Ads that get right on your tits

[Orava]

ah my nearest one is right by Asda. And there's not a lot of Asdas in this part of Wales so that's 30 miles away.

The problem with rural living:

Sainsburys : 16 miles

Tesco : 12 miles (or 20 down to Devon but faster to get to as most of the distance is on the M5)

Morrisons : 13 miles (and it is shit)

Waitrose: 6 miles (it always costs 60 quid, no matter what you buy)

ASDA: 6 miles, next to Waitrose which allows for interesting social observations.

Co-Op: 1 mile but absolutely rubbish for food and surprisingly expensive. Regularly runs out of bread or milk in the weekends, they are just not interested, I think.

Spar: 1 mile, they stock local produce, unlike Co-Op where everything is centralised, Soviet-style, but also fairly expensive - the small shop premium.

On top of that we have a local delicatessen (good but expensive) and a local butchers (similarly - £12 chicken, anyone?)

[Col]

Try London living, got every possible supermarket within about 7 miles. Including the always awful Netto!

[Rhythm]

I would describe myself as a genuine all-out foodie and I fucking hate KFC

Fair enough but I've seen more than a few food blogger/critic types list KFC as a guilty pleasure

[Stone]

Try London living, got every possible supermarket within about 7 miles. Including the always awful Netto!

I remember Netto! They used to have one near my parents' old gaff, opposite a Sainsburys and festooned with adverts for 5p cans of beans

Surprised they still exist tbh, I thought the likes of Iceland and Farm Foods would have cornered that end of the market by now...

Stone

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Having had years of blissful non-ads I am now being subjected to them again via YouTube etc. I download everything, and have done for years so the ads are stripped out.

Ditto. All adverts get on my tits. I can't think of any I watch out of choice.

The 'M' and two or three of the American themed ones are very edible, and you get them for a week or two a year at most. Stupid.

Loss leaders, perhaps.

[Truder]

This advert is driving me nuts! Everytime I hear it! ARRRGHHHH

[Terrypantsman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdfO5r8C ... r_embedded

Like KFC ?

[Stone]

This advert is driving me nuts! Everytime I hear it! ARRRGHHHH

My gf works for them! She hates it too

Stone

[Ratsoap]

Cutting pitta bread in half and touting it as some amazing new product. Fuck right off.

[Rubisco]

What I wanna know is why, considering that most supermarkets have their own instore bakeries, do so many people buy shit from Kingsmill and their ilk?

[Chuffmeister]

Cutting pitta bread in half and touting it as some amazing new product. Fuck right off.

Yeah.

[gilesgoat]

Well .. if they can sell this for 97,250 pounds ...

I guess they can try with a 1/2 pitta and claim is a NEW product you cannot live without

[merman]

What I wanna know is why, considering that most supermarkets have their own instore bakeries, do so many people buy shit from Kingsmill and their ilk?

Convenience.

PPI ads are getting on my nerves, particularly those that quote high figures and the one where the woman says she can now afford a holiday thanks to the company that helped... Creating unrealistic expectations should be against the advertising code.

[RedOktober]

She's having a weekend in Tenby.

[Yak]

It's really nice in Tenby. There's a curry house that overlooks the beach.