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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:
Annaishere · 17/07/2023 22:43

BMW6 · 17/07/2023 18:03

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

I know

Cirice · 17/07/2023 22:47

Perhaps she’s buying them because they come in the multipack with other flavours she does like, and it’s cheaper than buying individually?
I think gram for gram the 24 pack box works out much cheaper than the 6 pack.

Corcory · 17/07/2023 22:53

What on earth are you doing buying sooo many pack of crisps!! Just stop. Buy individual ones if you have to. But just stop please.

AliceOlive · 18/07/2023 03:08

Cirice · 17/07/2023 22:47

Perhaps she’s buying them because they come in the multipack with other flavours she does like, and it’s cheaper than buying individually?
I think gram for gram the 24 pack box works out much cheaper than the 6 pack.

I like to think she does it specifically for us here at MN. The thread is excellent.

Britintheusa · 18/07/2023 03:23

As my username, Brit living in the USA here and not a prawn cocktail crisp to be found 😥 I would eat them aaaaaalllll

Groutyonehereagain · 18/07/2023 03:27

WTAF have I just read? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Sorrynotsorry2 · 18/07/2023 03:57

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? 😂

I think the answer is 72 bags of crisps

Countdown2Holiday · 18/07/2023 04:03

Some supermarkets have a food bank donation box, so put them in there

Or Olio food waste app

Ask around at work or school

Beautiful3 · 18/07/2023 06:34

Give it away on Facebook there will be someone who wants them.

PurplePens · 18/07/2023 06:35

Prawn cocktail crisps are gopping.
Just crunch them up and scatter them over your garden. The birds will hoover them up in no time.

RedRobyn2021 · 18/07/2023 06:37

But they're the best ones

Codlingmoths · 18/07/2023 06:42

If it’s driving you mad imagine your poor sister and mother who have told you no more and you keep turning up with bags full! She is asking you to pick them up rather than binning them to make it clear to you that if you keep bringing them she will make you take action to take them back, it won’t be consequence free for you.
also how many crisps do you eat??

Maraa · 18/07/2023 06:43

Just stop buying crisps 😂

BitOutOfPractice · 18/07/2023 06:47

I wish I had a crisp benefactor like op.

sashh · 18/07/2023 06:51

I only know only one person who actually likes prawn cocktail, but they keep putting them in multi packs.

I agree with putting on Olio.

If I ever put crisps on the side of a sandwich he always checks they are not prawn cocktail, he was scared for life by a bowl of pc crisps his mother put out at a buffet about 35 year ago.

BusyMum47 · 18/07/2023 06:54

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 16/07/2023 14:19

Stop buying crisps you don't eat?! How many crisps are you getting through that you're producing a carrier bag a week of rejects?!

We don't eat prawn cocktail crisps either - I just don't buy them.

This! FFS. 🤦‍♀️

TheGoogleMum · 18/07/2023 06:55

Stop buying them! Nobody in our house likes cheese and onion so we don't buy mixed multipacks. I can get 6x single flavour packs so we get those. Surely buying mixed and wasting some doesn't make financial sense?

WeveLostSightOfWhatANormalHoodieSizeIs · 18/07/2023 07:00

Seems a bit fishy.

sashh · 18/07/2023 07:06

sashh · 18/07/2023 06:51

I only know only one person who actually likes prawn cocktail, but they keep putting them in multi packs.

I agree with putting on Olio.

If I ever put crisps on the side of a sandwich he always checks they are not prawn cocktail, he was scared for life by a bowl of pc crisps his mother put out at a buffet about 35 year ago.

My dad that is.

Itistimeandiamscared · 18/07/2023 07:11

Are they walkers?
Luuurve prawn cocktail crisps. Only crisps I eat. Always on my shopping list.
Don't throw them away, OP.

YouAreBeingUnbearable · 18/07/2023 07:13

7:13am - aaaaand that’s enough internet for today 🥴

Weregoingthroughchanges · 18/07/2023 07:21

YouAreBeingUnbearable · 18/07/2023 07:13

7:13am - aaaaand that’s enough internet for today 🥴

😂😂😂

blacknredsweeties · 18/07/2023 07:24

If you can't manage to buy crisps without getting a flavour non of you like just stop buying crisps all together if it's causing you enough headache to write on here.

blacknredsweeties · 18/07/2023 07:25

Sorry. No sentences. 😕

vintage21 · 18/07/2023 07:27

Only usually get 2 in a multi pack so how on earth are you getting so many? you must be living on crisps 😯put them on freecycle