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Pugliese bread

Picking up the recent thread about Pugliese bread, we chanced upon and bought a small loaf from Carluccio's yesterday - excellent quality and value at only £1.80, as opposed to the extortionate £2.29 Exeter Street Bakery loaf at Waitrose and the equally rip-off prices of the Southern Italian bread from Terracotta in Northfield Avenue. Does the W5 Farm shop or any of the many Polish delis in Ealing sell the stuff cheaper?  ;-)

Gerry Tan ● 6597d22 Comments

But I was staggered by the prices in Carluccio's. I was half-heartedly looking for a little gift for an elderly aunt and was appalled to see a packet of soft centred sweets - fewer than a dozen per pack - being sold at just shy of £5 a time. Other similar things were also extortionate.The bread may be fair value but the other stuff looked a total rip-off

Sara Nathan ● 6596d

Yes, just what we've always thought about the Ealing Carluccio's stuff - the bread is expensive too at £1.80 for a small loaf. The restaurant food is very ordinary and not half as good as the old fashioned Italian restaurant next door - Osteria del Portico, which has a good 'family' feel.

Gerry Tan ● 6596d

I remember finding a slug in my salad once at Osteria del Portico.

Mark Dudley ● 6596d

Yuk ! Hope your insalata verde misto wasn't too crunchy Mark.  :-(

Gerry Tan ● 6596d

My God!!! The small loaf from Carluccio's weighs circa 400gm as does the Exeter st Pugliese that is sold at Waitrose at a cost of £2.29. Where as the Pugliese from Terracotta (which incidentally is baked by exeter st bakery)weighs 800gm and is sold at £4.00!!! Carluccios has an estimated turn over of circa 30 million pounds per annum and I'm sure you have a rough idea of what Waitrose turns over per annum! I wonder how much an indipendent shop like Terracotta turns over per year??? do you think their spending and purchasing power is the same as the two retail giants?? NO!! but they still sell bread cheaper!! You should consider having your fact correct before posting your boring thoughts and damaging comments on the net!! Not only are you making yourself look stupid but also hugely IGNORANT!! AND NO I DONT KNOW OF ANY POLISH SHOPS THAT SELL ITALIAN BREAD AS I ALSO DONT KNOW OF ANY ITALIAN SHOPS SELLING POLISH BREAD!! SEE WHAT I MEAN REGARDING YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS!!!

Judyta Zablocka ● 6593d

Bet that's not your real name.

Pat Kingham ● 6593d

Extraordinary to work yourself up into such a state over a loaf of bread...I thought that EalingW5 was immune to the sort of posts found all too often on ChiswickW4

Sara Nathan ● 6593d

A troll?  Is that what they are called?  :-(

Sarah Felstead ● 6593d

bet it is !! I have nothing to hide!! my middle name is Dominika. Why would I use false name?? you are never going to meet me? do you use false name?? why? Who cares!how many hundred of thousands of people live in ealing Sherlock?

Judyta Zablocka ● 6592d

Dear Sara, A troll?? what are you talking about??

Judyta Zablocka ● 6592d

It's a slang term applied to people on the internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

Mark Dudley ● 6592d

Are you at all familiar with the vagiaries of English punctuation, Judyta?

Susan Kelly ● 6592d

No of course not! I left school (in Poland)at the age of thirteen to help my parents make ends meet, I admit my grammar both written and spoken are not correct, but I speak 4 languages fluently, and the work I am involved in does not require me to write english at your sort of level.For all the time I have been in England my ignorance of English language has never got in the way of earning myself huge amounts of your lovely English Sterling!! Dziekuje bardzo!

Judyta Zablocka ● 6592d

I dunno what that means, but right back at you, love!

Susan Kelly ● 6592d

'Thanks very much'? What sort of an insult is that?

Susan Kelly ● 6592d

Absolutely no insult. just responding to your question.Why are you so uptight and think I'm insulting you? Your back to you comment makes absolutely no sense to me love.

Judyta Zablocka ● 6592d

Bored now. Clearly the only way to deal with you is to ignore you.

Susan Kelly ● 6592d

There is a point here though and it goes further than just comparing prices. Carluccio's may be cheaper than Waitrose for the 400g loaf, but they're a company that rips off its staff with shoddy wage practices, paying less than minimum wage, and is less than open with the way it charges its customers in order to finance those practices. Personally I'd rather pay the £2.29 at Waitrose, part of the John Lewis Partnership.However, why pay those prices at all when you can get a large 800g loaf of Pugliese bread (again from Exeter St Bakery) from West Ealing farmers market for £2.85? Double the size of Carluccio's and Waitrose, and much cheaper than the £4 for exactly the same product at Terracotta (which I noted this morning is closed for 2 weeks and has its windows papered up).

Mark Dudley ● 6592d

I wonder how many overheads exeter st have at the farmers maket, operating from their wooden table? I hope Terracotta hasn't closed down.

Judyta Zablocka ● 6591d

Must go well with Pugliese bread...                           

Hugh Telford ● 6591d

This is the fault of our quarantine laws.If the laws were relaxed individuals could bring their own food with them - hamsters, guinea pigs, dormice, beetles...

Alan Brainsby ● 6590d

Of course the plumber may have used the chewy bits to plug a leak...    ... no job is too simple to bodge.

Alan Brainsby ● 6590d