To not be at all put off by pick n mix horror stories and to still buy them?

[SpaghettiTwirlerAndProud]

I just love em! :o

AIBU?

whatchoo talkin about Willis

YANBU. I don't think I want to know about the horror stories.

Horror stories?

Maybe I don't want to know........

Do I?

I know

YABU to buy them especially from places from the Vue where they can cost the best part of a weeks salary for a couple of 100grams

yes, yabu. They have been handled by a thousand unwashed hands that were previously scratching their owner's arse or similar.

There are horror stories?

We stopped buying it after DS had a horrible stomach bug after buying it. Happened twice before we realised. Urgh.

I prefer my sweeties, bread roll, fruit and veg etc to come in hermetically sealed bags!! Got kind of PUT OFF one day when I was picking rolls out of a bakery tray and a woman next to me sneezed all over them in a huge spray of saliva droplets...... which I couldn't see, but felt landing on my hand in an OMG moment.

You buy pick and mix, you must be loaded!
The only horror I get is when I get to the till and see how much it costs.

YABU to buy pick and mix, full stop.

You could buy lots of bags of various sweets for way less and make your own. Several times over.

I want to know the horror stories!

People lick them and put them back? The ones at the bottom stay there for 6 years? (have secretly wondered this) The scoops are never washed, ever? Staff collect them from the dust under the pic n mix counter every night and put them back for sale? You need a small mortgage for what used to be known as a quarter but has now been magically reduced to 100g?

I get the pre-priced cups and squish in as much as i can, got a £4 one from wilko the other day and I weighed it to see how much I actually had, and the price was £5.78

Urgh. Many, many hands, belonging to many, many kids( and adults) who don't wash their hands have touched them.

Do you have a mortgage just for sweeties?
Pick and Mix prices are astronomical!

Besides, after seeing a little darling take a chocolate mini egg out lick it and put it back, no thank you.

We can beat that! I got £3.68 worth of pick and mix into a £1.99 cup at wilkinsons DD1 only managed £3.41

It has taken us quite a lot of practice....

I buy them for DD.
I also love the Morrison's salad bar, I figure if I didn't see it, it didn't happen, and I happily eat my sneezed on food.

at "If I didn't see it, it didn't happen".

I got £1.79 extra in mine Posy :o

The trick is to squish it down with the scoop after everything you put in

La la, I'm not listening!!! I love pick 'n' mix - I'd rather have a bag of that than a box of Belgian chocolates - and I don't want to hear any horror stories to put me off.

Exactly Netto that's my view too :o

I would probably still eat it even if I saw someone lick it and put it back.

Come to Sweden, it's pick-n-mix heaven. We have whole supermarket sized shops devoted solely to pick-n-mix. All the sweets that used to be around when you were kids, but have since disappeared ... they're here ín Sweden.

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When I used to work in Woolworths we would sweep up what was on the floor and put them back - managers instructions

We no longer have pick and mix in our village shop. Years ago DD tripped and went flying into the plastic boxes and the whole thing came crashing down and broke beyone repair.

8 years on and they've never replaced it. Its all her fault.

My mother used to make us wash our Pick and Mix in Milton before we were allowed to eat it, she was the same with salad. I was 17 before I realised these foodstuffs did not need to be a dissolved mess nor did they taste of bleach.

Pre-priced cups at Wilko's. Must check that out, I pride myself on getting my money's worth out of a salad bar.