Mary Fisher wrote:

"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
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nog wrote:
On 26 Aug 2004 23:00:19 GMT, Ian Stirling wrote:

Unfortunately, this is one case where I agree that this is likely.
The acceptable cheap orange juice they did has already gone out of
stock,
replaced by the horribly plasticy 'robinsons'.

Morrison's isn't exactly up-market.

No, but they seem to be killing off some safeway lines.

Morrison does sell the excellent Orchard Grove organic orange juice which is
the only one we drink and has a far superior flavour to anything else we've
ever tried. Yes, it's expensive but you get what you pay for - food is the
last thing to economise on.

Not sure I'd completely agree.

The safeway concentrated orange juice was acceptable, to the extent that
I'd often get through 1-2l/day (made up).

There is a threshold at which I'd rather not have something, and just
eat potatos (or whatever) if the quality is too bad.

For example, there is an excellent local pie shop, that does a puff-pastry
large steak pie.
Aldi do one for half the price, but it doesn't compare.
I'd much rather have the really nice one half as often.

For some things, I don't appreciate the difference.
For example, you can trivially find a factor of 2-3 difference in
price on various sorts of potatos, for the same variety.
If they aren't rotten, and are in reasonable condition, there isn't
usually a 2-3 times difference in taste.

For some things, tomatos for example, carefully selecting among the
cheaper lines can often get you a taste approaching the more expensive
ones.

Buying on lowest price alone is not generally a good idea - but neither
is buying solely on highest price.

And sometimes, public perception does not match your own.
For example, occasionally I'll see the shop-stackers disposing of
'overripe' banannas, and purchase a carrier-bag full for pennies.
Yumm.

Brown patches on the skin - as long as there is no bruising or
frosting that caused it, mean that the bananna is really, really tasty.
Of course it will rapidly go mushy if not kept in the fridge, but I
like them so much that that does not happen.