People eating food they haven't paid for....

[maddiemookins16mum]

....It just really bugs me. To the point of utter revulsion.
In a supermarket, grown adults opening a pack of 4 pork pies and happily munching their way around the shop, only to toss the empty pack to be scanned as their shopping goes through. Why do people do that, have you ever, and why??? (DD had to wait until the car for her gingerbreadman biscuit from Waitrose).

What about if you're doing one of those scan and shop things that tesco do?! If you scan the item before opening it and eating it does that then become OK as technically it's gone through the whole scanning process? And no poor checkout person can be offended by an empty packet?!

I whizzed through the last pages and I didn't laugh once. You try too hard.

My local grocery has free fruit in the produce department, plus lots of samples of cheese, crackers, etc., throughout the store, and kids under 12 get a free cookie at the bakery. When my daughter was two, I was bagging up some peaches and she was sitting in the seat in the cart, and when I turned around she had snatched a plum off the display and was munching away on it.

Poppy, the thread has moved on my lovely. If you want to moan about uncouth chavs, maybe start another thread?

My local Asda is always shoving food samples us. Cheeses, biscuits, puddings, fruit. And we had crisps and a dip in Tesco.

at us

liney

I never do the samples , i always worry about how long they have been out for

Where do the shocked and repulsed crowd stand on .....barbecues?

BBQs? Very uncouth, of course!
Them Australians are to blame, aren't they? Criminals, the lot of them.
Worse than chavs.

love a good BBQ me

Yes, you would, wouldn't you, being a man, aren't you?
That in itself is of course highly suspect...

Tesco were handing out free cake this morning. Lots of crumbs all over the place.

Wait why?

I'm enjoying a bit of tongue in cheek gross generalising here, Average.

Maybe i've not had enough yet... sorry

Oh

People from the UK are just jealous of us Aussies and our barbies because we actually get more than one day a year when it's nice enough to be outdoors.

Them Australians are to blame, aren't they? Criminals the lot of them. Worse than chavs

Well Pacific I'm an Australian with convict ancestors, and I have been known to feed my kids as-yet-unpaid-for food in the supermarket, so a criminal and a chav!

And not only that, but according to this thread, I'm responsible for the state of Britain today because of the afore-mentioned supermarket behaviour (haven't lived there for nearly 20 years, so don't know if that's a compliment or an insult, but given the tone of the post in question I suspect the latter)!

It is slobbish behaviour.

It particularly annoys me when the offender is overweight

Yes, Full Time yummy! I AM overweight so would be even more mortified if caught eating in public (ie supermarket eat before buying malarkey. Restaurants I can handle, but know I can only really order salads)
I know everyone would be looking at me, judging me, thinking "what a fat, lazy so and so, I'm sure she can wait! "
And as has been said many many times on here children need to learn the art of deferred gratification.
Remember the marshmallow test, anyone???

You Can't go shopping without eating in the shop - wait until you get home - totally bad manners

People are actually supporting the notion that fat people aren't allowed to eat in public?

Fuck's sake.

Picture an overweight woman at the fruit aisle handling loose apples whilst dropping crumbs of the steak slice she's eating all over the remaining stock.

Not very nice is it?

But Yummy Fat people don't eat fruit so why would this fictitious overweight, steak slice eating woman be handling apples?