Prince Philip’s mustard prank

[Dogmatix34]

I don’t have any very strong feelings about the Royal family except to find it all a bit outdated but I found this story a real sign of how out of touch they are. The thought of my grandfather encouraging me to squirt mustard on to his ceiling! Since he a) wouldn’t have an army of cleaners to clear it up b) only had a small number of rooms to go in to and would not have wanted disgusting mustard all over the place c) didn’t have incredibly high ceilings where perhaps you wouldn’t have noticed.
I could understand if it was squirting mustard outside or maybe on clothes that could be washed but I found that story really jarring. They don’t need to be house proud, they haven’t worked for what they have and have so much.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58628865

I for one am outraged about this. Buying mustard in a plastic tube, wasting food, and making a mess. Everyone involved should be executed.

We’ve obviously all got far too much time on our hands to be discussing this non-issue in so much detail! I know I have as I’m self-isolating and totally fucking bored 😅

@georgarina

I for one am outraged about this. Buying mustard in a plastic tube, wasting food, and making a mess. Everyone involved should be executed.

Mustard tubes are not plastic.

I for one am outraged about this. Buying mustard in a plastic tube, wasting food, and making a mess. Everyone involved should be executed.

Drowned in mustard preferably.

@Inastatus

We’ve obviously all got far too much time on our hands to be discussing this non-issue in so much detail! I know I have as I’m self-isolating and totally fucking bored 😅

Here we sit, on our arses, making comments about how other people should live their lives better

@georgarina

I for one am outraged about this. Buying mustard in a plastic tube, wasting food, and making a mess. Everyone involved should be executed.

The tube’s metal. 😊

@Billlius

The Royal Family preach on and on about the environment and climate change while taking private jets etc etc. Prince Charles won’t have plastic at Highgrove. He makes the gardeners saw off any plastic handles on garden tools and refit them with wooden handles. It’s in the Highgrove book. So why do they have plastic bottles for mustard?

this reminds me of a poster on here ages ago talking about reducing their plastic waste and they proudly said they removed excess plastic packaging at the supermarket and disposed of it there . As if not taking it home meant it never existed

georgarina

I for one am outraged about this. Buying mustard in a plastic tube, wasting food, and making a mess. Everyone involved should be executed.
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Definitely, off with their heads!

Try putting squirty cream on the table at a boy's birthday party.

[quote Billlius]@godmum56

This one. I got it for £3 in a National Trust second hand book shop.[/quote]
thank you

@nomoneytreehere to 'regularly have food fights' in a world where children are starving shows that you are, as you say yourself, 'better off than most.' Indeed you are. Food isn't a toy, which is probably a notion that many people on here are trying to instil into their toddlers. That tiresome exhortation to 'lighten up!' is what people say when they aren't able to engage with reasonable disagreement with their viewpoint. So much easier to pass it off as the whining of a few killjoys; you might even manage to convince others that's the case, but of course you know it's not true yourself. It reminds me of people who say they 'tell it like it is', when what they actually mean is that they are rude. Cliches are lazy. Would you tell the poor sod on minimum wage who had to come and clean up the ceiling after the great Royal japes with mustard to 'lighten up'? Being fun-loving and creating a house full of laughter for your family to grow up in is not contingent on decorating the walls with food, and thinking that that behaviour is disrespectful to whomever will be cleaning the walls, and that food itself should be treated with respect, is not the mark of a joyless misanthrope. Conversely, if you need to throw food at the walls or each other to have fun, your imagination is sorely limited.

@thereisonlyoneofme

Give it a rest, someone always has to find fault with every single thing the Royals do

Hardly surprising.

Aren't they talking about when they were children, so probably 30 years ago when the use of plastic was widespread?
And we did loads of baking and art during lockdown. My children helped clean up because I was working, we managed

This thread is why MN has the reputation it has. Honestly some of you need to get a life

Has nobody ever encountered English mustard in a tube? It's not made out of plastic

Oh please @Squirrel1980, mustard isn’t a food, it’s a condiment that’s pretty useless by itself.

@Dogmatix34

If the story had been flicking peas then I would have found it quite endearing but to those that have food fights, do you allow your children to make permanent stains on furnishings/ decor? I think also it’s the fact that they have decided to release this story out of presumably loads they could have chosen as he was supposedly such a fun grandad. Where are their PR people?!

Yes, it would have been just as endearing, and yes I allowed my grandchildren to spill drinks and leave footprints over my unfinished leather sofas and to write underneath my wooden table in felt tip pens. Some of us aren't at all precious about permanent stains - they're reminders of fun times when grandchildren are small. I bet your kids have a barrel of laughs in your house - does Mrs Houseproud live there?

Are the Palace staff on minimum wage, then, @Squirrel1980? I hadn't realised that.

@CloudPop

Has nobody ever encountered English mustard in a tube? It's not made out of plastic

Yes - mustard in a tube is great for camping/picnics.

@Flyingantday

And to be fair, at first glance I read it as “mustard lube” which would be a completely different anecdote

More Andrew’s style, I would have thought!

@thereisonlyoneofme

Give it a rest, someone always has to find fault with every single thing the Royals do

This. It was a bit of fun!

@Billlius

Charles and his wooden handles. From The Garden at Highgrove by HRH PoW and Candida Lycett Green.

Yeah it doesn't say anywhere here that they remove plastic handles and replace them. It sounds like when they break they replace the handles rather than buy new.

Bloody hell.
It was at family BBQs, not state banquets.

Probably in a wooden summer house.

We regularly walk past their summerhouse behind the beach on the North Norfolk coast.

It’s an ordinary wooden summer house, not posh at all.

Aren't they talking about when they were children, so probably 30 years ago when the use of plastic was widespread?

I'm sure far fewer things were in plastic bottles 30 years ago than there are now.

Here. A Mustard TUBE. Not plastic
www.ocado.com/products/colman-s-original-english-mustard-tube-356967011?ds_rl=1126321&ds_rl=1164972&ds_rl=1291426&gclid=CjwKCAjwhaaKBhBcEiwA8acsHLQ_-lOhS5S8Hn1IZHl5CeakDuLX0KT3hEdz0b14TvgnDbaD-9kuhBoC9HgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

It was at a BBQ. So outside somewhere I’d imagine. Not in a palace. Probably on a canvas tent awning or something.

No idea where it was, but I would put money on it not being at BP. The floor to ceiling heights are more than three times what you have in the average home. It would be incredibly difficult to squeeze a tube of mustard that high.