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These comments feel a bit like being rude to guests but J0s spin off is hilarious.
I am only telling the truth about the products though.
#wickedunrepentant

And there was me thinking the spoof was based on Jamie Oliver's new series!

Bit like the TV chefs who make their dishes tasty by adding salt, butter and cream in large quantities. Sea salt bugs me too. Not healthy. Larger crystals dissolve more slowly in the mouth and distribute through food less well, Encourages you to use a lot more than fine crystals.

Once again, manufacturers, like people doing surveys / making TV programmes, have seriously misjudged to population of GN! Yippee!

Maybe one day the image of sweet little old ladies in pinnies knitting breakfast cereals will be banished. Huh!

I don't feel like we're being rude, Nellie, They're only too happy to take our money if we're daft enough to part with it.

#thecustomerisalwaysright

Ariadne That's the bit I like. "That'll learn them" not to try to pull the wool over the eyes of today's Grans. (Before we have knitted our Shreddies!

I wonder how many people over 60 actually use Colman's sauces? You would think by that age they knew how to knock up a sauce without relying on a few spoons of processed powder containing unnecessary additives.

My thoughts exactly, when! Surely we're the wrong target consumer group?

Exactly. Why is it that there are suddenly quite a few TV ads using "granny and grandad" type figures? Wonga and Shreddies being the two that really irritate me the most!

Do you know Jess, I hadn't thought of that (about the salt crystals) I'll take that on board!

There is also one brand (not the welsh one) that comes from an area very close to a nuclear power station! (things you learn on countryfile...)

Me too Gilly and especially when the shreddies grans knowtow to the only man in the advert ... who is, of course, the supervisor. I now refuse to buy Shreddies on principle. I find the Wonga grans sinister.

I've just looked at a thread that's supposed to have twelve posts but there's half a message from HQ saying it's been deleted.

Have you all been on the Coleman's sauce while I've been in the garden?

It has got a very polite message now.

Cari needed a lie down.

And a cuppasoup!

what have I missed?

jingl's thread about choosing advertisers carefully has been deleted...

What a shame I missed it. I only just saw it and was about to write that if I applied for the sauces, they would be given straight to my Uni-going son to cheer up his student cookery a little without having to go out and buy masses of ingredients he can't house.

That is an excellent contribution janerowena.

Your son would benefit from very tasty dinners.

for Lara

Were we the last school generation to be taught to cook properly (my senior school life began in 1971), the first thing I remember being taught to make was Rock Cakes (grin), and the ability to make my own sauces from scratch has been one of my useful cooking skills, it's the start of so many sweet and savoury dishes etc, whereas my eldest daughter began her senior school life in 1994 and the first thing she was taught to make was Cuppa Soup (shock). Sadly, despite my best efforts, she is now one of the Can't cook, Can't be bothered to learn team, anything quick and easy seems to be preferred, although she still loves my cooking!

It's difficult to take seriously, when there's a threat offer to send us four powdery casserole sauce mixes if we participate. Unless they send us even more if we don't? (Press delete here.....)

I hated domestic science at school and my OH definitely didn't marry me for my culinary skills. I actually learned to cook/bake when he was diagnosed with renal failure in 1977.

I know 3 excellent 'food technology' teachers who teach kids to cook very well. One is an ex professional chef who has worked in top hotels. Unfortunately the exam expectations reduce the amount of cooking the children do. It is not what the teachers want but exam (therefore DfE) board requirements for written / fact based exams! rather than practical skills.

p.s. gosh we are all very virtuous on here , never resorting to packets to help a quick meal..or are some now too afraid to put their head above the parapet

I must confess to using a certain firms lamb gravy with a hint of mint when cooking a very small rack of lamb for myself. I rarely do a roast as there is only one of me.
When my DD visits she's a veggie!