To think that Marks and Spencer Food is just so much nicer than any other.........

[superwitch]

especially the Deli Coleslaw yum yum

Agree with NKF that Waitrose is the best, although M&S is good.

We had run out of food on Tuesday (shocking I know) so dh bought some from Tesco and it was horrible. Even the pitta bread was horrible, how could they get that wrong?

The only real problem I have with M&S is that everything is too rich. It always has at least double the amount of oil or cream or whatever as I would use if I were making the same thing from scratch. I find their ready meals sit quite heavily in my stomach, whereas Waitrose is generally a bit closer to how I prefer it.

I like the Eccles cakes from the bakery cos of the hard toffee on the underside. The jelly with raspberries is nice. All fruit and veg. is nice. You always get cheap battery chicken. Other fish and meat is outrageously expensive. All bread is soft and tasty. Wine is an anomally, cos it's the only supermarket with only own brand wine, which seems to make for some good quality and different wines.

I am really not keen on all the sponge puddings dripping out of Dervla Kirwan's gob. They leave a chemical taste on the roof of the mouth like the way Heinz tinned puddings do. Morrisons Best and Asda best puddings are way superior.

My father in law does some sort of driving job (no idea really) which allows him access to some of the factory shops. One of which sells foods such as M&S Cumberland pies, M&S shepherd's pies etc etc. From that same shop he also comes back with Asda Extra Special range shepherds pies etc. Not sure if that means they're the same product with diff packaging, maybe? Or maybe not. Should prob do a side by side taste test ...

I spent the whole night vomiting. I wonder whether it's a bug or M7S pesto sauce... (sorry tmi)

i shop in marks and spencers one week a year, for my xmas stuff. other than that i occasionally rake through their bins to supplement my LIDL/Asda.

i work there so get food quarter price in staff shop...just filled freezer again yesterday. i tell you it isn't crap btw, they've made huge leaps ahead of other supermarkets to rid their food of crap ie hydrog fats, salt etc. and the bigger stores do sell 'ingredients'.

This is a shop that sells mashed potato in a carton and charges a couple of quid.Sells three grapes in an inch thick plastic wrapping and charging the price of a bunch.

eeks. There's lazy and then there's super M&S lazy

But it's such nice mashed potato

I flew back to the UK recently and the first place I shopped in after arriving was M&S. Still at the airport . Mini wine bottles, egg mayo sandwiches (can't get them in Oz), crudite snack packs.... ooh it was bliss.

I shipped back a few M&S bags and people are stopping me in the street asking where the M&S is in Sydney. I have to keep breaking the bad news that they're not here to loads of disappointed expats.

Waitrose is better. M&S tastes very processed. Once I got food poisoning from their chinese sticky ribs [vomit emoticon].

Their burgers which are stuffed inside with cheese (gorgonzola i think) are just the best! Truly delicious!

It's roquefort in the burgers - we ate them the other night. I thought Delish, DH didn't like them. But then he would prefer to live on hydrogenated fats and nastily processed crap. Eats like an eight-year-old.

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that's one of the things I really miss since I left the UK.
I'm soooooo sick of rice and noodles!!

LOL Pruners! I always seem to be going in at end-of-work time (for most people - when I am about to start teaching my evening classes) and you can't move for very smart-looking, very sexy 40-year-old women in crisp glasses, pinstripe skirts and leather boots.

Thier profiteroles are divine (with about 99999999 million calories though)

and they make it healthier than the big four supermarkets

m and s banned use of trans fats from their food last year - morrisons tesco etc still use that crap in their food - yuk yuk yuk

and they were the first to use free range eggs

so you can their cakes with a clear conscience!

Oh i love their steak andwiches and the meringues dipped in chocolate with cream in the centre.

thanks newgirl - now I can have 2 pots of it!

UQD - it is lovely to hear a bloke talking of lovely sexy 40 year olds rather than lovely sexy 20 year olds which is what most men seem to go on about! Good on you.

They do good Welsh cakes (even dh, who is Welsh, allows their Welsh cakes are as good as his mother's).

Deli coleslaw is yum but even their reduced fat coleslaw is infinitely nicer than any other reduced fat variety.

But they've done sommething to the Count on Us choc mousses - they are nowhere near as nice as they used to be.

And I don't know if this is just our M&S but I find them to be crap on "use by" dates on food. I keep forgetting to check and so many times I will buy something, go to use it a couple of days later, and find it went out of date on the day I bought it. I wrote and complained once (about a chicken - bought on Saturday, came to cook it on Monday and found it was "use by" on the Saturday) and got a very standardised and snotty customer service letter about "we pride ourselves blah de blah...we are sorry you have been disappointed on this occasion...blah de blah...." I didn't want WORDS - I wanted cold, hard cash

What are crisp glasses? Can you buy them in M&S?

I lurve the deli coleslaw. Can;t afford to shop there regularly but have been saving my M&S points for Xmas.

Not glasses for keeping crisps in.

Glasses which look crisp. And hence sexy.

like these

or these

NOT these

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