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£31 for two bags of fudge?! 😲

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Wisteriabloom · 12/08/2021 17:09

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! 😋

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moose62 · 12/08/2021 19:03

When on holiday in Rome a couple of years ago, my son wanted a two scoop ice cream cone. I went to pay in the shop and thought it was steep but that I had possibly miscalculated the Euro exchange. I hadn't it was £29.

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Wisteriabloom · 12/08/2021 19:05

Hi everyone, I can see from reading your responses it's happened to several of you too! Pick & Mix is a rip-off! (Except for the Wilkinsons/supermarket type ones where it's set price by small, medium or large cups). I'll stick to those!

I can't actually remember how the prices displayed😳 Only that it was sold in lb's not kilo's. I just thought, 'Pick & Mix fudge, normal Pick & Mix prices' and wandered over as these wasn't a queue. Now I know why!!

If you imagine a 500g bag of sugar, I reckon you'd get 8 cubes of this fudge out of it, they were BIG chunks!! And as someone here said, densely packed with Oreos, Jammie Dodgers, Biscoff, all manner of things! I've now given the bag to my parents, and dd finished off our last two chunks. She must have thrown the bag away otherwise I'd post a photo. It WAS delicious, I admit, but have learned my lesson!! 😉

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woodhill · 12/08/2021 19:06

I got stung once with a bag nearly £8 I think at the Ideal Home. I nearly died and they rely on you being too embarrassed to put some back. Right rip off imo

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Crunchymum · 12/08/2021 19:08

What if you'd just walked away and not paid for any of it?

Bet it would have made its way back on sale Hmm

Crunchymum · 12/08/2021 19:08

I meant walked away and left it all.... not nicked it Grin

roses2 · 12/08/2021 19:11

@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!
This place? Grin

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

MoonlightWanderer · 12/08/2021 19:16

It's funny how some threads just stay in your mind, isn't it? It was 2 years ago, but it's the first thing that popped into my mind too.

kowari · 12/08/2021 19:19

I look at the price first, but usually only buy where it is a price per slice or I can ask for the weight I want.

GameSetMatch · 12/08/2021 19:26

I’m an Aldi snob but last Christmas received a hamper and there was a small box of clotted cream fudge in it, and I must say it was the nicest fudge I have ever tasted, so good in fact I intend to buy a hamper from there myself next Christmas solely for the fudge.

I think the hamper was about £49 so £31 for two bags of fudge is ridiculous!

WhoppingBigBackside · 12/08/2021 19:28

[quote Ringsender2]you belong on this thread OP!
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4314440-tell-me-about-a-time-you-accidentally-overpaid-for-something-because-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-back-out[/quote]
Serves 36? [grin[]

WhoppingBigBackside · 12/08/2021 19:29

Grin even. Serves 1 more like. Off to shop to buy ingredients.

kowari · 12/08/2021 19:30

Only that it was sold in lb's not kilo's. Is that legal?

Littlekittyscupcake · 12/08/2021 19:30

@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! 😋

I’d have dumped it on their counter and walked out!
RadandMad · 12/08/2021 19:30

@tigger1001

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.
This. I'd have just handed it back to them and walked. What are they going to do - get you arrested for not shoplifting?
JudgeJ · 12/08/2021 19:33

@womaninatightspot

We had this experience in a pick and mix shop, it was about four quid for a tiny bag of sweets x 4 children. Apparently it's 6 quid for 100g. Steady influx of tourists in the season dead the rest of the year.
Pick and mix is always a rip off, even back in the Woolworths day, if you can't see a price list and a scale where it's being weighed then I'm afraid you are going to be shocked. What is it about fairs of all kinds that make people behave so carelessly?
BarbaraofSeville · 12/08/2021 19:33

@GameSetMatch. Honestly, the Aldi and Lidl specially selected/luxury fudge is by far the best supermarket fudge you can buy and it's quite inexpensive, about £1.50 to £2 per box.

You don't have to buy the whole hamper just for the fudge, Aldi do only sell theirs in the run up to Christmas but Lidl usually have theirs, which is just as good all year round and there's often some other interesting flavours as well as the clotted cream yes I do know far too much about this subject.

hugoagogo · 12/08/2021 19:36

Yup I let the dc choose a small amount of pick n mix on York Christmas market. The chap asked for a preposterous amount-more than a tenner. I just left them ds said ooh you can't! But I can and I did. I bought the dc a couple of bags of sweets each from the newsagent on Lendal for about £3.

Greenmarmalade · 12/08/2021 19:37
  • moose62

When on holiday in Rome a couple of years ago, my son wanted a two scoop ice cream cone. I went to pay in the shop and thought it was steep but that I had possibly miscalculated the Euro exchange. I hadn't it was £29.*

That’s madness @moose62. When I was in Rome, I learnt to ask for the menu with the bill to check the prices again as they liked to inflate it tremendously. There’s a story I read about some Japanese tourists who were extorted with a ridiculous restaurant bill.

GameSetMatch · 12/08/2021 19:38

@BarbaraofSeville ooh good to know thank you! I thought it only came in the hamper, I’ll be looking in December!

Sewaccidentprone · 12/08/2021 19:43

I remember buying some (what I thought) was cheap lovely looking bread. Tuned out the price was by weight, not by loaf!

spongedod · 12/08/2021 19:44

I couldn't believe it when asked for £31!! Paid it, wasn't allowed to put any back,

I would have laughed and put it back.

Florencenotflo · 12/08/2021 19:46

@Wisteriabloom wasn't Folk Week was it?!

I was there yesterday with my Mum and Dd. I was about to get some when the lady in front of me went to pay. I'm not kidding I watched her choose 3 reasonably sized chunks... £9. The woman said I didn't want to spend that much, but you're right, they wouldn't let her put it back.

Nothing stopping her handing it back to them I suppose but I didn't bother! Took dd to the sweet shop near home instead!

And it's not even the people that are usually there selling fudge. These are different people.

BarbaraofSeville · 12/08/2021 19:47

How can they not allow you to put it back? They can't force you to pay for it, so what's to stop you putting it on the counter and saying 'I'm sorry, I don't want to buy it at that price'?

Fluffycloudland77 · 12/08/2021 19:50

@SimonJT

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!
Good grief you must really like your in-laws.
liveforsummer · 12/08/2021 19:56

@BarbaraofSeville

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.

@BarbaraofSeville yea I remember it was a dh issue that he'd spent it (probably with the same embarrassed shock as OP) it was somewhere in Eastern Europe I'm sure although we have a kingdom of sweets on our touristy main shopping street and although not quite to that level it's still extortionate