To sign a disclaimer to take uneaten afternoon tea cakes away?

[Fordian]

😂

Seriously.

Today, DH and I enjoyed a lovely, and lavish afternoon tea in the New Forest.

We came to leave and asked (as did most people there) for a take away box. No problem, happily supplied.

But not without us signing a disclaimer. That the cakes would be in a fridge (!) within 2 hours and be consumed within 12. These weren't cream or cold cakes.

I mean it's all 😂😂😂, but seriously, what have we become?

It is a sad state of affairs, but due to people being idiotic.

enjoy those cakes!

I was once accused of wanting to kill off an entire facility of vulnerable elderly patients because I took a cream cake to my dad who was a patient there and I'd bought it maybe 90 minutes previously.

They'd have made less of a fuss if it was nuclear waste that I took out of my handbag and put on the plate he'd just used for his lunchtime sandwich.

The Food Bank I volunteer at used to be able to collect cakes & pastries from a well known high street bakery & give them away .. the rules and regulations became so strict that the food is now just thrown away ... we have become a society that is obsessed with rules and over litigious .

Whenever I encounter something like that, my immediate thought is “what idiot customer caused this to happen?” and feel sorry for the staff.

I first would think WTF but then would feel sorry for the staff possibly because of what had to happen for them to have needed this to happen in the first place

People don't surprise me what they complain about these days, as in previous customers not the op

I agree sheer madness, common sense is no longer common sadly.

The sad situation of our nation. Rules rules rules...and suing people and companies for idiotic reasons.
I know someone getting in trouble for cooking homecooked food and giving it to the homeless.

I was in Skiathos in Greece for the last 2 weeks. Awful floods and electricity went off for 24 hours. We all went to the supermarket at 8 am. No power but still allowed to take stuff from fridges to eat. (As all prices on labels they just added up with calculator and paid cash) in this country all that food in the fridge would have been thrown away.

We had to do that at a 4* hotel about a decade ago, so it's not something new.

It'll be the posters who start threads asking if they can eatv

Probably didn't want to get sued or their reputation ruined in the news from people getting sick by being idiots

It'll be the posters who start threads at 4 minutes past midnight asking if they should through away the fod that is dated the previous day

It’s the sad result of our behaviour of sueing and compensation

These disclaimers are generally in place because 'common sense' is not the common.
Many fools use the law and social media to their advantage for financial gain or to hold good businesses to ransom.
It's sad but true that we have reached these depths in everyday life.

There was a big sign in my butchers window the other week saying "WARNING assume all meat pies contain raw meat and MUST be heated prior to consumption" and I wondered if they had a complaint. Who is eating a pie from the butcher without heating it? There is no room for common sense.

Oh, I'm not blaming the establishment at all!

I totally understand why they need to protect themselves, but, How Did We Get Here? Land of hope and glory etc. Rule Britannia.

I think I know. But!

Compensation culture innit bro