North American Supermarkets are horrific

[DaddyCool]

We've been complaining about the supermarkets around here (Canada) for months. I'm sick of buying sandwich meat and produce and it being rotten two days later. I was looking carrots last night but couldn't bring myself to buying them. I was able to bend them a full 180 degrees.

so anyway, we were watching old reruns of "Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" last night on BBC Canada. There was a scene of the in Tescos and we were drooling at the mouth.

I mean, Tesco's is considered crap in the UK but its superior to these pits.

the selection of meat, cheese, real dairy products, organic, alcohol....

Cobourg, Ontario. Just out of the GTA really. Near Oshawa.

ok, i'm a sad-arse so I've just had a look at the stuff here at work with "pure" plastered all over it. It has (in addition to cream)

Dextrose (why?)
Sodium Citrate
Something I can't even spell
Locust Bean Gum (for thickening. why you'd want to thicken half and half who knows!)

you're correct cod.

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Oshawa is part of the GTA now?

Coborg isn't urban, though is it?

They do have more tolerance for additives etc there, they have GM foods, bovine growth hormones or whatever, etc etc.

An old colleague of mine was an ex-marine, who'd done training exercises with American Marines. Apparently they don't like being asked to yomp a few miles with their kit. Getting dropped off right near where they need to be, by helicopter, is their line.

i remember in america not being able to find full fat milk for my children

COULD NOT believe it

it was all skimmed

and the cooked meats -

oh yes, oshawa is practically toronto now! you wouldn't believe the development.

I'm not urban but I'm certainly not rural either. down the middle.

I remember trying and failing to find cheese that actually tasted of something. There was loads of the stuff but it all tasted the same to me.

you can get full fat, and it is quite pure except they add some vitamin to it. its called "homogenized" or "homo" as they call it which makes me

I am thoroughly at the idea that Oshawa is now part of Toronto. I don't even stay outside Toronto per se when I visit (and Etobicoke, Scarberia etc don't count!).

But then, I don't think anything outside Zone 2 is really London, either.

cheese if appalling... but better than it was when i left 10 yrs ago.

homogenized just means that the cream is mixed in and not separate, DC.

is it fresh though?

i couldnt findit

thsi was in chicago, in a "store"

lol

(UK supermarket whole milk is homogenized too)

oh no, the gta runs all the way down to hamilton, up to newmarket and over to oshawa now.

things are booming at an alarming rate right now.

yes, wendy is right. its just what you call it.

well i couldnt find it

Don't they call it "whole milk"?

Here you go, naily - "Gourmet Food", ROFL - by the gallon too!

(Good job US gallons are smaller than ours!)

I wonder if amazon.co.uk is planning to get into grocery deliveries?

OMG, there are over 900 reviews of Tuscan milk and they are all mad

(Will stop talking to myself and creep quietly away now)

no wendy, they call it by the process "homogenized".

you get homogenized, 2%, 1% and skim

No, DC, they call it Whole Milk

or... homo