Memories of days gone by and pizzas.....

Selik

I decided to treat myself to one of those pizzas that you used to be able to make for yourself in Tesco this evening (eating it now btw, delish!) and it got me thinking about how things used to be. I remember when you could make one of these yourself, lash as much toppings and whatever else on top and weigh it on the scales yourself to determine price!!! Haha how I used to love making the most ridicuolous pizza in the world ever in terms of bulk and weight and only ever paying 3 pounds at the most!!! All that was required was a little lift of the finger underneath the base of the pizza, ample dexterity and a watchful beady eye in case one of those nineteen year old supervisor goons with a drawn on moustache on a power trip was lurking nearby....

Now?

They don't even weigh the damn things anymore!!! Only a short while back you would have a store assistant make the pizza to your liking after which the pizza would be weighed. Now it's just set prices for small, medium and large. How original eh? Wonder how much they paid their marketing gurus for thinking that brainwave up! Of course one can take an advantage of sorts with this new system as long as one is brave enough to keep asking the overworked meat-boy behind the counter to keep loading on the extra cheese and pepperoni safe in the knowledge that the price is SET and there's nothing he or the most accurately calibrated weighing scales in the whole universe can do about it!!!

Of course the "set" prices of the pizzas are now so shockingly inflated that the likelihood of such an occurance by design or accident is very low....

The End

P.S Still enjoying the pizza although it's cold now!

DEmeant0r

Ah yes, I remember those good old days in Quinnsworth or better known as Tescos. How I miss the old system.

Selik

Another few things from days gone by...

Tayto crisps being 13p
Chips from the local chipper being 65p
Dark green and dirty pale orange/beige buses

steveland?

Maaan how I loved making those pizzas... I'd go shopping with my mam and she'd make me stop complaining by letting me make one of those pizzas to have it later...

Jaysis I was a horrible child

crazy angel

me and a few friends used to just eat the toppings raw when nobody was lookin! you just had to stick your hand in and ya got a whole fistfull of cheese or pepperoni! yum!

JackKelly

when hubba bubba was 10p

DEmeant0r

I miss penny sweets, now they're two cent sweets

dahamsta

Ah, how we used to defraud in the old days...

Sure d'ya remember when we could shoot people in the head and the local Guard would just say "go on ya chancer ya" and give you a clip round the ear?

And you could rob a bank and the local judge would just make you someone else's butler for a week?

Ah, those were the days.

adam

Tusky

You can still screw them at the salad bar. Weigh your stuff, put the sticker on then add in another 100% and go pay

Dr. Loon

Yeah. When purchasing mushrooms for example, place 3 in the bag. Weigh, and stick your sticker on. Then return to the mushrooms and lash in a couple of hundred. Sorted.

Pataman

Or you could just rob some old lady. Either way its theft.

Dr. Loon

Pataman wrote:

Or you could just rob some old lady. Either way its theft.

Good idea. Next Christmas I'll buy you a sense of humour.

DapperGent

So often I remember getting my pizza, then paying for it. Then walking out of the shop carrying the the bag by it's handles. Getting halfway down the road, realising what I was doing, looking at the bag and thinking: Fúck. Then having to go home and reconstruct the fúcking thing. Again.

I hated those fúcking pizzas. They humiliated me.

Joseph

Demeant0r wrote:

I miss penny sweets, now they're two cent sweets

Here Here!

alleepally

I'm still using Irish pennies and no one has noticed the difference.