Right, popped into Lidl today, as I get thru the food there’s a display of mince pies, stollen, gluvien, it’s September I’m on my summer break ffs!!! Pity families with young kids it goes on for far toooo long
Threads complaining about Xmas seem to start earlier and earlier each year.
Quite late this year I'd say Scotroutes but at last we have one.
I've had 3 mince pies this week.
They're available all year around.
I feel sorry for all the people in non-Christian countries..
they miss out on all the threads complaining about how it’s all started too early this year..
Admittedly I sae Xmas cards last year in July, but still it goes on for far too long even if you enjoy the day
They’re available all year around.
Wow! Thank you so much!
Ohhh.. does that mean we can expect offers on Whiskey?
Time to stock up 👍👏
There's 2 things that are acceptable for early christmas stuff. 1, cards, because people might want to post them a long way. And 2, the food. Not the manky stuff like sprouts but even I can't get furious at the sight of pigs in blankets
I was quite surprised to see mince pies in co-op yesterday. More so that they would be past their sell by date almost 2 months before Christmas
Wow! Thank you so much!
It's a pleasure.
You think you’ve got problems?
Find a graphic designer with any retail clients and ask them when their Christmas nightmare begins.
After they’ve stopped sobbing uncontrollably and shaking with anger they’ll tell you...
JUNE!!!! *ING JUNE!!!!!! I’m sick of the *ing sight of it already and it’s only ****ing September!!!!!
Months already of this shit!
Ah yes, mince pies with a best before date of 31st October, priceless
I can’t get furious at the sight of pigs in blankets
Stocked up on mince pies yesterday (nomnomnom) after my usual winter overdose and subsequent spring/summer ‘cold turkey’.
97 more sleeps!
Quite late this year I’d say Scotroutes but at last we have one.
Time to set up a rota for the next few years?
and subsequent spring/summer ‘cold turkey’.
Bloody hell how big was your Turkey last year?
Food retail seasonal teams start on winter recipes in February, the big retailers do a seasonal presentation to the national press in June/July
November is where you work on salads and BBQ
display of mince pies
Those bastards at Aldi had better not already have the ones in the greenish box, with marzipan in - I've got several kilos to shed before (the holiday period that dare not speak its name)
I feel sorry for all the people in non-Christian countries..
they miss out on all the threads complaining about how it’s all started too early this year..
You can’t escape it going non-Christian, they have massive Christmas celebrations in Bahrain and other parts of the Middle East, a bit like our / the USs approach, hard core consumerism. Jesus after-all is an important prophet in the Muslim faith.
They also celebrate Christmas in Japan, I’m told the traditional Japanese Xmas dinner is KFC, you have to book weeks in advance.
As for retailers, this is only first Xmas. It runs from the end of ‘back to school’ till mid-Oct when they throw out all the Halloween stuff, Proper Xmas starts Nov 1st.
They also celebrate Christmas in Japan, I’m told the traditional Japanese Xmas dinner is KFC, you have to book weeks in advance.
I think you missed the joke.
Brilliant! I love Christmas!!
This means creme eggs will be on sale soon 😀
When is it this year?
3/10
no swearing or capital letters.ffs.
Woohoo! It's stollen season!
Lidl mini stollen mmmmmmm..
The buyers for one of my main customers start Christmas purchases and R&D in ****ing January. They all look broken by mid feb.
It's just what's left of last years stock getting punted before the BBE date approaches.
I'm outraged, let's ban Christmas..
Honestly if I didn't have kids I wouldn't bother.
Happy Christmas 2067 everyone!
And all the best for 2068!
(hope this is not too late)
Great news for insomniacs.
Only fourteen sleeps till Christmas
“thru”
what the eff?...
Ohhh.. does that mean we can expect offers on Whiskey?
Time to stock up
Not yet, I was checking in Morrisons on Sunday while being the donkey for the monthly shop. No sign of their own brand Kentucky Bourbon, sadly. My g/f did ask me to compile a list of favourite single malts for her to select something for me for Christmas, though, as she has no idea.
I spotted the Welsh one, Pen- something or other, not sure how good it is, though.
#mincepiecount
I was quite surprised to see mince pies in co-op yesterday. More so that they would be past their sell by date almost 2 months before Christmas
They'll be the ones that didn't sell by January this year , sat in a store room dusted off and back on the shelf .
What ingredients are in 8mth old mince pies then if they last that long 😳
Time to get the apple pie/crumble filling going and top with mini-stollen crumbled through the food processor for a great crumble.
What ingredients are in 8mth old mince pies then if they last that long
Isn't that the point of Mincemeat? To preserve?
But sugar and pastry absorb moisture over time 🤮
100% agree with the OP.
Local pub (Fullers) was advertising for Xmas dinners 10 fing days ago!
They (mince pies) won’t be 8 months old.
It works like this - they throw out all the snacks / chocs etc now “stock up for Xmas” Mince Pies can be frozen etc - but as moment consumers get that evening sugar cravings they’re eating Quality Street in September by the fist full. Oh dear, seems we’ll have to stock up again...
Local pub (Fullers) was advertising for Xmas dinners 10 fing days ago!
Pub tries to secure some business man gets outraged.
Our local (also Fullers) was advertising Christmas Day dinner from the end of Aug. It’s already fully booked so it must have been worth it.
You can "Xmas Rant" all you want but I'm taking this for the "Stollen Ahoy!" PSA it really is.
Three pay packets before Xmas. Given how little disposable cash, and how many people in my family, it doesn’t make much sense for businesses to start advertising in December, as some on here would like. 🤔
Mice pies*... ?
Have a word with yourselves... Strictly is on the tellybox so have a good old Mince Round.....
https://www.damndelicious.co.uk/mince-round#
* There is no "actual" mince in a mince pie....
* There is no “actual” mince in a mince pie….
or mice.
Somebody needs to start a petition, or better yet this is exactly the kind of thing that would be perfect for a Private Member's Bill. Given that the UK has now firmly set up shop down the rabbit hole politically, a nice movement and jolly festive debate in Parliament to ban Christmas makes perfect sense. It is after all both a jewish conspiracy and an immigrant ... (THATS A JOKE - BEFORE I GET BANNED)
I feel sorry for all the people in non-Christian countries..
they miss out on all the threads complaining about how it’s all started too early this year..
That's the joy of the internet. Those of us who aren't actually in Christian countries can read posts from people in Christian countries/Scotland and get some sort of vicarious pleasure. I do believe that the Chinks (can we still say that?) and Iranians aren't allowed to read posts about mince pies in September, for political reasons.
Time to get the apple pie/crumble filling going and top with mini-stollen crumbled through the food processor for a great crumble.
That's a thread winner right there, that is. (Although the Lidl stollen loaf is better than the Aldi mini-stollen IME).
“Pub tries to secure some business man gets outraged.”
Man misses point by country mile or 10........................
🙄
Is your point pubs shouldn't plan ahead for business?