shetlandpeat Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 It is a shame when changes like this happen. What will the building be used for now? I believe it was a bus garage once in its life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 This is the official Food Standards Authority information http://ratings.food.gov.uk/search/en-GB?bn=malcolmson&ba=lerwick&sm=1&st=1&pi=0&sc=%2fsearch%2fen-GB I wouldn't say this was unusual. Search on whole of Lerwick and you will see the other establishments that have a similar rating. Mareel for one, Shetland College ! Globe butchers , mainlands butchers, Kveldrso! Most of the Indian takeaways etc. the bulk of places are still to be inspected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bug Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 It is a shame when changes like this happen. What will the building be used for now? I believe it was a bus garage once in its life. was W C Bain's wholesalers before bakery I think. May have been Gansons Bus garage before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getaba1110 Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 No more Malcolmson’s steak bridies...I had my last one a week ago...this is tragic ! Perhaps I didn’t buy enough (perhaps we all didn’t buy enough). TESCO will continue to suck £millions from our Island economy...and unfortunately that’s just the way it’s going to stay. Next time you shop at TESCO stop for moment and guess how many £thousands pass into the tills in a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 It's a real shame to see an established business close down, but i'd say it has never changed in 30 years. Same fancies, same bread, same folk. They for a while, did something diffrent but then they never make enough and folk get fed up asking for things sometimes they have none left at 8 am. You only have to go to a bakers on the mainland and the difrences are poles apart, this has always been the case and not just on the final owner. I never understood why the owners never visited bakers south and came home we fresh ideas. Where do you get fresh cream goods, not in the bakers and ive not seen anything for years. The building would make a great night club!! or a nice chain store!!!! Very interesting to see they they are not the only film in town needing cleaned up, even the brand new ones! They say if you kent how things were made you would eat nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fusion Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 No more Malcolmson’s steak bridies...I had my last one a week ago...this is tragic ! Perhaps I didn’t buy enough (perhaps we all didn’t buy enough). TESCO will continue to suck £millions from our Island economy...and unfortunately that’s just the way it’s going to stay. Next time you shop at TESCO stop for moment and guess how many £thousands pass into the tills in a few minutes. Its us that goes to tescos - they dont force us to buy the stuff, its US that deside not to get local. However it is up to the locals shops to supply quality goods and a good service. If they don't, then we wont suport them and they die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getaba1110 Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Is it just me that think all bakeries in Shetland are below par? It doesn't surprise me to see them go out of business at all to be honest. All of the bakeries are essentially the same, the same cakes, same icing, same bread. None of the bakeries (except from rolls) can bake a decent loaf, and surely that should be a bakeries staple?! Shetland really does lack a good quality bakery that does something a little bit different![Walls Bakery...where have you been?] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
werder Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Where have I been? Try on the mainland where you get much, much higher quality bakery's. Or if you're feeling exotic, try any European country! The bread you get in Shetland is awful, and only of very limited variety! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyKipper Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Oh no! I get Malcolmson's sliced brown bread... and their rum truffles were lovely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grift Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o! I love Malcolmson's pies and bridies. Never had a bad one. It sounds like the pie I had on Monday will have been my last Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorrie Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 On a brighter note, 'Da Kitchen' on Yell is becoming popular. The guy only set up the business a couple of months back and appears to be doing quite well. He doesn't have a retail premise, but supplies shops. A good range of fancies and cakes and (more importantly for me) absolutely fantastic lamp pasties and steak pies. Doesn't do bread, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Its sad when any business closes, especially one with the length of history Malcolmson's has, and I don't doubt supermarkets have played a part, but I can't but help believe a lot of the blame here lies with the business. Quality of product has been steadily dropping since the 80's, compared to what they made in the late 70's, what was on offer by the 90's was unrecognisable in comparison. Certainly no local baker can hope to compete against a supermarket on price, but they can on quality. Folk who want bread, any bread, at the lowest possible cost will always be supermarket customers, but folk who want quality will go elsewhere if at all possible. Personally I cannot stand supermarket bread, or any imported mass produced bread, I don't know whether its the fact they routinely use soya flour and/or vinegar in their mix or what, but to me it all tastes like its been baked using sour yeast which leaves an unpleasant lingering aftertaste, and clashes badly with many savoury spreads or fillings. A lot of it is extremely dense "heavy" dry bread, which I hate too. The bread Malcolmson's made in the 70's I have every confidence would have swept anything any supermarket could produce under the table, unfortunately by the 90's the two were neck and neck, and nobody is going to want to pay more for the same quality of product. During the 60's and 70's some Shetland bakeries produced consistently excellent quality stuff right across their range, Malcolmson's were among them, if not the top one, for my tastes at least. Those days are long gone, some local bakeries do a few or their product lines excellently, but nobody has performed consistently across their product range for a long time. Supermarkets aren't blameless for local businesses having to work a bit harder to survive and thrive, but unless businesses step up and take on, and beat the supermarkets where they can get an advantage over them, they will inevitably fail. I never buy supermarket fresh meat, bread or vegatables that can be produced locally, the supermarket offerings are obviousy cheaper, but by my standards they could sell it for half the price they do at the moment, and it would still be heavily overpriced for the quality of it. Folk like me are who local bakers, butchers etc should be taking advanatge of, as unless they offer better quality products than the supermarkets, we will reluctantly go to supermarkets as it would be insane to voluntarily pay a higher price for an identical item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorrie Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Wise words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlander Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Where have I been? Try on the mainland where you get much, much higher quality bakery's. Or if you're feeling exotic, try any European country! The bread you get in Shetland is awful, and only of very limited variety! I agree – whilst I am sorry to see any local food producers going out of business (especially when the supermarkets have a part to play) the key to their survival nowadays has to be to offer something different or superior to what is available elsewhere and to do a decent job of marketing it as such. I have for a long time thought that the products offered by most of Shetland’s bakeries just haven’t moved with the times. I accept that some of Malcolmsons stuff will be missed locally but where I think they could have scored was doing more in the way of speciality breads, having more of a presence at local events and markets, setting up a website and doing a better job at promoting their products in the big display windows of their shop on the street. A shame indeed but it just goes to show that no matter how old a name, customers are fickle and will go elsewhere if what they want isn’t on offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iiboy Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 think you'll find skibhoul bakery bread is totally different for any of the mainland bakery's bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now