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?

I saw a bouquet made out of Lindt chocolates on sticks this week.

My fb is just full of people selling cupcakes or big cakes - some awful ones yesterday with jammie dodger biscuits stuck on top of a sort of disgusting looking tray bake.

These treat bag box things give me serious ick. Sticking a load of pounds shop sweets in a wee box from your (unclean) kitchen seems to be the growth industry of the pandemic. None of them are cheap either.

The same with the strawberries dipped in chocolate that look absolutely disgusting are another thing I see a lot.

Really fancy a (homemade in my own home!) strawberry dipped in chocolate now!

@askingrandomsonlinemighthelp

You know what? It's often desperate people trying to make a bit of money. Times are hard for a lot of people. It's so upsetting that people are ready to rip the piss out of them. Just leave them to it. My mum used to have to sell jam to try to scrape by when we were kids. Who are you people to be mocking others? Awful bunch of bellends.

I don't give a fuck why they are doing it. There's no guarantee of hygiene, a lot of them overcharge for what is quite often crap and they deserve to be mocked. Some deserve to have the piss ripped out of them too.

@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

Jeeeeez...

Looks awful..''Grazing table''?
Norovirus Nightmare more like...No bloody thanks.

One I saw yesterday was a handful of jam jars decorated with some lace for £20.

Someone on my local Facebook page sells traybakes with chocolate sweets tipped over them at random. I don't know if she has hygiene certificates etc, but they look so sickly I have blocked her.

Who buys them though?! Freud’s and family out of pity? I don’t get it

No wonder the UK has an obesity problem.

*friends

There's a woman local to me that does old school puddings, cakes, deserts etc and advertises on Facebook.

She has all the certs she needs and is a registered business owner. Her stuff is v popular and looks delicious.

I would gladly buy from her if I didn't love baking myself (I'm a bit of a tight c too)

@thecatsarecrazy They don’t look so bad. But I think there needs to be higher food hygiene standards especially when the food will be given to others and not consumed at home.

I'd have no issue with buying homemade jam because it's filled in hot and sterile.

The ones I am talking about get very enthusiastic comments. Maybe they are just people with an ultra sweet tooth.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

Who buys them though?! Freud’s and family out of pity? I don’t get it

Freudian slip?

😂😂

Why is selling jam on FB any better or different than baking cakes? So one kind of unhealthy food laden with sugar is acceptable, but another kind of unhealthy food laden with sugar is "shite"?

Nice to see the obesity crisis/crippling nhs/everyone else except me lives in a contaminated shithole warriors out in force for this thread. No one is holding you at gunpoint and forcing you to buy and eat cakes from facebook.

You don’t actually need a certificate to sell low risk foods anymore. I am a cake seller, I had my kitchen checked out by the council years ago but have since been told (by the council) that they are no longer doing hygiene inspections certificates for low risk foods, i thinks sweets and cake fall under this category, I do have my basic hygiene certificate which I chose to to do myself. I have never had unhappy customers but I see my products as top end compared to some things is see advertised.

I would happily buy sweets but not some of these boxes that look like someone’s chucked a load of biscuits and dipped strawberries into a box.

@askingrandomsonlinemighthelp

You know what? It's often desperate people trying to make a bit of money. Times are hard for a lot of people. It's so upsetting that people are ready to rip the piss out of them. Just leave them to it. My mum used to have to sell jam to try to scrape by when we were kids. Who are you people to be mocking others? Awful bunch of bellends.

Homemade jam sounds great. Selling £2 worth of sweets for a tenner is ridiculous. Who on earth is buying them?!

And before anyone suggests it, I couldn't bake a cake if my life depended on it so I'm certainly not a FB dysentery seller.

We normally have a couple of local markets and people are able to sell cakes and homemade jams etc. every Saturday. I’m fairly certain they had to produce food hygiene certificates before they were allowed to book a table though.

I’ve never seen any of those sort of Facebook pages locally. I wonder if they’d struggle to compete with the people doing the markets? .

@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.

I think a lot round here are using internet images. The listing of what you get being completely different to the items in the picture. So mentioning sandwiches, cakes, scones but picture also has pork pkes, quiche, sausage rolls etc.

The afternoon tea boxes are ridiculous. The lovely rosette-awarded local hotel delivers them for £15, same price these lunatics are charging to churn them out of their greasy kitchens.

If people don’t like it then they don’t have to buy it, there’s no proof anyone has breached any food laws 😐😐, obviously people do buy it.