£195 for a beef wellington!

[Blueskybird]

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?

Some people have more money than sense.

M&S is known to target these people.

Good lord. It’s not. Fortums is a third smaller with less ingredients. And frozen. So mass produced. And markies do one at 6o quid.

I mean I was shocked that they are charging £50 for a turkey pie!

I thought that was the "economic stretch" item. Lots of shops and cafe have one very expensive item - like the £10K a night hotel suite, £7 coffee or the £250 T shirt, to stretch the possibility of pricing and make what you chose seem more reasonable, in this case prob a turkey or or other main course which would definitely seem expensive without the sttreeeeeecchhhhh..... 😂

I am not sure who the "wanker" is, when someone is not able to accept that some cut of beef are more expensive than others 😂

Wouldn't you buy the Fortnum's one for 120 pounds? It serves 6-8. Only difference is that it doesn't have the Tom wotsit label on it.

Sigh, I think you missed the point.

And it's very hard to believe that this is a fair price for BW. As we can see with Fortnum's offering the exact same thing for 75 pounds less.

Is it not also rather smaller? The one I found was, though I admit to not being an expert in ready made luxe beef wellingtons.

https://www.fortnumandmason.com/whole-beef-wellington-oven-ready-1-2kg

Then what’s the point. They canr offer more than the basics?

Nice. I'm sure you wouldn't taste the difference.

Don't know about the rest of you, but I've gone right off beef Wellington lately...
#mushroomforaging

We'll have a chicken with all the trimmings and be perfectly happy.

define "reasonable"?

Putting a price on not only ingredients/ material but also the work and skills of someone?

Do you try to get a "reasonable" salary, or to get paid at the top of what you can reasonably expect?

If someone wants to charge £900 for a beef wellington AND they find people to buy it, good for them. I wouldn't but I don't resent people who do.

Why do we expect food to be free, or as close to free as we can get away it?

I think it's a ridiculous amount of money but I can't get worked up about it if they can sell it. It doesn't cause anyone any harm. However, I shall be hovering for the many yellow stickers on the Use By date!

That food prices have massively increased since brexit, just as we all now they would. So why that is a positive I don't know. Seems a funny sort of freedom to me.

The only reasonable response OP should have thought of.

A third smaller? You sure? It says it serves 6-8, and the Marks one serves 6.

Marks may not be frozen, but it's mass-produced. Anyway, I thought beef benefited from being frozen. Beef casserole does.

I just googled about the pros and cons if frozen/fresh beef and saw a few studies that said fresh isn't superior and consumers can't tell the difference.

I don't think a few extra ingredients are worth much.

A fillet of beef is available from online meat supermarkets from about £40 depending on size. Recipes online will give you the rest - pate and mushroom duxelles as well as the pancake that wraps around everything before wrapping in (excellent supermarket) puff pastry at a significantly reduced price. It’s not hard to do yourself - don’t be fooled by those who would have you believe otherwise.

I haven't seen the Marks one, but the OP said it serves 6 and the Fortnum one serves 6-8.

You are obviously not their target audience.

(Neither am I as a vegetarian)

Yes, 1.4 kg v 2.1 and it won’t be mass produced as it’s fresh.

Yeah, sounds just like wrapping a present. I'm sure it's not so hard that most couldn't do it, if they tried.

It’s the weight of the product you need to check .

How is it mass produced please?

I bought an enormous whole fillet of beef a couple of weeks ago for £75, which I cut into 16 large steaks, even allowing for the equivalent of two large steaks per person, and taking the other ingredients into account, I still think you could make your own easily for under £100. I’ve made beef wellington many times - it’s a fairly straightforward thing to make.