...to think it uncouth for an adult to be swigging from a large carton of Tropicana at the checkout.

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Woman in queue behind us (very short queue by most people's standards, just one in front and her behind me) was unloading her trolley and had opened one of her several 1 1/2 or 2l cartons of Tropicana and was swigging away, replaced cap and placed it on the conveyor. There is a coffee shop in the store so she could have stopped for a drink before shopping or once through the checkout.

grape blondelle?

eh? Orange juice to park hanger-arounders and wing mirror whippers offers? How did that happen?

just as bad
'nice' families don't do that

I always give my small children stuff to eat in the supermarket - would you prefer them to be crying??

I used to break open the multipacks of chocolate before i got to the checkout when i was pregnant and needed the sugar.
Sometimes i go down the wine aisle and crack open a bottle of the old vino collapso....only joking, its usually gin

no-one will rise to it blondelle (fio doenst count)

Blondelle, you are an agent provocateur, surely? Sent by the Daily Mail to stir up trouble on this most peaceable of talkboards?

What's wrong with eating crisps? My kids take them out of a multipack to eat sometimes. It's only the outer packaging tha's scanned anyway. It's not stealing or anything.

Now grapes are another matter....

Oh 'nice'. I mustn't be nice. Thank Christ for that.

blondelle I went to a posh private school and studied at Lucie Clayton and Oxford University - how much "nicer" do you want me to be? lol

yes its fine, have done it myself when pg and 'needed' coca-cola, I could never wait until we got to the till I would drink it before and pay for it at the till (highly illegal I know)

You'll have to change your name then, niceglasses.

pmsl at powder...even I have never been that desparate

If you think this is uncouth, don't you find it exhausting exhorting so much emotional energy on such pettiness.

If you were in a cafe you would probably drink before paying...what's the difference?

What i find uncouth is supermarkets - the way they over-package goods, not-so-freshly imported from half the way across the world adding to global warming and undercut farmers so they can't earn a decent living is really not so very nice and kind.....

I've done this before, mostly when pregnant ut also when not as was just about to faint. I guess if I'd just fainted instead I would have kept people waiting longer whilst they got an ambulance etc (happened once to me in John Lewis!)

eating in public? like, where members of the public see you eating? OH HEAVEN FORBID

i only eat in privat of course

she might have been thirsty. or just fancied some at that very moment. can't see why it would bother you tbh.

So there!

no fio, traditionally it is bad manners. thats why I feel embarrassed when I do it. But small children is another matter, they have a right to their sausage rolls in the pushchair!

not trying to be contentious but I really really hate to see children being fed the food off the shelves in a supermarket. Its bad manners, uncouth and dare I say downmarket!

Why can't the children just wait until they get home. Mine have never cried round the supermarket (exception of when newborns) and understand they'll get something when we get home (if they've behaved).

Now someones going to come on and say I haven't met 'their' dc who would go into apopaleptic rage if not given a bag of multi-pack crisps but I have 3 DC and one on the way and none of my children have ever requested anything to eat in Tesco becuase they have never had it.

I think it's fine. God knows we all need to do what we can to survive the supermarket check out. We should be smiling at each other and showing support not thinking, 'Eurch! look at 'er' etc.

Be nice to each other and if you don't know how, have a couple of Es to guide you on your next supermarket trip. Purely for research purposes you understand.

tut tutty is a lovely adjective.

I eat sausage rolls in town with my ds1. They are all crumbly and most of it ends up down my top, but thats nothing compared to the gaping hole in my jeans where my zip has come unstitched showing off my pants.

yep you are being unreasonable.