Which probably stopped them going green!
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Some current products seem to have ‘giant looking fish fingers’ as they’ve been served on tiny looking plates.
Quite how much sugary rubbish I used to enjoy as a kid in the 70/80s amazes me in hindsight.
‘Tuck shops’ at school, full sugar soft drinks, sweets from the newsagents on the way home after getting dropped off by the school bus.
Was it simply everyone letting their hair down and indulging in the decades post WWII or was it simply big corporations pushing cheap sugary products onto us all.
As someone who struggles with sugars/carbs metabolically I really get frustrated with pre-prepared foodstuffs these days. I really don’t want low fat/zero fat dairy products laced with extra sugar.
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That, however, is not directly misleading, because in fact it could just be a small plate and there is nothing saying that it is a big plate. What is misleading is when they put something in the picture that is of a more definite size, but using a fake such as the glass pea incident, were the beads were smaller than small peas.
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Quite, advertising photography for food must be quite an art with many 'sneaky tricks of the trade which might be legal and many others which aren’t. In fairness it would be pretty boring if manufacturers either had to use a standardised plate size/design/colour or had to provide explicit details of the serving crockery used - daft enough that you’d imagine someone in high places might be in favour of such legislation!
Just smashing my way through a packet of McVities digestives as I read this. One of the few junk foods that seems unchanged from my youth 
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I was thinking last night about Jammie Dodgers - you have two biscuits and ‘jam’ in the middle.
The front and rear biscuits differ to allow you to see the jam in the heart at the front. In addition each biscuit has a ‘flat’ and ‘patterned’ side.
However, when I was young I could have sworn that the flat side of each biscuit was the side in contact with the jam. At some stage the ‘rear biscuit’ flipped over such that the flat side is no longer in contact with the jam.
Was this a move to allow the patterned side of the rear biscuit to protrude into the jam thus meaning less jam filling is needed overall?
I really need to get out more… 
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Ah, yes. The Wagon Wheel hub, as it should be known.
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Used to have them all the time as a kid.
I think they’re prett disgusting these days.
Perhaps I ‘spoke’ too soon.
I was, momentarily, fascinated by the universal sterility of the Food Porn sub genre “Serving Suggestion”.
I like this one’s use of Negative Space.
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Often imitated, never bettered or even matched IMHO.
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According to Panorama from November these 9 items would cost £4 more than 2 years ago.
Most of them are unappealing to me anyway, just cheap fattening carbs…I know a lot of it is convenience food but it’s pretty sad how living standards, well for food anyway, have generally probably worsened during my lifetime.
On the whole gone are the local grocers, bakers, butchers, fishmongers etc and we’re left with poorer choice from huge companies. It’s all so wrong especially when the UK producers are paid a pittance for their wares.
Also interesting from a community perspective is that it’s far cheaper to buy from (for example) a large Tesco supermarket than a local ‘Express’ convenience store. Economics of scale of course but can you offset cost of purchasing locally more expensively vs commuting to a retail park?
Supermarket vs local convenience store from the same company:
I only use Tesco Express for ‘corner shop’ type purchases as they are dearer than the normal Tesco - Express is walking distance and handy for milk, chocolate or chocolate, maybe some muffins and some chocolate. Did I mention chocolate?
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That was the point Panorama was making, several pounds per shop difference becoming several hundred over a year.
Avoid the major brands is my reco e g. it seems many of the ‘locals’ (of the major supermarkets) tend to sell branded goods more than own-brand – due to either customer pref and/or profit margin.
e.g. 24 Weetabix in Sainsbury’s Local = £4, whereas you can get 48-pack of own-brand bisks in main Tesco/Asda stores for £2.70. I recollect the pre-Covid price of Weetabix 24 was ~£3.20 in the ‘local’, whereas the 48-pack was £2.48. Go figure the massive out-of-step increase?
A real puzzle though is why some goods (esp biscuits) are regularly discounted by 50% (or more). It’s almost a game to avoid when at ‘full price’ and stock-up when not 
(within reason!).
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Definitely - a certain pasta sauce used to have regular daft pricing when either the small jar was frequently cheaper than larger due to bogof, or the large jar was as cheap as a small one when on offer.
We get through a lot of Robinson’s squash and I stock up when it’s dicounted (often 40% or so).
All these products are considerably more than last year.
2l of Schweppes diet lemonade now around £1.50, last year £1 in most places.
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