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Bought a pack of cornflour yesterday.
It has gone up from 80p to £1.75 in the space of a few months!
Have you bought anything else recently?
Big Soup - £2.20 a tin yesterday (from a supermarket)! WTaF
It has gone up from 80p to £1.75 in the space of a few months!
Well that's a bit stiff, maybe it got damp?
It's not like there's been something going on where they grow all the grain and stuff that might impact supply or anything. I mean, we'd have seen that in the news right?
Visit a Chinese supermarket and buy potatoe starch, much cheaper and woks far better.
Visit a Chinese supermarket and buy potatoe starch, much cheaper and woks far better.
Oh well done!
👏
(Although you may not have actually meant it!)
Hahaha! I didn’t.
The plot thickens... Probably where all the cornflour has gone...
It’s not like there’s been something going on where they grow all the grain and stuff that might impact supply or anything. I mean, we’d have seen that in the news right?
Well I buy other grain based products which have also gone up, but nothing else has more then doubled.
Well I buy other grain based products which have also gone up, but nothing else has more then doubled.
I think there is an element of supermarkets scaffolding price increases across the board to balance the books overall. After all, 'cornflour has gone up 100%' isn't going to have as large a media impact as 'bread has gone up 100%' because fewer people buy it and the rest won't care. I noticed one such price rise with a washing up brush - for as long as I remember the 'Tesco Platinum washing up brush' has been £1 – it has now increased to £1.50. In the grand scheme of things it isn't a big deal, but it's those sort of price increases that go largely un-noticed yet they help the supermarkets retain/increase profits.
Corn flower is in very short supply at the moment.... Price reflects demand and availablity. Finding these ‘corny’ jokes ‘A-maizeing....
Allegedly Tesco and Asda no longer sell it, so I guess it’s now becoming a niche product and will soon be available in small leather bound hessian sacks with the word Artisan on it
but nothing else has more then doubled.
At the basics end, they have. Where there's no margin to reduce to soak up some of the effects of the increasing cost of ingredients.
You'll roux the day you developed such expensive tastes. It's just too much to bearnaise.
Too many corny jokes.
You won't get anything cheaper at Chinese supermarket that I am sure. Average price in Chinese supermarket is around £1.30 to £1.50 but some of the branded ones is around £2 or more.
The plot thickens… Probably where all the cornflour has gone…
No. But, oddly someone has been adding soil to my garden...