AIBU to think supermarkets should cover their pastries

[craftqueen]

So I went to my local Waitrose today and thought I'd get a nice croissant or pastry.

There were flies flying around all the pastries and some were sitting on the actual pastries.

AIBU in thinking they should cover them with something so the flies can't sit on them?

YANBU. I avoid buying things which are not covered or wrapped.

Agree totally. All food supermarkets are the same too. Aldi, Lidl, Tesco, Morrisons, Tesco, Asda. It's normally the freshly made ones. They don't have to wrap them all up fully, but could at least put them behind a plastic cover of some kind.

Oooops, I put Tesco twice, I mean to say Sainsbury's!

Have you sent that photo to customer services and your Environmental Health? Please do....!

Flies, kids' fingers, people coughing and sneezing. I've never understood why stuff is displayed like this?!

Waitrose?!? Dear me.

Agree with you OP.

They could use something like this.

When I went to Europe for a fortnight, a few months ago (Germany, Luxembourg, Holland, and France,) I saw cakes and pastries (in stores,) in things like these.

In Lidl in Spain recently, all the pastries & break rolls were in plastic containers, and you tipped one out using a long spoon onto a tray where you picked it up. A brilliant idea as it meant nobody else had touched your bread, and it was fly-proof.

We had this thread a little while ago. Lots of people seem to think it's fine, the blue bottles don't eat much.. Bleurgh. I agree with you op.

It's one of the reasons I stopped buying bread in Morrisons - it's all artfully arranged, with no sneeze-guard, no tongs, uncovered for anything to touch.

I'm certainly not germ-phobic but I like my bread to be wrapped, or at least behind glass.

Tesco do a display of their artisan bread, with chopped up samples on the counter. All just piled there, ready to have flies on, or people rooting through the piles of cubes of bread,

YANBU, I wish they would cover them up in Lidl.

When I lived in Germany, our local Aldi had a machine that took up almost the entire back wall. You pressed a button for your bread/roll/cake selection and it went 'your selection is unavailable' and it popped out into a hopper from where you could tip it into a paper bag.

They also had a machine that took in plastic bottles, scanned them, gave you a reciept/voucher for 25c per bottle, and crushed the bottle as it whisked it away. Was amazing, fun and encouraged recycling. This country is in the Dark Ages re that sort of thing.

I recently watched an old lady pick up every single croissant with bare hands, to inspect it, then put every single one back. She didn't buy any croissants. The shelf-stacker just watched and did nothing. Bleurgh. I told someone on the till and they did nothing. Yuck.

Apparently uncovered food is the norm these days ? (I know, who knew ?)

There was a thread on here recently about it, and it seemed people (like myself) who believed they should be under covers were being a bit snowflakey.

The trick is not to buy any - which does the waistline an enormous favour anyway.

YABU. The poor thing is there to mourn his mates who have very clearly been baked into that pain au raisin.

Same as the Lidl,’s in Portugal Wink. Big warmer/cabinet things with a spoon/arm/poking device that you use to select your item and then bag it up.

YANBU. I don't buy uncovered bread or pastries in supermarkets as I'm quite sure that, over the course of a day, a number of people will have handled them, sneezed over them or let their kids pick them up and put them back.

I feel the same way. I've often wanted to buy a chocolate crossaint but the number of small flies around puts me off.

Another thing that bugs me about the self serve bakery items in UK supermarkets is the absolute state of the tongs you are expected to use to pick up your choice. Always gloopy with icing/glaze/raisins/crumbs/bits of scuzz.

If I buy them, I buy the bakery ones that have been pre packed into pairs in plastic containers (Tesco) or just the standard pre packed ones (Waitrose). It’s a bugger though. I don’t always want to buy more than one (they go stale once opened) and it is big waste of packaging to protect such delicate things when you would just use a small paper bag for a self serve item.

YANBU. Tesco have started not wrapping fresh bread and its just out in the open for people to touch, breathe on and just go stale

@Wink I know the cabinets you mean. The ‘spoons’ have very long handles and it takes all my powers of coordination to collect what I want and get it into a bag. I usually end up with spares, not to mention an increasingly irritated queue behind me

I remember seeing the same in the IKEA cafe. Put me off pastries for life! It’s the same in the bakery shop windows.