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Food and drink items you think are overpriced
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enudzio
19-08-2016
Any you can think off
anneliese
20-08-2016
Parma ham. I'm sure it's pricey for a reason but it just tastes so stringy to me and not worth it.
mrsgrumpy49
20-08-2016
I went to a village do last night - bring your own alcohol. For convenience I took along a couple of cans of coke mixed with Jack Daniels. They cost from £2 in the supermarket and are mainly coke. What a rip off! Does anyone seriously buy these things to drink at home?
tim1966
20-08-2016
Originally Posted by mrsgrumpy49:
“I went to a village do last night - bring your own alcohol. For convenience I took along a couple of cans of coke mixed with Jack Daniels. They cost from £2 in the supermarket and are mainly coke. What a rip off! Does anyone seriously buy these things to drink at home? ”

Don't drink it myself, but it hardly seems a rip off if you are only paying £2.00 a can. Each can contains approximately 41ml of jack Daniels which is between a single and double + about 290ml of coke. That would cost an awful lot more in a pub with a single costing anything from £3.00 upwards.

Not as cheap as buying a bottle of bourbon as it probably equates to about £35 a bottle but certainly very convenient. So I would say expensive but not as expensive as the pub but certainly not a rip off.
jojo01
20-08-2016
Originally Posted by anneliese:
“Parma ham. I'm sure it's pricey for a reason but it just tastes so stringy to me and not worth it.”

I think it depends. For example, I find some Parma and Iberico ham tastes a bit 'piggy' whereas others taste lovely and are less stringy. Saying that, it's not something I ever buy as an ingredient so I'm not on a position to recommend any particular brand or shop.

'Piggy' is how I would describe it, it's a bit like the taste of defrosted bacon rather than fresh from the butcher or supermarket.
Mr_Bee
20-08-2016
Obviously you're paying a premium for convenience but take away pizza. When you think the dough base is flour, water and a pinch of salt, it's ridiculous the prices they charge.
anneliese
20-08-2016
Originally Posted by jojo01:
“I think it depends. For example, I find some Parma and Iberico ham tastes a bit 'piggy' whereas others taste lovely and are less stringy. Saying that, it's not something I ever buy as an ingredient so I'm not on a position to recommend any particular brand or shop.

'Piggy' is how I would describe it, it's a bit like the taste of defrosted bacon rather than fresh from the butcher or supermarket.”

Yeah I think I agree, it was just a bland bacon-y taste...
Welsh-lad
20-08-2016
Pizza. Both shop bought and takeaway.

Even a basic margherita-style will set you back quite a bit.... and it's basically bread and cheese with some tomato sauce.
Welsh-lad
20-08-2016
Originally Posted by Mr_Bee:
“Obviously you're paying a premium for convenience but take away pizza. When you think the dough base is flour, water and a pinch of salt, it's ridiculous the prices they charge.”

Just posted exactly the same! Great minds
LostFool
20-08-2016
Originally Posted by Welsh-lad:
“Pizza. Both shop bought and takeaway.

Even a basic margherita-style will set you back quite a bit.... and it's basically bread and cheese with some tomato sauce.”

I never get a takeaway pizza as I agree their prices are ludicrous but I don't think the ones from supermarkets are too bad value if you can feed two people (or one hungry one) for £2-3.
speedy_gonzales
20-08-2016
innocent smoothies
sarahj1986
20-08-2016
Pizza - from a shop/takeaway/restaurant
Cured meats - chorizo and Serrano ham
Elvisfan4eva
20-08-2016
Krispy Kreme doughnuts from a special Tesco cabinet just for them. Think they're £1.79 EACH. Nice but not worth that price.
Jambo_c
21-08-2016
Schwarz herbs and spices are stupidly expensive compared to own brand ones.
venusinflares
31-08-2016
Garners Pickled Shallots. They're lovely but they're £2.49 for a very small jar. At the rate I eat them, a jar only lasts two days. I'm going to have a go at pickling some shallots myself.
fast left
31-08-2016
pizza but then closing up fast is nandos! both massively overpriced for nothing special food.
Menk
31-08-2016
Fresh berries in the supermarket.

Especially things like blackberries and blueberries - £2.00 for a small punnet, really only 1 portion.

And it's not as if they ever taste really good either - but if you go into the 'Taste the Difference' range then obviously you pay even more.

It really annoys me that if you want to eat a variety of slightly more interesting fruit, you have to pay through the nose.

Bananas are constantly cheap, you can get cheap apples and pears and (usually poor quality) oranges, but most other stuff tends to be expensive.
bluefb
31-08-2016
Special K. What is it? Wheat? Oats? Rice? What are they putting in that stuff that justifies them charging so much more than its rivals?
barbeler
01-09-2016
Originally Posted by Welsh-lad:
“Pizza. Both shop bought and takeaway.

Even a basic margherita-style will set you back quite a bit.... and it's basically bread and cheese with some tomato sauce.”

Originally Posted by LostFool:
“I never get a takeaway pizza as I agree their prices are ludicrous but I don't think the ones from supermarkets are too bad value if you can feed two people (or one hungry one) for £2-3.”

The Aldi roast vegetable pizzas are big enough for two and cost the princely sum of 89p.
malpasc
01-09-2016
Originally Posted by bluefb:
“Special K. What is it? Wheat? Oats? Rice? What are they putting in that stuff that justifies them charging so much more than its rivals?”

It's aimed at weight conscious women. They'll pay anything if it says it will help them lose weight.

Of course they fail to mention that Special K like pretty much every breakfast cereal is a high sugar carb fest and about as useful for losing weight as a bottle of vodka is to a recovering alcoholic but there we go..
Elvisfan4eva
01-09-2016
Tinned red salmon is overpriced. Why is pink cheaper anyway? Do they just add colour to make it red or is it a different type of salmon?
walterwhite
01-09-2016
Originally Posted by fast left:
“pizza but then closing up fast is nandos! both massively overpriced for nothing special food.”

How much do you think Nandos should cost? Full priced pizza is pretty overpriced but then if you are paying full price you deserve it.
barbeler
01-09-2016
Nothing is over priced unless you are forced to buy it.
Shrike
01-09-2016
Originally Posted by anneliese:
“Parma ham. I'm sure it's pricey for a reason but it just tastes so stringy to me and not worth it.”

Its pricey as its a long and involved process to make it.
Chillies always seem relatively expensive to me - especially as I managed to grow them easily, unlike peppers which I had no luck with at all.
maggie thecat
01-09-2016
Shallots in general. Fortunately there is a cheat where for three shallots you can substitute one small onion plus a large clove of garlic. Not perfect, but close enough.
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