ASDA How much for a courgette?!

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Something wrong here surely.

They are £2 a kilo (which is pretty standard for courgettes for a few years now) and the courgette weighs .62 of a kilo.
Can't see the problem?

They're £2/kilo most places, this doesn't seem strange.

Who pays for courgettes? If you like them, and have any space for a big planter, grow your own! You'll have so many that you'll be giving them away.

And then throw them back in the sea, they are foul things

I bought a 500g pack in Aldi today for £1.15. I don't understand your problem?

It weighed 600g so it was either an absolutely massive courgette or you were leaning / had something else on the scales!

One courgette though. Crazy price. Online basket suggested it would cost me 56p. Usually shop lidl, but due to being ill, I did online.

Unexciting fresh veg and fruit should not be so unaffordable, especially compared to a cheap processed pizza for instance.

YBVU for buying courgettes. They are the the contents of satan’s jockstrap.

One courgette which weighed over half a kilo so it must have been pretty sizeable!

I have a new allotment this year so will hopefully have some later in season, frosts not over here yet. Night time temps still down to 2 degrees a week ago.

Definitely makes allotment a wise move.

Pic for scale

LOL McDs sauce sachet for scale.
Don't judge me - daughter works there and we have them lying around. Haha

Chop it into 7, then they are cheaper

It’s pretty massive though

Did you weigh it to make sure the label is correct?

Perhaps it was a mislabelled marrow!

Think it was weighted wrongly. Sometime the scales doesn't work properly so you have to make sure it's at 0.0g before weighting it.

That sounds like a very large courgette to me. I usually buy the pack of three for a pound.

Ha. Mystery solved.

As I said, not well and brain fogged up. Thank you @CamdenLurker

I can rest now and not fear further courgette purchases. Lol

On another note I went to the co op the other day and Lurpak was £5.20!!! Obvs didn’t buy it and I won’t ever again I’ll stick to the Aldi knock off.

Seems expensive for one completely normal sized courgette.

I would be tempted to complain (yes I am that petty, and then some).

Oh, I didn't know that, but it does explain the unusual taste...

... and possibly why Ddog couldn't get enough of it.

Definitely complain because they need to know things aren't being weighed properly.

I'm probably too lazy to complain. Just happy that courgettes haven't become an unaffordable luxury item.

I love courgettes in pasta and tomato and olive sauce by Lloyd Grossman.

If you don't complain, I'll be awake till 1am having imaginary arguments with Courgette Fucker on your behalf.

If you do grow them on your allotment, check everyday. Morning and night or you will have a marrow before you know it. 😁