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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.

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bladebladebla1 · 17/07/2023 06:32

Brilliant, how stressful for you all

bladebladebla1 · 17/07/2023 06:36

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.

Oh my word. I didn't know this was a thing but I'm allowed to eat until 10am today before fasting for an op and THIS will be my last meal (well, hopefully not last, it's not that serious)

londonrach · 17/07/2023 06:38

Best favour. Offer them free on Facebook. Also why you buying crisps you don't eat..sounds like alot of crisps you all eating unless you a big family

gogomoto · 17/07/2023 06:40

Just buy the flavours you eat!

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 17/07/2023 07:10

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. 😁😀

Isn't the salt bad for them?

Hmmmm2018 · 17/07/2023 07:53

bladebladebla1 · 17/07/2023 06:36

Oh my word. I didn't know this was a thing but I'm allowed to eat until 10am today before fasting for an op and THIS will be my last meal (well, hopefully not last, it's not that serious)

Hope it lives up to being the best last meal!! (Has to be white bread!!)

ClareBlue · 17/07/2023 10:16

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 17/07/2023 07:10

Isn't the salt bad for them?

They need quite a bit of salt in their diet so a few bags of crisps is fine. They have a salt and mineral licking block so they generally know what they need. We don't have weekly carrier bags full of unwanted crisps like the OP, so they don't get that much.

ymemanresu · 17/07/2023 12:22

Put them out for the birds. Birds love crisps

IamnotSethRogan · 17/07/2023 12:28

A) stop buying prawn cocktail crisps
B) she had told you she didn't want them, then you just turned up with them and she probably just agreed to take them at the time, but on reflection was a bit pissed off that you dumped them on her again.
C) STOP BUYING PRAWN COCKTAIL CRISPS

Greenfree · 17/07/2023 12:34

I think you should collect then. Also stop buying them, I don't understand how you end up with so many. Just buy multipacks of the flavours you like

Stompythedinosaur · 17/07/2023 12:37

I really need to know how you end up with so many prawn cocktail crisps that you have this problem. Where are they coming from?

You shouldn't be pressuring her to take more when she doesn't want them, I assume she's asking you to pick them up because of being irritated about this.

You should have just thrown them away. I would apologise and ask her to throw them away now.

RoundedToast · 17/07/2023 13:34

WildUnchartedWaters · 16/07/2023 21:57

I want a goat.

I think the OP needs a goat more. 🐐

WildUnchartedWaters · 17/07/2023 13:49

RoundedToast · 17/07/2023 13:34

I think the OP needs a goat more. 🐐

I'll take all her crisps if she buys me a goat

LtMoose · 17/07/2023 14:00

YABU for giving away prawn cocktail! They are the best flavour!

Cirice · 17/07/2023 14:00

I have eight bags of bacon fries here if anyone wants to swap for a goat?

KatsuYum · 17/07/2023 14:55

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.

You’re cracking me up!

If my goats cheese has a fishy sort of flavour next time, I’ll know it’ll be the crisps that dun it.

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 17/07/2023 14:58

Ok, I'll bite (gettit?) and assume this is a RL, if First World problem.

No. Don't collect. Does your dsis have form for this type of Princessy behaviour? And yeh, bin, if all else fails.

Glitterblue · 17/07/2023 14:59

bibbityboppityboo · 16/07/2023 14:21

How on earth are you ending up with bags of surplus prawn cocktail crisps?!

Are you a school maths test problem? If Burnsburnsburns has 43 bags of prawn cocktail crisps but palms 35 off to her sister, who returns 50% of the crisps but her mum takes 10% of the original number, how many bags of prawn cocktail crisps are left? 😂

How many of us are now actually doing this maths problem? 🙋🏻‍♀️😂

WildUnchartedWaters · 17/07/2023 15:36

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 17/07/2023 14:58

Ok, I'll bite (gettit?) and assume this is a RL, if First World problem.

No. Don't collect. Does your dsis have form for this type of Princessy behaviour? And yeh, bin, if all else fails.

What?! 🤣🤣 op buys things she doesnt need, shoves them on her sister,.refuses to take them back then orders her sister to give them to her neighbours...and the sister is the princess 🤣

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 17/07/2023 16:45

@WildUnchartedWaters Or the sister could just have said no thank you, not accepted them, rather than have them, then have a Queenie fit a couple of weeks down the line?

WildUnchartedWaters · 17/07/2023 17:25

SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 17/07/2023 16:45

@WildUnchartedWaters Or the sister could just have said no thank you, not accepted them, rather than have them, then have a Queenie fit a couple of weeks down the line?

Queenie fit 🙄

Iamclearlyamug · 17/07/2023 17:29

I'll have them 🤣 me and DD11 only eat prawn cocktail - nothing else will do 🤷‍♀️

GoodChat · 17/07/2023 17:56

Iamclearlyamug · 17/07/2023 17:29

I'll have them 🤣 me and DD11 only eat prawn cocktail - nothing else will do 🤷‍♀️

I've got 2 DD's and a DP that all fight for the prawn cocktail Grin

BMW6 · 17/07/2023 18:03

What a bizarre problem - why the fuck are you buying them?????

AliceOlive · 17/07/2023 19:33

I think the OP is a mad genius for being able to generate this much discussion with merely one weird post.

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