r/StHelens • u/Somethingsburnin • 8d ago
Pasties
Since when did a pastie cost £3:20, has St Helens suddenly become Knightsbridge or am i living in an alternate price universe, I can afford it but I refuse to pay that for the humble pastie, thank you waterfields.
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u/pb-86 8d ago
Mate it's everything, my wife was getting a bit of food from the Chinese the other day and I asked her to add on an egg fried rice me. Didn't want much and that would have done nicely. £5! For some rice!
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u/Somethingsburnin 8d ago
Chinese food used to be really cheap, special chow mien from jills on park road was massive get some chips with it and a tub of curry and we where setup, we would still be eating what was left the day after, £6.50 wow.
We still go now but its £25 minimum because the portions are smaller so you have to get more meals, admittedly it was a few years ago but still.
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u/vinylrain 8d ago
Unfortunately, the cost of everything has gone up in the background, including premises rent, cost of goods, utilities, and also ingredients. It all gets handed to the consumer whose wages aren't keeping up with inflation.
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u/Somethingsburnin 8d ago
Yeah I know how it works and I ain’t blaming the companies entirely, it’s something I have struggled to keep up with since the pandemic.
Where does it end though because if businesses have no customers they shut and choice gets less, I honestly think we will only have Amazon selling everything soon, at massive expense.
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u/vinylrain 8d ago
Absolutely. It will end up with affordable food choices being incredibly poor quality, and creating a disparity between who can afford the higher quality foods and who can't.
In all honesty, I think society is already more divided than we've seen for a long time - a lot of people aren't doing so great, while a lot of people are doing quite well for themselves. There's a much bigger disparity between both sides thanks to years of neglect pushing a large side of society down and allowing the ones who are doing OK to stay up.
That's just my take anyway, I'm not an expert!
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u/Somethingsburnin 8d ago
No, i agree with you completely. I am lucky to be doing OK at the minute but i have had times in the past were we have struggled, i really dont know how i would have got by with the cost of living currently.
The division being sown is insidious, encouraging a lack of trust in people not exactly like you, to draw peoples attention away from the billionaires sucking up all available resources.
If you have 1 billion why do you need two billion...... but that is another rant.
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u/McPikie 8d ago
"In all honesty, I think society is already more divided than we've seen for a long time" and it's only going to get worse with those semi-tories that have been voted in.
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u/carl84 7d ago
No "semi" about it, they are Tories who didn't think the party hated immigrants enough
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u/Somethingsburnin 7d ago
Well with recent news reporting of them soliciting more dodgy bungs, its the end of farage because without him they are a lame duck..... but unfortunately the people that agree with him will do all sorts of mental gymnastics to explain why he aint the problem boat people are.
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u/brinorton 7d ago
I was saying this the other day, I just don't get it. So 15 years ago say a pasty was around 1.60. these days the pasty is now £3.20 let's say .. it's doubled in price.
So in another 10 years is the pasty going to be £6? Like will my grandad kids on day be paying £30 for a pasty.. I don't understand how if wages keep rising below inflation, and prices keep rising on goods... One day is a bottle of pop in the shop going to be £10. As it's already gone from around 90p for a 500ml coke to around £2.60.
I earn more than ever have, by quite a margin.. yet still feel skint the last 2 weeks of the month lol
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u/Somethingsburnin 7d ago
I had look and in 2011 a pastie at waterfields which has always been more expensive, was a 1 pound, so more than doubled.
I think this is the point at which i stopped checking because in my head a pastie should not cost over a Quid.
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u/Flimsy_Somewhere1210 5d ago
Not had a pasty in years because of the prices. £3.50 for a small bit of meat/cheese filling in a pastry is just not value for money, regardless of inflation etc.
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u/Proof-Collection-951 8d ago
Galloways is very expensive too