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High street coffee shops - biggest rip off going
High street coffee shops - biggest rip off going
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I used to look at people who had flasks and sat on forms to drink what was in them and to eat their own sanwhiches .I USED TO THINK TIGHT BA**ARDS
NOW I THINK GREAT THEY WONT BE TAKEN FOR A RIDE |
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drinking it through a hole in the lid is a funny one to me
Not that funny when the driver thinks it would be funny to brake hard just as you are about to slurp. Still goes all over the place but not as much as from your own cup with no lid. I used to think buying coffee was a waste of money. 50p of the 2.50 goes in vat for a start. I could buy a 225g pack of ground coffee from Aldi for about 1.85 it is now 1.09 Having said that I am 55yo if I want a cup of coffee I will have a cup of bloody coffee although I don't like to buy it from Non UK Tax payers like Starbucks or Cafe Nero. I would rather use a small independent but generally as I am a tightarse I get it from Gregs with a bacon and sausage roll for 2.50 or go the double sausage and egg MacMuffin and coffee for 4.10 rather than pay from 2.30 upwards for just a cup of sheepdip. I no longer drink instant coffee unless I have no option. I would rather pay hard cash for a fresh cup than a free one at a works canteen or kitchen. |
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get a better driver whispering
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Havn't bought a cup of coffee outside my home for twenty years. One cup of double espresso out of our Nespresso machine first thing sets me up for the day - Dharkan is my current favourite.
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Anyone remember Camp Coffee?
Heard some disturbing news about the son of the founder of the Greggs Empire today. |
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I am proud to say that I didn't know what a Flat White was until I heard a McDonalds ad on the radio.
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Camp Coffee - I remember the smell!! Actually I only learned fairly recently that it ain't coffee at all. I am amazed my mum bought it, given that when she was in service she used to grind coffee beans daily for the evening coffee.
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They've got to cover rent, rates and wages amongst other things. If they didnt charge what they did they'd go out of business. Price of food gone up over the last 18 months aswell.
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£58 per person, with a FREE glass of Champagne (aka Fizzy Water), at the Ritz is tremendous value.
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A lot of miserable feckers on here.
When out and about it's good to have a sit down for a coffee. £3/£4 nothing for a decent coffee in decent surroundings. |
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Gamblers are like that. Stick 200 on a bet, moan about paying a couple of quid for a coffee. I tip the staff more than the coffee costs.
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Have you lot got no shame? Moaning about the price of a coffee - embarrassing scenes.
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'Gamblers are like that. Stick 200 on a bet, moan about paying a couple of quid for a coffee. I tip the staff more than the coffee costs.'
50p ew actually. |
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bloody rent boys the lot of u.
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sorry im angry today.
I spilt my pink lady juice during my hand job. |
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Shame there was nobody there with you to clean it up.
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the wife would not clean up as she had to go shopping.
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you are the king renter mustang.
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akabula
28 Feb 19 00:52 Joined: 13 Mar 08 | Topic/replies: 35,104 | Blogger: akabula's blog A lot of miserable feckers on here. When out and about it's good to have a sit down for a coffee. £3/£4 nothing for a decent coffee in decent surroundings. That's the thing isn't, most of the time it isn't, is it? All they've got to do is open a jar of Nescafe Gold (or something similar,) stick a spoonful in, add hot water, ask whether you want any milk or sugar and job done - but then they wouldn't be able to charge the prices they do would they? Never seen such a pallaver to produce a cup of coffee that in the end tastes like burnt s*** £3 or £4 quid? I'd want a brandy with it for that. |
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Baristas!
WALOFS. What sort of job is it when you have to have your job title printed on the back of your T-Shirt. |
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I agree with Akabula and Johnny Mustang. Embarrassing. I pay £2.10 for a double espresso and can sit in comfortable surroundings reading my Kindle while Mrs F does her shopping. How much do people pay to sit in noisy smelly pubs? I would rather have a coffee.
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How much is a coffee from a "Costa" machine?
There is one in the "Tesco Express", and there appear to be two sizes of cups, but nowhere do I see a price! I know it's not going to be cheap, but I've seen all manner of folks, including school kids, buying it! |
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coffee will be cold by time mrs has finnished shopping
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schoolchildren drinking coffee should not be allowed ! , broken Britain
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I like coffee and I like tea
and I love alcohol , don’t confuse one with the ither just 3 pints this afternoon and with nothing to eat except porridge for breakfast early this morning So I feel just nicely , it’s been like that for hundreds of years in Britain My gosh don’t let it change |
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Cannot comprehend the dim public's fascination with paying £3-4 for a cup of coffee ...
When you can buy a whole Jar of the stuff for the same flaming price! Worse still - the Posers who walk down the street - like politicians on the way to meetings etc - who have a cardboard coffee cup in their hands ... as if it is some sort of 'effing TROPHY - that states I am so busy, and 'important, that I have not got time to stop for a coffee. Affected egotists. |
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I wish to support the illustrious band that is Foinavon, Johnny Mustang and even Aka
 . Decent coffee is a rare treat and quality is imv commensurate with price.I only drink at home mind  as posted below. |
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onlooker a £4 jar at home is of no use when out and about.
I'd imagine the difference in cost v selling price isn't much different for beer and coffee. As someone else hinted at you get a better type of person in the coffee shops. Pubs full of labourers and farmers. |
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A very good point from Foinavon....
I would still like to know what school kids (albeit private school kids) are paying for "Costa" to go.... |
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£3 x 5 days = £15
£15 x 48 weeks = £720 £720 = a wad of 36 £20 notes. Little things add up. Same goes for time. 10mins on the bog = 60 hours + 50 minutes over the course of a year (that's 9.50pm Friday night to 10am Monday morning). |
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Lybertyne is definitely the go-to man for defaecation related poasts this evening.
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Aka - "onlooker a £4 jar at home is of no use when out and about.
I'd imagine the difference in cost v selling price isn't much different for beer and coffee. As someone else hinted at you get a better type of person in the coffee shops. Pubs full of labourers and farmers. Wink". Firstly I am staggered that Onlooker drinks coffee out of a jar. Secondly, you disappoint me, as soon as I hold out the slightest wand of reconciliation and inclusion to you, you throw it back in my face. "Labourers and Farmers" ffs. You should have your testes removed with a rusty bushing hook for that |
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Little things certainly do add up!
I can't drive east out of the village without crossing two railway barriers. If I only make one trip per day that is 730 times per year.... Typically the chance of being stopped is circa 1 in 3 ish.... Therefore 243 times per year... Some times just one train, but regularly two trains, sometimes even three, if there happens to be two service trains and one coal, cement or whatever goods train! A conservative average stop is four minutes... 243 x 4 = 973 Therefore I spend 16 hours per year sitting at a level crossing! Let me say that I always switch off the engine, but few do, so there can be twenty vehicles at each side, including HGVs and busses, wasting fuel, which is surprising for the commercial vehicles, other than that most won't care, unless they are owner operators! |
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correction *one of two barriers...
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I used to have 2 teaspoons of sugar in my tea. One day, a few years ago, I worked out that it amounted to 15kg of sugar over a year. Just in my tea. Took me a couple of days to get used to not having sugar in my tea but it was worth it.
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Okay Blackbarn I'll apologise to any labourers I've offended.
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Aka - us farmers will take it unhappily on the chin
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I've had workmen here asking for two spoons, and one asking for three!
They get half of what they ask for... |
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