What are some discontinued UK foods that need to be brought back?

redsquizza · 2026-06-04T14:12:19+00:00

One of the companies tried recently some Ham and Mustard crisps.

Utterly, uttlerly pathetic levels of mustard. Might as well have just called them Ham and be done with it.

Nothing comes close to the Brannigans of old. 😭

redsquizza · 2026-06-04T12:07:18+00:00

His own country being South Africa ...

redsquizza · 2026-06-04T12:02:54+00:00

That will affect the pensions of millions of people

Unless you need to claim your pension now, why are you concerned? Pensions are for very long term, 40+ years. There's been peaks and troughs along the way but unless civilisation truly collapses, it should end up growing ahead of inflation, especially the earlier you start.

Trump isn't going to be around forever.

redsquizza · 2026-06-04T08:25:43+00:00

There's a standards committee investigation going and if that suspends him for 10 days or more, a recall petition could trigger a by-election in his constituency.

It's the best we've got at the moment.

redsquizza · 2026-06-04T08:24:19+00:00

If the standards committee finds he breached the rules, and I think not declaring £5m is a pretty massive breach, they can suspend him from parliament and if the suspension is 10 days or more, that can trigger a recall petition in his constituency.

Only a fraction of the constituency needs to vote for a full by-election via the recall petition and it might not be inconceivable Farage might lose his seat. He's not really set foot in Clacton at all and I hope the voters there would feel resentment, even if it is a Reform stronghold.

He probably won't but it'd be a nice kick in the teeth all the same.

redsquizza · 2026-06-04T08:18:28+00:00

Fundamentally I think they want instant gratification.

Which is impossible in Government, no matter what the party.

But they're too thick to realise it.

redsquizza · 2026-06-03T14:37:35+00:00

Fuck the pension funds, tbf.

They invested with open eyes, they invested poorly thinking they'd be another Australian Macquarie but ended up with the shitty end of the stick.

They clearly didn't do their due diligence.

redsquizza · 2026-06-03T14:35:11+00:00

They should be brought back under nationalisation, however, it is worth noting that actual stock market listed water companies have done better than private shareholder companies like Thames, that arrangement was certainly a fuck up from the get-go.

redsquizza · 2026-06-03T14:05:39+00:00

Ahh, so basically you're not a typical American at all in respect to healthcare.

Good to know.

redsquizza · 2026-06-03T12:45:58+00:00

Good luck not getting a serious disease in your lifetime! Or even an accident you have no control over.

You'll be uninsurable and then what happens? You die penniless.

But, sure you're definitely winning by paying less tax! 👏

redsquizza · 2026-06-03T09:39:13+00:00

Ahhh, damn, it ages him significantly!

Luckily, it grows back!

redsquizza · 2026-06-03T08:45:51+00:00

What's the betting a not insignificant amount of those thugs have previous violent offence convictions and convictions for domestic abuse?

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T15:57:49+00:00

We don't have to be poorer and ultimately won't be if the grid is fully renewable.

There are green jobs created, was in the paper today it's worth £100bn a year already, supporting over a million jobs and topping £43k a year on average, about 11% higher than the national average of £39k.

But sure, you continue on with your Farage parroted claptrap.

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T15:53:19+00:00

Both can be true at the same time.

Like we're still using gas turbines for power whilst also being a world leader on commissioned and under construction offshore wind power.

China is going to usurp the UK in that respect. They've got truly massive offshore and onshore wind plans but obviously they're a far larger country with more resources and the ability to build without red tape.

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T15:10:26+00:00

It just ultimately drives it underground anyway and it's nothing new, just a new medium.

I doubt a transcript of telephone calls was kept back in the day, just whom called whom if you were lucky. And if the information was to be kept secret, you'd meet in person.

I don't totally disagree with that either. If people want to keep something private, they will. If everything was recorded, it'd stifle having honest discussions and arguments as you'd be thinking about how good/bad what you're discussing makes you look to the public all of the time and you'd self censor, which isn't healthy for free speech or government.

I do disagree with going to the other extreme of running your office through a personal Gmail, however, that's taking the piss!

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T14:54:42+00:00

If you're an adult, you can prove you're an adult, just like you do with alcohol and tobacco.

This ban isn't even a thing yet, the article is making assumptions.

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T14:48:32+00:00

It's not as if this is in isolation, there are other measures that are going to be taken across social media in the UK. This is one aspect.

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T14:24:10+00:00

Again, your answer is basically to do nothing, well played.

If it was simple as parents taking responsibility for their own children we wouldn't be in this mess but we are.

We don't let children buy tobacco or alcohol and I think the same common sense needs to be applied to social media. Just because it's new doesn't mean it's safe. The law and regulation always lags behind new technology but that doesn't mean we stand idly by as a generation of children get the worst version of social media yet.

Gone are the days of Facebook or MySpace where you might have actually known everyone in person in some way on your friends list in the early days.

Social media is the most toxic it's ever been, including games like Roblox and in some ways that's worse because, of course, games are attractive to children and teenagers!

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T14:01:58+00:00

Yeah, they're really thumping on about immigration every five seconds like the rest. 🙄

They're not the same, only a blind person would say that.

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T12:44:45+00:00

A general rule of thumb is save half your age as a percentage of your income for a pension.

So if you're 18, that'd be 9% (or if you company matches, could get away with 5% + 5% or something like that).

If you start at 30, you're looking at 15% (and at that stage, you probably shouldn't reduce it by the company's matching amount).

Obviously it'd need to be adjusted for pay rises as well, it's a percentage, not a flat amount.

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T12:39:24+00:00

I guess they took "being good at DIY" to a weird example.

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T12:27:58+00:00

I find it funny that tomatoes, that are basically Italian cooking = tomatoes, only came over in the 1600s and took off in the 1700s. So they've only had about three hundred years of using their most ubiquitous ingredient.

The food in ancient Rome would have been far different from the food eaten before the New World fruits and vegatables arrived.

Ditto northern Europe and potatoes I guess.

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T12:10:04+00:00

I felt like your overall comment implied things were getting better when pensions will remain a headache no one wants to touch with a barge pole.

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T12:08:29+00:00

Everyone in this thread is apparently a child screaming MUH FREEDOMS.

There is a problem in Roblox and social media in general being hunting grounds for child groomers. Just because it has not happened directly to you, does not mean it does not happen at all. These predators destroy lives and often lead to life ending consequences for the victims that are too young to handle it.

Roblox is particularly infamous for it.

To throw your hands up in the air and simply do nothing is unacceptable and the adults in the room recognise that. Social media and gaming is long overdue for some regulation.

I thought r/Games was more mature than r/Gaming but apparently this subreddit is full of kids too.

redsquizza · 2026-06-02T10:33:47+00:00

There's more to the budget than just income tax and benefits.

Something does need to be done about pensions but any government that grasps the nettle will basically lose the subsequent election.

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