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A v middle class question...

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QuintusEstInHorto · 23/01/2020 09:23

Has your Waitrose stopped selling Country Life?? Mine has since Christmas and I'm missing my weekly treat!

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aNonnyMouse1511 · 23/01/2020 09:25

How you can shop in Waitrose I don’t know... the quality of their fruit and veg is absolute crap.

Sainsburys have country life discounted at the moment. Come to the dark side.

JoJoSM2 · 23/01/2020 09:27

My Waitrose has excellent fruit and veg. It also stocks Coutry Life and the Twattler.

bsc · 23/01/2020 09:28

Definitely had it around New Year, despite the fact that we are in the middle of an enormous conurbation and nowhere near any Countryside of any description! I think it's for people getting withdrawal symptoms... Grin SIL gets it without fail each month

Sparklingbrook · 23/01/2020 09:29

Have you asked a member of staff why they haven't got it? My Waitrose also has excellent fruit and veg.

bsc · 23/01/2020 09:35

Her staff don't work at Waitrose, how on earth would they know? Badoom-tish...

QuintusEstInHorto · 23/01/2020 09:40

I've asked them and they don't know why. V rural here, maybe no one needs to get their country fix in print?

I do also shop at a well known discount retailer and another major supermarket chain I should say. Although I've been put off the latter after being punched in the face over some root vegetables on Christmas Eve.... accidentally, they said....

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Jessbow · 23/01/2020 10:23

Anyone else think ''choose another butter''??

Waterandlemonjuice · 23/01/2020 10:24

No, it was definitely in my local Waitrose this week. I didn’t buy it because the property section is thin this time of year.

Bluesheep8 · 23/01/2020 10:33

I don't see why it's a middle class question

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 23/01/2020 10:37

Butter is divided into Président spreadable, and everything else.

legoninjago1 · 23/01/2020 10:38

Country Life butter is your weekly treat?!! Steady on OP!

bsc · 23/01/2020 10:40

ha! I had forgotten Country Life is also butter Grin

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 23/01/2020 10:44

I didn't realise it was anything other than butter Blush

Juliette20 · 23/01/2020 10:50

YABU anyway. The best, and far cheaper butter is Aldi West Country salted butter.

PenelopeFlintstone · 23/01/2020 10:57

Her staff don't work at Waitrose, how on earth would they know? Badoom-tish...
Grin

Sparklingbrook · 23/01/2020 10:59

I agree that nothing matches President when it comes to butter. Is it butter we are talking about then? Blush

gingerchaos · 23/01/2020 10:59

Waitrose don't sell Caerphilly any more Confused

IntermittentParps · 23/01/2020 11:08

I don't know, but my guilty Waitrose pleasure used to be (I don't work near one any more) a copy of The Lady Blush I'm only in my 40s. I miss it.

QuintusEstInHorto · 23/01/2020 11:11

Ha! To clarify, magazine, not butter....

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MyFamilyAndOtherAnimals1 · 23/01/2020 11:18

never mind Country Life - Country Living is much prettier!

(...the recipes are always a laugh -eg. a little, quick 'inseason' 'light - bite' maybe something like - 'Peasant stew, with woodsmoked grouse and champagne caviar'. Step one. build your smokery )

Bluesheep8 · 23/01/2020 11:23

Just go to a newsagents

QuintusEstInHorto · 23/01/2020 11:27

I live rurally. There aren't any newsagents! I get to a supermarket once a week.

Country Living is ok, but not a spot on the property porn pages of Country Life!!

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Bluesheep8 · 23/01/2020 11:50

Maybe call at a newsagents on your weekly trip to Waitrose?

footchewer · 23/01/2020 12:14

Doesn't your butler talk to your accountant? A word from you and they can get a subscription organised surely? It's what the dratted serfs are there for after all! Bonus: it would arrive by your bedside with your morning cup of oolong, freshly pressed and lavender-scented. Why leave the boudoir just for a poxy old magazine?

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