Purchase 1: a sealed bag of spring onions, cleaned and prepared for use (courtesy of M&S) – price? £0.99*
Purchase 2: a 4-way power extension lead (courtesy of Woolworths) – price? £2.00

I spent more of the day pondering prices after reading an article in The Guardian about supermarkets selling £2 chickens.

Is it me, or does it seem a bit odd that I can buy a substantial piece of home electrical equipment, which I expect to last a number of years, for twice the cost of a simple piece of salad? And how on earth is it possible to purchase an animal, which was reared, fed for around, say, 40 days, killed, cleaned, packaged and transported, for £2 (for more on that note, I recommend Planet Chicken – released earlier this year).

Unfortunately I don’t have anything else to say, just “isn’t it odd”, and that I can’t help feeling that sometimes the economy gets costs wrong.

* nb. I was forced to purchase this unfortunate convenience food due to a lack elsewhere.

Not only that, but I hear that London’s (allegedly) roughest pubs, closed down due to the activities within, are being converted into gastropubs. Whatever next.

Update: I found some photos!

The highlight for me was a girl in the queue waiting to get in eating a McDonald’s.

that is the cost of just 3 first class stamps (nearly).

squeezy marmite

that squeeze had better have a fine action because some people don’t like much marmite. i don’t like the idea of a food being modified to suit the packaging.

The lack of Soil Association logo makes me suspicious that the production standards are not high enough. The use of non-standard certification means that the consumer has little idea what the certification means. Can I set up my own authority and certify eggs as ‘organic’ according to my standards?

Furthermore, what really caused me to be suspicious is the complete lack of any certification on organic eggs sold at Tesco. Without a certificate, can anybody tell me what is legally required for an egg to be called organic? Is there even a definition?

Slightly related, maybe tescopoly might interest some people.

The use of this product is only an aid to good hydiene practices

when trying to find out the cost of my journey, it was no surprise to find a page like this on their web site:

For infrequent travellers, you may just wish to purchase a single travel ticket. Simply state your destination to the driver when you board and he will advise the appropriate price for the distance travelled.
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For a speedier journey all our services operate on an exact fare (no change given) basis so please try to have the correct money ready.

it’s the old fare prediction game!