Babz, love. I've been thinking about your post where you delighted in telling us Sharko was furious about paying £2.50 for a mince pie. Couple of observations:
1. He didn't have to buy it. No further explanation required. There might have been a tantrum from one of the 'three' kids who were going to eat it, but essentially, he could have left it on the shelf.
2. Now, I'm going to need you to sit nicely and read this. No, come on, we read all your diatribe, please, humour me on this one. That £2.50 mince pie. I bet it tasted good. Better than the 6 for a quid from Sainsbo's. Do you know why that is? Cos someone got up one day (probably early yesterday morning so they were the freshest they could be) and made them. They probably even made the pastry from scratch. Have you seen the price of butter these days. Then they'd have put it in an oven (the square thing we've all got in our kitchens...they heat up and do all sorts of black magic). Then they would have drenched them in icing sugar, put them in a box, then into the boot of their petrol/diesel/electric powered vehicle. The person selling them would have probably wanted at least Minimum Wage (look it up, it's an eye opener f'sure). Was it on a plate or in a bag? Another cost.
Do you see where I'm going with this m'love. That £2.50 will be appearing in someone's final year end accounts and I bet that £2.50 resulted in them probably earning 50p per pie after all the above was taken into account.
Top tip - buy the pie and enjoy it, and the warm feeling you've probably contributed to someone's income. Or nip into Sainsbo's and buy 6 for a quid. Then do a taste test. Film it. Put it up on the internet for us all to see. Give a shout out to the £2.50 trader. Imagine like you're doing a haul from B&M, but this time it's for a real person's business.
1. He didn't have to buy it. No further explanation required. There might have been a tantrum from one of the 'three' kids who were going to eat it, but essentially, he could have left it on the shelf.
2. Now, I'm going to need you to sit nicely and read this. No, come on, we read all your diatribe, please, humour me on this one. That £2.50 mince pie. I bet it tasted good. Better than the 6 for a quid from Sainsbo's. Do you know why that is? Cos someone got up one day (probably early yesterday morning so they were the freshest they could be) and made them. They probably even made the pastry from scratch. Have you seen the price of butter these days. Then they'd have put it in an oven (the square thing we've all got in our kitchens...they heat up and do all sorts of black magic). Then they would have drenched them in icing sugar, put them in a box, then into the boot of their petrol/diesel/electric powered vehicle. The person selling them would have probably wanted at least Minimum Wage (look it up, it's an eye opener f'sure). Was it on a plate or in a bag? Another cost.
Do you see where I'm going with this m'love. That £2.50 will be appearing in someone's final year end accounts and I bet that £2.50 resulted in them probably earning 50p per pie after all the above was taken into account.
Top tip - buy the pie and enjoy it, and the warm feeling you've probably contributed to someone's income. Or nip into Sainsbo's and buy 6 for a quid. Then do a taste test. Film it. Put it up on the internet for us all to see. Give a shout out to the £2.50 trader. Imagine like you're doing a haul from B&M, but this time it's for a real person's business.
