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Should I collect them?

203 replies

BurnsBurnsBurns · 16/07/2023 14:13

we always end up with surplus prawn cocktail crisps so a few months ago I asked my sister if she wanted them for the kids. She said she did so I took them over (a Tesco bag full). The week after I took another bag full and then the week after that I visited with another bag full. At this point she asked me not to bring anymore as they now had a cupboard full of them and she only allows her kids one packet a day and they don’t always want prawn cocktail.

So the week after I took the bag to the food bank and they didn’t want them either?!

Two weeks went past and I went to sister house and took two full bags of crisps and explained that the food bank didn’t want them. She agreed to take them. Now she’s asking me to collect them as she has too many. I already have a full bag here to get rid of and really don’t want to take any back so I suggested she pass them on to her neighbour. She said she can’t be arsed (to go next door??!) and that she wants me to collect them today. She initially agreed to take them so WIBU to say no? Nobody eats them here so they’d just go to waste.

The whole thing is driving me mad, my mum used to take them and now she’s refusing too.

OP posts:
Jackonary · 16/07/2023 21:14

Can you put them in a supermarket collection box

tealandteal · 16/07/2023 21:14

How many multipacks are you buying? There must be one without the prawn cocktail flavour.

KatsuYum · 16/07/2023 21:18

tealandteal · 16/07/2023 21:14

How many multipacks are you buying? There must be one without the prawn cocktail flavour.

You’d think but where’s the fun in that! 😂

ClareBlue · 16/07/2023 21:19

Get a goat. They love this flavour crisps along with salt and vinegar. Not so keen on cheese and onion and obviously don't eat beef or bacon.
Problem solved

WildUnchartedWaters · 16/07/2023 21:19

ClareBlue · 16/07/2023 21:19

Get a goat. They love this flavour crisps along with salt and vinegar. Not so keen on cheese and onion and obviously don't eat beef or bacon.
Problem solved

Stop it 🤣🤣

KatsuYum · 16/07/2023 21:21

ClareBlue · 16/07/2023 21:19

Get a goat. They love this flavour crisps along with salt and vinegar. Not so keen on cheese and onion and obviously don't eat beef or bacon.
Problem solved

problem solved 😂

There was an old woman with a packet of crisps…

ClareBlue · 16/07/2023 21:25

It's true though. Ours absolutely love them. Nobody likes them here so we tried it out as an option instead of sending to my sister in England who we suspected might ask us to come and take them back. It's now their main treat. 😁😀

WildUnchartedWaters · 16/07/2023 21:26

ClareBlue · 16/07/2023 21:25

It's true though. Ours absolutely love them. Nobody likes them here so we tried it out as an option instead of sending to my sister in England who we suspected might ask us to come and take them back. It's now their main treat. 😁😀

Hands down one of the best things ive read on here, so il just about forgive your weird family for not liking them

Oysterbabe · 16/07/2023 21:26

tealandteal · 16/07/2023 21:14

How many multipacks are you buying? There must be one without the prawn cocktail flavour.

That's going to be the follow question on the Sats paper.

OP buys a 20 packet multipack containing 5 flavours. How many packets are each of the 4 family members eating each week to result in a carrier bag containing 20 prawn cocktail?

LorraineInSpain · 16/07/2023 21:42

Oysterbabe · 16/07/2023 21:26

That's going to be the follow question on the Sats paper.

OP buys a 20 packet multipack containing 5 flavours. How many packets are each of the 4 family members eating each week to result in a carrier bag containing 20 prawn cocktail?

Assuming there are an equal number of each flavour in each pack, and one of the flavours is prawn cocktail.

Each pack contains 20/5 = 4 packs of prawn cocktail crisps.

To get 20 bags of prawn cocktail crisps, OP needs to buy 20/4 = 5 multipacks.

This would be 100 packs of crisps in total. OP’s family doesn’t eat the prawn cocktail crisps, so only eat 100-20=80 between them. Assuming each family member eats an equal amount of crisps, each person eats 80/4 = 20 packets of crisps per week.

Hmmmm2018 · 16/07/2023 21:47

Missing the point but really really need a prawn cocktail crisp sandwich (preferably with salad cream) now. This thread is bonkers and brilliant.

WildUnchartedWaters · 16/07/2023 21:57

Hmmmm2018 · 16/07/2023 21:47

Missing the point but really really need a prawn cocktail crisp sandwich (preferably with salad cream) now. This thread is bonkers and brilliant.

I want a goat.

Thisismyname33 · 16/07/2023 22:13

Is this even for real. I’m sorry but it’s pathetic

Evaka · 16/07/2023 22:13

ClareBlue · 16/07/2023 21:19

Get a goat. They love this flavour crisps along with salt and vinegar. Not so keen on cheese and onion and obviously don't eat beef or bacon.
Problem solved

Dying!

Annaishere · 16/07/2023 22:16

Also if you eat so much crisps why can’t you buy them all in different flavours without the mix flavour bags

ClareBlue · 16/07/2023 22:42

And if you do opt for the goat solution you should be aware that they like to eat them out of the packet, not decanted into a bucket, or god forbid, the floor. Leaving the opened packet in their feed bucket is fine. They'll do the rest.

greyhairnomore · 16/07/2023 23:02

Take them to work ?
Kids take them to school ?
Stop buying crisps no one eats ? Confused

Cirice · 16/07/2023 23:03

Trade you for bacon fries?
can’t buy scampi fries without them and I cannot stand them. I usually send them to DS but even he’s seen the light.

WildUnchartedWaters · 16/07/2023 23:07

Cirice · 16/07/2023 23:03

Trade you for bacon fries?
can’t buy scampi fries without them and I cannot stand them. I usually send them to DS but even he’s seen the light.

Same I just shove them in my fat face though.

So worth it for the scampi.

Wildlyboring · 16/07/2023 23:10

Well OP this is the laugh I needed tonight. Brilliant.

Cirice · 16/07/2023 23:16

WildUnchartedWaters · 16/07/2023 23:07

Same I just shove them in my fat face though.

So worth it for the scampi.

I’m glad it’s not just me. DH says I’m weird, but he refuses to eat either and frankly I distrust anyone who doesn’t love a scampi fry.

blubberyboo · 16/07/2023 23:20

You really must be eating a shit ton of crisps to be in the situation where you have so many of one flavour that nobody has room for them

stop buying crisps

WildUnchartedWaters · 16/07/2023 23:21

Cirice · 16/07/2023 23:16

I’m glad it’s not just me. DH says I’m weird, but he refuses to eat either and frankly I distrust anyone who doesn’t love a scampi fry.

All the more for you :)

kayserah · 16/07/2023 23:24

Why do you keep on buying prawn cocktail crisps? 😂😂

justdrink · 17/07/2023 06:08

How many crisps do you buy/eat to have a bag of surplus crisps every week?

I don't live in the UK and it's something we ALWAYS bring back as we love them. I really wish we had some but won't be in the uk before Christmas. Sniff.

Are there any homeless people around your vicinity, who would be grateful for them?

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