore now the Turkish shop has gone.
The shop is obviously more expensive as we are all at home and eating out is not really an option anymore. We try and get one take out a week as a treat depending on who's delivering, but over all because we would be out more over the weekends we are spending less on the over all spend of shopping.
The one thing we have changed and will keep is using the milkman once a week, every Friday for a lacto milk for me that sees me through a week and one normal semi milk and a lovely block or organic cheddar cheese, it is marvelous.
I wish we could shop more locally, but there is not really a great selection on Lewes Road anymore now the Turkish shop has gone.
You sound very similar to us in nearly every regard...
- One main shop a week, by me, late on a Wednesday or Thursday evening when the large Tesco at Durrington is all but empty.
- Top-up shops at the local Tesco Express / BP/M&S as and when, but I make a conscious effort to go only if I feel we absolutely need it. This means I'm there far less frequently than we used to be.
- Milk on the doorstep twice a week from the milkman, but we've been doing this for a few years now.
- Precious few independents walkable from where we are in Findon Valley, unfortunately.
- One takeaway a week, either from the local Indian, Chinese or chippy, although a couple of time we've bought fish and chips and taken them onto the beach to eat.
- Like you, we're spending a fair bit more on grocery shopping, which I've put down to the fact that we don't eat out right now.
Most weeks we also get a bread box from our local coffee shop, which we've been doing to keep supporting them, in the hope they could ride out the storm (they re-opened this week, BTW). It actually comes from Coburn and Baker - https://coburnandbaker.co.uk/shop/bread-cake-boxes/ - our coffee shop marks up the C&B prices but, again, we're happy to pay this to try and help them out.
albionalbino
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Charlie's farm shop at Downview in Bury is excellent for milk/dairy/meat, they supply dairy to a lot of places around Sussex.
I use Springs too, love their chewy brown loaves and strawberries
Meat from the local butchers (Barfield's, pricey but superb quality), bread and sweetmeats from The Flour Pot, fruit and veg from Fiveways Fruits and Fish from Fish...quality of food purchased and consumed has improved enormously and now only use supermercardo for things like butter, toilet rolls, cereal, milf (sorry, milk) and marmite!!
Yeah, I miss that Turkish shop. The one in London Rd is pretty good though
Akbars is massive round here, they seem to sponsor every roundabout.
I haven't found naans to be generally big though - I'm pretty sure the "table naan" is a Birmingham thing.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/biggest-naan-bread-birmingham-12947203
Insel affe
HellBilly
It is but a bit of a to far of a stroll, just to get some lovely bread.
I would guess the one on Lewes Road closing might have had something to do with the owners constantly in the Bet Fred all the time.
Everytime I would walk or drive past, one or two of them would be coming in or out of there.
Real shame.
Madafwo
I'm probably being facetious.
- Nov 11, 2013
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Me and my xl Albion shirt laugh in the face of your inferior, puny teeny-tiny Naan bread.
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13"? Is that all? I don't want to get into a lime pickle waving contest with you but the naan I've got for tonight is a full 2" bigger and we all know that makes all the difference.
I suspect they are the same ones though, as the ones I get are also available in Plain, Garlic and Coriander, and Spicy.