Things you are amazed actually sell

[SuperGinger]

Waitrose own brand bin liners, and they always break, and when you get them out it's super easy to poke a hole in them.

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Huggy Wuggy dolls for children. Been seeing those everywhere and they are clearly not designed to look cute or appeal to kids. How lazy must a parent be not to do 5 seconds of googling to find out that it's actually a character from an 18+ rated horror game.

Pickled eggs!

Was at the garden centre near me last week and they had jars of them.

@DogInATent , if I see peas in pods (in season) I invariably buy some for dh - favourite snack - he will devour a whole pack in no time.

Ditto a young American niece who used to stay now and then - she’d never seen peas in pods to buy and loved them!

I've seen the Greggs clothes in Primark. Anyone know the target market for those? I've never seen anyone actually wearing them but someone must be buying them!

Everything for sale over the three (!) floors of the Leicester Square M&M shop (do they have other branches?) except for the corner where they have actual M&Ms. And yes you can buy bags in the supermarket but at least they have colours and flavours that are not widely for sale. The rest of the shop though... Clothes, stationary, household items, baking equipment. You name it, it was there. But with M&M branding. It felt like the epitomy of consumerism for the sake of consumerism. And it was absolutely packed with a huge queue so obviously popular...

Mega expensive houses. I can’t believe there’s so many people with so much money! 😂

I buy bags of ice to keep in the freezer. I love ice cold squash and I make my own iced lattes at home so always have a bag of ice on the go. I do have 2 freezers though

Breadcrumbs. Three or four times the proce of something you can make in nano seconds using what's always in the bread bin.

Agree wholeheartedly with home made crafts; particularly tat at PTA sales.

That can be said about most things in this thread - sort of the point of it isn't it?!

Unless they're somone who genuinly needs a really good camera and photo/film editing capabilities it amazes me that people pay over £1000 for something my £200 phone does just as well. I assume it's to look flashy and show off that you can afford it (on credit) But with phones they're all just black rectangles aren't they? Does anyone actually pay attention to what phone everyone else has?!

I have a pot of Bol Butternut squash and chilli soup in my fridge. It's got about 10 different veg, many herbs and spices etc. I could make it myself but it would not be quick or easy. If I got all the ingredients it would cost quite a bit, make tonnes of soup (which I could freeze to be fair) and not be particularly quick - certainly not as quick as getting it from Click and Collect, opening it and heating in a pan.

re Primark x Greggs, target market is teens who think it's funny

Not RTFT, but add lint rollers and instant porridge.
I make porridge from rolled oats topped with boiling water and left for 5 mins.
Milk in porridge makes it horrid.

Lint rollers work, but a rubber brush, or rubber glove lasts a lot longer.

Depending on how much bread you eat versus how much bread crumb you need, you don't always have enough. You have to plan in advance to start collecting bread crumbs a week or two before you actually need them, which doesn't always work out.

I only eat granary/seedy brown bread but often need white breadcrumbs, so it's easier to just buy the breadcrumbs than buy the bread, get the food processor out, put the bread in, wash it up afterwards.

But most things do taste better with fresh breadcrumbs!

I'm a bit food snobby but have no problem with frozen Yorkshires.

The Alan Partridge autobiog is a very excellent exception to the 'fictional character book' one! It is written by the writers though.

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You can microwave proper oats?! 2.5mins in the microwave to make porridge.

Mr Ben's boil-in-the-bag-rice.

I just don't get it. It says "Ready in 10 minutes"... but all long grain rice cooks in about 10 minutes though! I simply cannot see how it is any more convenient than normal long grain rice, in fact I find it LESS convenient - first off, the portions in the bag aren't right, I usually find you need about one and a half bags per person, and then you have the fiddly manoeuvre of opening a plastic bag full of boiling rice and steam without scalding your fingers... Just WHY??? Can someone please explain?

I used to use my nutribullet to grind oats up for cakes when I was wheat free, never thought to use readybrek! Will do that occasionally now my nutribullet is broken!

Washing machine cleaning stuff, such as calgon, white vinegar does the job twice as good and ten times as cheap.
Additions for laundry, such as Dettol in wash stuff.
Dettol spray stuff for germs.
Anti bac sprays, in fact any cleaning sprays.
Branded medicines.

Harry Potter, Friends and Disney merch in primark. It's all I ever see in there

bread and butter pudding, a dessert made from left over stale bread

Boxes of pancake mix where you have to add an egg and water to the powder that comes in the bag, and mix it all in...

Seriously? Is that really so much easier than pouring some plain flour into a bowl then adding egg and milk? You still have to whisk it, you still have to wash up the bowl and the whisk (I can at least understand the bottles of pancake mix, which save you about 10 minutes of mixing and then washing up). But the powdered mixes literally don't save you any time at all and cost more money.

Pancakes are the easiest thing in the world to make, and they are made with things almost everyone always has in their cupboard. And it's almost impossible to go wrong with them. I made some with no milk once, just flour eggs and water, because the shop was shut and I had nothing else in, and they were perfectly alright, so it's not even like using a packet makes up for a lack of cooking skills.

Breast pockets on shirts for large ladies, ditto double breasted jackets. We are double breasted!

"The Alan Partridge autobiog is a very excellent exception to the 'fictional character book' one! It is written by the writers though."

HILARIOUS 🤣