Chocolate Hobnobs are a particular favourite, even though they do tend to give me indigestion if a have more than a couple – and who stops at two. Seriously. Still, ‘The Game’s worth the candle’ as far as I’m concerned – we also have Orange Rennies. 😀 As an aside, when my sister was having the outside walls of her house repainted she provided Choccie Hobnobs with the tea and the painters cleaned our all the guttering while they were up the ladders for free!
Which Stollen do you get? We always get their own-brand loaf/cake. The Heston and Ameretto versions don’t appeal at all.
For the most part I love Waitrose (even though they’ve recently moved me from the Basingstoke superstore to the far smaller Alton store so a lot of my formerly ‘regular’ order items are no longer available to me – pah!). It’s their oft-times bizarre substitutions and mad reasoning that entertain.
The most recent was subbing 2 individual carrots (for a casserole) with 2 kilos of bagged carrots. When I contacted them about the somewhat excessive substitution (even if they had no loose carrots, 1 bag would have more than sufficed) their rationale was “Our Personal Shoppers are unable to choose the size of the substitutions” – thus 2 x carrots = 2 x 1kg bag of carrots.
A couple or three years ago they arrived with our Christmas Order – but only had 2 bags of it on the van. The rest was gradually delivered across the rest of the day by various drivers as they passed. But the six free bottles of pretty decent wine they presented us with at the end kinda made up for the (quite frankly minimal) inconvenience.