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Food and drink items you think are overpriced
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Parma ham. I'm sure it's pricey for a reason but it just tastes so stringy to me and not worth it.
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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?
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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?
![]() 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. |
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Parma ham. I'm sure it's pricey for a reason but it just tastes so stringy to me and not worth it.
'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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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innocent smoothies
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Pizza - from a shop/takeaway/restaurant
Cured meats - chorizo and Serrano ham |
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Krispy Kreme doughnuts from a special Tesco cabinet just for them. Think they're £1.79 EACH. Nice but not worth that price.
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Schwarz herbs and spices are stupidly expensive compared to own brand ones.
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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.
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pizza but then closing up fast is nandos! both massively overpriced for nothing special food.
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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. |
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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?
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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. Quote:
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.
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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?
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.. |
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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?
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pizza but then closing up fast is nandos! both massively overpriced for nothing special food.
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Nothing is over priced unless you are forced to buy it.
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Parma ham. I'm sure it's pricey for a reason but it just tastes so stringy to me and not worth 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.
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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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