To think if something is advertised as 'ripe and ready' it should be just that?

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Yes I'm looking at you Sainsbury's.

I know in the grand scheme of things it's a small issue but it really grates my nipples.

Advertising avocados as ripe and ready to eat is such bullshit in Sainsbury's, I'm yet to find many that are. Lidl seem to manage it no problem.

I understand they don't want stuff with a stupidly short shelf life but then don't advertise them as ripe!

I bought nectarines the other week from Sainsbury's (I know they're not in season but I needed them). Four bloody quid they cost me and again labelled as ripe and ready, but had a plastic cover so I couldn't prod them to see.
I could have hammered in nails with the fuckers!

Again Lidl came to the rescue, should have gone there in the first place.

They're never ripe. It's a lie. I had a pack of ripe and ready avocados from Tesco that were bought last Friday - today they are perfect.

Avocado roulette.

I thought this was going to be about Sainsburys ripe and ready pears. They're not.
They sit there as hard as rocks for days and then you look away and they've turned to brown, mouldy mush.....

I had a ripe and ready pack of pears in June, that (in the fridge) were ready in October. Literally.

Fucking yes! Asda did the same to my avocado. Even a few days later it was hard as a rock 😩

This is the problem with avocado, it can rarely feature in a spur of the moment tea.

If they'd advertise stuff as ripen at home I'm ok with that, at least I know what I'm getting.
The 'big' supermarkets are the worst at this in my experience. Lidl is the only one with consistently good avocados that are genuinely ready to use.

I'm in a grump because my Sainsbury's avocados that I wanted for guacamole with my fajitas were shitter than shit.

The avocado lottery.

I feel I've more chance of winning the actual lottery than getting a ripe avocado from Sainsbury.

well i bought lidl ready to eat mangos 2 days ago at greater expense than their normal ones, yet when i tried to cut one up yesterday i could barely get a knife through it!

i find waitrose ready to eat avocados extremely reliable btw (i've never had an under-ripe one from there)

seems it's all a bit hit or miss with "ready to eat ranges".

Ah this grates my nips too... avocados and pears are an absolute piss take - they both taste like shite unripe as well

Might need to give Waitrose a go, though it's really out the way. Lidl are pretty reliable but further away from me.

Nothing is ripe and ready from aldi either. I always have avocados and mangoes on my kitchen windowsill that I eat in rotation, I never buy them with the expectation that I can eat them immediately. 'Ripe and ready' is a big lie - or maybe it's 'alternative ripeness'