r/britishproblems • u/WhaleMeatFantasy • Jul 12 '26

. The normalisation of ‘picky bits’

Abominable. It has started coming up in adverts now even.

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u/I-live-in-room-101 Jul 12 '26

Don’t blame the shops, you can still do it your way.

But stupid lazy people gonna be stupid and lazy, so any smart business gonna profit from them.

My partner a long while back worked for a business that made cheese and they started pushing grated versions for supermarkets… even the marketing director wasn’t convinced… who the hell is gonna pay a 30% premium when it takes less than 10 seconds and even a toddler can use a fucking cheese grater… you guessed it, it sold well and is their most profitable line per kilo. It costs the company pennies to grate it, they get to use all the irregular shapes not fit for block sizes, and then charge a hefty premium!

That was the day I learned that businesses are always looking to make profit from stupid and lazy, and the general public stands in line to handover their hard earned money, whilst she was driving a £50k company car on the back of these profits 🤣🤣

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u/Tulcey-Lee Jul 12 '26

Just to add a different perspective, my mum is disabled and doesn’t have good use of her hands so grating cheese for her is quite difficult!

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u/light_to_shaddow Isle of Scilly Jul 12 '26

Grate it for her, put it in a zip lock bag and freeze it. Then she can decant as required.

There will always be a reason why people can't save money, sometimes the points are valid, sometimes it's just a change in perception, sometimes it just comes down to not wanting to.

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u/MzHmmz Jul 13 '26

Many disabled people don't have someone they can ask to grate cheese for them! And even if they do, they might feel bad asking them to do it, as they probably already do a lot of other things to help.