The price of a Costa Coffee mince pie (and other eyebrow raising prices) !

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Because I am fat and don't have a sweet tooth I never have anything to eat in a coffee shop so perhaps I'm very behind the times - but aibu to be shocked that they wanted £2.20 for a mince pie in Costa yesterday? They were flogging them at the till. I'm afraid I snorted at the idea I might want to pay that for 1 mince pie (and yes I know I'm sounding like my mother).

Any prices/charges that have made you do a double-take recently?

3.50 for a slice of cake in a coffee shop round our way.

One. Slice.

£4.60 for a fruit scone in our local coffee shop.
They were baker boy hats, grandad shirts and long black aprons with leather trim

Wear

£1.99 for a small sausage roll at Belfast Central station. I'd rather gnaw my own arm off than give them that.

Two spring to mind. ..
Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge. One fossilised cake and a cup of very weak tea cost £8.50. Nor only was it taking the piss, looked like you were drinking it too.

Also a small independent coffee shop in one of the local villages. £1.80 for a croissant, ok not extortionate but by Christ it was dry.

Not a pleasant experience.

I think the ice cream van that comes round my way does 99s for 80p I think no one's told the old guy how much others charge these days. I'm not complaining though.

pixelI do know what you mean about people complaining about the price of things. My DM is like this. It's got to the point where we never go out so now we have left home, when my dbro and I come back with our families, we are cramped in their house eating food off our laps. Eating out is so stressful with the scanning of the prices on the menu and the commenting on every little thing. They are by no means strapped for Cash and we all get together probably 4 times a year. However, I also agree that coffee shops are extortionate. A bonus is that I hardly go into them now, even though I enjoy a sit down with a coffee and some peace and quiet I'm richer and thinner as a result

£2.20 would make me baulk too. You can buy a whole pack in Asda for much less!

Pixie "
I can not abide tight people who constantly moan at the price of things. "
I cannot abide feckless spenders who complain they can't afford a house deposit because they have to have their treats frequently.....
actually I can abide you but I feel a bit sorry that you have conflated stupidity with tightness....that will see you fritter away many more 1000s before you realise the value of being astute in your buying habits.

Then they started to tidy up at 4pm and scraped every single chair across the tiled floor instead of lifting them
This happened to me in Starbucls. It shuts at 9pm but started clearing up at six and scraped all the chairs. Then put the chairs on top of the tables in 80 percent of the store. Hardly welcoming.

Harry Potter chocolate is priced stupidly. I looked and laughed.

Shame that what should have been a light hearted thread has been blighted by the usual "I'm better than you" type comments.

I nearly fainted when I saw the prices of the costa Christmas cups, £3.30ish for a small size flavoured coffee. Last year they charged that for their large coffee and now their small one cost that. I have to ration it to once a week now rather than several times a week.

Protein balls cost £2

I have bought these on occasion and always think what am I doing!

Also buy protein bars which are two quid each but I love the taste so much.

Pret do a Protein Pot for about £2.20. It's a boiled egg and a few spinach leaves.

I ordered a mint tea in our local independent cafe. I did a double take when they said £3.50! I said forget it. No way am I paying that.

We have what we can ‘honest cafes’ near us which are the old kind of caffs. One of them is run by Polish people and you can get a huge plate of amazing Polish food or a full cooked breakfast there for around a fiver - in London. The only issue is finishing it. Tea is a pound and you could stand your spoon in it if you left the teabag in a few minutes. But it is deeply unfashionable Formica and screwed in seats, and the rest of the clients would definitely balk at a £9 avocado on toast option.

I do like the occasional wanky coffee place though.

pixeldust
you’ve come on to a thread that’s obviously complaining about the cost of things, to complain about people who complain about the cost of things...

Dp and I stopped at an Italian service station recently and had the buffet lunch. It came to fifty euros! I nearly cried.

If you want a 50p mince pie, buy it at greggs. You are actually paying for the time you spend sitting in the warm, comfortable city centre venue as much as for anything you consume there.

Of course you can eat much cheaper at home. And you always have the choice of doing precisely that.

Went to Cineworld and they make you buy your tickets at the snack counter, presumably to tempt you to buy food.
A medium popcorn was around £4. They were filling up the popcorn with a large bin bag sized bag from the stockroom. They had paid £7.50 for it.

@Urbanbeetler Give is a clue where this caff is!

There used to be a couple of places in London where you could eat really cheaply. There was a place called The Chelsea Kitchen that used to do big plates of decent food, on the Kings Road... and somewhere behind Piccadilly that was like stepping back in time into a 1950s Formica cafe .
I don’t think either of them are around any more.
Maybe we should start a thread on Best Value Places to eat and drink?

I do like a Costa coffee once in a while - but equally happy with McDonald's.

We've got a fairly new Costa drive-thru about 20 miles away I was passing on a long early morning trip. Coffee has boiling hot, road too tricky to fiddle and by the time it was cool enough to drink the cup had eroded and leaked into my cup holder. Cheers.

Bought a decent NON leaking travel mug!

Kid's magazines - thankfully mine now parrot "plastic crap" when they look at them.

Sainsbury's next to the cinema and I make no bones about taking stuff in.

I was amazed in Costa in Next, Norwich at how many people on their lunch breaks were buying a drink and a sandwich, paying almost a tenner for them, they didn't look to be high fliers on expense account either. How hard is it to make a sandwich at home, I doubt it would be any less fresh.

@Urbanbeetler where is the place run by Polish people you speak of? Think I'd like it there

I saw a metal hair comb on Mr Porter. It was golden in colour and cost something like £1,300....

I checked if it was made out of actual gold.. it was not!!!

I used to work round the corner from one of those caffs. At 8 in the morning it was always full of builders scoffing gigantic plates of fried eggs, beans, sausages, chips, mushrooms and fried bread. Which cost about £4.