Sweet boxes on Facebook?! 🤢

[Thewiseoneincognito]

I’m a member on a local Facebook buy swap group and it’s constantly spammed with people selling pizza boxes filled with sweets often photographed on a fluffy dog hair infested rug. Does anyone else see them? Does anyone even buy them? The same with the strawberries dipped in chocolate that look absolutely disgusting are another thing I see a lot. What delights do you see on your FB groups?

@sickofpainting

I also don't like new grazing table craze I do t like the idea of everyone touching the same food and the food is touching each other hahah

Gross

I might be being dense but I don't understand the breakfast box ones with the sausages, eggs etc. Is the food hot? And then touching all the cold stuff?

Love this thread. I'm sitting here pissing myself laughing 🤣🤣. Almost as good as the Facebook 'chester draws' one 😉

There is a judgey element to this thread, but I fully admit I'm loving it. And all the faux horror about obesity. I don't think a hun selling a box of haribo will bring down the NHS single handedly.

I've seen similar (exceptions: breakfasts and the mousse dog - those are new to me) locally to me and its not appealing. You do need a certain element of trust, and I'm afraid I don't have it why these guys. I have more trust (but not blind trust) in commercial food organisations where there is more accountability and regulation.

@rooarsome

Same with the afternoon teas. I saw one recently which was a couple of butties with a bit of spread, half a sausage roll each, 2 cheap looking scones and a few grapes and crisps scattered on for £15.

Oh my. Really. I feel I am missing out, never seen any of this

I don't know, I bought a box off a 'proper' website last year, it took over a week to arrive and the sweets weren't very nice (and I love sweets lol)
I bought one off someone locally last year and at Easter this year and they were lovely! Definitely no pictures on hair rugs lol

*hairy lol

I might be being dense but I don't understand the breakfast box ones with the sausages, eggs etc. Is the food hot? And then touching all the cold stuff?

the second law of thermodynamics ensures that before too long, there will be no hot stuff or cold stuff, just a box of uniformly lukewarm stuff

@bananapumpkin

Personally I find most of these ads really offputting - but I'm not sure why people are seeing such a big difference between putting £2 worth of sweets in a pizza box and selling it for £10, compared with putting £2 worth of pizza in a pizza box and selling it for £10!

Fair point, although one might be a legitimate business with food hygiene etc certificates. The other Fred on FB who may or may not have washed hands

I can recommend the boxes of Japanese or Korean imported sweets and snacks from Amazon if you are in the market for "weird". We had fish flavoured chews in ours. Along with kimchi flavoured toffees

Seems to be lot of afternoon tea or picnic boxes lately which just appears to be cheap picnic items from supermarket, so only made a few triangle sarnies, all dumped together in box for bargain of £20.

YANBU! There’s a woman on my FB that tried her hand at sales of general items and now she just focuses on sweet box’s.

I tell you what, they seem quite popular but as you say, how do people know the hygiene levels heave certainly not for me!

She even does delivery’s and announces where she’s going to be on a given day.... line the ice cream van!

There’s others that have started doing the same.... madnes that people spend all that money on stuff they could chuck in a box themselves for half the price

[quote MammaSchwifty]@GreenSlide, christ those eggs look to have been cooked in a nuclear reactor.

@y0rkier0se, that dog is weirdly impressive and simultaneous slightly off-putting[/quote]
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If you open the jar, does it make a dash for the exit? If not you’re fine

It does not but it does makes a popping noise and within four seconds DP from the other room shouts "Did you open the kimchi jar?". It's SO smelly and spicy and utterly, utterly delicious.

I've just checked my local Facebook and lo and behold... Bargain at £20. I guess the parsley or whatever that green stuff is makes it classy 😂

@Catslovepies
That doesn't look too bad at all IF it were from a restaurant. I balk at the idea of buying food made in a random person's kitchen.

Sweet boxes might be more hygienic since you can't get food poisoning from a stale lump of sugar. However the concept is repulsive and there's no reason any adult or child needs that much sugar in one sitting. It feels borderline irresponsible to be offering those for sale unless all those women come from households where eating several packets of sweets a day is normal.

I came across a page that was buying a certain product in bulk (multipacks are £1) then sticking some nice designs on it and reselling for £10 a time each. That's a big mark up if you sell enough of them.

@Catslovepies

I've just checked my local Facebook and lo and behold... Bargain at £20. I guess the parsley or whatever that green stuff is makes it classy 😂

Tbf, that looks pretty nice, more like something from a cafe trying to make an income in lock down.

@Catslovepies

I've just checked my local Facebook and lo and behold... Bargain at £20. I guess the parsley or whatever that green stuff is makes it classy 😂

I'd buy that from a local cafe- looks good.

I don't need to graze, I am not a sheep.

There are lots of issues here
I think it's fair enough to be concerned if people have a hygeine certificate, or are registered with the council for preparing food (although unlike lots of MN, I would buy a cake at a school fayre, or try cakes that colleagues bring in)

And I admit some things do not look great - either because they have mixed sweet and savoury, or hot and cold, or they are not conducive or practical to travel or be delivered.

But I cant get worked up about the sweet boxes though. Yes it's not healthy to eat a ton of sweets in one go, but once you've bought the item, you are free to eat as many or as few as you want at a time. They can surely be stored for another time? It's not healthy to eat 5 or 6 chocolate bars in one go but lots of people buy Cadbury selection boxes at xmas....Or you could say a toblerone is outrageous because it's not healthy to eat a whole one in one sitting.

And lots of posts are just a bit snooty about the concept of the items. Not your thing? Scroll past!

And if people can see (and know) what they are buying at an agreed price, then how are they being ripped off? A lot will look and say it's not worth it I will buy my own sweets/cakes/make a cream tea etc, others will pay for the presentation or convenience if someone else doing it.

Easter eggs are a complete rip off - an egg that weighs less than a chocolate bar is sold for 4 or 5 x the price but most people are prepared to still buy them!

Btw I dont sell sweet cones, breakfasts , and I'm not part of an MLM

I’m surprised that the company ‘Graze’ hasn’t cracked down on people marketing their shit boxes as ‘graze boxes’.

Mind you, there’s plenty of Chanel bog brushes etc on FB.

Ok everyone liked the box I posted... What do you think of this one?

@Beseigedbykillersquirrels

I think I can beat the others...fried mushrooms, sausages, eggs and beans mixed in with croissants and strawberries

That's one of the nastiest food pictures I've ever seen. It looks not dissimilar to what the inside of your stomach would look like a few minutes after eating all of that. Who would pay money for that?