{"id":14423,"date":"2023-10-24T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=14423"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:02:58","slug":"wither-the-north-staffordshire-oatcake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/10\/24\/wither-the-north-staffordshire-oatcake\/","title":{"rendered":"Wither the North Staffordshire oatcake?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morrisons supermarket appear to have removed North Staffordshire oatcakes from their Stoke store. I found no trace of them in-store, on my last three visits, either in their usual forlorn standalone basket, on the bread aisle, or in or near the bakery. And nothing via a search on the Morrisons websites. <\/p>\n

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My guess is that the cost of making them has killed the product? I think they were a hefty \u00a31.30 for six, at my last sight of them. ‘Luxury pricing’, for many in Stoke. I vaguely recall they used to be about 45p per pack, at one time, and were a healthy staple of poverty. Then they went to 85p, then \u00a31.20 and on upwards and out of reach of daily eating. <\/p>\n

Nor can Morrison’s new link-up with Amazon deliver three packs to an Amazon locker, to be picked up with the shopping. All Amazon can offer is the dry Scottish type of oatcakes.<\/p>\n

There are recipes, of course<\/a>, but they’re a lot more palaver than just opening a packet and flinging two in a sizzling pan.<\/p>\n

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Solution for Morrisons: For now, B&M, just across the road from Morrisons, has them at \u00a31 a pack, and they’re the proper type and brand. Still no oatcakes in Morrisons at January 2024. Update: August 2025: B&M tend not to have them on Mondays for some reason, ‘still baking’ I guess!<\/em><\/p>\n

Update, April 2026. Oatcakes are now back in Morrisons, albeit at \u00a31.30 a pack, when B&M across the road have them for \u00a31.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morrisons supermarket appear to have removed North Staffordshire oatcakes from their Stoke store. I found no trace of them in-store, on my last three visits, either in their usual forlorn standalone basket, on the bread aisle, or in or near the bakery. And nothing via a search on the Morrisons websites. My guess is that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18995,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14423\/revisions\/18995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}