...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.

Fabulous - it's like grapes all over again Supermarket etiquette is such a minefield.

I don't much care if people are swigging juice at the checkout, but I do object to half naked men in the supermarket (or anywhere, actually, other than on a beach/in a pool). I do not wish to see acres of flabby beer gut while I am perusing the tomatoes, thank you very much.

I do go shopping with her but she's too small to want anything off the shelves at the moment...yes quite soul-destroying bungalow....

PMSL marthamoo. Quite right. It can fair put one off ones food shopping.

bossy I no longer reside in SW2. It was fun while it lasted though.

gess, er, they could tell you? or you could ask? make sure they are ok?

And do you glare at parents of small children pushing trolleys full of soft drinks and oven-ready meals as you ever-so- smugly glide past with your trolley filled only with fresh organic fare.....?

but why should someone having a drink in the supermarket have to turn around to people and say "it's ok I'm not being uncouth I'm diabetic". It would soon get pretty irksome.

I;d have thought a more sensible approach was to assume that someone having a swig of a drink in a supermarket was either very thirsty or needed sugar quickly.

ClubTropicaGate?

gess, it took my 4 yr old dd to tell someone i "needed sugar" as i am sure they were standing tutting thinking i was a drunken mother

anyway, its besides the point

Oh bother, ClubTropicanaGate

Naily you and Gess are on the same side in this, you are just misunderstanding each other!

Of course it's okay (I wouldn't do a citizen's arrest ) but I agree that it looks a bit chavtastic. Still I would most probably clock her doing it, do a silent 'ewwww' and then carry on with my daily business

Orange juice is born free

But is everywhere in chains

oh dugs baws im off

I have done that before..taken a swig of water as I was bfeeding (not in the supermarket queue lol)and soo damn thirsty...made sure I made the appropriate gestures to everyone round me so they knew that was the reason...of course

Actually I think it's the tropicana that is making me 'ewww', I'd be okay with a nice bottle of Evian

but that's what I mean nailpolish. Why should you have to explain? Severely autistic ds1 kicks off frequently (everytime we go out in public). Now he's 8 I would think it was obvious to all but the most idiotic that there was something very odd going on. He yelps rather than talks for starters. But no- we still get the tut tut brigade everytime we step out. I don't bother explaining anymore. I wish people would be more interested in their own lives rather than be nusy nosing everyone else's. Drinking a soft drink in a supermarket is not affecting anyone else. Why think anything at all?

I have been when pg and in throes of killer heartburn to buy a large bottle of antacid and stand at the till swigging it ,

I saw a (probably) clinically obese man eating a pork pie out of the packet at the check out at supermarket 2 days ago.

I am both sad enough to notice it and remember it but I wish to know:

Is it more uncouth because he was fat and it was a lardy pork pie?

Also, are pork pies and sausage rolls the food of the uncouth?

Finally, is it more uncouth to do this in Asda or Morrissons? Rephrase: Is it more uncouth to be in Asda or Morrissons and therfore more uncouth to carry out such acts in Waitrose?

Is tropicana 100% juice?...if so...that's fine...if there are any nasties in there...nooo waaaay!

thanks dino- that's what I was thinking too.

PMSL at in club tropicana drinks are free.

children who are small enough to sit in a trolley get fed on demand in the supermarket. and we are very upmarket lol

Ahh, I'm not part of the tut tut brigade, I do highly subtle inward tut tuts which are imperceptible to the naked eye (because deep down I know I am being unreasonable)

newlife...where did you see this man...was he in London...? Maybe I know him...