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Had to share this.
Mrs Cat booked a Tesco delivery slot in haste a couple of days ago.
She's under quite a bit of pressure - job and a degree in a year - so occasionally odd things happen.
Just had a call from Tesco van driver - can't get up the lanes to our house, could I meet him on the main road.
No probs, get kitted up and dust off the van, and meet him and his mate who are in tucks of hysterical laughter.
To hold the delivery space open she just stuck a £40 order of stuff in with the intention of changing it later. She forgot, so we have...

...42 ferking loaves of Hovis - that's it, nothing else!

Eggy bread, bread & butter pudding, various toasties...suggestions welcome. 😆


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 10:52 am
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That's a different kind of special altogether!


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 10:54 am
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Bread Pudding ?


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 10:56 am
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She had the forethought to panic buy by delivery.

That's the sort of woman you want on your side when the snowmageddon arrives.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 10:56 am
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Get creative

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Posted : 19/01/2013 10:56 am
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build a bike shed from it?
soak the slices in water first, then when it freezes it should be quite bombproof (for a night or so)


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 10:56 am
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You could the local swan and duck saviour for the day.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 10:57 am
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Not quite as bad but the GF once ordered all our veg by weight, not unit. 4kg of courgettes, 3kg of leeks, 2kg of broccoli etc. Ate healthily for a while!


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 10:58 am
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Lure some ducks in with the bread... and make some pate to go on the toast?

My Mrs ordered 15 granny smith apples from Tesco's online once failing to realise they were bags of apples 🙂


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 10:58 am
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😆 A lot of loafing about today then, I'll get my coat.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 10:59 am
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we've taken delivery of ten bunches of bananas before


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:02 am
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a work mate ordered 300 screws once, yes they came in boxes of 100.
oh how we laughed when the pallet turned up.

as for the bread, what you can't freeze give away


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:02 am
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Just waiting for the village Co-op to run out of bread. then I'm opening a stall in their car park.

£2.50 a loaf anyone?


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:12 am
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One of the buyers where I used to work ordered 100,000 cases of rubber ducks rather than 100,000 units. The mistake was not noticed until 1.2 million ducks were delivered to site.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:19 am
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get some fishees and feed the 5000??


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:21 am
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buy a chest freezer and that'll last you through most of the year!


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:33 am
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You're toast.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:37 am
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STW annual picnic lunch at yours?


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:41 am
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Bump off next doors horse, then you'd have all the ingredients you'd need for Tesco Economy Burgers


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:49 am
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Pics or it never happened


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:51 am
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Pics will be forthcoming.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 11:55 am
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I think you'd have to take the opportunity to be the best neighbour in the street 🙂


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 12:00 pm
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Bread is all sold out around us because of the panic buying. ebay it!! 🙂


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 12:07 pm
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As an aside, in future why not put a few nice bottles of wine, or a bottle of spirits or something or something to 'hold' the order? If you do happen to forget it doesn't all go to waste.


 
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One of the buyers where I used to work ordered 100,000 cases of rubber ducks rather than 100,000 units. The mistake was not noticed until 1.2 million ducks were delivered to site.

About 100 shipping containers worth ?


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 12:18 pm
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@neej20 - we had that little chat earlier.

If it's made into breadcrumbs can it be used to grit the road?


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 12:20 pm
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It happens the other way around too - a bike supplier who shall remain nameless once sent me a carton of high-end clipless pedals (20 pairs) instead of one pair. Same supplier, different time also sent a carton of cable end caps (30 boxes) instead of one box.

Each time, only billed for one box.

And yes, I did tell them. Several times.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 12:30 pm
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Nealglover - not sure how many containers came in. Company I worked for was one of the largest baby equipment suppliers and imported a lot from Thailand. We had a lot of containers coming in on a weekly basis.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 12:35 pm
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[gangster voice] If somebody did that to me they'd be brown bread. /[gangster voice]


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 12:37 pm
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Take it to your local food bank.

http://www.trusselltrust.org/foodbank-projects

Although, for future reference, you could have just told the driver you didn't want it, and they would have just taken it back. Seems strange you took it.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 12:39 pm
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Didn't your Mum teach you to use your Loaf 😳


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 12:46 pm
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Happy ducks


 
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Posted : 19/01/2013 1:11 pm
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http://www.sadanduseless.com/2013/01/baguetting/


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 2:34 pm
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Oh crumbs, what a ****up!


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 3:16 pm
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I used to be a sainsburys delivery driver and I had one bloke once that had done the same but with £200 of Champagne! I figured he was having a party he thought it was hilarious.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 3:22 pm
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Pics will be forthcoming.

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Posted : 19/01/2013 4:20 pm
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For no other reason...

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Posted : 19/01/2013 4:25 pm
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very good.

At least the drivers had a laugh 🙂


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 4:36 pm
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Eat one loaf and complain that they taste bad.

Get Tesco to come and take them off you.

Result.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 4:56 pm
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Have we worked out why Tesco failed yet?

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Posted : 19/01/2013 5:01 pm
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My parents managed to order 5 x 5kg bags of sugar once - but I reckon that as they are aged 92 and 88, they're doing pretty well to be ordering online!


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 7:00 pm
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Posted : 19/01/2013 7:21 pm
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If I don't see a picture of 42 loaves of bread before bedtime I am going to loose my ****

edit google no help at all

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Posted : 19/01/2013 7:23 pm
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Mrs smudger does the same thing, using one high value item though.

Bottle of remy Martin champagne cognac anyone? Om nom nom!


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 7:24 pm
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Think hes off to Tesco now to buy 42 loaves or he's trying to photoshop 42 into one pic


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 7:28 pm
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Fantastic :mrgreen:


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 7:51 pm
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That has got me and the wife in stitches. Build bread igloo with it.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 7:52 pm
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😀

nice hold up stick


 
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Appropriate van registration plate.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 8:00 pm
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I think it's more hilarious you still had to go Tesco. Impressive bread order though.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 8:02 pm
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Good way to make the thread nonsensical, mods.

*frowny face*


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 8:19 pm
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At least she picked a loaf on promotion. She's saved £11.50!

Identity theft tho, take down receipt photo!

Edit - Its gone!


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 8:19 pm
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Thanks Mods - as super sharp as I was super dumb!! 😳
Was not aware that I could refuse something that I had ordered and paid for.
If I was do you think I would have afforded everyone this amount of Schadenfreuder?


 
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On the plus side at least it wasn't 42 packs of value burgers 😀


 
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If I was do you think I would have afforded everyone this amount of Schadenfreuder?

Dunno. Some people are just very altruistic 8)

To be honest, I am surprised the delivery driver didn't raise an eyebrow and ask if a mistake had been made.


 
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I had the opposite a couple of weeks ago when I ordered 1 loose cherry. I've also in the past purchased 1 small banana. They will always let you send stuff back.


 
Posted : 19/01/2013 8:30 pm
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Funny.


 
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You do realise that if you have paid for the free delivery for orders over £40 that you don't have to do an initial order of £40 don't you? We just put one thing on (to get the slot) and we just get a warning saying we will be charged for delivery.

Still - last week (just back from a holiday in LA so jet lagged) we ordered 6 carrots. In fact we ordered 6 x 1.2kg bags of carrots. Once also ordered 10 bags of apples 🙂


 
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Why did it get overzealouslymodded?


 
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Why did it get overzealouslymodded?

...because there is profits to be made.


 
Posted : 20/01/2013 12:24 am
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we've taken delivery of ten bunches of bananas before

I did this, this week and my 5 year old got most upset when i sent them back.

Tesco refunded so all is good


 
Posted : 20/01/2013 1:12 am
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Why did it get overzealouslymodded?

Do you want to put lots of you personal details on the internet for the world to see instead of the OP?


 
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can the OP potatoshop out the personal details and repost?

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Posted : 20/01/2013 3:33 am
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The geezer from Tescos didn't look like this did he, and were there any fish?
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Posted : 20/01/2013 7:41 am
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4kg of parsnips by Mrs C, the local farmer made good use of 3.5kg of them


 
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Potatoshopp'd

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Posted : 20/01/2013 8:52 am
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Oldgit...is that this years SSUK ?

Is that Charliethebikemonger at the top of the hill.


 
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Howdy dodilly doo...would anyone like any toast?


 
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Do you want to put lots of you personal details on the internet for the world to see instead of the OP?

Sheesh. Easy there girl. I'd assumed it was a picture of 42 loaves of bread, not an invoice.


 
Posted : 20/01/2013 9:47 am
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Sheesh. Easy there girl. I'd assumed it was a picture of 42 loaves of bread, not an invoice

Well perhaps next time you should think before accusing the mods of being over zealous.


 
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Well perhaps next time you should think before accusing the mods of being over zealous.

I think given recent activity, there is no question of that. However, in this case, it seems they did the right thing and for that they must be applauded. I expect a spike in premier sign-ups.


 
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Don;t jump on the mods re this one - they did a great job in spotting some personal details on the delivery note and killed the post.

Pic of van loaded with loaves:
(residtributed 25 to family, friends and neighbours - the rest are nestling in various freezers around the village!!)

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i thought you was making things up. thanks for the pic


 
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lol! Don't get mugged by ducks!


 
Posted : 20/01/2013 10:36 pm
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It's ok, they're busy showing off in the hifi thread.


 
Posted : 20/01/2013 10:37 pm
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Stick them on ebay. A loaf just went for £112,000
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Loaf-of-Warburtons-Toastie-/271140490142


 
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