Category: Bad Value

  • Guest post by Rosemary MacCabe: Cheap with chips

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    Our pal Rosemary MacCabe, Irish Times journalist and fashion blogger, is looking for your advice. Thanks for the post Rosemary! Hi there! Seeing as I’ve stopped writing my own blog, I thought I’d send you a wee rant from an experience I had recently, because I genuinely want to know what people would think. So what…

  • Yet another reason to distrust Tesco? I am shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you

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    Sneaky Tesco at it again. From our regular reader Nanazolie: I’ve noticed a large yellow sticker that says “special offer” under the Milkybar and Aero large chocolate bars in my local Tesco. The bars are €1.99. They were €1.59 a few weeks ago. What is special about the price other than it’s gone up? Once…

  • Why is non-alcoholic beer such a rip off?

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    My pregnant friend Elaine misses beer. A lot. So she’s on the non-alcoholic variety, Paulaner and Beck’s being the tipples of choice. Last Thursday, I joined her and lovely husband Kieran for dinner at Cortina’s in Dundrum. Why, she asked, was a bottle of non-alcoholic Paulener, which has no excise duty to be paid, still…

  • Rip off “offers”

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    Spotted yesterday in Fresh, that overpriced convenience shop on Camden Street. This is possibly the most misleading “offer” I’ve seen in quite some time. One litre of Dawn orange juice is priced at €2.98 in Tesco and €3.05 in Superquinn. In May 2010,  it was €2.98 in Dunnes. So what’s so special about it being…

  • Bobo’s: Fourth time lucky?

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    This week, I’m continuing my hunt for Dublin’s best burger. A few weeks ago, I decided to give Bobo’s on Wexford Street yet another chance. I think of Bobo’s as the errant, prison-bound little brother I never had. Oh, he’s a bad ‘un, they tell me, but I really want him to succeed. I know…

  • Nancy Murphy’s, Enniskerry: “It’s not my fault,” says the manager

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    I’m done with not complaining in restaurants. When the cream in a friend’s recent Irish coffee was horribly sour, she was reluctant to send it back – it was just so embarrassing. So I did it for her. I thought I’d figured out the trick: don’t take the problem personally. They didn’t pour in rancid…

  • Kid’s meal rip-off from Mummy Pages

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    The parenting site Mummy Pages currently has a hair-raising example of being overcharged for a kid’s meal.  Kid’s meals are often very poor both in terms of choice and value, but this one is really something. In short, a child-size bowl of pasta with butter was billed at an incredible €15.90.  Read the full story…

  • A stupid solution to a problem that never existed

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    I knew watching TV was a bad idea. Dettol have just released the No-Touch hand wash system, a new, utterly pointless product to add to your eerily clean and soulless home. Specially designed to play on the  fear and ignorance of unsuspecting, never-ending consumers, the No-Touch system promises that you don’t even need to touch…

  • Feeling fruity

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    How much should it cost for a few swigs of fruit juice? Last week at Dundrum, I craved something healthy to see me through the tedious torture of a day’s shopping in this oddly alluring hellhole. I got a perfectly fine smoothie, full of kiwis and various healthy fruits. But as I queued, I was…

  • Review: Bó Bó’s – if only I had listened!

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    I was going to a gig in Whelan’s at the weekend and I popped into Bó Bó’s on Wexford street for a quick bite.  As I sat down, a dull alarm bell went off in my head but I couldn’t figure out why. Browsing over the huge menu, I came across the fish burger and…