To think "charged £54 for 4 ice creams in Rome" is a stupid news story...

[deedotty]

....or is THIS a proper SCOOP?

Personally I think hundreds and thousands wouldn't find it interesting!

[ConfusedPixie]

YANBU. Who buys stuff on holiday without checking the price first? The ice cream cafe only gets away with charging those prices because tourists don't check before they buy and are too embarrassed to say anything when the bill is handed to them.

[ArlingtonStringham]

I see what you did there

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

Prices aren't always that clearly displayed, fyi.

Or so I found out when I was charged £18 for three ice-creams in Florence. It was our first day in Italy and we had no idea that when the woman said "grande?" she really did mean "absolutely enormous".

[spiritedaway]

They got what they asked for with a cherry on the top but, if you ask me, the ice cream vendor had a lot of sauce. Even if the kids were listening I would have told him to fudge it.

[ConfusedPixie]

Mary But surely you ask before you buy? I can see how this happens if people don't want to ask, but then I just don't trust shops in tourist places.

[Wallison]

That's cold.

[WafflyVersatile]

It's not a news story. It's a article in a travel section of a newspaper.

[ConfusedPixie]

Oo, completely missed the twist there I'm too tired for puns! and I can never thing them up myself

[deedotty]

I'd have SPLIT when the bill came. Or pointed a MAGNUM at the cafe owner. It wouldn't have been a FAB experience for anyone.

[WafflyVersatile]

why is there not a smiley rolling it's eyes for me to put here?

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

Cor, there's nowt as satisfying as smug is there.