A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

[Cudzoziemiec]

I went into a Far Eastern shop (from Thai to Philippino and Vietnamese to Japanese) and came out with some Taiwanese mochi-taro. It's rather nice cos it's gently sweet. A bit like Turkish delight, but subtler. And made from taro, obvs.

[hellymedic]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34718668

[Biggsy]

I DON'T NEED FUCKING PICTURES! I KNOW HOW A BANANA LOOKS!

I DO need pictures - to read information from the pack not included in the description.  BUT the pictures are still far too small for that!  For goodness sake, Sainsbooories, show a higher-resolution picture when we click on an item.

I know they've got many thousands of products so the total amount of picture data storage would be rather large, but surely it's possible these days without great cost.

[hellymedic]

I DON'T NEED FUCKING PICTURES! I KNOW HOW A BANANA LOOKS!

I DO need pictures - to read information from the pack not included in the description.  BUT the pictures are still far too small for that!  For goodness sake, Sainsbooories, show a higher-resolution picture when we click on an item.

I know they've got many thousands of products so the total amount of picture data storage would be rather large, but surely it's possible these days without great cost.

I am an avid label reader and frequently click on the products for further information, but I want FACTS, not pictures.

[Biggsy]

I like to see the product as well anyway.  I don't always know what something looks like, and even when I do, it saves brain energy to see a bunch of boonanas rather than reading boonanas when quickly zipping through my favourites.  However, there is too much white space around the pictures, and the page header and trolley column take up far too much room, so of course I agree that too much scrolling is required.  The designers are quite clearly idiots.

Also they should put little plus and minus buttons by the quantities.  A redesign should include functional enhancements like that, not (just) prettification.

[Mr Larrington]

They keep faffing with the layout which provides a constant litany of sweary moans every time I visit Lt. Col. Larrington (retd.)

[hellymedic]

I must be odd in that I read TEXT faster than pictures/icons/graphics.
I get icons wrong on my toolbar very frequently.
For me, a picture is worth maybe two words when I'd prefer twenty.

[Kim]

I must be odd in that I read TEXT faster than pictures/icons/graphics.
I get icons on my toolbar very frequently.
For me, a picture is worth maybe two words when I'd prefer twenty.

Barakta did her dissertation on this stuff:  Neither approach is particularly odd, though there's probably a selection bias amongst those ultimately responsible for the blingification of websites.

[hellymedic]

I must be odd in that I read TEXT faster than pictures/icons/graphics.
I get icons on my toolbar very frequently.
For me, a picture is worth maybe two words when I'd prefer twenty.

Barakta did her dissertation on this stuff:  Neither approach is particularly odd, though there's probably a selection bias amongst those ultimately responsible for the blingification of websites.

I could previously disable images on the Sainsbury's website; I can't now.
I don't enable avatars on yacf and AFAIK nobody suffers as a result.

Unnecessary images slow me and web page loading down.
Do not like.
Do not want!

I don't mind other people getting images if that is what they want; I just want a choice!

[Ruthie]

Just ordered a British Christmas Hamper as a present for my daughter and her hubby in Canada.

I hope they like it.  There's a lot of chocolate in there, and a Christmas cake.

[rafletcher]

Just ordered a British Christmas Hamper as a present for my daughter and her hubby in Canada.

I hope they like it.  There's a lot of chocolate in there, and a Christmas cake.

Canadian customs'll probably stop it then!

[rafletcher]

We want to make a Christmas cake. I went shopping in the local Tesco 9as I have don for the last 5 year for the ingredients). I asked, because I couldn't see it, for mixed peel and glace cherries. The response " we're not doing glace cherries, and the peel hasn't come it yet" WTF??  They are of course doing bags of "ready soaked mixed fruits".


My wife got the cherries from a Budgens yesterday, but they had no peel either. She went to M&S today (a small town centre one) and they had none - response "lots of people have been asking for that" - presumably because the Tesco local to there had none either. 

She finally got some in the health food shop! Why - because lots of people had been asking.... so they'd got some in. 

[Ruthie]

I had Christmas Pudding flavoured ice cream the other day.  It had whole glace cherries in it.  It was marvellous.

[SteveC]

She finally got some in the health food shop! Why - because lots of people had been asking.... so they'd got some in. 

I always get candied peel from our local health/whole food shop as they do big pieces which aren't all dried up. You do have to cut them yourself of course but that's hardly a great effort.

[rafletcher]

She finally got some in the health food shop! Why - because lots of people had been asking.... so they'd got some in. 

I always get candied peel from our local health/whole food shop as they do big pieces which aren't all dried up. You do have to cut them yourself of course but that's hardly a great effort.

I suspect that's what she's got.

[hellymedic]

I get glacé cherries from Sainsbury's all year round.
There's quite a lot of peel in Sainsbury's Basics mixed dried fruit.

I bake small amounts of CAEK all year and Sainsbury's usually supplies.

I suspect they need to keep the kitchens of the local Yiddishe Mamas well-stocked...

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

https://stavvers.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/im-making-sourdough-with-my-vaginal-yeast/

[Ruthie]

https://stavvers.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/im-making-sourdough-with-my-vaginal-yeast/

 

Why?

[Kim]

Because SCIENCE?

[Ruthie]

Because SCIENCE?

Yebbut on the whole it's surely better to keep genital flora out of the comestibles, I'd have thought.

[mcshroom]

I think that any flora, genital or otherwise would be killed off in the baking stage.

[Ruthie]

Even so.  Ewwww.

[Basil]

Because SCIENCE?

 

[Kim]

Because SCIENCE?

Yebbut on the whole it's surely better to keep genital flora out of the comestibles, I'd have thought.

Or at least the other way round...

[Jakob W]

I wouldn't have thought a healthy starter would contain any live vaginal yeast; ISTR that any yeasts added to a culture at the beignning are soon overwhelmed by the wild yeasts picked up from the air and/or the flour used.

I remember reading a piece once (in the Graun?) about a cheese enthusiast who collected wild strains; he made one using microorganisms collected from his feet, and it was indeed supposedly stupendously stinky...