Cows with everything (Marks and Spencers Foodhall)

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Product:	Marks and Spencers Foodhall
Date:	19/07/00 (12 review reads)
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Advantages: High street location, Plain chocolate, Vegetarian Wines

Disadvantages: Lack of suitable vegan range

Marks and Spencer do have a reputation for quality but you can go too far and I believe this store does. Anything they can put cream into they will. All well and good for most people but the lactose intolerant and vegans won't go very far here.

The advantage of M&S is that they are still based in the high street. In Kingston-upon-Hull there is a Kwik Save, Farmfoods and Jacksons (a long established local company operating mini markets throught Yorkshire and the East Midlands) in the city centre. For hummus, a staple of my vegan diet, M&S is the only place to go. Sadly though there is very little else I can buy here. I will give credit though for their plain choclate being milk free, not all are, and clearly labelling vegetarian suitable wines. Actually the chocolate is quite nice and not too dark. But that's not enough to save them in my eyes. Practically all of their food is meat, fish or dairy. even where other stores manage to make suitable products M&S still use milk.

Sandwiches. So synonymous with Marks and Spencers it gets a sentance to itself but they don't make any suitable for me. They used to make sorbet's but they've stopped that in favour of ice cream. Vegetable curries have cream or yogurt, even rice. They do sell some organic products, but not many.

Of course they have recently started accepting credit cards. Welcome to the 20th century! If only they's acknowledge that the customers of today aren't all port drinking, caviar eating, pheasant hunters.

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