The Supermarket Sausage Mystery (That My Oxbridge-Bound Kid Solved in Seconds)

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The other day in the supermarket, I spotted something bizarre: a 12-pack and an 8-pack of the exact same sausages, both priced identical. Naturally, you’d grab the 12-pack, right? Everyone else was doing just that. I kept wondering why on earth they’d cost the same, and felt a bit sorry for the 8-packs just sitting there going to waste.

But when I got home and mentioned it, my youngest—who is currently being encouraged to apply for Oxford and Cambridge next year—solved my sausage mystery in a matter of seconds. Am I just being a bit thick?

Yes, you're being a bit thick, and some of those sausages aren't.

Can I just point out that your ds can’t apply to Oxford and Cambridge next year, only one or the other.

And yes, you were more a sausage than a chipolata here (ie thick😂).

No, due to the fact that a number of people have pointed that out already.

Oh ha, that’ll teach me to skim a thread 😂

Err sorry but yep

Has to be psychology, “the study of the bleeding obvious”

Advanced Meat Baton Studies at Banger University, surely?

This was an exhausting way to tell us your kid might, possibly, one day think about going to Oxbridge.

Is... is this real? 😐

I don't think this post was written by AI! There is a grammatical error ("priced identical" rather than "priced identically").

FHS 🤪

Duh!

There was also a very basic UCAS-procedural error too.

Now I’m confused! Surely it’s obvious because chipolatas are thinner than sausages. Is this the point?

Yes you're being thick they're totally different items

There’s going to be a Porkus Christi too.

That was the point of polytechnics originally, that they were more vocational - though Anglia Poly was only a poly for about a year before all polys became unis in 1992, and was only a Higher Education College for a year before that - prior to that, it was CCAT (Cambridge College of Arts and Technology) for many years, having started as the Ruskin College of Art.

It hasn't always offered a poor education, but obviously things can change a lot over the years. It's not a bad city to end up in if you're going to a second rate institution, though.

I'm not sure they do sausage studies though (not that I've looked at a recent prospectus,) so it won't be of help to anyone here.

It wasn’t a mystery and you certainly didn’t need someone Oxbridge bound to work it out.
Bloody hell, just read the label!

I’m not being rude op but any child than can read would be able to read they are 2 completely different items.
I’m failing to see what the mystery is

This reminds me of one of my favourite top tips in take a break:

”If you cut your Brillo pads in half, you’ll have twice as many of them!”

Wait until OP discovers that you can get a whole tub of about 60 chocolate bars (or “Celebrations” as they seem to call them), for the price of about six individual full-sized mars bars. Bargain! Ten times as many bars for the same price!

Surely everyone knows that a chipolata weighs half that of a regular sausage, so there should have been 16 in the pack, not 12.

Anything to take my mind off Norway's Eurovision entry

The picture is unclear.

Is this a brag about your kid?

Proper guffaws😂

There’s being “a bit thick” and then there’s this. Sausages are sausages and chipolatas are chipolatas.

I didn't know Kavos was famous for its chipolata grabbing, I thought it was vodka.