Croissants in a tin - where?

You posted that you wouldn't be seen dead in Tesco's, as if there was some kind of social stigma associated with it. I was merely pointed out that from that perspective Tescos occupies a higher rung of the ladder than Aldi.

This comes from someone who buys for of their food in Lidl, so you may have mistook me for some pompous middle class git :p
 
From my POV there is a stigma with Tesco's. It's for those too good for Aldi but who lack the confidence to walk into M&S. Me? I don't care, I'll go wherever is cheapest.
 
Its not really like that, M&S is more expensive than Tesco and Tesco is also a bit more convenient. Most M&S are in town centres and are a complete PITA to get to, then you have to walk miles with the shopping as they have no dedicated parking. Tescos has good access and a huge car park plus is cheap.

Round here we have a Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsbury and Lidl. Waitrose is too expensive, I like to make pizza and to get the ingredients from Waitrose to make 4 pizzas is around £14, from Tesco its £7. Lidl is good for certain things, but will never have stock of everything and I find the use by dates are much shorter than everywhere else. Sainsburys is a hateful shop, practically everyone I have been to feels small and cramped, and they seem to have about 3 parking spaces. The only choice if you want to do a complete shop is Tesco.
 
jas72 said:
Croissants in a tin? next you'll be asking about the all day breakfasts :p
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It's not really as bad as it sounds. It's basically just a pack of ready made dough, so if you've ever made cakes from cake mix or done anything with pastry which is usually sold ready made and packaged from supermarkets (assuming you don't want to go through making your own.. ) it's not really a big deal.

In fact, considering you cook the dough it gives you at home, it's theoretically fresher than shop bought croissants. :p
 
M0T said:
Its not really like that, M&S is more expensive than Tesco and Tesco is also a bit more convenient. Most M&S are in town centres and are a complete PITA to get to, then you have to walk miles with the shopping as they have no dedicated parking. Tescos has good access and a huge car park plus is cheap.

Round here we have a Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsbury and Lidl. Waitrose is too expensive, I like to make pizza and to get the ingredients from Waitrose to make 4 pizzas is around £14, from Tesco its £7. Lidl is good for certain things, but will never have stock of everything and I find the use by dates are much shorter than everywhere else. Sainsburys is a hateful shop, practically everyone I have been to feels small and cramped, and they seem to have about 3 parking spaces. The only choice if you want to do a complete shop is Tesco.
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I agree with you about the range, Lidl and Aldi may be well-priced on what they stock, but they miss out a lot of stuff which means you have to do a second shop.
 
There are lots of proper patisseries here in London.... and I don't mean the bakery in a supermarket, though Waitrose's aren't bad...

What do you mean you have to make them from scratch?! Do you think they grow on trees in France or something?! :p

Paul bakeries aren't too bad, and I've found some local French pattiseries that import the dough from France (it's prepared slightly differently, or the flour they use is different I don't know) and prepared properly they're delicious!

I miss my Froggy pastries :(
 
Freefaller said:
What do you mean you have to make them from scratch?! Do you think they grow on trees in France or something?! :p
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You mean they don't grow on trees!? :eek:

:p I meant, sadly, bakeries selling croissants are hard to find :(. Maybe its where I live, could probably get some fresh if I travelled to Cardiff. :o

Where as in france they sell croissants eeevverryywhere (as I'm sure you know), I ate nothing but when I last went due to not being able to pass some without the urge to eat one.
 
they're good aren't they? :D

Whenever I go to France I always load myself up with croissants, pain au chocolat, brioche, and fresh baguette mmmmmmmm

Ok that's it back to France I go!
 
scorza said:
Chiller cabinet? WTH is that? :confused:

Do you mean the frozen foods section of the supermarket?
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I should imagine its the section containing 'chilled' goods, think cheese, butter, milk, cooked meats etc etc etc. The list of items is a fairly long and boring but im sure you get the idea now :p :D

HTH,

Dave.
 
Akira said:
Neither, but imagine if we had to personally reply to everyone that replied in our threads! :o Thanks anyway. Definitely wasn't the Pilsbury ones, could have been the Aldi ones. Will have to pop in for a mooch.
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Oooo hark at you :p
 
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