Best Before : June 2022.
Seems like David Jones is clearing out Fortnum and Mason stuff.
Fortnum & Mason Blackcurrant Preserve $6.48 (Select Stores, Click & Collect Only) @ David Jones
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Melbournian on 01/01/2021 - 12:03 davidjones.com (264 clicks)
Last edited 04/01/2021 - 13:19 by 2 other users
Last edited 04/01/2021 - 13:19 by 2 other users
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Not even metro NSW; only one store has it and that's the Foodhall in the city.
Kick out the jams. Kick out the Posh Poms.
Very few stores with stock
Brisbane 1
Sydney 1
ACT 1
Vic 2
WA 1Taste testing the Blackcurrant Preserve outside the Carindale Brisbane store.
220 in stock!Good taste of Blackcurrant but sweet as expected - 60% sugar!
Other stock half & full price
Checked 3 marmalades - Old English Hunt (66% sugar) is tasty $6.48, others were full price.
How on earth does the Carindale store, which doesn't even have a Foodhall, have 220 jars in stock? Sounds like the buyers stuffed up.
My question exactly!
Estimated Blackcurrant Preserve on display as 150. Was told more out the back!Talked with person stacking the display a week ago. Was surprised there was so much stock.
Store reopened after major renovations before Christmas 2019. Stock produced 9/2019 may have been bought in for then.
During renovations, prices on same stock were 1/5 of other stores & online.
42% Blackcurrant (accounting for some of sugar content)
Good taste & crunch of the berries.
Produced 9/2019 BBD June 22Bought 3 more jars. Not a big jam eater.
Many products look like Grandma’s wardrobe smells.
Even 6.48 is too expensive for 200g of the preserve, which is 60% sugar and 42% fruit. I've never heard of this brand. What are we paying for here? Is it an imported product? Barker's is 50% fruit usually. My favourite is the Barker's triple berry and boysenberry
I've never heard of this brand.
Been around since 1707!
An English food institution
F&M history
I've shopped at their main Piccadilly store.
As I commented above, imported by DJs.Depends what you want.
There are certainly cheaper jams!
Has a great Blackcurrant taste with plenty of good fruit.Imported Barker's jams I've looked at have a higher sugar content than these. Sugar content includes the natural sugars in the fruit, not just added sugar!
Barker's boysenberry jam: 65.4% sugarAs with all jams, the quantity of fruit & sugar content in a jar - depends on the fruit used.
Barkers Boysenberry is rubbish. Boysenberry is supposed to be a little tart but instead, the jam is very sweet tasting. Probably because of the sugar content.
I've had better boysenberry jam from USA (Knotts berry farm comes to mind).
One reviewer said it was tasteless & over-sweet. That's typical of jams here intended for children, not adults.
For comparison, Barkers blackcurrant jam is 40% fruit & 65% sugar content…
But it's the taste that really matters!
And that's very subjective.
Just had some with fresh whipped cream - delicious!
(I rarely eat bread. Jam has many other uses - in cooking & even with alcohol as a great drink.)Various loose leaf tea and tea bag varieties also on sale. eg Ginger loose leaf tea available for click and collect in Sydney CBD store, half price.
FYI. Even though not labeled on container; a previous search of Amazon shows it's from China.
My order got cancelled by DJs.
From experience ordering 1/4 price Hanks jam from DJs, while there maybe stock showing at time of order in a store, it can take days for it to be put aside for order (particularly so at this time of year).
Meanwhile, the few stock at a store can be sold out to shoppers visiting store. I got lucky as stock was moved from Gold Coast store for my order.
This time, went straight to local store - finding it had 220 in stock!
Most stores would have very few in stock.
Note - 6 available stores in list has not changed. So that list must be incorrect!
Looks like Jams are available in the ACT and Metro NSW, but the teas seem only available in metro NSW.