The Eternal Breakfast Debate in a New Place

[Serial_Apologist]

…and no doubt they will say there’s no demand for the items you want - and your response ‘Well I’m demanding them!’

A couple of months ago dried powdered milk was unavailable in every retail outlet in this part of S London. One day I went up to one of those besuited managerial types who can sometimes be observed with clipboard, checking shelves and asked why. "Really? No dried milk?" he replied, looking startled, "Well we can't be having that now, can we? No dried milk?" he said turning to a colleague. He seemed concerned, but not being very good at "reading" other people, I couldn't tell if he really was, or was just taking the p*ss. I began wondering if there was no longer a demand for the product. It took places another fortnight before supplies re-appeared; nothing had shown up on the news of internet by way of an explanation.

[cloughie]

I see he comes to R3 from Scala Radio (now renamed Magical Classical).

In composing my letter to Co-op Food over our new branch's 'food' now consisting of - at a conservative guess - 75% junk food, fast food, snacks, processed and ultraprocessed foods, ready meals, mass produced pizzas, festive sweets and chocolates and more, I realise I shall be unpopular with the public as well as the Co-op because: It's what people want. It really is. Carry on R3 - Rajar beckons.

…and no doubt they will say there’s no demand for the items you want - and your response ‘Well I’m demanding them!’

[french frank]

Was it Sonia Orwell who was asked to design a Ministry of Food poster saying 'potatoes are good for you' and then later 'potatoes are fattening'?

I've no idea who or whether a Ministry of Food would have asked for a poster saying that potatoes are fattening. But apparently some people still think they are

[smittims]

Was it Sonia Orwell who was asked to design a Ministry of Food poster saying 'potatoes are good for you' and then later 'potatoes are fattening'?

[french frank]

I didn't want to take this usually highly focused thread off topic but I was struck by the fact that my newly built Co-op (next to the crumbling one next door) has in the past few weeks provided a parallel with R3, in that I've abandoned both. I've been prompted to write to Co-op Food (am I repeating myself? ) by the report saying diet-related diseases cost the country an estimated £268bn annually, caused by 'junk food addiction'. So yes, some people do want it, just as evidence here is that some people do want what's fed to them by Radio 3.

[LMcD]

But, like the Co-op, it should be thought of as owned by us and therefore we should perhaps have a say in how it's run.
At least I get to choose a local charity though every so often.
And being a member got me and my partner £50 (each) off our Direct Cremation funeral plans we took out in November.
What deals do we get from R3 that can compare.

If i may briefly stray off-topic: our large local Co-op store, which I haven't used for ages because it simply isn't competitive and is annoyingly understaffed, is closing after Christmas and leasing the premises to Sainsbury's. The smaller local Co-ops will continue to trade as normal as far as I know.

[kernelbogey]

It's what people want. It really is....

Is it?

Isn't a definition of marketing 'persuading people to buy [consume] what they didn't know they needed'?

Supermarkets are good at that. The J*cks*n touch, too, I'd say.

[Pulcinella]

I see he comes to R3 from Scala Radio (now renamed Magical Classical).

In composing my letter to Co-op Food over our new branch's 'food' now consisting of - at a conservative guess - 75% junk food, fast food, snacks, processed and ultraprocessed foods, ready meals, mass produced pizzas, festive sweets and chocolates and more, I realise I shall be unpopular with the public as well as the Co-op because: It's what people want. It really is. Carry on R3 - Rajar beckons.

But, like the Co-op, it should be thought of as owned by us and therefore we should perhaps have a say in how it's run.
At least I get to choose a local charity though every so often.
And being a member got me and my partner £50 (each) off our Direct Cremation funeral plans we took out in November.
What deals do we get from R3 that can compare.

[french frank]

he’s a sheep farmer so needs the extra money for his inheritance tax bills

I see he comes to R3 from Scala Radio (now renamed Magical Classical).

In composing my letter to Co-op Food over our new branch's 'food' now consisting of - at a conservative guess - 75% junk food, fast food, snacks, processed and ultraprocessed foods, ready meals, mass produced pizzas, festive sweets and chocolates and more, I realise I shall be unpopular with the public as well as the Co-op because: It's what people want. It really is. Carry on R3 - Rajar beckons.

[oddoneout]

Did he utter any nuggets of musical insight you'd care to share with us? Or was his warm style enough on a cold morning in northerly Britain?

Funny you should mention nuggets... One of the carols* we are singing today contains this gem "Nor is the golden nugget withholden" and, together with the reference to cheese in an earlier verse, we have been taking a less than serious approach to it. MaccyD tends to spring to mind.

*Past 3 o'clock

[antongould]

Did he utter any nuggets of musical insight you'd care to share with us? Or was his warm style enough on a cold morning in northerly Britain?

To me he seemed knowledgeable but then Katie Durham seems knowledgeable to me and I have to admit I have not yet warmed to Emma ….. it’s scarily mild up here and he’s a sheep farmer so needs the extra money for his inheritance tax bills

[french frank]

Just caught up with last Saturday’s Breakfast presented by someone new, to me at least, Mark Forrest. I see his had very wide experience as a presenter and, again to me at least, it showed, a very easy warm style ….. I see he was on again yesterday as Emma remains under the duvet ….

Did he utter any nuggets of musical insight you'd care to share with us? Or was his warm style enough on a cold morning in northerly Britain?

[antongould]

Just caught up with last Saturday’s Breakfast presented by someone new, to me at least, Mark Forrest. I see his had very wide experience as a presenter and, again to me at least, it showed, a very easy warm style ….. I see he was on again yesterday as Emma remains under the duvet ….

[Old Grumpy]

Oh, I'm used to that with Petroc. I well recall an 'etood' (sic) by Rachmaninov that turned out to be a prelude, and was afterwards again described as an 'etood'. But at least he's more accurate that K-t-e D-r--m.

Surely that would have been a preelood

[smittims]

Oh, I'm used to that with Petroc. I well recall an 'etood' (sic) by Rachmaninov that turned out to be a prelude, and was afterwards again described as an 'etood'. But at least he's more accurate that K-t-e D-r--m.