One Sunday a few years ago Sainsbury’s locked my car in their Huddersfield car park causing me massive inconvenience. Combined with their stock replenishment problems at the time, I swore I would never shop there again.
Regular readers will know that my grudges don’t hold much resolve so last week saw me nipping into Sainsbury’s on Regent Rd in Manchester looking for Malbec. Ciaran had recommended the So Organic Free Trade one.
In 1988 I was at the cafeteria of a motorway service station buying a sandwich and I asked where the corned beef was from. I advised the assistant that I hoped it wasn’t from Argentina.
“Oh, you’re not still sore about the Falklands are you?” she retorted.
“No, actually it was Maradona’s 1986 Hand of God goal. I’ve boycotted Argentinean products since that day”
Wind forward several years and with the self righteous ban a distant memory, I had occasion to visit the Gaucho Grill on Chancery Lane in London. An Argentinean “Grill” restaurant and probably the best steak I have ever tasted. During that meal I ordered a bottle of Malbec and was wowed.
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