A v middle class question...

[QuintusEstInHorto]

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

I don't know where you live BlueSheep, but there aren't any newsagents near our out of town supermarkets. Lots of sheep though

footchewer in my dreams that would happen! But I've got a toddler. My weekly supermarket trip counts as a full day out for us!

It's going to have to be the subscription by the looks of it.

This thread made my add Presidente butter to my Ocado shop - I need to know what the fuss is about!

I was thinking butter too.

Anyway OP, admit defeat about the magazine and just buy Take a Break instead.

Country life is rubbish butter, it has to be Breton butter with sea salt.

A magazine subscription is always a good idea. My DS has Match of the Day magazine, just turns up on the doormat every week and I am pretty certain we just pay cover price (no additional postage costs)

My Waitrose also has excellent fruit and veg.

@sparklingbrook so does mine but then it's the same one as yours I believe.

Peasant stew

I KNEW THE RURAL UPPER CLASSES WERE LIKE THIS!

Get the Brittany butter with the salt crystals instead.

Why is it only me who wants to know how you can get accidentally punched in the face over root vegetables??

DrIrisFenby, no, I do too.

@CmdrCressidaDuck THAT’S WHAT I WAS THINKING!

Poor old smoked peasants, bet they were delish for kitchen sups though

@QuintusEstInHorto please enlighten us!

My godfather once sent me a recipe for peasant fricassee. It was delicious.

The was a contretemps over the last of the parsnips. I was an innocent bystander and got thwacked as someone drew their fist back for a punch.

I will have to look into subscription it seems, and also look into butter options. There's a world of buttery options I have not properly explored!!

Get a subscription?

JessBow

I prefer Country Living to Country Life, I cancelled Country Life subs.

I once met someone who didn't realise Horse and Hound was a real magazine 😂

I bought Country Life in M&S yesterday.

President Unsalted Butter is the best - not the spreadable - they add stuff to it!

Also Lurpak is the only acceptable but IMHO

Sorry, you're saying there was an actual fist fight in Waitrose for the sake of a parsnip? Egads, time to upgrade to Fortnum's darling.

If you've no butler at the moment (half decent ones are impossible to find these days aren't they?) you'll have to get your gardener Quintus to step up a bit. There's nothing for him to do this time of year anyway.

Oh no, not in Waitrose! That was in Tesco....

Quintus is very busy at the moment pruning something. He did tell me, but it slipped my mind. Keeping track of staff is exhausting...

We have Country Life in our Morrisons. They have Farmers Weekly, The Lady, and Horse & Hound as well.

We are slightly rural.

@Jessbow I thought op was talking about butter too, shows how common I am