Eating in the supermarket

This thread is sooooo cool - i can actually see mumsnetters' hackles rising and teeth baring.
Hasn't anyone seen the slot on the Johnny Vaughan show where Richard Bacon (sullied ex Blue Peter blokie) visits a different supermarket each week and attempts to eat as much produce as poss before getting chucked out by security. One week I think he had a quiche with a pot of coleslaw and several pepperami before being cornered- fantastic stuff! Eventually a memo went round Asda warning staff to be more vigilant so he wore a v attractive Bellamy-esque beard the following week - classic veiwing.

Custardo has quite a take on what's posh or what's middle class etc. Discussions about growing your own herbs and having brass taps etc. I just wondered what status peg bags had.

You could always try my method...One time I was so irritated about non-parents parking in all the parent and toddler spaces at Sainsbury's that I demanded to see the manager and gave him such an earful that he gave me a whole bag of cherries (selling for £6 a pound) for ds to eat while we were shopping and a £10 off my shopping coupon. I'm sure everyone thought we'd "stolen" them.

chinchilla
have reread my posting and had to laugh as well, as at my stage in pregnancy cannot blame this on the wine or any other alchol I can only say spell check not working here...By the way, have you ever drunk wine or alcopops in supermarket and taken the empty bottle to the till?
that would be an idea and would make the whole shopping with kids experience more fun...
Just an idea
Going to bed now, good night all, this thread really gave me a chuckle

oh no, could somone please enlight a dumb crass american....why aren't you supposed to put the parking ticket in your mouth? Is it because you are going to give your germs to the person taking your money, or get germs from the person who loaded the ticket machine? Or is it just bad manners for no particular reason?

Wickedwaterwitch - on rainy weekend afternoons, when DS was just toddling my friend and I used to take him - along with his small partner in crime - to large out of town carpet shops and electrical stores, where they'd an hour or two chuntering up and down the aisles delightedly!

Is she very posh?

She can't be as posh as me, I even have my pegs colour coordinated.

I think we'd better ask Custardo!

Demented - we have one of those too.... a floral kind of knitted thing.... NICE. Am I posh?

I still like to chew on a peg every now and again. It stops me smoking.

Xhausted - by the amount we spent it fecking well better last the year!!!!!!

Night.

I hate those cars in the shopping centres mainly because they are so expensive (around here anyway) and DS1 always has a paddy about wanting one.

We've got a little peg bag that hangs on the line, keeps them nice and handy so you don't need to use your teeth, but then we are very posh! (ha, ha, ha!!!)

Two hours, M2T!! What was it, the yearly shop? Really better go now. DH has given me a stern look.

Well strike me down with a bolt of lightening and arrest me for theft!!

I was at the supermarket today and my ds had a couple of grapes (unwashed! have I poisoned him?).

Not only that but we put a toy car in the trolley coz ds had been so good all the way around (2hours). We let him take it out of the box to play with it and the guy scanned the box and put it in the bin for us.

I ALWAYS taste grapes and Cherries before buying them after I spent £2 on a bag of grapes that were so bitter they were binned.

I really can't see a problem with kids eating in a Supermarket??? I mean, is it RRRRRRRREALLY that bad, am I missing some huge moral reason? I've made sandwiches for ds to eat whilst we do our shopping and that was his lunch? Is this also disgusting behaviuor????

Pllllllllease enlighten me.

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Have you read 1984? One of the proles did it when hanging washing out. I'm a prole! Better not get started on obsessive habits with laundry. Will be here all night and must go to bed.

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edgarcat, bet you don't hold pegs in your mouth when your putting your washing out either. Obviously very well brung up.

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One of the shopping centres in our town has little cars for young children which you can borrow to push round the shops instead of a buggy. They're quite fun and have a big net bag on the handlebar for your shopping. As a security measure, you have to get your child a "driving licence", complete with photo, before you can take one away and leave your buggy behind.

Yes Soupdragon. We encountered those on our very first shopping trip with DS2. DS1 was desperate for one and couldn't understand that we couldn't use one as it had nowhere for DS2. Not so good when he was feeling a bit fragile and I would have loved to have treated him to a ride in one.

I let my ds have his own little trolley just once. Had to take it off him somewhere in the fresh meats aisle because he thought it was a bumper car. He had a huge paddy and I had to go home before I could finish my shopping.

This is brilliant !
Done Internet shopping; also 'smash & grab' style, ie dd sits in trolley and I get speed awards hoping no-one notices the noise; feed my way around the store like most of you and now at almost 4, we seem to have entered 'civilisation' (not that it will last, I've no illusions).
Dd likes racing around collecting apples, peppers etc and knows where most of our things are (Mummy, I can't reach dad's beer..) but her willingness to help is DIRECTLY proportional to my stress/hormone levels, if I'm in a bad way most of our supermarket will be checking out NSPCC phone numbers because she knows how to really make her mark. All the people who smile and go 'ah' when she's being, in her words 'a really useful engine' are the first to 'tutt' and 'hiss' when I'm throwing my dummy

soupdragon those bloody cars are head wrecking arent they. My ds whos 2 used to throw a tantrum (not going into that one again heehee)if he could not get in one. Plus what makes it worse is they dont hold alot of shopping.Worst thing tesco done IMO

HappySpider - had to laugh at you taking back 'staff' after 6 years! Weren't they working hard or something!

XAusted, they used to have those in Sainsburys (pre children for me) and I could not work out why they thought it was a good idea!

Now, do the parents pay for the contents of this little trolleys or just abandon them at the checkout...