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Sachets of sugar, salt in restaurants.
mrsdaisychain
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Is it just us or is anyone else really fed up struggling with those little annoying sachets of sugar, salt, vinegar, sauce that you get in restaurants and hotels?
What happened to the days when you got a good old sugar bowl with sugar or cubes, a salt cellar and bottles of vinegar and sauce?
I can understand why they do that to little pots of marmalade and jam it can be messy leaving jars on tables.
I can never get the right amount of sugar and end up using six sachets of sugar were i would use two spoons at home.
You end up either using too little or too much.
By the time you have messed around with these little annoying things, your meal is going cold.
The sauce and vinegar sachets are the most frustrating, you can't get them open.
I know it's probably down to saving money but it just drives me and my OH mad. Anyone else out there like us?
What happened to the days when you got a good old sugar bowl with sugar or cubes, a salt cellar and bottles of vinegar and sauce?
I can understand why they do that to little pots of marmalade and jam it can be messy leaving jars on tables.
I can never get the right amount of sugar and end up using six sachets of sugar were i would use two spoons at home.
You end up either using too little or too much.
By the time you have messed around with these little annoying things, your meal is going cold.
The sauce and vinegar sachets are the most frustrating, you can't get them open.
I know it's probably down to saving money but it just drives me and my OH mad. Anyone else out there like us?
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I don't have any problem with them and I don't understand how the bit in bold is even possible
You need about six sachets to get a decent teaspoon full.
It's rare to get those sachets open without getting most of the sauce all over your fingers as you do so..
Heinz have
Much easier, less wasteful and messy and a reasonable volume of ketchup.
Now this, I DO agree with. They're a nightmare.
Every place you visit has different size sachets, you can never get a happy medium. If you read some of the other comments, others do feel the same as myself.
About sauces, yes. But not sugar. Sugar is easy.
But I'm interested how your difficulty works. You open one sachet and pour it in your coffee and it's not sweet enough. Why do you need to pour in another five before you realise it's too sweet ?
Or is the six-sachet thing actually a gross exaggeration?
I take two sugar in my tea at home. Some of the sachets are so small, you only get about a quarter of a spoon from each one.
Sugar is not easy, it spills everywhere but in the cup, bits left in the packet spills everywhere, it's so annoying. It might be easy for you but we don't think it is.
Ok. Well then the simple answer to your OP, for me at least, is no, I don't have a problem.
And they are much more hygienic than sugar in a bowl. That folks might have sneezed and coughed all over.
We went in an old fashioned tea rooms while away on holiday and they had a jar of sugar, the type you pour. That is a solution to the hygine part and would be a better idea that the sachets. That's just us though.
You also have to understand, some places don't use standard cups like what you have at home. They have those awful cardboard tall ones.
I was going to be rude but i completely agree so now i don't have to be. Oh what the hell. I will be.
Yes I do understand that. I go to coffee shops quite a lot. I still don't understand how anybody with average dexterity would have a problem with sugar sachets.
But hey - we're all different.
I can't help but think there are many better opportunities to use that on here but I do love it all the same.
Yes we are all different and we do have a problem with them especially with arthritic fingers.
Ah well in that case I completely understand now. I can see how that would make things difficult.
On the plus side, it's always worth grabbing a few from Wetherspoons ( no I don't eat there !) to use on picnics or a self catering break.
The plastic sachets can be a bit of a faff, if they've not got a little nick in the seam. And a lot of the cheaper brands of vinegar/sauce are particularly bad for that; the nicking part of the process seems to be a bit hit and miss.
I agree about the sugar in the cylindrical tubes, there seems to be a good amount in them rather that the smaller square ones.
The vinegar and sauce are a nightmare. I remember a few years back, we were on a tour on a coach. We stopped for lunch and low and behold, hubby struggled with the sauce sachets, squeezed a little too hard and the contents flew up, covered his shirt, face and hair with sauce. He wasn't very happy and neither was I. He had to wear the same shirt all day as our cases were on the coach. We had no shops that we could buy a cheap shirt from. He managed to get most of the sauce off but he smelled of it all day.
You all must go to cheapo dives!!