To be upset at Pret?

[PersonaNonGarter]

Pret a Mange. I am loyal but now...

Pret have discontinued their Popcorn Bars.

Bastards.

Shiklah

But there's a bathroom on every standard size Pret...

There was a label, it didnt list all ingredients which is why the coroner said the labelling was inadequate.
And as Tinty said the second persons label stated dairy free..when it was not.
Either way labelling needs to be correct with all ingredients listed so people with allergies can make the right choices.
Companies are taking shortcuts and using loop holes in the law to justify inadequate labelling resulting in people dying or being very poorly, its not right and they know it isnt.
Sorry OP, it is extremely annoying when your favourite snacks and bites are discontinued. Sorry for the high jacking of your post, something i feel strongly about.
I do hope that the loopholes are now closed and places are forced to list all ingredients on products.

Tinty the product at fault was supposed to be dairy-free. Pret bought and used it in good faith as such.

Anyway, OP, I never tried a Popcorn Bar but I sympathise. I hate it when a favourite item gets discontinued. Luckily they still (touch wood) do the Choc Bar and tuna melts.

You're all being pretty horrible about the hand washing thing tbh

Because it's fucking bonkers!

My pet hate is when they change the recipe of a favourite item and call it "NEW AND IMPROVED". Fuck that, more like horrible and worse (looking at you Greggs) Hard Stare

BedsideCabinetisnotavailable@ Your original post, and the one after were funny in a dark way! It is all the others that decided to turn it into a serious debate that I despair at!

It just used to be so much more fun around here, now it seems every thread is an opportunity for some boring preachy fucker to get their soap box out...

Time and place innit!

I wish they would bring back roast beef and crispy onion sandwiches.

I've never forgiven them for discontinuing their orange and lemon muffins.

Luckily I no longer live or work anywhere near one so the bitter urge to put a brick through their windows has finally faded...

Plenty of prets have Loos.

I must confess I’ve been by their labelling for years, specifically because they’re totally unique in their way of not listing ingredients on packets. It’s so weird

Shiklah, there are literally thousands of shops that sell sandwiches without having washing facilities available. How have you not noticed that fact before?

I'm also really annoyed that they (and others, to be fair) have brought their Christmas range in before the middle of November. I love their Christmas sandwiches and look forward to them but it's a December thing, FFS! So I am going to hold off until then, and then gorge for a month.

I love Pret. They really pick their staff well too.

Every time i'm in London (usually 2-3 times a week) I go to Pret for lunch or breakfast.

They have really good options if you're dieting too!

@HappilyHarridan
I completely agree with you. Speaking as the mother of a nine year old boy with a severe sesame allergy. There is a very high risk in bakeries/sandwich places of cross contamination even if sesame is not an ingredient. I would not risk my son eating bread products from pret or similar, it is simply not worth the risk. He had a reaction to a plain baguette from a bakery before we knew his sesame allergy was life threatening.

Still mourning the little orange and cardamom milk chocolate bar they had by the till. Used to love that with a latte.

Don't want to derail your thread OP but I want to address the nasty victim blaming by pp. Natasha had severe allergies but managed to get to the age of 15 by being - according to her dad - hawk like in her vigilance. She read the contents of the sandwich and checked with her equally vigilant father that the sandwich was safe to eat. The Coroner has been damning of Pret

"That allergens were not labelled adequately or clearly on Pret-a-Manger packaging when prepared in their kitchens “pre-packed for direct sale" utilising regulation 5 of the Food Information Regulations. Regulation 5 allows for food outlets to avoid full food labelling requirements whether they prepare a small number of items in local shops or in the case of Pret, over 200 million items for sale by preparing these items in “local kitchens”. These items prepared in “local kitchens” are in fact “assembled” in large parts from
items made in factory style outlets to Pret specifications. *I was left with the impression that the “local kitchens” were in fact a device to evade the spirit of the regulation"

"In the case of Pret-a-manger there was no coherent or co-ordinated system for monitoring customer allergic reactions despite sales of more than 200 million items... In my view this remains highly
inadequate. In my view sales of 200 million items some with expressly commissioned but hidden allergens require a robust safety auditing system"

"The previous system was unsafe and the system proposed equally so in my view."

I don't understand why this is the 2nd Christmas running they've not done the brie and cranberry toastie?!

It's like they actively dislike us.

The victim blaming of that poor girl is disgusting.

Shiklah, why did you not wash your hands before heading out for a sandwich?

I don't wan' to derail your thread OP but I will anyway Hahaha!

If you have such umbrage with what posters are saying why not inbox them rather than showboating your cause that no one asked for?

I love mumsnet so much

Because it's fucking bonkers!

Not the most polite description of ocd i've ever heard but suppose it's accurate at the same time

It clearly isnt OCD otherwise they would have had wipes or antibac wash with them. Is there a reason youre trying to stir up a row?

I haven’t forgiven them for discontinuing the hummus and coriander wraps they did until a few years ago. Bloody lovely they were.

I still have fond memories of the tomato bread-and-feta-and-red-onion sandwich Pret did, about twenty years ago.

I was horrified when I went in a Pret in London and bought a sandwich and was told they were a shop, not a cafe, so had no where I could wash my hands.

Most people carry the hand gel for post-public transport requirements.

Well that escalated quickly

No joke :)

I know quite a few people who can’t eat without thoroughly washing their hands but they come from countries were loo roll isn’t the norm and you use water and your hand to clean instead. They probably don’t do that here but it’s ingrained that you wash your hands before eating ( and generally don’t use their left hand to eat either)