Inside the Factory - Tonight BBC 1 @ 8.00 Walkers Crisps

[davieG]

Nothing to add will delete later

[Wymsey]

A dispatches documentary?

[davieG]

4 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

A dispatches documentary?

No just the normal inside the factory Paddy McGuinness instead of Gregg Wallace

[davieG]

Looks like it’s in Lincoln

[AKCJ]

People watch this shite?

[Parafox]

12 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

People watch this shite?

 

Yep.

 

There's hundreds of good, well constructed documentaries about important events both past, and more recent but people will watch garbage because they can't be arsed.

 

Which is also why they watch shite "reality" TV and anything involving Ant and Dec. Or Michael Macintyre. Or Paddy McGuiness who surely can't believe his luck.

 

These programmes are the lowest common denominator and as such make big bucks for advertising and production companies'

 

Entertainment is subjective and each to their own of course. Personally, I can't stand them.

 

Edited 14 January 2025 by Parafox

[Wymsey]

17 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

Yep.

 

There's hundreds of good, well constructed documentaries about important events both past, and more recent but people will watch garbage because they can't be arsed.

 

Which is also why they watch shite "reality" TV and anything involving Ant and Dec. Or Michael Macintyre. Or Paddy McGuiness who surely can't believe his luck.

 

These programmes are the lowest common denominator and as such make big bucks for advertising and production companies'

 

Entertainment is subjective but personally, I can't stand them.

 

Think it's time that a broadcaster does a NHS 'Dispatches' programme; but wouldn't know where to start with the organisation and what's wrong with it (despite its positives) as there's so many issues..

Edited 15 January 2025 by Wymsey

[Wymsey]

20 minutes ago, davieG said:

No just the normal inside the factory Paddy McGuinness instead of Gregg Wallace

Is he officially suspended or did he step down?

Edited 14 January 2025 by Wymsey

[Parafox]

14 minutes ago, davieG said:

Looks like it’s in Lincoln

 

In which case I care even less than I did before. And that's therefore a minus on the caring/interested chart

[davieG]

36 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Yep.

 

There's hundreds of good, well constructed documentaries about important events both past, and more recent but people will watch garbage because they can't be arsed.

 

Which is also why they watch shite "reality" TV and anything involving Ant and Dec. Or Michael Macintyre. Or Paddy McGuiness who surely can't believe his luck.

 

These programmes are the lowest common denominator and as such make big bucks for advertising and production companies'

 

Entertainment is subjective and each to their own of course. Personally, I can't stand them.

 

I only watch the odd one or two as having worked in industry I have a lingering interest in mass production 

[davieG]

27 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

In which case I care even less than I did before. And that's therefore a minus on the caring/interested chart

There was some from Leicester 

[FoyleFox]

2 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Is he officially suspended or did he step down?

Stepped back*.

 

*Also known as jumped before pushed. 

[StanSP]

15 hours ago, AKCJ said:

People watch this shite?

There's far worse on TV!! 

 

Some of them can be quite interesting. 

[kenny]

47 minutes ago, StanSP said:

There's far worse on TV!! 

 

Some of them can be quite interesting. 

I think its good for people to see how stuff, in particular, mass produced food is made.

 

Most of the processes are reasonably rank.

 

I haven't eaten Squares crisps since I saw the process and potatoes at Walkers in the early 2000s.

[StanSP]

12 minutes ago, kenny said:

I think its good for people to see how stuff, in particular, mass produced food is made.

 

Most of the processes are reasonably rank.

 

I haven't eaten Squares crisps since I saw the process and potatoes at Walkers in the early 2000s.

Rank or not, I 100% agree. 

 

 

[Samilktray]

It would take a lot to put me off my Walekrs Cheese & Onion tbf

[Tommy G]

1 hour ago, kenny said:

I think its good for people to see how stuff, in particular, mass produced food is made.

 

Most of the processes are reasonably rank.

 

I haven't eaten Squares crisps since I saw the process and potatoes at Walkers in the early 2000s.

What happens to squares? I'm partial to a bag of those but they dont touch S&V McCoys

[kenny]

2 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

What happens to squares? I'm partial to a bag of those but they dont touch S&V McCoys

It's essentially fried potatoe flour. So it's all the crap leftover from the other crisps and the lowest quality potatoes. The ones you see in the crates at the rear of the factory are gross.

 

The normal crisps are essentially fried potato so the quality is reasonable. Any that are shaped and dont resemble a potato will be fried potato slime of some sort.

 

The flavour they use on the squares is similar to Discos. Too good.

[goose2010]

I work in the packaging world and work with retailers and their supply chains so I spend a lot of my time walking round food factories and find some fascinating but some definitely put you off eating certain products. 

 

I went to a 150 year biscuit factory that produce the majority of the discounters custard creams, eating a warm Custard cream that has just come off the production line was a right treat! 

 

if you want to know where any of Lidl or Aldi's products come from i know them all pretty much

[Spiritwalker]

2 hours ago, Tommy G said:

What happens to squares? I'm partial to a bag of those but they dont touch S&V McCoys

They come down the line as a sheet then a big fat guy with a grid strapped to his arse sits on them.

[StanSP]

2 hours ago, goose2010 said:

 

 

if you want to know where any of Lidl or Aldi's products come from i know them all pretty much

Can you get any freebies

 

Happy for you to send me regular supplies of some of their items

[goose2010]

15 hours ago, StanSP said:

Can you get any freebies

 

Happy for you to send me regular supplies of some of their items

haha yeah i get quite a lot to be honest but is quite random! 

 

In the office we are currently working our way through about 500 packs of Aldi's version of Oreos! 

[Guest Lako42]

19 hours ago, goose2010 said:

 

if you want to know where any of Lidl or Aldi's products come from i know them all pretty much

Is any of it the same factories that more 'prestige' brands are made? 

 

Are any of the items identical. 

[goose2010]

13 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Is any of it the same factories that more 'prestige' brands are made? 

 

Are any of the items identical. 

The majority are. for example 90% of Aldi's biscuits are made by Fine Biscuit Company that own brands like foxes etc. 

 

People always wonder how Aldi get away with the designs being so close to the original, its because it is supplied and made by the same firms. So they really don't care how close their designs are as they are still selling product some brands want them as close as possible!. It is only the other retailers that get their legal teams involved. Brands have never pushed back. 

 

People wonder how the discounters do it cheaper than the other supermarkets it mainly down to volume they buy. Aldi in the UK are the 4th biggest (will over take Asda unless Asda pull their finger out soon!) supermarket by market share but by volume of product sold they are 2nd behind Tesco!

 

So their buying power is massive which obviously drives the price down as they buy more from the suppliers. 

 

The end of the day if you want a razor blades (Discounters are made by Wilkinson Sword BTW) you have 2 choices, top tier or bottom tier that's it. You go into Asda and you have about 6 six different choices. 

 

People also say the discounters fruit & Veg is what lets them down and they know it is but there is little they can do. If you think 80 ish % of fruit in the UK is imported. There is only so much that can be imported, someone like Delmonte will say we have 100 tonnes of bananas arriving on the 1st of the month, that then gets tendered to all retailers. The likes of Waitrose will pay the most so they the first shipment then M&S then Sainsburys and so on and by the time Aldi and Lidl get their pick they basically gets what is left. That obviously could be 3-4 days later than the others, so when it goes to store they sell it cheaper but it wont last as long. 

 

So the only way they can improve their F&V is to increase the price but they wont do that as people will go else where then. 

 

By wife finds it all so boring now but honestly it is a mad world when you get into it. 

 

 

[grobyfox1990]

14 minutes ago, goose2010 said:

The majority are. for example 90% of Aldi's biscuits are made by Fine Biscuit Company that own brands like foxes etc. 

 

People always wonder how Aldi get away with the designs being so close to the original, its because it is supplied and made by the same firms. So they really don't care how close their designs are as they are still selling product some brands want them as close as possible!. It is only the other retailers that get their legal teams involved. Brands have never pushed back. 

 

People wonder how the discounters do it cheaper than the other supermarkets it mainly down to volume they buy. Aldi in the UK are the 4th biggest (will over take Asda unless Asda pull their finger out soon!) supermarket by market share but by volume of product sold they are 2nd behind Tesco!

 

So their buying power is massive which obviously drives the price down as they buy more from the suppliers. 

 

The end of the day if you want a razor blades (Discounters are made by Wilkinson Sword BTW) you have 2 choices, top tier or bottom tier that's it. You go into Asda and you have about 6 six different choices. 

 

People also say the discounters fruit & Veg is what lets them down and they know it is but there is little they can do. If you think 80 ish % of fruit in the UK is imported. There is only so much that can be imported, someone like Delmonte will say we have 100 tonnes of bananas arriving on the 1st of the month, that then gets tendered to all retailers. The likes of Waitrose will pay the most so they the first shipment then M&S then Sainsburys and so on and by the time Aldi and Lidl get their pick they basically gets what is left. That obviously could be 3-4 days later than the others, so when it goes to store they sell it cheaper but it wont last as long. 

 

So the only way they can improve their F&V is to increase the price but they wont do that as people will go else where then. 

 

By wife finds it all so boring now but honestly it is a mad world when you get into it. 

 

 

Best ever post on foxestalk.

Do you know how Wetherspoons sell their beer so cheap? The rumour is they buy it just before expiry date for knock off prices, and because they sell so much they can get away with it before it goes off