Phoney supermarket farm 'Rosedene' - TESCO aarrrgh!!!!

[Tonty]

I am fed up with the awful fruit that is from 'Rosedene Farm'. Absolutely atrocious. I've just has some of their blueberries (they were the only ones left on the shelves). Each one is either hard &sour, or fluffy mushy nonsense, they taste like coagulated fat. Their strawberries are awful too.

I haven't bought this brand for yrs because i tried their oranges before and they were equally awful, but yesterday i was desperate for blueberries with my morning yogurt. What a disappointment! I just looked this farm up and to my amazement discovered its a fictitious farm used to sell Tesco Value products!! Does everybody know this already and I'm just late to the party? apparently all the supermarkets are in on it too. Had i known they were 'Value' fruit, I'd never have bought them. There are many great 'value' products, but fruit is not one of them.

I recommend harvesting with a fork! I'm in the peak district so they grow everywhere around here. 2025 was an amazing year for them, I would get back from my runs covered in bilberry juice.

Oh I responded to the wrong person.

The actual beans themselves are grown in the USA!

But it's not a fake BRAND.

It tells you on the front of the packet what the country of origin is, so would anyone think the product is from Britain if it tells you otherwise?

My bread was baked by H W Nevill himself.

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But isn’t that all brands though?

Uncle Ben, Aunt Bessie, Betty Crocker, all this stuff is marketing, to make you forget what you’re buying was mass produced in an industrial facility.

And Werther's originals. Fuck off did your grandaddy give you a buttock handy in pre lapsarian times. They've only been in the UK since the 90s.

Pataks pickles is a real brand started by the Pathak family, they dropped the h to help people pronounce the name.Henderson's Relish was originally brewed by Henry Henderson. Lea and Perrins was unsurprisingly first made by Mr Lea and Mr Perrins, I don't know about Aunt May's Bajan Pepper Sauce, but would like to think it's the real thing. Unfortunately "Slough Chemical Works Margarine" doesn't have quite the same appeal.

@Somersetbaker , I don't think any margarine is made in Slough.

Just a random name I chose, but as real as many brand names, and it is made in a chemical works, though the marketing men would probably call it a food production facility.

Stork has been manufactured at the Purfleet works (originally Van den Berghs & Jurgens) in the UK since 1920.

Buttock handy 😂 Butter candy?

Love a German grandad sweet, especially that book Die Leiden des alten Werther's Echte.

(this joke may be too niche)