Fuddle Friday II
Sep. 13th, 2013 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lupestripeToday was the second instalment of Fuddle Friday in the office, where we all bring in homemade dishes which everyone in the office can sample. It's been quite a busy week for me and it wasn't until 11pm last night that I got chance to prepare something, so I opted to keep it simple and make guacamole and salsa to be served with store bought tortilla chips (at that time of the night I did not have the time or the energy to make these). Another reason I did this was that I knew no one else would be making that and I like to be different. And as they would not let me bring in home brew (drinks is one thing we do need to improve on), I thought dips would be best.
Wolfie helped me and it didn't take too long to make both dips, even though I had never made them before and I had to alter the recipe as ASDA did not have any fresh green chilies in stock. Still, both turned out rather well, particularly the guacamole which, despite the fact I may have put in a little too much lime juice, still tasted creamy and rather delicious. Some of my colleagues commented on this, including my boss, which was nice.
As happened last time though, everyone cooked for more than just themselves and as only those who cooked could participate in the eating, there was loads left over, which went to those who couldn't be bothered or was taken home with us. Still, there was a nice variety of food, lasagnes, pastries and cakes, and it was a great way to get the office together, even if all we did was talk about how difficult it would be to be a lactose intolerant tramp and the differences between hedgehogs and porcupines to two confused Norwegians.
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Date: 2013-09-13 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-09-15 01:53 am (UTC)(I'd suggest leaning away from Asda, if you can, given that Walmart company is a happy and unrepentent user of workfare, whereby we pay them to take people on, forcibly, at benefit rates. Damned good scam if you can get in on it, I suppose, even if wretchedly immoral, and a million miles from Asda's roots)
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Date: 2013-09-23 10:50 pm (UTC)I imagine all supermarkets are pretty bad on the workfare situation, I have certainly seen others indicted too.
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Date: 2013-09-23 11:53 pm (UTC)Mmm, there's a horribly long list of High Street names involved in that abomination. Of the supermarkets, my recollection is that it's roughly:
ASDA: wholly involved
Tesco: wholly involved
Morrisons: involved to some degree, hopefully not as badly as ASDA and Tesco
Sainsbury: were involved, possibly now withdrawn
M&S: somewhat involved, though not to the above extremes
Waitrose: not involved
Co-op: not involved
It's difficult, as the companies involved aren't overly forthcoming (how odd!), and their PR depts know how to spin "opportunities" that are actually just jobs being paid for by the government (as in, the govt pays the company to take on a Workfare wage slave, as well as the sub-minimum wage involved. After all, Tesco and ASDA need all the help they can get, if they're possibly to survive on the odd billion profit), thereby removing the option of a genuinely paid job from the marketplace. Johnnyvoid and BoycottWorkfare manage a pretty good job of tracking them, all the same.
I hope this doesn't sound sour - I don't mean to cast a shadow. *hug*
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Date: 2013-10-18 11:09 pm (UTC)The problem with both Waitrose and Co-op is that the price of their products is about three times what it is elsewhere. They are exceptionally poor value. Plus I have a policy of boycotting Waitrose as they don't care about the North.
Looks like Morrisons is the best of the bunch here.