£31 for two bags of fudge?! 😲

[Wisteriabloom]

I was at a seaside festival with dd yesterday, and looked round the food stalls before we left. There was a pick & mix fudge stall, you fill your own bags and get them weighed.

I picked a small selection for dd & I for the journey home, and a slightly bigger one for my parents, as we're seeing them tonight.

Lovely fudge - salted caramel, candyfloss, oreo, every flavour you could imagine, but I couldn't believe it when asked for £31!! Paid it, wasn't allowed to put any back, so we'll make it last! 😋

My friend was on holiday in Turkey. They went to a local shop and bought some loose Turkish delight by weight, then my friend spotted the spices and herbs and bought some saffron and other spices. She thought the total would be around £20 - it cost her over £80! She laughs about it now.

@BarbaraofSeville I know that, but it's an excuse to get baking kit

This happened to me with sausages

6 local sausages with caramelised onion and chilli in them

Got to the counter of said farm shop and they came to £16

Obviously I paid it and then ate them very slowly to savour the taste.

Oh and they wernt that good

Either we’ve all been to the same olive stall or somewhere out there is an Arthur Daly type kingpin giving lessons on the best way to artisanly part people from their money!

I'd like a picture of the fudge please.

I got stung like this at a christmas fair buying roasted chestnuts. It was £8 for a bag about half the size of a bag of microwave popcorn (struggling for something to compare it to!).

I have been stung by these ‘artisan’ / ‘organic’ rip-off merchants one time too many, so now I ask the price per 100g and multiply by ten.

Which sounds more expensive, £4.95 / 100g or fifty quid a kilo?

This happened to me a while ago, I was buying some baklawa as a treat for my inlawe and asked the stall holder for one of each (so maybe 12 bits in total), it was nearly £40!

Those food fairs are such a con.

I remember a thread on here where a small bag of pick and mix from a dedicated shop had cost about £40

Or maybe even more - might have been 70 odd

The pick and mix was about £100, it was abroad somewhere, maybe Turkey.

Or that was another poster and she was asking if she was unreasonable to be annoyed that her DH had spent a whole day's holiday spending money on sweets that they couldn't afford.

I used to make fudge. You don’t need a special thermometer. Drop the hot mixture into a small plate of cold water. Watch the mixture. If it wrinkles and and be rolled into a ball it’s ready. Easy.

Edit!

A drop of the mixture.

Going to be making some fudge now I think

I have made this ‘cheats’ fudge before and surprisingly it’s quite nice! I used orange oil and peppermint oil as variations.

It started when my daughter years go wanted to make ‘proper’ fudge but was impatient so we made it like this!

chocolatechocolateandmore.com/3-minute-fudge/

I love Roly's fudge, and always get stung by the cost. However I made a batch myself yesterday and it cost about £2.50 to make .There is about 1/3 of what I made in the picture, as I gave some to my sister and a friend.

We got some fudge at Borough Market today, I think it was £3.95/100 grams. Aimed to spend about £6 and spent £9 so we thought that was bad. £31 is eye watering!

For those talking about the pick n mix in tourist places (especially the pirate themed one) this video sprang to mind about how it’s a con for tourists

@MintyGreenDream

That takes the piss.Id want a 20 pound note in my fudge for that

Me too

That's extortion. I just would have walked away to be honest. These kinds of places are banking on people being too embarrassed so just will hand over money.

@Incywinceyspider

I had this experience in a pick n mix in Dubrovnik. It was a pirate themed shop and I remember thinking it was a fairly accurate description!

I was going to mention there was a thread about that shop, but it seems others remember it too!

Oh, wait. Maybe it was your thread!?

This one. 99 Euros on three bags of sweets.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3667468-99-on-sweets

We did the same thing at a sweet stall at a Christmas market. £18 for a bag of pick and mix that I could have got from Poundland for a fiver