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£195 for a beef wellington!

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Blueskybird · 11/10/2025 16:28

Just that really, are supermarkets now taking the absolute Micky?? I know I don’t have to buy it. I know no one is forcing me to. But seriously how can they actually think it’s ok to demand that price for a Beef wellington that serves 6. Granted it’s in the celebrity chef Christmas range and I’m well aware that we all have different budgets and I absolutely expect to pay for quality but come on, that’s a scandalous price. AIBU to think we have lost the plot with food pricing or would you pay it?

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PigglyWigglyOhYeah · 01/12/2025 11:09

BatchCookBabe · 15/10/2025 21:20

I haven't spoken to one single person in real life who doesn't think these prices are absolute bollocks. 😂 People on £80K a year in management, checkout operators on £15K a year, a hospital specialist on £125K, a vicar, a solicitor, police, teachers, and numerous people ranging from working class to upper class (landowners who live near me, old money.) Not ONE person thinks that £195 for a beef wellington for 6 people is a reasonable amount. Everyone finds it farcical, and would not buy it - even if they can afford it - as the price is ludicrous.

A few people will buy it though, just to say they did, and to pretend they're loaded. 😆 And they will tell EVERYONE they bought it and how much they paid!

I love the thought of this person leaping up , incensed beyond reason, from perusing their M&S Christmas food catalogue, pulling on their boots and going stomping out of the house to interrogate everyone they came across about the price of beef Wellington, perhaps even shouting in the street, 'It's a MORAL OUTRAGE!' for good measure. Getting on the bus and asking the driver, 'What about this M&S beef Wellington, then?' before paying their fare. Using it as a conversational gambit at the till in New Look. Chasing the landed gentry across open fields, leaping ditches and floundering through mud, shouting, 'M&S beef Wellington!!!!' at them as they shoot pheasants out of the gunmetal sky

Ah. Rich scenes.

opencecilgee · 01/12/2025 11:20

Cook have one for £90

bargain!

GasPanic · 01/12/2025 11:32

Can this be eaten by one person in a single sitting ?

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