{"id":43,"date":"2004-07-04T08:57:15","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T07:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=43"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:18","slug":"no-chopsticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2004\/07\/04\/no-chopsticks\/","title":{"rendered":"No Chopsticks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being absolutely huge the Sainsbury&#8217;s at Cameron Toll in Edinburgh doesn&#8217;t sell Chopsticks. I even went so far as to ask! Not one chopstick to be found (although presumably I would need at least two to actually get anywhere with eating)<\/p>\n<p>I wonder that they don&#8217;t have a little stack of chopsticks next to the Chinese ready meal section. Buy meal, chopsticks and plate altogether. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is no wonder that Sainsbury&#8217;s non-foods aren&#8217;t selling very well? I really liked the old layout more than the new layout. Especially the cookery section; I never seem to be able to find what I want now. The food section was improved though and I think it&#8217;s currently my favourite supermarket in absolute terms. In practice I probably shop most often at Safeway in Mordun because it is slightly closer than Sainsbury and it&#8217;s a downhill walk on the homeward journey (Sainsbury is uphill on the way back). <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely curious to see how Morrisons is going to change it. The refurbishment date is thought to be in August.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Safeway sell chopsticks? I didn&#8217;t look last time I was there. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably go to one of the Chinese supermarkets as recommended by David to buy new chopsticks, or Edinburgh Bargain Stores which seems to sell almost everything (although probably not chopsticks)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being absolutely huge the Sainsbury&#8217;s at Cameron Toll in Edinburgh doesn&#8217;t sell Chopsticks. I even went so far as to ask! Not one chopstick to be found (although presumably I would need at least two to actually get anywhere with eating) I wonder that they don&#8217;t have a little stack of chopsticks next to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-cooking","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}