Post Your Daily Food Encounter Pics

Merlin5

Merlin5

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They've got one in motors (post your daily encounter pics), and they've got one in GD (pics of stuff I've bought), so how about pics of interesting, unusual, luxury or just plain old yummy things you might see in your daily shopping or even through a shop window? Persoanlly I like looking at cakes and confectionary and puddings, but post anything, savoury or sweet. It probably won't be as prolific as those threads, but maybe you can snap foody things which look nice that you either don't need at the time, or can't afford, or can afford but feel is too much to pay for, but which sure look good and worth snapping to drool over. Here's a couple of pics I took today while out doing general shopping. The Lola's cupcakes stand has some amazingly nice looking cakes, all rather expensive. Something like about £3 for their tiniest cupcakes.

I so wanted a slice of this lemon gateaux. But at £4 a slice, I resisted temptation simply because I'm a cheapskate. I left this thumbnail non resized so you can get a nice mouth watering close up. :)



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Those cakes look very nice.

We'll see how this thread does. I know I started one for the same thing and a few other people have since but they keep falling by the wayside. Probably because they aren't stickied and people can't find them, but you can't sticky that many (I think).
 
Muban said:
Those cakes look very nice.

We'll see how this thread does. I know I started one for the same thing and a few other people have since but they keep falling by the wayside. Probably because they aren't stickied and people can't find them, but you can't sticky that many (I think).
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Everyone from La Cuisine is currently out and about photographing amazing looking cakes for this thread. Or maybe not :p
 
Merlin5 said:
Everyone from La Cuisine is currently out and about photographing amazing looking cakes for this thread. Or maybe not :p
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I'd have posted something but a combination of my awful camera skills and my steak sandwich probably wouldn't have made a great contribution ;)
 
Merlin5 said:
so how about pics of interesting, unusual, luxury or just plain old yummy things you might see in your daily shopping or even through a shop window?
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Posting what seems to be the entire selection from Marks & Spencer's confectionary aisle does not an interesting thread make.

If this is going to have legs it needs to be of truly interesting food and drink that you've never seen before, not stuff that could be found in your average supermarket.

But ultimately, who cares? If you're that passionate about food and drink, then create a dedicated topic about it and kick off a discussion.

That's what this subforum is for, after all.
 
glitch said:
Posting what seems to be the entire selection from Marks & Spencer's confectionary aisle does not an interesting thread make.

If this is going to have legs it needs to be of truly interesting food and drink that you've never seen before, not stuff that could be found in your average supermarket.

But ultimately, who cares? If you're that passionate about food and drink, then create a dedicated topic about it and kick off a discussion.

That's what this subforum is for, after all.
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I dunno. I hadn't seen the giant chocolate/marshmallow whip thing before and now I'm sorely tempted to go and buy one...
 
glitch said:
It's hollow - they've just found a way to use up their excess Easter products all-year-round.

A filled one would be far too tempting...
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Damn.... that's rubbish :(

edit: I should've actually read the text rather than looking at the picture and drooling too much.
 
My first thought when reading this thread was that you just walked past everything in M&S on the way to the checkout and posted it up. Wouldn't it be better to post up pictures of truly special food that you've actually bought and eaten rather than everything you saw? Then we could discuss it and see what people thought of what they'd had?
 
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To be fair to the OP the kind of stuff he has posted is perfectly in line with what he described in his post. At least it's not endless take aways and badly cooked vegetable out of a tin.
 
FrenchTart said:
To be fair to the OP the kind of stuff he has posted is perfectly in line with what he described in his post. At least it's not endless take aways and badly cooked vegetable out of a tin.
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I know, but after the first two photos it got pretty normal. Those cakes in the first two are spectacular, and even if he didn't buy one I can appreciate a picture like that. But what followed was just general stuff that anyone can find on the way through the supermarket, albeit slightly unique to that chain of supermarket. I thought it would be things that you find in little bakeries / cafe's / delis rather than the more mainstream items you can find anywhere.
 
I actually agree with ChokKA. I took pics of those Lola cakes and was just going to post those as they look nice and leave it at. Then I thought to start this thread idea but yeah, didn't need to post the other things. Well anyway, we can just leave it at those cakes, in fact, I'll delete all but those. If anyone wants to post something else they can, if not, that's ok too. :)
 
CHokKA said:
Why do you think that they're not? They look awesome, clearly a lot of effort has gone into making them.
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Aha! I missed the small 1st two! Yes, the 1st two do look good enough to eat!

The halloween ones just gaudy and like they would taste as much.

I agree the 1st 2 cakes look spectacular.

(I would have to wonder about their ingredients at £4 a slice tho, esp if it is all made with tesco value flour... you would be surprised... but I would ask them and be in no doubt).
 
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I'm a bit of a cakeaholic, though I try and exercise moderation, so personally I wouldn't care too much if it's tesco value flour, because that lemon drizzle gateaux just looks like buttery, spongy heavenly goodness. :D One slice though wouldn't be enough for me, I'd need to buy the whole cake and it would be about £40 to £50.
 
You need to go back there now that Halloween is over, and take a snap of what they've got in there now! Then, buy a slice of one and let us know what it is like! I wish we had a cake shop like that around here!
 
CHokKA said:
You need to go back there now that Halloween is over, and take a snap of what they've got in there now! Then, buy a slice of one and let us know what it is like! I wish we had a cake shop like that around here!
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I'll do that.
I'll have to see if I can arrange the mortgage for the slice of cake :p I'm going to have to try that lemon cake though.
 
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