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[Closed] Packet of crisps....how much?

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Hungry and needed to eat.
£1.80 for a pack of Pipers.
Is there anywhere more expensive than Earls Court?


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 10:56 am
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18p per crisp?


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 10:56 am
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Heathrow??


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 11:12 am
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😯 Bloody Nora! I usually reckon on about 50p for a packet to go with a pint.


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 12:17 pm
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The reality often is, you pay the going rate where you are,you just got hungry in an expensive place..... . They are nice crisps though.


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 12:52 pm
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Jesus! No Gregg's nearby? You could have had a steak bake and a sausage roll for that!!!


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 1:22 pm
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66p for 12 packs... Hardly at the gourmet end of the crisp spectrum, but they more than fill a hole.

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Is there anywhere more expensive than Earls Court?
It's the ski resort syndrome. You're trapped. And hungry. It's an absolute bloody con at places like that.


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 1:35 pm
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Cinemas are the same.......,hey Multiplexes I'm talking to you. It's especially galling when there is a hyperrmarket nearby!. "Large cup of Coke,£2.15" out of a bloody pump!. 4p a shot for the syrup they use. Grrrrr!


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 2:44 pm
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There was a cinema here that used to ban you taking your own stuff in as well - never been back. That's just going too far


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 3:10 pm
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Sneaking your own snacks in is part of the modern cinema experience,they hate it .Don't mark stuff up so much then...


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 3:26 pm
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Just paid 80p for a packet of rather splendid Reggae Reggae crisps out of a snack machine. Worth every penny!


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 3:34 pm
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God bless Levi Roots!, I'm in!!


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 3:37 pm
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I remember smuggling our own munchies into the old Unit 4 as a kid, but I wasn't aware that some modern cinemas were still trying to stop you from doing it. Gosh.


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 3:43 pm
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Tell then you are a Coleiac,show then a bag/food box of random (unwrapped)choccie bars,whatever and a drink in a plain bottle. Possibly looking perplexed i can see them refusing you entry with your "special dietery food"?


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 3:48 pm
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Our record for cinema food-sneaking was two large McChicken sandwich meals.


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 3:59 pm
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I was in a local shop the other day and there were bags of crisps for £2.80! Admittedly a large bag of some kind of fancy kettle chips, but it's still a lot of money for fried potato.


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 4:01 pm
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I was in a local shop the other day and there were bags of crisps for £2.80!

For probably one potato worth of crisps. Then people moan about the price of bike parts.....


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 4:30 pm
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But for £2.80 you get a nice bag and a proper warranty, which you wouldn't with grey import crisps.


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 4:48 pm
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😆


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 5:24 pm
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Bang OT, I was just milling about in the local [s]daylight robbery store[/s] Co-op for some Sunday snacks and spotted a normal packet of Monster Munch for 92p.

92p??! It's in a BD postcode FFS.


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 5:45 pm
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As it happens, I was in my local today after a walk, ordered a pint, then decided I needed some crisps to go with it.
As luck would have it they do Real Crisps Jalapeño flavour. Hurrah! Then I discovered they're £1 a packet. Bugger.
Still, they're damn fine crisps, and I was a bit peckish. And they're cheaper than £1.80 a packet, nearly half-price!
Ha, cheap as chips, then... 😉


 
Posted : 11/05/2014 9:02 pm