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To think Waiterose is for posh people?

220 replies

TiggyD · 21/09/2011 21:57

I was a bit Hmm to see the medium sized Waiterose near me sells 12 types of humus. I take it their regular customers would be upset if there were only 8 types of humus to dip their free range organic corn chips into.

They do have a range of 'budget' products: their "essential" range. It includes humus! I think humus is OK but I'm not entirely sure if it's "essential".

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EggyAllenPoe · 21/09/2011 22:12

...actually, it was in Sainsburys that i was complained at for the Blinis being out of stock (" how can you run out of Blinis??!")

hummus is more hippy food than posh bird fodder. A store in a student town should shift it by the pallet load. Now, if you were on about, say, organic cruelty free poulet, you would have more of a point.

Nowtspecial · 21/09/2011 22:18

What I fail to understand about Waitrose is their ready meal curries are all chicken or veg, no beef. Wtf is up with that ?
Mind you, they stock monty bojangles boiled sweets so not all bad.

Nowtspecial · 21/09/2011 22:20

Tethersend, fab just fab.

eurochick · 21/09/2011 22:24

I Waitrose. I drive past several other supermarkets to get to it. The fruit and veg is better, the fish is better, the meat is better, the deli is better. The price is not but I'd rather eat good quality produce and make sacrifices elsewhere.

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TiggyD · 21/09/2011 22:27

I will pop to the nearest Tesco of the same size and go Hummarse spotting tomorrow.

I would go to Lidl as well but I'm scared of the women who go there. They all seem to be that standard Lidl shape, and have tattoos of wolves and native Americans.

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TalcAndTurnips · 22/09/2011 00:17

I frequent our local Waitrose - it is pocket-sized, but very well stocked and all the staff are wonderful.

Mind you - there are bouncers on the door to keep the riff-raff out and they won't let you in without a Coutts World Card Wink

Honeydragon · 22/09/2011 00:25

Last week I queued and paid in Waitrose with only a Pot Noodle & Belgian Bun in my basket. The woman behind me had a cats bum mouth so cats bummy, I was concerned that she and my bun would be sucked into it's vortex, her vanishing deep within it it, leaving only a gently glistening glacé cherry behind.

TalcAndTurnips · 22/09/2011 00:48

You were right to be concerned, Honeydragon - scientists are well known to be worried about the gravitational pull exerted by a truly pious cat's bum mouth.

Research is being carried out on Bikini Atoll (what's left of it after the Judgey Pants detonations of the early 50s) and at CERN - where they have attempted to recreate the conditions inside a cat's bum mouth measuring >7.6 on the S.M.U.G. scale (where 10 is approaching black hole proportions)

Apparently they liquidise large quantities of sanctimonious old curmudgeons and shovel the resulting mush into the Large Hadron Collider; switch it on and then stand around writing numbers on clip boards and that.

Honeydragon · 22/09/2011 00:50

See I knew they were doing something properly important at the hadron collider ..... Who's interested in the big bang?

TalcAndTurnips · 22/09/2011 00:55

Yes - never thought much of that Big Bang malarkey.

I hear that it won an Emmy ot two the other day, though!

midlandsmumof4 · 22/09/2011 01:32

What's Waiterose.....Grin. We don't ave em in the Black Country and we am very posh......lol

KatieMiddleton · 22/09/2011 01:46

I practically live in Waitrose. It's at the bottom of my garden Grin

It is full of poshos and Loud Parenting parents. There are normal folk too. I saw one woman on her knees explaining the virtues of organic milk to her non-plussed toddler. I did laugh.

SlinkingOutsideInSocks · 22/09/2011 02:33

Waitrose is not for the posh; it's for the deeply middle class. Of which I categorise myself - Waitrose and Ocado all the way for us (when we lived in the UK, that is).

The truly posh don't shop anywhere (well, maybe F&M if caught short); their help does it for them.

So preeners - smooth those feathers - you're still not posh. Wink

wordsonapage · 22/09/2011 05:34

My help shops for me,but our twatrose only has two types of houmous.

one fresh from the deli counter and one long life

So I get her to make it at home instead.

but that's Dubai nouveaux riche not posh

vickibee · 22/09/2011 05:59

never been to waitrose - don't even know where there is one. We live in a rural place where there is a small Co-op and a Tesco, otherwise we would have to travel 8 miles to get to asda Morrison or Sainsbury. It does market itself as posh with those sleb chefs from the tele. Never even heard of hald the ingredients they use!!!

TheHumanCatapult · 22/09/2011 06:08

I have to admit I had home drlievey from ocado before .and could kissed the driver who took one look at my wheelchair and brought it all into the kitchen even asked do o need help unpacking

Asda/tescos put the big baskets outside my door for me to unload while they get the next then look odd as I'm still doing first while they have finished .Just wish could afford Ocado all the time

BagofHolly · 22/09/2011 06:12

I go there because it gives me a deep sense of well being, that in my 40 years on this earth I have moved from the dented tins of Maumoniat's Globle [sic] Foods, Hyde Park, Leeds, to the "I've arrived" quilted Barbour of the Home Counties. I can also Loud Parent with abandon and I take my two year old as he loves using the handset (yes! YESSS! We've got a handset!) to "do the beeps." Then we put it all in the lovely Fairtrade jute branded bags and drive home, happy that the universe is in full alignment.

cumbria81 · 22/09/2011 06:54

YANBU.

I always feel nervous in Waitrose, like I don't belong.

acumenin · 22/09/2011 07:01

We're not posh and we shop at Ocado, Waitrose, and Lidl. They're the best supermarkets imo. It doesn't cost any more (I did a spreadsheet and tracked our spend at Tesco vs Ocado because, er, well, I was unemployed for a long time and there's not much on telly) and the quality is miles MILES better.

I only shopped at Tesco because somehow I thought it was my level, but that's just class neurosis, not an accurate assessment of quality, price, and service.

ProfYaffle · 22/09/2011 07:07

Shock Lidl have numerous types of yoghurt! We like the vanilla one in gold packaging.

2BoysTooLoud · 22/09/2011 07:09

Would like to afford to shop at Waitrose.
I went into one recently and let myself down by exclaiming loudly how expensive their 'essential' 'budget' range is. I'm afraid I'm a 'value range girl'.
Sad.

MrsSchadenfreude · 22/09/2011 07:20

Posh people do not shop at Waitrose. Posh people have a "little man" who provides their food - the Little Game Man, the lovely Little Man who grows veg on his allotment, the super little butcher in the next village... etc etc (actually the truly posh will have their own shoot and a kitchen gardener).

My mother shops at Waitrose because it moved into her village and the two butchers closed, the two greengrocers closed, the cafe closed, the perfectly adequate but unexciting supermarket closed...it is now full of bathroom shops and estate agents and Indian restaurants.

baguettecut · 22/09/2011 07:29

My mother shopped in Waitrose when I was small in its lovely orangey rusty brown days! (only supermarket, she didn't drive) I shop there now and always will.

MrsRobertDuvall · 22/09/2011 07:29

Methinks oP exaggerates.
I am an ardent Waitrose shopper and have only seen about 6 hummus types in ours...unless OP has the biggest Waitrose in the world Envy

I love Waitrose.
I feel safe there.

NotADudeExactly · 22/09/2011 07:31

Waitrose also sells chick peas for those of us who prefer to make our own hummus (their kosher one with the pesto is nice, though).

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