16p sausages!

[adamhornsby]

ASDA are selling a pack of 8 sausages for 16p, or 2p a sausage.
how disgusting is that, these ain't going to be real chunky sausages, these'll be the made from the scraps brushed up from the floor!

eww, they sound disgusting

[tiggerblue10]

I've seen what goes into cheap value sausages. Steer well clear!

[~max~]

I see what you're saying....I haven't looked them up. But I have to say, a lot of what we eat is of dubious provenance anyway, especially sausages! If you don't buy them from the butcher's and ask what exactly is in them, chances are they'll be made of fat and scraps! The difference between �1 "sausages" and 26p "sausages" is going to be almost infinitesimal anyway, in my opinion.
Sausages here don't even look like sausages, from my experience! A pale pink, bland affair, wih no proper meat to be seen... Blurgh....

[Ethel]

They are reduced from 54p and reviewed by a top chef here:

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-102 3674/As-food-prices-rocket-Asda-unveil-sausage -cost-tuppence.html


Nasty things - it must cost more to make, package and distribute them than what they are worth.

[LoftyLottie]

Yuk.

[R1Geezer]

in a yorkshire accent.....

"Scraps brushed up from the floor?" Loooxury!

[andy-hughes]

This is common retail practice - it's called a 'loss leader'.

The idea is to sell at a loss something people will want, which you advertise to get them into the store. Once there, you hope they buy other items which have seriously high mark-ups to make your profit. Toiletaries for example are often priced to make 100% which is why you never ever see soaps or shampoos at reduced prices.

[daisycup]

I suppose beggers can't be choosers though.

[4getmenot]

I bet half the people that turn their noses up at that though eat mcdonalds

[Kromovaracun]

Frankly, if they weren't trying to sell cheap food, everybody would be accusing them of exploiting poor families with high food prices. They have to cut costs somehow, and if people don't want to eat them, then don't buy 'em and they'll go away. It's not hard.

[tranmerekid]

iam gonna wait till the price goes up to 75pence and then they will be yummy

[LoftyLottie]

Don't eat any burgers, etc. unless they are made by our butcher or myself 4get. And getting the 'feedback' from workers at Bernard Matthews I don't think anybody would eat processed meat products from any factory.

[ChuckFickens]

The town I grew up in used to have pne of the main factorys for a brand of processed food and pre-packaged pies in it and a lot of people in the town worked there... and most of them wouldn't eat anything that was made there

Says it all really

[4getmenot]

but as I've said before loftie some people cant afford to go to the butchers for good meat. I myself wouldnt eat them but some people have no choice.

[LoftyLottie]

and knowing several people who work at the local chocolate factory (who make chocs for M&S as well as others), some of us might never eat another chocolate again!

[4getmenot]

he he yes I know a few people who work there too. :-) Just living above a restaurant and seeing their kitchens I would never eat there

[tranmerekid]

one of my workmates used to make wings for a certain aircraft but always travelled everywhere by train ?



Says it all really ?

[LoftyLottie]

When you have to process near -miss reports for an airline as I used to it tends to put you off flying altogether! But I still do fly (nervously)!

[bimbim]

Many moons ago I had a summer job working at a Tiptree Jams (by Royal Appointemt) factory . At the end of the day all the fruit that had been dropped on the floor was blasted off the floor with firehoses & made into jelly

[Haggisdj]

Birdseye 100% cod fish fingers in Asda are 17.8p each!!!

[China Doll]

Fish seems a lot cheaper than meat at the moment I've noticed.