Latest Moan From You and Me 2023

Any way, am I the only person in the world that hates the way they put tablets in those silly bubble packs.

I find it all so fiddly and they usually end up flying across the room and me sweeping the floor trying to find them.
What was wrong with a bottle.

 

The father would collect his son's voting cards and present himself, over the course of the day as each voter in turn. Appears to be a problem in some ethnic communities.

 

I too have an issue with that. Some bubble packs are so flimsy that more than one bubble bursts and others are so tough the tablet breaks before the bubble.
Another issue is the size of the box. One prescription I get my Levothyroxine in a small slim box and the next time it is packaged like cornflakes (slight exaggeration there). The tablets are still the same size. Just a waste of materials.
And while I am on my high horse. When you get tablets that are wrong or unnecessary and return them to the pharmacy, they destroy them. Even unopened sealed boxes.

 

Things I can't get here ...

Brillo Soap Pads ... have just wire pads and guess i could use Jif cream.
Deodorant Soap ... used to get Fa but now it is just liquid gels.
Solid Honey ... it all seems to be runny honey and even worse in squeezy bottles. You get proper home-made honey at markets but I can't do them and T'other Half won't.
Pumpernickle bread. Sometimes Aldi does a Rye and a black German bread but it is not the same.
Tinned Lima/Broad Beans, Green Beans and Small Potatoes. Occasionally Aldi does Broad Beans in giant jars.
Think I will have to convince TO to go to Iceland to look fr these things.

 

@Victoria I was disappointed not to find Lima beans in our stores too. Then I noticed that the picture on the label on one can did look a lot like them. Turns out they tossed out the Lima and called them something else... let me go find what that is ... hmm, just looked in an online grocery shopping site and can't find them but I'll try to remember to look for them next time I'm in that aisle.

 

The Portuguese call the Favas.

 

I've seen those too but it was another name... just can't recall - now there's something else to moan about!

 

Not butter beans, Lori? That's what they used to be called in UK

 

Lima beans are sold as Butter beans in the UK.

 

I'll let you know what I find out. Could have been butter beans or fava - I'll make it my mission the next time I'm in the store that has the biggest variety.

 

Is it just me, or have Mexican jumping beans disappeared

 

Do you remember those? Sold to kids all over UK in the 60s

 

The real thing.
Mexican jumping bean - Wikipedia

 

I've just copied this from Wiki - it may help...

A lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus), also commonly known as the butter bean,[2] sieva bean,[3] double bean,[4][5] Madagascar bean, or wax bean[citation needed] is a legume grown for its edible seeds or beans.