Best time to hit the 'Reduced To Clear' section?

[wreckhead]

I guess the irony in calling it the "tramp's buffet" is that it's mostly non-"tramps" such as myself and others on this thread taking the pickings and stuffing the freezers in their cosy homes, at the expense of those who could genuinely be helped by cheap/free supermarket throwaways

However I always saw it as a relatively harmless comedy description of the reduced section and the scuffles and complexities therein. Long ago I used to describe it to friends as the vultures' section, which may sound a bit harsher but is probably a better description of those of us who can afford to pay full price who get all excited at a 7p pie...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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However I always saw it as a relatively harmless comedy description of the reduced section and the scuffles and complexities therein. Long ago I used to describe it to friends as the vultures' section, which may sound a bit harsher but is probably a better description of those of us who can afford to pay full price who get all excited at a 7p pie...

Vultures is a better of describing it given the behaviour of those fighting over the reduced stuff.

 

[nogojones]

Luncheon vultures

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Luncheon vultures

Very good, although luncheon is a ridiculously posh word (unless you're talking about vouchers).

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Yeah I said Tramps Buffet to my GF the other day. She had to ask what it meant and when I told her she looked horrified. Dam you urban.

 

[iona]

I use the abbreviation TB on here coz it's understood, I've probably used the words tramps buffet too at some point and it doesn't bother me when other people say it on here - I think coz of it being Urban I tend to assume that people aren't meaning it in a nasty way. I'm usually pretty touchy about stuff like that because of having been homeless myself and I do pull people up for using words like tramp all the time in real life.

 

[DotCommunist]

EB? Economist Buffet?

might work but it does give the image of JM keynes and freidman fighting over the last pack of 10p crumpets


Sonal at the shop gave me a shop bag full of ood crisps again. Assorted walkers.

 

[Looby]

I use the abbreviation TB on here coz it's understood, I've probably used the words tramps buffet too at some point and it doesn't bother me when other people say it on here - I think coz of it being Urban I tend to assume that people aren't meaning it in a nasty way. I'm usually pretty touchy about stuff like that because of having been homeless myself and I do pull people up for using words like tramp all the time in real life.

Yeah, sort of the same. I have used the term irl but wouldn't usually and generally say TB on here. I've always felt that it wasn't intended in a nasty way but totally understand why people might object to it. I don't remember feds post about it so may not have seen it.

 

[Epona]

Steak pie (freezable), reduced from 68p so in a selfish TB moment I grabbed them all. Combined with the 19p sausages and the 28p chicken salad for my lunch today, I consider myself lucky I popped into Tesco late in the evening on a bank holiday weekend

Good haul!

 

[mrsfran]

Why don't we just ask a mod to change it? editor aqua Could the thread title possibly be changed to "Best time to hit the Reduced To Clear section"?

 

[Treacle Toes]

It is the 'real price' section. We all know that deep down.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Yeah I said Tramps Buffet to my GF the other day. She had to ask what it meant and when I told her she looked horrified. Dam you urban.

It's why I don't post much on this thread. I hate the name and the associations.

 

[editor]

*title edited

 

[Treacle Toes]

*title edited

Not edgy or subversive enough

 

[editor]

Not edgy or subversive enough

How about "Best time to hit the fucking 'Reduced To Clear' section for vibrant shoppers?

 

[Treacle Toes]

Real Price Section ftw!

 

[sojourner]

Indeed, it's a horrible term full stop. That people on the Left use it is rather sad.

Yep, couldn't agree more.

It's why I don't post much on this thread. I hate the name and the associations.

I don't think I've ever posted on this thread, to my knowledge, purely because of the name. I fucking hated it.

 

[8ball]

Glad I read back a bit - I nearly just posted to inform whomever had bumped this old thread that we already have a thriving "tramp's buffet" thread discussing this exact subject...

 

[DotCommunist]

yeah it never bothered me except as I know personally when your proper homeless the buffet is from the bins round the back. Amazing the amount of perfectly good food that goes. They should be allowed to distribute through places like The Company Shop which does reduce wastage as much as it can but they are small fry.

 

[bi0boy]

I thought this thread was about taking stuff out of bins so am only just reading it for the first time.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I am glad this thread title has been changed as I found it quite offensive.

 

[8ball]

Funny how people are mentioning it now - I never saw any mentions when I looked at the thread before so just filed it under "stuff that is acceptable on Urban".

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

yes, that is odd. 40 pages worth of posts over 2 years and only now everyone is offended

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I just ignored it as I found the term offensive but thought perhaps it was just me so I never bothered to wade in and start a row about it. I was always sure nobody actually meant to cause offence and it's only a thread on a bloody website so I found it relatively unimportant! It's just nice to see that it has changed although I wouldn't really care if it had not.

 

[Looby]

It does seem a bit odd that everyone is saying something now. I didn't think we were shy about challenging stuff on urban. [emoji53] Apart from a post from Fedayn that I missed, has anyone else ever raised this?

 

[8ball]

Ok, let's clear the air properly, then.

What else is everyone offended about that they're not currently speaking up about?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

David Cameron

 

[Looby]

Hipster hatred. I'm enjoying the ankles.

 

[Cribynkle]

I'm not really that comfortable with it either. I know it as the whoopsie counter after it's name in Asda, but whenever I say whoopsie someone usually asks what I mean, so I've given up as TB seems to be universally understood on here

I didn't realise that whoopsies came from Asda, that's what I've called it for ages without realising where it comes from (no Asda near me)

 

[8ball]

David Cameron

I get the impression some people have already mentioned this chap in an uncomplimentary light.