Catering next season

Merse I will reply to your latest remarks over my views on the prices of food, at Plainmoor, on this thread.
So you seem to want to keep this going, maybe you want to make me look like some sort of cheapskate, not prepared to pay a fair price, or only looking for the cheep option, over quality.

Well let me tell you, there is a world of difference over anything being classed as quality or economy, than any product being sold at a highly inflated price, or in words you may understand a rip off.

There will be products you can buy that are made with the very best components, or in the case of food, the very best ingredients. These you would expect to perform better last longer, or taste better. That is not always the case, the supermarket brand product is often made by the same company, with the same ingredients, just put in a different box and 30% cheaper.

Those that buy the top name brand one over the supermarket one, do so because they believe they are getting a better quality product, how wrong they are. It is only when you get to the supermarkets brand that has economy on the box, you might find the quality is in fact poorer.

How many times have you watched on TV a program, where people taste the very expensive brand name and then a much cheaper brand. Very often its the cheep one, that is expected to be of lower quality, that not only tastes better, but was the better product.

So by paying more does not means you may be buying any better quality. A pie in a bakers cost about £1.50, sold in a shop who 's overheads would much higher than selling them from a hut at a football ground. I would also think that a shop in St Marychurch would not have the chance to sell to 3000 customers in two hours.

So the pie that Ant had, one that you can't comment on its quality as you have not eaten one, the one he felt was nothing special, doubles in price. My coke that I got at a shop today for 98P RETAIL costs more than half again, I will tell you my coke today bearing the same brand name, of the one I had at the ground, was of the same quality, just at a fairer price.

Can you tell me that by paying motorway service prices, those places known as highway robbers, is any better quality, because you have to pay a high price. No, it stands a chance of being poorer quality, that your local cafe, who will charge you a third of the price.

The point is, I do object, when prices are over charged, just because you can get away with it, because it becomes a convenience, rather than trying to offer REAL QUALITY at a fair and respectable price.

Andy as ever you make some very good points, all I will say now it that I do need to get out more, go shopping with the wife more often. Still my point to Merse was being a high price does not mean it will be quality and often the budget or the economy can often be better.

Living here in the Bay you find places that want your trade in the winter, but not the summer, when prices go up. The quality of the food does not however change.