To want to go to Markies for picky bits

[Agirlnamedsam]

I’ve not been in a shop since the beginning of December. Been wfh and only been out to go to the park with DS or go for a walk.

We have been using Tesco click and collect, but I want to go to Markies and get some picky bits / afternoon tea for lunch tomorrow.

DH thinks I’m being a bit silly as it’s not necessary travel: and that we should be avoiding shops. He’s happy for us to get something delivered or to collect something. But I’m just a bit fed up and want to go and select some nice bits and pieces.

@LaMarschallin

Will it be enough to deal all the 🤮 comments and emojis being posted by those with such exorbitant sensibilities on this thread

No - your hand will get too sore.

As was my scrolling thumb.

I take your point that you support OP's right to use whatever words she likes for food and a shop, but, imo, so much repetition got a bit tedious.

Because you were expecting a post about going to the shop for food to be a rollercoaster of excitement and intrigue?

Always Markies amongst my relatives in Moray, Aberdeen and Fife.

But Picky Bits though? That just sounds downright unpleasant.

Central Scotland here, and it’s Markies. grin I’ll sometimes say M&S if I’m trying to be less common.

I lived in Central Scotland a long time, and never heard it so-called. Always M&S, or Marks, and sometimes even (looking at you, mum) 'Marks and Sparks'.

Will be listening out for Markies/Marksies etc, etc.

@Butchyrestingface

I think everyone is misunderstanding each other’s tone TBH.

Of course, because this was surely said in a spirit of bonhomie and lightheartedness:

Leaving aside your gross vocabulary that is obviously not essential travel. Selfish and irresponsible.

Well no, and the people calling each other “cunt” probably aren’t being jocular either, but a lot of posters of all opinions are posting in friendly enough tone.

Where I grew up it was called markies too

I want to do a Waitrose wine run to break to the day but I know I shouldn’t so won’t until I need to do an actual shop

@LaMarschallin

PleasantVille

Yes - I'd already realised about the inverted commas.
It's a fast moving thread so you probably hadn't seen my penny-drop moment post above yours.

No idea about the inverted commas; I'm fairly sure it's in English dictionaries now

No, not until after I'd typed mine

Who knew the subject would cause such a flurry of posts, my typing can't keep up!

Have heard Markies often. Central Scotkand here

SusannaSpider

Oh lord, only on Mumsnet - my children say smorgasbord not picky bits.

It's a real word, you know: just ask
PleasantVille.

@Sinful8 😂

I know what you mean OP. We had a Sainsburys delivery last week and all the nice bits (popcorn cauliflower, breaded mushrooms, mini spring rolls etc etc) were replaced with not as nice stuff. It is nice to have treat food in when there's bugger all else to do but eat! I think.if you go but stock up on a few 'essentials' like milk, a tin of beans, bread and anything else (as long as you actually need it!) to stretch out the time until your next shop visit it's fine. A lot of M&S ready meals freeze well too.

@MysweetAudrina

Could be worse I overheard my dh finishing up a work call with the words okey doodles.

This made me spit my drink out 😂

I love Markies. I used to work there & guess what? All the staff called it Markies too!!

In my youth it was called Marks's, pronounced Markses.

NE Scotland here and only ever call it Markies.

Go for it OP - take all precautions and shop alone. If you can get other supplies to limit any other trips out, then do so. Ignore the arseholes on here today.

Because you were expecting a post about going to the shop for food to be a rollercoaster of excitement and intrigue?

No, but apparently she was expecting a witty riposte equal to Oscar Wilde to repel all those 🤮 and 'ewwwww yuck' comments. And I provided only 'tedious repetition'. #NotWinning

Sinful8

LaMarschallin

Will it be enough to deal all the 🤮 comments and emojis being posted by those with such exorbitant sensibilities on this thread

No - your hand will get too sore.

As was my scrolling thumb.

I take your point that you support OP's right to use whatever words she likes for food and a shop, but, imo, so much repetition got a bit tedious.

Because you were expecting a post about going to the shop for food to be a rollercoaster of excitement and intrigue?

No, but - as I originally posted - i did think it was a jokey OP.

The scrolling I meant was just past the one post that included "PICKYBITS MARKIES" many, many times.

Anyway, I don’t see how you can come up with such a perfect, catnip MN thread title as To want to go to Markies for picky bits accidentally. So I reckon we’ve all given OP the entertainment she was looking for and now she doesn’t need posh buffet food.

Well no, and the people calling each other “cunt” probably aren’t being jocular either, but a lot of posters of all opinions are posting in friendly enough tone.

No, it's certainly not. But I was responding to your comment that "everyone" is misunderstanding each other's tone. I don't think they are.

It's not certainly not the light-hearted thread that I imagine OP envisaged. Hope she's managed to get along to Markies alright.

@YoniAndGuy

It is the most horrible expression though

I picture Vera just back from the bingo sitting with a dried vol-au-vent in one hand and a fag in the other, licking her fingers before moving on to hover over the rancid mini-pizza-bites.

Hahaha vom.

Unpleasant stereotyping.

Markies? Marksies I think you mean
I haven't heard anyone call it that since I was a child. But 🤷🏻‍♀️

Picky bits - fine until MN destroyed it, now all I see are festering scabs, but again 🤷🏻‍♀️

But unnecessarily going to the shops for things you can do without, when you get delivery shopping. You have FOOD, you'll survive without 'picky bits'
🤬🤬🤬

STAY AT HOME

Don't care how many 'cool girls' licking Covid patients there are on the thread. Just stay the fuck at home and stop enabling the fucking virus to spread.

@Movinghouseatlast

In my youth it was called Marks's, pronounced Markses.

That’s what my Gran called it.

When we have buffet food on Christmas Eve, my family call it Party Tea, one of my work colleagues calls it Picky Bits (and that, my friends, is the tenuous link to the thread), but my other colleague calls it Busy Table.

Busy Table is a brilliant expression for a buffet.

That’s all- as you were.

But I was responding to your comment that "everyone" is misunderstanding each other's tone. I don't think they are.

I do tell myself not to wildly exaggerate, but I never listen.

Loving the confusion about “Markies”. It can’t be THAT difficult to get your head around people?! 😱

Just to really throw you, I’ve been known to refer to M&S as “Sparkies”. It’s a combination of Marks & Sparks and Markies and makes perfect sense in my head. Although admittedly my family is less convinced! They often have a hard time trying to decipher what shop I’m talking about 😄

I would definitely go to the shop just to pick up a few things, just because you have some food in doesnt mean you cant go out to pick other food up.

On the "markies" front, I genuinely thought when I clicked the thread that it was a posh pronunciation of maccies I call it "m&s" but have older family members who call it "markses", never heard of markies and had to read the replies to know where you were talking about!