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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:
TiredandLate · 18/07/2023 07:27

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RespectMacaroni · 18/07/2023 07:32

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? 😂

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Zonder · 18/07/2023 07:37

Did OP never come back to express amazement at the simplicity of the idea of just never actually buying PC crisps again?

MissTrip82 · 18/07/2023 07:38

I love that there are people outraged, horrified and disgusted at the suggestion that something nobody wants should go in the bin.

If their concern is environmental I’m struggling to see the environmental benefit in all this driving around with plastic bags full of heavily processed food produced at high cost to the environment.

If the concern is food waste, further attempts to pass off food that your family, your extended family and the local foodbank simply don’t want doesn’t seem a good use of time and effort.

Thelastofbus · 18/07/2023 07:43

Is this a chat gtp post? It just doesn’t make any sense in real life?

Crocksnsocks · 18/07/2023 07:48

We love prawn cocktail crisps here 😃

Give them away on olio or Facebook marketplace

SoupDragon · 18/07/2023 07:53

A whole carrier bag of spare prawn cocktail crisps every week?? 😂😂😂

Sceptre86 · 18/07/2023 08:00

I don't biy certain multipacks because I lnow prawn cocktail crisps will not get eaten in our home. Despite the original saving in buying a multipack surely you are at a loss if you have to give or throw the crisps away? Surely the sensible thing is to stop bloody buying them nd only buy the flavours ypur kids actually eat?

I'd go round and pick them up since she's insisting.

GoodChat · 18/07/2023 08:00

Thelastofbus · 18/07/2023 07:43

Is this a chat gtp post? It just doesn’t make any sense in real life?

ChatGTP is more logical than this Grin

Sceptre86 · 18/07/2023 08:01

*I don't buy certain multipacks because I know even.

pastatriangles · 18/07/2023 08:03

If you eat that many crisps then just buy multipacks of each flavour you like.

Ohyousillydivvy · 18/07/2023 08:05

Put them in the supermarket Foodbank collection point, nobody checks what you put in.

jannier · 18/07/2023 08:10

I'd have to look at my crisp consumption if I collected a shopping bag of the unwanted flavour a week. Collect them make everyone eat prawn cocktail until they no longer like crisps....they are the best flavour by the way.

ilovesushi · 18/07/2023 08:11

YABVU for buying multiple packets of crips you don't like and expecting your sister to take them off your hands. Just buy the crisps you want. Your sister is not your bin/ recycling centre.

IncompleteSenten · 18/07/2023 08:17

Why do you keep buying them? That's ridiculous.
If you're getting the mixed multipacks and don't like prawn cocktail then stop buying the mixed multipacks and just buy the flavours you do like.

User27680416 · 18/07/2023 08:25

Stop eating crisps. Problem solved.

Flippertyfeckerty · 18/07/2023 08:30

Errr - buy the single flavour multipacks?🤷🏼‍♀️

Duckafuk · 18/07/2023 08:31

I'm very angry now, I live on the continent and packs of prawn cocktail crisps are few and far between AND NOW I WANT THEM!

lifesabitchandthenyoudie · 18/07/2023 08:37

Enjoying the weirdness on here. And thank you to the posters who worked out the maths problems for me coz I can't be arsed.

I am concerned, however, at the big question: has anyone checked on the OP's sister's children? She 'only' lets them have ONE packet of crisps a day??? Surely that goes against some sort of children's rights issue? Should social services be involved? Especially if they don't even choose the (obviously) superior PC flavour? Something very wrong there.

TheLadyofShalott1 · 18/07/2023 08:40

babbscrabbs · 16/07/2023 14:30

Don't chuck them in the bin FFS

Why would people suggest that

Give them away via olio / Facebook

And then stop bloody buying them!

THIS!

TheLadyofShalott1 · 18/07/2023 09:04

MissTrip82 · 18/07/2023 07:38

I love that there are people outraged, horrified and disgusted at the suggestion that something nobody wants should go in the bin.

If their concern is environmental I’m struggling to see the environmental benefit in all this driving around with plastic bags full of heavily processed food produced at high cost to the environment.

If the concern is food waste, further attempts to pass off food that your family, your extended family and the local foodbank simply don’t want doesn’t seem a good use of time and effort.

@MissTrip82 I am one of those "people outraged, horrified and disgusted..."

All that I want and ask of the OP is that she does NOT BUY crisps for her family that no-one will eat.

My husband only likes plain salted crisps, I only like plain, salt and vinegar and (my favourite) prawn cocktail crisps. So I would consider myself very unreasonable if I were to buy mulyipacks of crisps that had any cheese and onion, or bbq, or roast beef flavoured crisps in them.

I think that most of the other people on here who are infuriating you by not wanting the OP to buy food that no-one in her family will eat, probably have the same reasons as me, and we don't expect or want the OP to use up even further resources in trying to get rid of the crisps she doesn't want!

Why does not buying multipacks of crisps that contain unwanted flavours not compute with you
Miss Trip?

GetTheStartyParted · 18/07/2023 17:27

Someone just posted these on my local fb page! They were taken almost immediately.

MRex · 18/07/2023 17:41

GetTheStartyParted · 18/07/2023 17:27

Someone just posted these on my local fb page! They were taken almost immediately.

Now is that OP or the sister???

GetTheStartyParted · 18/07/2023 17:55

MRex · 18/07/2023 17:41

Now is that OP or the sister???

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It could be either. It isn't a Tesco bag though is it? 🤔

Easy solution though.

CoffeeCakeAndALattePlease · 18/07/2023 17:58

My favourite flavour! If you’re in plymouth I’ll have them! 😊