Nina's Blog - Monday 13th October 2025

Monday 13th October 2025, 10:16

Yesterday I went to Lidl to buy some snack food. One of the things I bought was a bottle of remoulade (from K-Salat) to spread on crackers with cheese. I was surprised to find that it tasted very sweet, much sweeter than the remoulade I buy in Norway (from Mills).

It's much too sweet.

So I checked the assay label and found that it is 11% sugar! The Norwegian one is 7% and it is the sweetest remoulade one can find on oda.com, Norway's biggest online grocer; the othersre 3% or less.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Monday 13th October 2025, 17:22

I decided to look up some Pride dates for next year so I searched for Ulverston Pride and eventually found their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61555940476762

As I scrolled down te page looking to see if there were any notices about next year I noticed this:

So clicked the image and eventually found this:

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1318247093640429&set=pcb.1318250416973430
By Victoria Georgina Photography
https://www.facebook.com/orangemarmaladephotography

And there's another picture! This one was Liked by the mayor, Shirley-Anne Wilson! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009774488699

And again!

And again. The other woman in red is the mayor and the woman I am talking to is one of the organizers I think, at least she is closely associated with the mayor.

This is getting a bit self indulgent I know, but I didn't take these pictures; I didn't even know most of them were being taken!

And yet again. I think the name of woman in the foreground might be Sheila but I'm not at all sure.

Still not finished. When I visited Victoria Georgina's Facebook page I found another

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1320759350055870&set=pcb.1320762896722182

And as a slight break from the 100% self indulgence here's a picture of one of the three young ladies who dragged me onto the dance floor in the after party in the Sun Inn, she's the one in the black shorts and sexy black top.

I think I've found all of the pictures related to me now. Time for tea.

JSul3 · 70-79

Always read the labels.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

@ninalanyon I take it Norway has strict laws that manufactured-food labels must be complete, whatever the ingredients? (As in the UK.)

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@ArishMell Yes, Norway adheres to EU labelling regulations. The labels are pretty much the same over the whole of the EU and list the ingredients and the nutritional values such as energy, fat (saturated and unsaturated), total carbohydrate, protein, sugar, salt per 100 g.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@ninalanyon The UK kept them - apart from anything else, simplifying the labels would not do anything useful but would make it even harder to sell the foods in the EU.

How many customers bother to read them, is another matter, except where necessary to cope with some medical condition like an intolerance or allergy.

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