Louisa

The only time sugar free red bull is any good is when someone who likes mixing it with a vodka chilled, happens to love the taste but be diabetic. I do love red bull myself, I'm often on a bit of a high after four or five cans in a row. Louisa.

Seeing the former Iceland in its depressed current state empty, down at heel. Makes me sad, angry, a roller coaster of emotions really. Louisa.

That's rich coming from you red devil EDF's very own agent provocateur of the goading variety acting like butter wouldn't melt lol. Holier than though springs to mind. Louisa.

Just because someone doesn't spend a fortune on hippy bread bought from some scruff with a beard and pop up caravan on the side of the road charging the best part of a fiver a loaf doesn't make them the devil reincarnate. Louisa.

Don't eat margarine. Can get good quality salted block of pure butter in Lidl for 89p. I eat white and brown bread mostly bought from either local bakery Ayres, occasionally warburtons from Iceland. Anything you'd like to assume FJD? Louisa.

Never eaten an eel in my life Seabag, also foxy and I eat different bread (this has been discussed at length before). Can't include Iceland as they no longer occupy a space in our ED popular culture (officially consigned to the annuals of ED retail history) and Woolies has been defunct for even longer. No, I think you'll struggle to find our land. The closest you'll get for me is a combo between Dulwich Village on a Sunday evening and Bromley town centre on a Saturday afternoon. Louisa.

I don't make a big thing about downing my wine maxxi. I'm actually rather discreet about it. I could be supping on some as I type but I don't have to own up to it, maybe I am, maybe I'm not! Louisa.

Lowlander you seem to be comparing a homemade croissant where the cook has speicifically sourced English ingredients to make said article, with a branded bread which is no longer an English/British owned company having been swallowed up by a multinational many moons ago. You don't know what goes into a croissant from a supermarket and where the ingredients are sourced do you? So it kind of defeats that point. I could easily make a loaf of bread or croissant at home with UK grown ingredients. I just don't like croissants, so won't be doing it. I wonder how many people make their own croissants? Actually, forget I asked that. This is the EDF, there's bound to be a couple. Louisa.

Well as I said before numbers, I wouldn't mind taking a guess that those croissants sold in that particular freezer which I, and probably most other Iceland OKR shoppers walk past as they enter the store, is the most under used cabinet in the entire store judging by the amount of stock in it. Having said that, it's still less patronising than anything sold at local boulangeries aimed at winding people like myself up for no reason other than entertainment purposes. Louisa.

I sometimes feel like the girl in the KFC 'rice box' advert on TV, when it comes to EDF matters. I'm slowly going insane. http://youtu.be/Dvezi9Pp_Jw Louisa.

I'm on a planet where I eat non-pretentious food bought from Iceland OKR and Lidl Penge. That ok Seabag? And *Bob* stop whinging just because I exposed your lack of understanding about French and UK owned company names and their Anglo-Franco origins. I despair at this forum sometimes I really do. Where else can you start an irrational rage response about croissants and end up talking about stinging nettles? Louisa.

And then people started eating rocket and eating croissants. Bloody 'progress'. Louisa.

FJD never tasted stinging nettles but they look the same as rocket and probably taste the same too. It's a patronising iceberg, both pointless additions to other things. Except iceberg is free and rocket is premium priced. Otta I cannot disagree more strongly. Their doughnuts knock spots off of all the other major supermarket chain ones, and they stay fresher longer too. Louisa.

Ah but you see not everything in a meal deal comprises of a bog standard sandwich crisps and a drink these days. A mix and match deal can include sushi, a sausage roll, fruit and or diced vegetables with dip. The choices are endless and they all add up to ?3 (in most cases). Ayres do a meal deal where you can purchase a sub and a sausage roll/cake alongside a tea/coffee/hot soup/can for a set price. As I'm sure the likes of Greggs probably do too. Not a meal of course, but hits the spot for a period. Louisa.

numbers I'm with you on rocket. Stinging nettles in a sandwich, what's the bloody point? Do you never politely ask the server to whack a bit of iceburg in when the poncy store manager isn't watching? I too miss personalised sandwich shops. However, Ayres of Nunhead do a mean homemade sandwich and/or sub roll with a filling of your choice. Great if you get there early enough to miss the crowds. They also do a meal deal, not cheap though. Louisa.

Pret A Manger isn't French you clown. Just as the anglicised sounding French companies 'Total' and 'Britanny Ferries' are not English. Oh *Bob* you are a card. Louisa.

Think it means 'ready to eat' - may be wrong though. Also it's owned by a UK based company now (McDonalds not at all connected). Slightly patronising sounding name, but then as I said before, most things French related come across patronising and poncy. Even if they're not. This doesn't detract from the fact that to me anyway, Croissants are patronising and more. Shove them on top of some tinned mince in a pie tin and I might eat them. With gravy over the top. Louisa.

If you must know, Pret A Manger in Bromley is one of the main reasons I initially spoke out in favour of them coming to LL to open up a shop. The staff are friendly and the food offering is fairly healthy and quite competitively priced. In all reality, they're more likely to open in somewhere like Brixton or Peckham than they are here, and I've not visited the Bromley branch for a good few years now. Louisa.

You can get a sandwich meal deal in any of the major supermarket chains now (including the new ED sacred cow of M&S). Pret do not operate in this part of London for a good few miles around so I couldn't possibly comment *Bob*. Louisa.

Assumptions *Bob*, you're trying to make a delicious food option sound revolting my putting a spin on it. Even a crap bacon sarnie is still a bacon sarnie, so in this country anyhow it will always out shine a soggy pastry item 9/10 kept in a plastic box/container waiting around all day to be eaten. I am in no way going out to make this food item seem worse than it is, it does a good job of that all by itself. Louisa.

"treat with an apparent kindness which betrays a feeling of superiority." This is exactly what croissants do. Louisa.

I have to agree with comments in the other thread. I think the doughnuts served up in Lidl are actually very tasty and full of flavour. Far superior to anything offered in sainsburys/tesco et al in store bakeries. A croissant is fundamentally a pastry, and not being French, I was brought up with the expectation of pastry covering a pie not something you eat as a breakfast item. It seems futile to me. A doughnut on the other hand, is filling and contains lots of sugar so it's tasty (nutritional value 0). Doughnuts are not patronising either. When I say patronising let me give an example. If I go into a supermarket to get a sandwich meal deal, I usually go for the basic sandwich option which adds up to roughly 3 quid. It fills me up, does the job and is cheap. Some people go into a supermarket and don't care if they have the meal deal, they'd rather go for the 'extra special' or 'finest' or whatever patronising phrases are used to get an extra couple of quid out of you by the supermarkets. The sandwich is NO different to the basic one, other than the wrapper and wording for the filling using. It's patronising. The same goes for a croissant, if I saw a bacon sarny for 2 quid in a caf it would fill me up and set my day off without patronising me. If I go into a supermarket or posh cafe and pay the best part of a fiver (including coffee and fruit juice etc) I'm being patronised by what is in effect a bit of pastry. Louisa.

Well of all the things you can have an irrational rage about, alcohol? Well, fair play. Each to their own. Louisa.

How you enjoying hijacking irrational rage then Seabag? Or is this a demonstration of your irrational rage? Either way, it's entertaining- if you happen to enjoy sitting in an enclosed garden counting individual blades of grass. Drivel eh? Surely that is the point of an irrational rage is it not? Or am I just being victimised here because I happen to be me? Lovely bottle of Merlot I'm enjoying this evening, and it's from lidl. nice way to spend an evening after weeks away from the forum, to come back and be greeted by you who clearly sits on here all day every day waiting for my next nugget. I should start a fan club. Louisa.

Would that be the thread you actively participated in? Oh yes it would. Hilarious. My thread was created as a way of stopping this thread being turned into a circus. After all, it was just an irrational rage gripe, nothing more nothing less, respond to that how you will. Yawn yawn yawn. Do you just sit around waiting for me to post on the forum? Exciting evening you must be having. Louisa.