The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Main SupermarketsNot really an inside story, more common sense (although my missus works at George at spazda, so I think I qualify to post here).
Don't buy fruit & veg from the likes of large supermarkets. You are getting royally ripped off. Go to a high-street greengrocer, it's cheaper by far. And the stuff is usually fresher.
For example, my local greengrocer sells a punnet of English strawberries for 89p, which are usually slightly smaller than a Rolo and are a perfect shape like they used to be years ago.
Asda sell a punnet of freakishly large mis-shapen strawberries from Slovenia or some such place for about three times the price, and you are guaranteed to find one that's already got a grey fur coat on withing 24 hours of purchase.
Comparing looseand prepacked brocolli in Asda. I did a calculation and it works out you're paying 48p for some clingfilm and a sticker.
You could argue that the pre-packed one is cleaner than the other which has had people breathing on it. You wash the stuff when you get home anyway, plus they've both been in a field for christ's sake, with things crawling all over them, dormice pissing on them, chemicals sprayed on them. The illegal immigrants that are bussed in to harvest them. Do you think they walk all the way out of the field to go for a piss? Of course not.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 3 Oct 2007, 13:31,
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