Things that are crap - cunningly upsold

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Have just attempted to make a sandwich using “toasty bread”... bread fell apart - but tbh it’s also rubbish as toast. So am I right in thinking that along with “naked burgers” it’s all a big con, and aibu to ask - what crappy products you have been “upsold”?

Marriage. Sold as a wonderful and absolute must do which completes you and is for life. The reality, for me, has been very different.

Sorry to darken the mood of your thread.

@forgotmycoat while that’s not my experience I might lump actual weddings in there.

Ready Baked Jacket Potatoes - if you bake them in an oven, you have to wait for an hour, might as well stick in a raw potato and cost's less

This shit - it’s essentially a berocca style product anyway, and I guess doesn’t work on women...

@sparklesocks - hmmm could make a great passive aggressive present for a secret Santa though.

As for the jacket potatoes- they’re also half the size and twice the cost!

There is/was a ride/activity at Cadbury World that you have no idea what it was apart from the name but you join the queue because everyone else is and there are markers on the wall telling you from this point it is a 45 min wait so obviously it is something worth waiting for you would think. You'd be wrong! You sit in little cars and get driven past plastic models of cocoa beans with faces in various scenarios. It was a bit freaky and I think had the potential to terrify small children. It is about 8 years since we went and I am still in awe at how they could groups of adults to queue for ages for it. My overwhelming memory of it was a feeling of 'wtf was that' with the kids expressing similar sentiments if not in those terms.

Those stick vacuums if MN is anything to go by.

I’ve read those threads intently because I really coverted one and my vac breaks my back. Turns out they’re mostly expensive brooms and 99% of people still have a ‘main’ vacuum. Boggles my mind how you could shell out £££’s for a device that doesn’t even cover all you need it to do.

I still got a cheapy Hoover stick in a sale though! I’m pleased with it but suspect that’s because I had low expectations.

I bought an Etsy chalkboard for the kitchen. Dh saw it and told me it’s a £1 roof slate with a bit of twine attached

And when you do those Jacket Potatoes in the microwave, they go all hard on the bottom!

IVF.

£25k and just two miscarriages to show for it.

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Kidzania. Pure half term hell. They could make a killing selling therapy to parents on the way out.

Pitta breads that have been cunningly cut in half (pitta pockets)

Haha @itsstillgood - we fell into that trap last month! What an infinite waste of time. I wonder is there always such a queue, or were we there on the same day

Pizza express half calorie pizzas. They’re half the fucking calories cos they’ve used half the ingredients and then charged just as much.

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"And when you do those Jacket Potatoes in the microwave, they go all hard on the bottom!"

I've been microwaving fresh potatoes for years, Hellohah, and have got totally fed up with the hard bits. A couple of weeks ago I had a lightbulb moment and decided to put it on a proper microwave 'insert' (the one I've got is for something else, but I managed to use it for the potato) it raises it off the glass so you don't get hard bits!

Almost all of every supermarket’s ‘deluxe’ range: Taste the Difference, Finest, Irresistible etc, etc. Invariably a ripoff.

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Green tea...it's the liquid from the bottom of the compost bin.

Hang on let me go through my cupboards.... Spiralizer - juicer - smoothie maker - citrus peeler- popcorn maker - anything made of silicon (I have cake 'tins' and loaf 'tins' all of which are crap as they don't hold their shape) the list is (almost) endless.

Swimming. Dull as fuck and you get wet.

Pod coffee machines.

An expensive piece of clutter that ties you in to buying the environmentally unfriendly pods at a cost per cup of at least 5 times as much as loose ground coffee or beans. And the coffee it makes isn’t as nice as the more traditional methods of drip/filter/cafetière/stovetop etc. Total triumph of marketing over common sense.

Being an adult.

Ready Baked Jacket Potatoes - if you bake them in an oven, you have to wait for an hour

What?! That is completely absurd. Serves you right though - more money than sense.