False Economy Thread (Thrifty Regret)

thrift
#1

I’m currently enduring a tin of Tesco Cream of Chicken soup. I was lured by it being 47p, against Heinz’s £1 offer (or 4 for £3).

Before I started eating it a colleague said it’s probably off the same production line. It clearly isn’t. The Heinz one is quite nice. This is crap.

#2

Buying a wok from Lidl.

#3

Hope you’re feeling better now Saps

#4

Aggers, it’s really not good. It’s thin and watery and some of the bits of chicken taste nasty.

#5

Talk us through it, Eps.

If it’s a dull story embellish it in some way.

#6

TBH mate, I was making reference to the fact that a grown human adult with any sense of self-respect would only eat cream of chicken soup if they were feeling very, very unwell

#7

Terrible, @saps

#8

I see.

#9

It probably is from the same production line, but it has then been made shitter* so it compares unfavourably to the brand name product.

*by various methods, such as shouting negative phrases at it, and kicking the tins into the supermarket lorry.

#10

barleysugar bought a wok from Lidl and the non-stick coating started to flake off it after one use. Then he posted about it on here. Then there was an explosion that could be seen from space.

#11

Hey, I’ve flirted with controversy enough already today.

#12

And controversy has blocked you on twitter as a consequence

#13

Bought a £20 EQ pedal because I thought, fuck it, how bad can it really be?

Pretty, pretty bad, it turns out.

#14

I feel bad now. I shouted at it some more.

And then kicked the empty can at Erin, opposite.

She’s got soup dregs all up her cardigan.

#15

I see what you did there.

And like it.