Too posh to nosh

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originally uploaded by mcmrbt.

Went to Waitrose on Saturday - a fantastic supermarket if you are the kind of person who uses £10 notes instead of toilet paper. The psychology of the Waitrose shopper is that, you want the same as they have in Tesco, only better quality. If not better quality, then sufficiently different to justify a higher price tag.

For example. Pre-packaged Caesar salad (which doesn't contain any actual Roman emperors). In Tesco, the parmesan cheese in the little plastic pouch is of the grated variety. In Waitrose, it is of the flaked. You know, for flakes.

I have to say, the bread and stuff in Waitrose is much nicer, and of course their ready meals are to die for.

By coincidence, my sister paid a visit to another Waitrose on the same day. And I was delighted to see her arrive home with Posh Person's Barbecue Briquettes. Because ordinary charcoal is just not good enough. I mean, it's lumpwood. No, Waitrose offer briquettes made from Olive and Walnut wood.

Fantastic.