Fruit picking - do you eat as you go, and how much counts as stealing?
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I am interested in MN take on this, wrt grapes / supermarket
plus everyone always claims to be ULTRA honest on threads about "i accidentally walked out of supermarket with a dvd" and the op gets lynched
so
i was fruit picking today and i ate LOADS
and so did everyone with me
do you taste while you are picking, and how much is acceptable? do they factor people eating stuff into the price? does that make it ok?
Franny - it's not all about you - everyone knows that Mumsnet is all about MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
no after i posted i thought "good lord this is not all about ME"
i don't think you need to apologise
This was our local one. (Can't find the local paper story when Googling, please forgive the Daily Wail.)
I'm sorry, FrannyandZooey - my post wasn't directed at you some much as at the 'eat as many as you want" brigade.As someone said, you sounded angsty rather than in need of stringing up. And reviewing the thread I realize that there are very few of the 'eat one pick one " persuasion. So I apologize for my post. But I'm a country girl and see this from the other side.
seeker i seem to have pissed you off more than once lately - as i said last time, i am sorry about it, as i respect you and feel unhappy that you have a problem with what i post
if you read the whole thread, i was mulling it all over and came to more or less same conclusions as you - MN is useful for that kind of thing isn't it
i won't be doing the same again - i'm glad i posted about it because it was bothering me
nappyaddict, I do that often, I give the dc's all sorts and then hand over the empty packets to be scanned as Oblomov does.
I can't see why there is anything wrong with this.
think seekers post is a bit ott. but there you go.
nappyaddict, i do that alot. I eat something as i go round shopping. 90% of the time, they scan an empty packet and put it in the checkout bin. I do not think this is morally wrong. I don't consider it stealing.
When we go picking fruit the dc's and I do have a couple, we usually race to see who can fill their punnet first so not alot of time to eat any as they are very competitive
We do leave with a huge amount, (paid for obviously) I make jam ect with them.
I will ask next time on the 'eating' policy out of interest!
No, its not fine to steal from farmers but if you ask them (as I have), they do not see it as stealing but part of what you are paying for.
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