Quote from: joe cassidy on April 14, 2021, 11:05:17 AM
Is the Australian Woolworths posh like South African Woolworths ?

No. It is a supermarket that competes in the Coles/Aldi/WW/IGA battle. Nothing like the David Jones, Harrods etc.

I normally shop Coles first, because of the gluten free range for SWMBO, but our local Woolworths does a very nice cooked bbq roast chicken or pork that we have every other week. $10 a chicken, $20 a pork loin. I bbq a lot, so it's Coles lamb rump, Aldi eye fillet and scotch fillet beef and a 4 pack of salmon from Aldi or Coles most weeks.
As our PM say, "How good is Australia"

We had the eye fillet tonight. Yummo.

In terms of blueberries, I think raspberries and strawberries are better....and portobello mushrooms and grilled capsicums and ... you get the drift!

Here in Texas, the stores are full of blueberries. Yeah nothing special - like a bilberry but with less flavour.
I do miss blackcurrants though, and I think the locals think I'm making up stories of red currants and white currants.

One of the few seasonal crops still present here, we do get some nice fresh grapefruits in late winter that are grown in the south of the State (alas February's Big Freeze means we might be short for the coming year).

As for Super Foods - yes it is all marketing: notice how they are always non-local crops that usually aren't that common. You want fruit full of antioxidants? Blackcurrants are a good start! Also pretty much any citrus.
As for grains, it is hard to beat good old barley for nutritional value - but barley isn't viewed as "exotic".

get thee behind me, Satan...

Grapefruit 

but not allowed them because I'm on statins, and apparently I'll die if I eat grapefruit [with sugar and a cherry on the top mmmmmmmmmmmm] or even drink grapefruit juice.

I sometimes wonder if I wouldn't be better off eating / drinking them / their juice, binning the statins and taking my chances.

Quote from: class37025 on April 14, 2021, 01:11:32 PM
"Playcraft model railways"

I'd forgotten them, were they not made by Jouef ?

Yes, they were. Some locos were British outline, but I think a small diesel shunter was French. Coaches were BR Mk1s; some wagons were British, but again, I think some were at least French inspired.

They also offered  an SNCF Pacific towards the end of the range period.

Martyn

my first proper layout was Jouef, comparing the detail against the price against the bricks / price supplied by Hornby and Triang was a no brainer.
so SNCF locos and carriages etc, at much less than equivalent Hornby / Triang, much superior detail, though no exploding box cars 

all disposed of prior to my joining up, and my next layout, after demob, again went for quality / price, and started my HO US empire, Bachmann and Athearn, finally to be replaced by the true scale, N, many years ago.

I wonder what those Jouef models would be worth now  :'( :'(

Quote from: class37025 on April 14, 2021, 03:45:38 PM

Grapefruit 

but not allowed them because I'm on statins

Likewise. I used to love ½ a grapefruit for beakfast but since 1993 have been on statins with a strict warning from the medicos that grapefruit totally negates any benefits from the statins

anybody remember Kitmaster ?

Quote from: Newportnobby on April 14, 2021, 08:20:16 PM

Quote from: class37025 on April 14, 2021, 03:45:38 PM

Grapefruit 

but not allowed them because I'm on statins

Likewise. I used to love ½ a grapefruit for beakfast but since 1993 have been on statins with a strict warning from the medicos that grapefruit totally negates any benefits from the statins

I don't know statins specifically (and I'm not a doctor...)  but I thought the general issue with grapefruit and a lot of drugs was that they contain an enzyme which causes the drug to be absorbed more effectively. Ie. you could easily have the effects of an overdose. Of course you could take less of the drug (and the drug companies lose out!) but the effect varies from person to person so difficult to calculate safely. Easier to say "no grapefruit".

Quote from: LNER_richard on April 14, 2021, 09:07:14 PM

Quote from: Newportnobby on April 14, 2021, 08:20:16 PM

Quote from: class37025 on April 14, 2021, 03:45:38 PM

Grapefruit 

but not allowed them because I'm on statins

Likewise. I used to love ½ a grapefruit for beakfast but since 1993 have been on statins with a strict warning from the medicos that grapefruit totally negates any benefits from the statins

I don't know statins specifically (and I'm not a doctor...)  but I thought the general issue with grapefruit and a lot of drugs was that they contain an enzyme which causes the drug to be absorbed more effectively. Ie. you could easily have the effects of an overdose. Of course you could take less of the drug (and the drug companies lose out!) but the effect varies from person to person so difficult to calculate safely. Easier to say "no grapefruit".

or of course, no statins 

Quote from: joe cassidy on April 14, 2021, 11:05:17 AM
Woolworths - Airfix kits and packets of postage stamps for my collection.

Is the Australian Woolworths posh like South African Woolworths ?

As Platy says, it's just a supermarket, but it's definitely posher than the Woolworths I grew up with in my hometown in the NE of England.

They haven't got Playcraft trains, though!

Quote from: class37025 on April 14, 2021, 07:19:45 PM
I wonder what those Jouef models would be worth now  :'( :'(

I wonder.....I have a badly repainted mk1 still, possibly another WR mk1, but I'm not sure if I still have some wagons in the loft with my OO stock.

I had a clockwork and electric USA tanks, a cl22 BoBo, a 4-wheeled diesel shunter, four coaches and about ten wagons, plus some accessories.

Their disposal is now rather hazy.......

I wonder what would have happened if Lima issued their HO British range whilst Playcraft was still available? Would it have lead to British HO being the majority scale instead of OO? And Fleischmann also had a very small UK range (Warship, + Bullied coaches?).

Martyn