Pot Noodle In Peril

[Bishop]

Unilever the people who make Pot Noodle's and Marmite are having a disagreement with Tesco over pricing as a result of the Brexit malarkey and some items are disappearing from the supermarket shelves.
Now Marmite I couldn't care less about bloody awful stuff lol , but pot noodles are a regular in my food bag.
Beginning to think it's time I invested in a dehydrator.

More at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37637954

 

[Toddy]

:yikes:

No Marmite !!????? :aargh4:

Pot noodles can go hang, the world needs marmite


M

 

[Robbi]

:yikes:

No Marmite !!????? :aargh4:

Pot noodles can go hang, the world needs marmite


M

Spot on Toddy

 

[Nice65]

It's not just Tesco, they're the only supermarket to have taken any action. Most supermarkets carry Unilever products. Tescos point of view is they shouldn't be paying more for things produced in the UK, so have called their bluff. Tesco CEO Dave Lewis used to work for Unilever so he may be in a good position to know their strategies.

Be interesting to see if the other supermarkets follow suit, or put the squeeze on Tesco.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Toddy, source some Vegemite instead, you may be agreeably surprised. I may miss a Bombay bad boy, but I'll get over it.

 

[Toddy]

On a low salt kick a while back (and having tholed the nagging by Son1 about the evils of lo-salt) I bought vegemite.
It's okay as 'stock' but it's not marmite it's awful on my oatcakes

M

 

[crosslandkelly]

Oh, think how your heart will thank you. anyway there will be no shortages, the local corner stores still have stocks from 1999.

 

[neoaliphant]

replace pot noodle with mugshots
aldi have their own version cupshots for 33p

they also have ones that come in a pot for 33p as well

 

[Tonyuk]

Forget the dried worms in sauce and that disgusting black goo people call food, think of the ben and jerrys ice cream!

Tonyuk

 

[Toddy]

I don't know how anybody can eat that stuff; it's so sickly sweet…..and then they add more stuff in on it too.
Marmite though s'good food

M

 

[Tengu]

I dont like it, too salty.

I am rather fond of sainsburys reduced salt yeast extract.

(when I am jaded on Bovril, which I live upon.)

 

[boatman]

Watch Unilever crash in coming months, a possible "Ratner moment". Don't care for any of the extract sticky things, my main thought about them is "Why".

Incidentally have rediscovered oatcakes but these don't have the additives of my earlier trials. Very good with cheese. May well use them as trail food.

 

[mrcharly]

Unilever crash?

Unilever can buy and sell Tescos with their loose change.

 

[Klenchblaize]

I don't know how anybody can eat that stuff; it's so sickly sweet…..and then they add more stuff in on it too.
Marmite though s'good food

M

People should remember what goes in these things!


K

 

[Toddy]

Bovril's from beef, Marmite's from yeast.
One's definitely not vegetarian friendly while the other is

M

 

[oldtimer]

On looking carefully at Klenchblaise's attached cartoon, I began to wonder just what bull product goes into the production of Bovril. Do they come back at regular intervals for more extraction like cows returning to the milking parlour?

 

[Mesquite]

Bovril's from beef, Marmite's from yeast.
One's definitely not vegetarian friendly while the other is

And both are equally foul

 

[Bishop]

It's going to be a dry xmas without Hellmann's mayo

 

[Stew]

Watch Unilever crash in coming months, a possible "Ratner moment". Don't care for any of the extract sticky things, my main thought about them is "Why".

Incidentally have rediscovered oatcakes but these don't have the additives of my earlier trials. Very good with cheese. May well use them as trail food.

I suspect it'll have more of an impact on Tesco than Unilever.

If Tesco don't stock Unilever products, people will go to hops that do stock them rather than buy a different product at Tesco. Once they have tried a different shop, they may not return. The cost to Tesco of losing a regular shopper is massive long term.

 

[santaman2000]

Bovril's from beef, Marmite's from yeast.
One's definitely not vegetarian friendly while the other is

M

Sort of. Yeast are in the fungus kingdom, so while they're not animals (meat) technically they really aren't plants (vegetable) either.