AIBU to think nobody actually buys Cheese Strings?

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Not the own brand ones...the "real" ones. They're £3.20 for EIGHT! Is it me or is that the most ridiculous price for what amounts to a gnats portion of plastic cheese?

My DS always ask for them and the one time I got them they were disgusted by them anyway! But I noticed today £3.20 for EIGHT. Am I BU to think people don't really pay that?

They're one of those things with a fake RRP so they're always on a BOGOF. Pisses me off, but I get them when the DCs have school trips and need a packed lunch - or ideally I get the cheaper Lidl knockoffs.

They are not as nice as they used to be so I don't buy them.

The Aldi version are much nicer (like the 'real' ones used to be)

Randomly they were one of my cravings when pregnant. I'd only had one or two as a child so no idea where it came from but I got through packets and packets of them. My colleagues found it hilarious as I was eating them at my desk constantly.

Now I've had dd (4 months ago) I haven't had a single one and they don't appeal to me at all.

So Yabu some crazy pregnant ladies buy them

Can I ask what you feed a family of 4 for 3.20? Other than pasta or rice dish?

Well...a pasta or rice dish! So no Sarah you can't ask "other than a pasta or rice dish" no!

Overpriced rubber with a hint of cheese imo! My dc don't have them

I once auditioned to be Mr Cheesestrings. Yes, really.

You know, that ad where he's detained as he's carrying too much liquid in him as it's the milk.

I do, I occasionally put them in the small people's lunchboxes. I wouldn't pay £3.20 for them though, that's crackers!
I buy them from Fultons Food or Heron - they're usually £1 for two packs in there!

how about cheese in a can?

What in the name of hot diggety is THAT?!

Dcs hate them as do i and dp yuk

Haha, Astarael, I'm one of those crazy Cheesestring munching pregnant ladies right now... Just can't seem to stop eating them!

Never pay full price for them though. Got very excited today when I saw they were half price in Tesco and bought 6 packets

we buy them sometimes for work the cook can get them on offer good the kids love them

They are normal cheese. The process to make them simply involves heating up the cheese and cooling it. The cheese is normal cheese without anything else added. They make a Cheddar called Charleville at the same site which is much the same thing except without the reheating and cooling.

I bought them twice following extreme whingeing from FF who was primary school age at the time. Both times she was sick in bed and most of it was undigested plastic cheese. Not a coincident. Mamma she says Nooooo to cheese strings now!

We do but only when on sale. 12 for £1.50 in Tesco atm.

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I buy them for the dc and the dog wouldn't eat them myself but primula cheese in a tube is my weakness.

We buy hundreds of the fucking things. Preferably when they are on offer, or when DD hasn't eaten for a couple of days and needs persuading (many issues there), although mainly cheese twirlers from Farmfoods - just as nasty tasting, but £1 for 6.

And if you read the packet, it is just heat treated cheese. It might be the cheapest, nastiest cheese, but no worse for them than vintage cheddar. No other ingredients (unless you buy the flavoured ones)

I'd no idea they were real cheese. We tend to avoid processed food - and like the OP wondered who bought them!

We also don't do non-natural yoghurt or bought cakes either.... I thought that was fairly normal!

In my youth I worked in a small supermarket. An guy came up to me one day and asked "do you sell G strings?" Eh no!! "you know childrens G strings??!!" This went on and on and on...was on the verge of chucking him out until I realised it was CHEESE strings he was after. Still can't look at them without laughing.

My parents always have them in the fridge. I think they started buying them for my sister when she was little but she's grown up and moved out now and they still always have a bag of them in the fridge door.