Sherlock finally does the shopping.
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impulsereader“So you’ve got the list?”
Sherlock groaned, because this was the third time he’d asked since they’d left the track. “Yes, John. I’ve got the list,” he replied as patiently as he possibly could (which was not very). He even retrieved the piece of paper from his pocket and waved it in the air to prove the veracity of his statement.
“And you’re going to stick to the list.”
He refused to dignify this with a response, instead exchanging the infuriating list for his phone and tapping out a text to Lestrade.
“Sherlock?”
He ignored him, looking up the weather in Fez for no reason.
John sighed. He just couldn’t shake the feeling that this could all go so horribly, horribly wrong.
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OK, Brits, I need some Brand Name assistance. For Christmas, Sherlock gives John the gift of One Shopping Excursion. Circumstances force John to send him alone, with a list. Non-Brits, feel free to suggest generic items and I will try to match them up to something which might actually be in the shop near the flat. Suggestions already made on the ‘Come out and play’ thread (Thanks to all of you, by the way, I’m still getting replies and enjoying them immensely!!! There might just be a treasure map in that bottle…) will also be incorporated, you can repeat or not as you like here.
So what I need is:
The shopping list John gives Sherlock. (It is epic, because John knows he may never get this chance again and Baker Street’s cupboards are bare.) Yes, I know John is unlikely to specify a specific brand for each item here, and obviously milk is on the list. :-)
The things Sherlock actually buys.
Things Sherlock encounters in the shop but decides not to buy.
What sorts of specials might be on? Thanks to 221b_hound I’m now picturing Sherlock getting madly excited when he realizes he can get things on sale.
If any of you has a moment to just sit down and type out a list of brand name items the shop would have on its shelves, that would be epic. It can be completely random, I’m just looking for a listing of things to mention in passing as he shops.
Needless to say, the boys will be texting back and forth during this excursion. ;-)
Sherlock groaned, because this was the third time he’d asked since they’d left the track. “Yes, John. I’ve got the list,” he replied as patiently as he possibly could (which was not very). He even retrieved the piece of paper from his pocket and waved it in the air to prove the veracity of his statement.
“And you’re going to stick to the list.”
He refused to dignify this with a response, instead exchanging the infuriating list for his phone and tapping out a text to Lestrade.
“Sherlock?”
He ignored him, looking up the weather in Fez for no reason.
John sighed. He just couldn’t shake the feeling that this could all go so horribly, horribly wrong.
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OK, Brits, I need some Brand Name assistance. For Christmas, Sherlock gives John the gift of One Shopping Excursion. Circumstances force John to send him alone, with a list. Non-Brits, feel free to suggest generic items and I will try to match them up to something which might actually be in the shop near the flat. Suggestions already made on the ‘Come out and play’ thread (Thanks to all of you, by the way, I’m still getting replies and enjoying them immensely!!! There might just be a treasure map in that bottle…) will also be incorporated, you can repeat or not as you like here.
So what I need is:
The shopping list John gives Sherlock. (It is epic, because John knows he may never get this chance again and Baker Street’s cupboards are bare.) Yes, I know John is unlikely to specify a specific brand for each item here, and obviously milk is on the list. :-)
The things Sherlock actually buys.
Things Sherlock encounters in the shop but decides not to buy.
What sorts of specials might be on? Thanks to 221b_hound I’m now picturing Sherlock getting madly excited when he realizes he can get things on sale.
If any of you has a moment to just sit down and type out a list of brand name items the shop would have on its shelves, that would be epic. It can be completely random, I’m just looking for a listing of things to mention in passing as he shops.
Needless to say, the boys will be texting back and forth during this excursion. ;-)
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Brands in My Kitchen Cupboards and What's Own Brand
Date: 2012-07-10 06:31 pm (UTC)Cupboard under the sink: Domestos Bleach; Harpic Antilimescale Toilet Cleaner; Flash One-for-All (used for washing floors); Dettol Antibacterial Surface Cleaner; Mr Muscle Kitchen Cleaner; Mr Muscle Bathroom Cleaner; Fairy liquid (dishsoap); Bold 2-in-1 liquid detergent.
Fridge: Country Life Butter; Stork margerine (for baking); vegetables, fruit and fruitjuice (from concentrate) are all supermarket own brand.
Buxton Spring Water (English Spring Water tastes better to me; also Thames (ie London tap) Water is "hard" (high in limescale) so tastes crap. I have a filter built into my kettle to deal with it for hot drinks etc but never drink the stuff "neat".)
Mug Cupboard (above the worksurface): Twinings (By Royal Appointment, hereafter indicated by "RA") Tea: Lady Grey; Earl Grey; English Breakfast; and Classic Green. Twinings Infusions - Lemon & Ginger and Pure Camomile.
Silver Spoon Granulated Sugar - made in England (teh factory is actually in the town where I live, Bury St Edmunds) from sugar beet, it has a lower carbon cost than cane sugar.
Douwe Egberts Coffee: Instant (we drink a lot more instant than you guys because good coffee producers make instant versions) in Pure Gold; Pure Smooth; and Pure Indulgence (my Mum and I like different coffees so I buy her type as well as my own); and "Real" Medium Roast for filters and cafetieres.
Cupboard below the worksurface: Don Mario Olive Oil; Kikkoman Soy Sauce; Lea & Perrins' Worchestershire (pronounced "Wooster", honest!) Sauce "RA"; HP Sauce "RA" (brown sauce, which I prefer to tomato ketchup); Colmans' "RA" - English Mustard, Horseradish Sauce and Tartare Sauce; Baxters' tinned soups (various - please note "tinned" not canned); Dolmio Pasta Sauce for Bolognese; various Schwartz "RA" dried herbs, spices, curry powders etc; Saxa Table Salt; Maldon Sea Salt (produced in Essex, on the London borders); Sarson's Malt Vinegar; Hartleys' jam (various - both "no bits" and Extra fruit); McIlhenny Co Tabasco Sauce; Knorr Stock cubes (dried) and "Stock Pots"; Ovaltine (Malt drink made with hot milk, supposed to be relaxing at bedtime); Homepride flour (plain and self-raising); Kelloggs "RA" Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.
Supermarket brand rice; pasta; tinned low salt & sugar baked beans; tinned kidney, harricot, flageolet, and bortolli beans, tinned chick peas, tinned lentils (but I'm vegetarian!); tinned tomatoes.
Re: Brands in My Kitchen Cupboards and What's Own Brand
Date: 2012-07-11 06:24 am (UTC)I would add to your excellent list that Heinz is the go to brand for a lot of tinned products like Baked beans and soups also Tomato Ketchup (the mortal enemy of brown sauce). And our milk is pasteurised (hence the old joke: what's the fastest thing in the world? Milk. because it's pasteurised before you see it. Boom! Boom!) and comes in three main varieties: skimmed, semi-skimmed and whole - this might confuse Sherlock as he's not sure which John likes. They are colour coded by lid too - blue - whole, green - semi-skimmed and red - skimmed.
And because they are in a hard water area Sherlock could be tempted by Yorkshire Tea teabags for Hard Water.
Re: Brands in My Kitchen Cupboards and What's Own Brand
Date: 2012-07-11 12:01 pm (UTC)Huh. You call it "whole" milk? Funny, in my family it has always been "full fat". Or in the days when Dairy Crest used to deliver to the doorstep, Red Top (aka Homogonised) or Silver Top - oh GOD, do you remember those third-pint bottles of silver top in morning break at Junior School? Always made me feel *so* sick - and Gold Top (Jersey) for my Nan and Aunty Kathleen.
Ah, the Silver Top bottles when the blue tits pecked at the foil lids to get at the cream before you could get the milk off the step. And hot summer days when the milk had already gone off by the time you got up and cold winter days when it froze on the doorstep and there would be a stalagmite of milk punched up through the neck of the bottle, or the bottle was shattered and the milk frozen solid. Grief, delivery wasted a lot of milk. :D
As I said, I'm a Sainsbury's beans gal and Baxter's soups. But yes, oh yes. Heinz 57 Varieties. All those "Cream of" soups... mushroom, celery, chicken, tomato... Very healthy ;)
Aged *two* even in blind tastings (people tried) my little brother (John!) could always identify (and prefer) Heinz tomato ketchup.
Remember Daddies Sauce? Haven't seen that around for ages.
Re: Brands in My Kitchen Cupboards and What's Own Brand
Date: 2012-07-14 07:13 pm (UTC)Ew! Those mini bottles of milk were gross! Warm and icky. But you HAD to drink them! Maybe it wasn't so bad when they were snatched away!
There is ONLY Heinz tomato ketchup!
And, now you mention it, I haven't seen Daddies either. It's always HP now.
Re: Brands in My Kitchen Cupboards and What's Own Brand
Date: 2012-07-14 07:22 pm (UTC)Yes! WHY did no school ever refridgerate the stuff???!!! But you weren't allowed to go out to play until you'd slurped up warm, icky, on-the-turn milk with one of those little blue straws. Oh well. It clearly was good for something as dispite being spectatularly clumsy the only bone I've ever broken was my coccyx. (And one front tooth, when my younger brother decided to hit the bottom of the Britvic Orange bottle I was drinking out of...)
BRITVIC! And Appletise! (which is now Appletiser and they also have Peartiser) the drinks you always had in Beer Gardens or Family Rooms while your parents were in the pub. :D And cans of pre-prepared Shandy in the corner shop, long, long before Alco-Pop made an appearance.
Re: Brands in My Kitchen Cupboards and What's Own Brand
Date: 2012-07-11 12:16 pm (UTC)History, Suffolk, Sherlock, Shakespeare, London (I moved from London to BSE when I lost my job), Doctor Who... We seem to Have Interests In Common.
Re: Brands in My Kitchen Cupboards and What's Own Brand
Date: 2012-07-11 03:12 pm (UTC)Re: Brands in My Kitchen Cupboards and What's Own Brand
Date: 2012-07-11 03:56 pm (UTC)