to put my judgey pants on over this?

[LadyBiscuit]

Fully expect a huge flaming but I can take it.

Yesterday I was in M&S at the till and the woman next to me had a child in her pushchair who was about a year old. The woman handed the child a plastic container of food that she'd just paid for saying 'the lady says you can have this now' and the little girl stuck her hand in and started eating. It was a tub of 20 cocktail sausages.

Can we add this to Fruit Shoots and Greggs sausage rolls? Or because they were from M&S do they not count?

Unhygenic? You do realise that kids put their hands in their mouths all the time without washing them first?

Alouiseg AaaaHA - child was 1, so could not have been "asking for them" < tries to remember if 1 year olds can talk >

Eating in shops not my cup of tea either (my mother would have a cats bum mouth about it), but having said that, I was once caught out in Sainsburys and DS2 ate nearly a whole bunch of bananas ... embarrassing to hand over the skins to the cashier .....

If so, YANBU.

Way too much salt of course, but at least they have a bit of iron in them, unlike a packet of crisp, say. Besides, those little packs of M&S cocktail sausages are really dinky.

I think they were cooked. No idea, I think sausages are vile

nb In case it isn't clear, this thread is ever so slightly tongue in cheek

Phew, Lady

I'm trying to have an opinion about this, I really am...

...nope, nothing, sorry.

We know.

And no-one has said FFS yet !

[puckered up mouth like a dogs bottom]

They'd have been cooked (not that I would know, of course ) Doesn't really matter. As for the hygiene aspect, a bit of dirt is good for the constitution.

FFS - there you go!

LadyBiscuit

don't put your tongue in your cheek. It is most unhygenic.

FFS

Ah see you'd need to know which M&S cocktail sausages

Dad works in a sausage factory so I have Inside Knowledge on this and tbh, there are some I woudl and some I would not IYSWIM

Seriously though it could be a once off for a child starting to eat agin after a sickness, a child thgat has medically to be enticed to eat, a birtthday....

who knows?

Although being no angel I may also have thought- hmm

Thankyou. Was feeling like there was a disappointingly small amount of vitriol on this thread

Ah see you'd need to know which M&S cocktail sausages

Dad works in a sausage factory so I have Inside Knowledge on this and tbh, there are some I woudl and some I would not IYSWIM

Seriously though it could be a once off for a child starting to eat agin after a sickness, a child thgat has medically to be enticed to eat, a birtthday....

who knows?

Although being no angel I may also have thought- hmm

And 1 is anything from baby to toddler, ds4 is one and in full toddler mode (and two next month)

Tell me more about the different sausages Clarissimo - are different sized packs of M&S cocktail sausages different

Dad would say an overall yes to M&S it seems, and Waitrose, but a never to cheaper ranges and anything from a choippy etc

But he says he never eats any at all except for the ones from a decent butchers in town.

he also says that sausages are better than anything made from moulded chicken such as chicken burgers as he cleans all the amchines and there's no real difference between the stuff binned and the stuff used for those.

vegetarianism anyone?

I don't think we've had a yet

we call cocktail sausages 'crack'.

so not really suitable for a one year old

LOL @ OP being horrified by this. Don't get the objection.

see that ought to put me off but then I remind myself that I do the 'one for me, one for the dog' thing and a bit of crappy odds and ends meat seems less of an issue

It was a joke Oblomov. There have been some very serious threads in AIBU over the last few days so I was trying to lighten the tone with a silly one.

I didn't know there was anything wrong with the odd bit off crap food until I joined MN.
I used to often let DD have a sausage roll in her buggy.
She was fed and happy whilst I did the shopping, then we went home and she ate, well normal food.
But then to me, sausage rolls, from Greggs are normal food, and can be part of a balanced diet.

I thought nothing of handing her a dunker that I'd not paid for in the trolley either.

I don't see why it's such a big deal?