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Old 03-12-2009, 13:08
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Have you seen the sort of crap they are doing now!

Prawns that come on their own spoons, is that meant to be some sort of chavvy amuse bouche?

Not to mention their 75 piece platters for £5 which works out at just over 6.5p per item. My good God!

"Hello would you like a 6p sweet & sour money bag. vegetable spring rolls or prawn toast?"
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:13
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Not everyone on a low budget is a chav ! When I pass iceland there always seems to be a high percentage of pensioners in there and I don't for a minute think they would be described as chavs
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:15
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Not everyone on a low budget is a chav ! When I pass iceland there always seems to be a high percentage of pensioners in there and I don't for a minute think they would be described as chavs
Good point as pensioners are like zombies when it comes to cheap food and plenty of it. I could see one pensioner eating 10 Mini Pavlovas in one go no problems at all.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:18
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Every time I see that advert with the prawn spoon things I'm sick a little bit in my mouth.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:18
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With the pension rates paid in UK they don't have much choice but to choose cheap food. The point being why are you looking down on people who have little money so choose to shop in iceland ?
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:18
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Have you seen the sort of crap they are doing now!

Prawns that come on their own spoons, is that meant to be some sort of chavvy amuse bouche?

Not to mention their 75 piece platters for £5 which works out at just over 6.5p per item. My good God!

"Hello would you like a 6p sweet & sour money bag. vegetable spring rolls or prawn toast?"
Quite. I'm sure their stuff is made from the sweepings off the factory floor.

The cakes look hideous. How they can pass that stuff off as 'food' is beyond me.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:19
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I would rather lick the bottom of a tramp's ageing sandals than be seen dead in Iceland. Have you seen the 'Chocolate Covered Strawberries"?. Christ, can you imagine breaking through the cheap chocolate substitute coating and sinking your teeth in to the stale old strawberry inside? URGH. Absolutely ghastly and if they likes of Kerry Ketamine Katona and bloody Coleen "I really have lost weight, HONESTLY" Nolan are associated with the establishment it just makes me turn to trusty old Tesco (and its more civilised clientele) even more.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:21
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it all looks disgusting and plastic processed gunge..the rocky roads ..my cat coughs up better looking stuff
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:21
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Every time I see that advert with the prawn spoon things I'm sick a little bit in my mouth.
You can just imagine someone thinking they are classy eating one and sayng 'Oh Sharon that was lush"
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:21
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I have to admit I wouldn't shop in Iceland if you paid me. I'm not sure that anything actually resembling food (animal, vegetable or mineral) has ever been in the same room as the crap they sell, let alone the same recipe!
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:22
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it all looks disgusting and plastic processed gunge..the rocky roads ..my cat coughs up better looking stuff
12 Mini Rocky Roads (Defrost & Eat) - NEW! £2


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Old 03-12-2009, 13:24
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Don't like the word chav.

Iceland food is cheap. I should imagine that families struggling on very low incomes feel a bit ill every time they see that Marks and Spencers 'Dinner for two for £10' offer.

Though I do have to admit that selling a box of plastic spoons with one prawn and a blob of pink salad cream on each is bizarre in the extreme.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:25
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I enjoy Iceland food. The £1 and £1.75 microwave meals are quite nice. In this economic climate, some people like myself can't afford luxuries like Tesco Finest brands or wine and dine in fancy restaurants.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:26
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12 Mini Rocky Roads (Defrost & Eat) - NEW! £2


LOL
Seriously what is in a rocky road that you'd need to freeze it?

Chocolate, biscuit, marshmallows, raisins.

Actually ignore my first statement and answer me what the hell is in rocky road that you can't just make some yourself at home out of ingredients.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:26
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Does the ermine on your robe smell when it gets wet in this weather?
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:28
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I enjoy Iceland food. The £1 and £1.75 microwave meals are quite nice. In this economic climate, some people like myself can't afford luxuries like Tesco Finest brands or wine and dine in fancy restaurants.
You could afford actual ingredients though and you could make something yourself and cook it using something other than a microwave.

I hate the notion that it is 'cheaper' to live on ready-meals and processed food. It's utter rubbish. Sorry.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:28
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I enjoy Iceland food. The £1 and £1.75 microwave meals are quite nice. In this economic climate, some people like myself can't afford luxuries like Tesco Finest brands or wine and dine in fancy restaurants.
I rarely dine in fancy restaurants or buy Tesco finest brands but it's perfectly possible to eat cheaply and healthily by actually buying ingredients and cooking rather than buying ready meals.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:28
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I enjoy Iceland food. The £1 and £1.75 microwave meals are quite nice. In this economic climate, some people like myself can't afford luxuries like Tesco Finest brands or wine and dine in fancy restaurants.
I wouldn't bother they are just trolling.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:28
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Though I do have to admit that selling a box of plastic spoons with one prawn and a blob of pink salad cream on each is bizarre in the extreme.
LOL

Dave: "What's this crap?"
Sharon: "amuse bouche init"
Dave "Eh?"
Sharon "You know what posh folks have but it was only £2 from Iceland."
Dave "Keep the spoons as it will make a nice gift for your mother"

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Old 03-12-2009, 13:29
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Well they must appeal to a good proportion of society, profits are definitely on the up.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:30
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Does the ermine on your robe smell when it gets wet in this weather?
Fur is bad
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:30
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The only chav thing about Iceland is who they hired to do their TV ads.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:31
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However skint I was, I still wouldn't buy their "food". I do like their prices on Galaxy hot chocolate and the Irish cream liqueur, though. Neither of which are made by Iceland.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:31
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So is your attitude.
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:31
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Yes. they have a chavvy atmosphere about them as does ITV. Good food isn't expensive, its just that we have forgotten how to eat. Once time a whole chicken would last the family a week- its dead easy to make a chicken soup with the bits left on the bone for example. The low quality appalling taste of cheap food is enough to put me off going to places like that.
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