Food Before Asda in Hunts Cross, the real supermarket treat when I was growing up in Speke was the Sainsbury's in Woolton, probably because it was easy to get to on the 89 bus. This usually happened around Christmas time, although I do remember popping in now and then we Mum or Dad was taking me to the matinee at the Woolton Cinema, the place were I first saw the likes of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Return to Oz (which was a birthday treat) and the Superman and Star Wars films.
The Liverpool Echo has some photos from the early 1980s which only really show how little the in-store experience of supermarkets has changed. As I've said about other places, the difference was one of scale. Imagine having only spent your life visiting express shops and then finding yourself in a much larger space, made even larger because you're only eight or nine years old and therefore shorter. Anywhere which has more than one type of something will always seem like a treat, especially when the alternative has been the labeless tins stall on Speke Market.
Woolton is still the largest Sainsbury's in the south of the city, which is otherwise littered with some local versions which are otherwise drowned out by the preponderance of Tesco shops. A few have closed in the post-COVID era, with the outlet at the top of Bold Street or bottom of Leece Street now having given way for another restaurant (it was in a challenging position slap bang between a Co-op and a Tesco. But the shop at Central Merseyrail Station and in St John's Precinct aren't too far away if you're that brand loyal.
Their Turkey Feast is pretty average, just the already discussed standard ingredients - they also have a Pigs Under Blanket option which explains where the sausages have gone. There is a lot of bacon, which you can certainly smell on opening and taste on biting through although in combination with the dense turkey makes it quite a hard sandwich the bite into. It's much of a muchness, nothing that my taste buds are likely to fetishize. Nothing to complain about for the £2.40 cost which is cheaper than other supermarkets selling roughly the same thing.
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