Where are you going tonight?

[Worthy4England]

I knocked that bit on the head completely, no reason at all for the missus to need me there when she's shopping, so I just refuse point blank!

Exactly right Worthy. Odd time I get dragged into Farnwoth Asda I take the dog along so I have to stay outside. Rest the Mrs gets a cab home and I carry the stuff up the path. Only very extreme situations (like having to buy cards and that stuff) every get me shopping. Most shops are a pain but supermarkets are utterly in the nightmare class. Amazonian women gabbing side by side in alleyways, folk wandering about like they're lost in the dark in a maze, not a safe-zone you can just stand in while the Mrs shops, and ....the ......... morons who whack you just above the heel and take the skin off,with a bread-van sized trolley they can hardly see over then glare at you as if you're to blame for existing. Oh, yes, shopping, bring it on (not)

Nope don't do Farnworth Asda either. If it's THAT critical - I just have them deliver it.

[TANGODANCER]

Fortunately, the Mrs knows my views (and outbusrst) and is quite happy to leave me at home, mainly after my tirade when stood in front of a stack of milk the size of an artic, but a stupid bloke asked me to move so he could get the carton right behind me. That did it...

[General Mannerheim]

sausage roll was ace

sausage/pastry ratio was easily 75%/25%

[Bruce Rioja]

Am I the only bloke on here that quite enjoys the social interaction of going to the supermarket ?

[Worthy4England]

Am I the only bloke on here that quite enjoys the social interaction of going to the supermarket ?

Now that you've "come out", there'll probably be others...

[Burnden Paddock]

Am I the only bloke on here that quite enjoys the social interaction of going to the supermarket ?

Now that you've "come out", there'll probably be others...

I don't mind nipping for a few things, but not for the big shop. No way. That said, nipping for a few things is usually my excuse to buy 'emergency' beer/wine after a shit day.

There i've said it. I don't mind supermarket shopping, to some extent.

[Burnden Paddock]

Haha... I struggle to go in Selfridges at the Trafford Centre without either going to Yo Sushi, or getting a curry from the stall..

Both myself and Miss BP love the smells coming from Yo Sushi. Just not sure that we could go and find enough that we'd want to eat there. Will give it a try one day.

Did the offer they have at the curry stall a few months ago, ended up with loads of stuff and very good it was too.

They don't just do Sushi.. They do hot Katsu Curry dishes, vegetarian sushi rolls, Chicken salads.. Gyoza. The lot.. The actual sushi is probably about 30% of what they do there.

It's easy to get carried away though, so the 30% off on the o2 priority app thing comes in handy.

Oh and Worthy.. I absolutely detest the place, but I usually get fed at this place when I get dragged along..

Really? Didn't know that. Will have to check out the menu online. Cheers.

[TANGODANCER]

Am I the only bloke on here that quite enjoys the social interaction of going to the supermarket ?

If it's absolutely imperative, then I'd rather go on my own. Far quicker, much less chance of trying to guess which aisle she'll appear out of next, and less hassle altogether. Add to that a one-way trip without reversing, going back for forgotten things and I just join the nearest queue and I'm done.

[Harry Genshaw]

Dont mind popping in for the odd thing but I only do the big shop once a year. Mrs G drags me along to help her at Xmas. I moan all the way round so it usually gives me respite for another 360 odd days before I have to go again.

On a similar theme, I advised her a few weeks back that I wouldn't be attending anymore weddings unless its immediate family (brothers, niece or nephews). No more cousins, workmates or folk we went to college with. I hate em. Turning up to be introduced to someone I've never met, probably never will again and then have some drunk aunt try and drag me up dancing. <shudders>

Thats bad enough but I've also had to fork out for a present

[thebish]

Am I the only bloke on here that quite enjoys the social interaction of going to the supermarket ?

I don't enjoy the social interaction of the supermarket, but I DO do most of the shopping.

main reasons?

1. it's a feck load cheaper when i do it
2. the fridge isn't crammed with crappy salad products
3. the impulse-buy food that we will never eat is eliminated
4. the fridge isn't crammed with crappy salad products
5. I always remember the red wine

[bobo the clown]

Am I the only bloke on here that quite enjoys the social interaction of going to the supermarket ?

I don't enjoy the social interaction of the supermarket, but I DO do most of the shopping.

main reasons?

1. it's a feck load cheaper when i do it
2. the fridge isn't crammed with crappy salad products
3. the impulse-buy food that we will never eat is eliminated
4. the fridge isn't crammed with crappy salad products
5. I always remember the red wine

I LOVE the supermarket.

Some of the reasons are ;
1. it's a feck load more extravagant when i do it
2. the fridge isn't crammed with crappy salad products
3. the impulse-buy food that we will never eat is there in abundance
4. the fridge isn't crammed with crappy salad products
5. I always remember the red wine
6. I get to buy loads of meat, yet next to no veg.

So, not THAT different.

[Bruce Rioja]

Some of the reasons are ;
1. it's a feck load more extravagant when i do it
2. the fridge isn't crammed with crappy salad products
3. the impulse-buy food that we will never eat is there in abundance
4. the fridge isn't crammed with crappy salad products
5. I always remember the red wine
6. I get to buy loads of meat, yet next to no veg.

So, not THAT different.

Simply

[Annoyed Grunt]

Currently sat in a marquee at Bolton Food Festival waiting to see Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

[Burnden Paddock]

Currently sat in a marquee at Bolton Food Festival waiting to see Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

I was there too. Not out of choice, I might add. Not bad for a fiver in the end I suppose. At least we weren't caught in that downpour.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Currently sat in a marquee at Bolton Food Festival waiting to see Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

I was there too. Not out of choice, I might add. Not bad for a fiver in the end I suppose. At least we weren't caught in that downpour.

I went through choice....love baking.

Yeah, decent little show for £5.....funny that the electric whisk started by itself.....and it was my Mrs that asked how he felt about bring a sex symbol.

[Burnden Paddock]

Currently sat in a marquee at Bolton Food Festival waiting to see Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

I was there too. Not out of choice, I might add. Not bad for a fiver in the end I suppose. At least we weren't caught in that downpour.

I went through choice....love baking.

Yeah, decent little show for £5.....funny that the electric whisk started by itself.....and it was my Mrs that asked how he felt about bring a sex symbol.

Mrs BP is the lover of baking in our house. She churns out loads of cakes, biscuits etc which I very rarely eat.

We went to the Hairy Bikers show last year. I enjoyed that one more, but this one wasn't bad. The whisk thing was a bit odd. Your Mrs got the biggest laugh of the show. Some of the other questions were goddamm awful. 'Why do you have 2 presenters and not just 1?' FFS!

Didn't think the markets were as good as last year. I was looking forward to another pork pie with mushy peas inside it. Though Mrs BP had a cracking chicken tikka wrap with very hot chilli sauce. I went with jerk chicken and curried goat. Haven't tried goat before, but it was excellent.

[Annoyed Grunt]

"Could you sign my rolling pin?"

I actually applied for the Bake Off.....but due to a funeral, I kept missing their call and they missed my return call

[Burnden Paddock]

"Could you sign my rolling pin?"

I actually applied for the Bake Off.....but due to a funeral, I kept missing their call and they missed my return call

Jesus. I'd forgotten that question.

Are you going to apply again? You really should. We could have a 'watch with the forum' every week. I tried to talk Mrs BP into applying, but she won't. I even thought about applying on her behalf and hoping that she'd run with it. She'd probably have hit me with her rolling pin though!

[Bruce Rioja]

I went with jerk chicken and curried goat. Haven't tried goat before, but it was excellent.

I bought a goat curry off of a stall from somewhere near Darwen at last year's do. Goat's meat's lovely. Very disappointed with the curry I bought though due to lack of goat.

[Harry Genshaw]

I went with jerk chicken and curried goat. Haven't tried goat before, but it was excellent.

I bought a goat curry off of a stall from somewhere near Darwen at last year's do. Goat's meat's lovely. Very disappointed with the curry I bought though due to lack of goat.

I was at a mates party a few years ago where there were a lot of Nigerians and someone had done a goat curry. Was lovely but I had a bit of a shock when I tried to take a bite out of the pasta tubes they'd put in. Nearly broke mi teeth. Didn't realise they cooked it with the bones in