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. 😆
That's a different kind of special altogether!
Bread Pudding ?
She had the forethought to panic buy by delivery.
That's the sort of woman you want on your side when the snowmageddon arrives.
Get creative
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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)
You could the local swan and duck saviour for the day.
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!
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 🙂
😆 A lot of loafing about today then, I'll get my coat.
we've taken delivery of ten bunches of bananas before
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
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?
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.
get some fishees and feed the 5000??
buy a chest freezer and that'll last you through most of the year!
You're toast.
STW annual picnic lunch at yours?
Bump off next doors horse, then you'd have all the ingredients you'd need for Tesco Economy Burgers
Pics or it never happened
Pics will be forthcoming.
I think you'd have to take the opportunity to be the best neighbour in the street 🙂
Bread is all sold out around us because of the panic buying. ebay it!! 🙂
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.
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 ?
@neej20 - we had that little chat earlier.
If it's made into breadcrumbs can it be used to grit the road?
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.
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.
[gangster voice] If somebody did that to me they'd be brown bread. /[gangster voice]
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.
Didn't your Mum teach you to use your Loaf 😳
Happy ducks
Oh crumbs, what a ****up!
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.
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very good.
At least the drivers had a laugh 🙂
Eat one loaf and complain that they taste bad.
Get Tesco to come and take them off you.
Result.
Have we worked out why Tesco failed yet?
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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!
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