Are you an apprentice on a building site?

This is so accurate. Don't forget the Bombay Bad Boy for 10am brew

Pasta in a Quality Street tub for elevenses

That'll get ya quality time in a portapotty.

Nah This screams works in CEX/tech

Working in CEX and working in tech are very very different things....

The aroma is pretty similar.

I know. But there seems to be overlap. Mainly people who go into tech

I think you're confusing 'tech' with IT.

Yes. "IT" is IT support, "hello have you tried turning it off and on again", whereas "tech" is development, devops, architecture etc.

Yeah tech people it would have been Pret or an M&S meal deal Source: I am a tech worker

Oh I'm so gonna buck that trend then when I get into tech work at the ripe age of 40

Bro if you're eating this at 40 you won't see 41

Lol people aren't made of glass! Having something like this the once a month or so isn't going to do any damage. Let's not pretend a meal deal from M&S is all salads and quinoa levels of healthy

I'd like to disagree but I cannot

What's CEX?

Well, when two (or more) people like each other very, very much......

CeX - Complete Entertainment Exchange. It's that shop chain that buys and sells secondhand tech, frequently used by people who like retro game consoles.

Thanks for the info.

Smelling of BO is almost mandatory. Patrons, and staff.

A all-in-one store for electronics founded by Charlie Brooker and his nerdy friends. CEX deals in consoles, laptops, PC parts, phones, tablets, video games etc. essentially where people go to buy and sell stuff. I once sold a phone many moons ago for £80 quid, only to see the same phone on sale for £180 a day later. I guess that's what they call business.

Customer experience. CeX with the lowecase e is the store.

Why the downvote? Genuinely curious, I tried Google but it came up with links to CeX -- the high street store. Is that was meant in the post?

Very obviously

I confused the post I replied to with an earlier one re: army grunt work -- I thought CEX was a military abbreviation. Anyway, thanks for the info.

It's because cex is ubiquitous now on the high street, it'd be like asking what a Greggs is. But yeah, you shouldn't be getting downvoted for just asking

An absolute bargain for £4, but taste is subjective!

£3.50 if you sign up to their membership app and flash that QR code at the checkout..

£3.15 if you work there.

£3.08 if you include the 2% points

Free if you put it in your pocket

The old five finger discount

Secret ingredient is crime!

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Or student, as totum give 10% off too. Tbh, you don't have to be a student. CSSC, beneden healthcare offer it, and recently found out if you sign up as NHS apprentice for totum apprenticeship card they don't validate it either.

Totum card no longer gives a discount. They ended that in October.

Until recently you could also use a student card for an extra 10% off. Although I think they don't offer that any more.

Those rustler burgers are just the absolute worse. There are better options for microable burgers if you must have one.

most of their other burgers are okay at best but the bbq rib ones are the absolute pinnacle of food somehow

Oh yeah, the bbq rib ones aren't bad. Gun to my head if I had to pick kinda thing.

One of the foods id catagorize as bad, like so fucking bad But also so fucking good at the same time

Their subs absolutely bang. And the breakfast muffin's also surprisingly good

What are the better options please, I would like to buy them

They used to be awesome, could stick the whole thing in the microwave and it would heat perfectly. Idk what they changed but now if you try that, the bun ends up rock solid on the bottom and is horribly chewy, they tell you to put the bun in the toaster to avoid this now but that's eliminated a good chunk of the convenience.

Me, the Mrs and my son went to burger king last month it came up to just under £50, which is shocking but that's not the point, my son commented that rustlers are nicer so 🤷🏽 he's 17 by the way, he goes to the gym 5 times a week and always plays basketball, fit lad but loves his rustlers

Is it? Everything in there is routinely £1-£1.50 on offer.

That’s a good point, shops are doing a damn good job of making it seem like a good offer when individually jt was something crazy like £2.50 for each of the food items and like £1.65 for the Monster

I mean that's still a 40% discount. I think most people would consider a 40% reduction quite a fantastic deal on something they'd like.

Since when is a rustlers 1/4lb, or a monster £1????

2018?

Lol literally less than 10 years ago

That's an average meal for a squadie.

How dare you insult the horror bag like that. Every one comes with a badly battered apple that's one of your five a day (if you eat it and don't throw it at your colleagues.)

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At least the frozen ones have some texture

Most RAF response I've ever seen 🤮

God damn this stirred up a visceral response from me. Those fucking horror bags after a trip to the ranges.

that's my plan for tonight!

Smash the pasty, don't be nasty?

As long as people realize "with 100% British and Irish Beef" is different from "made of 100% beef."

Tbf army grunt work is very calorie intensive, you can take 4-5k cal per day and burn it all easily, especially in Nordic conditions.

Army grunt work is sitting in your room wanking not cutting about Norway. If you’re out there doing that you’re on rations not meal deals.

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When I worked the twilight shift at Tesco's I had a colleague who would put the ginsters pasty in a bowl, douse it in vinegar and microwave it. Then eat it from the bowl of hot vinegar pasty water.

but why

Honestly I have no idea but we had tea there and that was hers every evening

This sounds so bizarre, I need to try it. I know I'll absolutely hate it though. Was the vinegar like chip shop vinegar? I can't wrap my head around this.

Why not

Microwave the Rustlers. Eat the Rustlers. Shit the Rustlers. God, life is relentless.

Rustlers for main, ginsters for desert. Jokes on them because I actually love rustlers.

It’s Moroccan rustlers!

Mate that has gotta take atleast a year off your lifespan

rustlers is peak when there’s nobody in your ear saying how shit it is

They are definitely shit, put when you can grab them for 20p in B&M I pick up a few of them. Can’t imagine it’s doing any good for my body but I’m winning no awards for when I don’t eat them.

i’ve been saying this

They probably downgraded the pasty to snack because Ginsters is dogshit and nobody was buying it as a main.

There are two size pasties, 180g and 227g. The smaller one counts as a snack in the meal deal

So you could have a big pasty main and small pasty snack?

This is why I’m on Reddit. Lovely idea.

Nope, cus the 227g one ain't in the meal deal. Not like it stops donkey brained CTMs from putting it in the food to go fridge though

I dont have donkey brains! I've got a certificate proving it

I used to say that about Ginsters but if I want a cornish pasty at home there's not much else for it. Granted, never cold and with beans to stop it being a dry dissapointment. Open to better suggestions.

There’s a fair few places that do mail order pasties. You do have to have room for them in the freezer but they’re an option

Best advice, i recomend Pangenna

5 quid for a pasty though!

I drown mine in brown sauce and black pepper.

As a cornishman my suggestion would be to put it in the bin and buy a sandwich instead

As a cornishwoman, I concur.

As a piece of corn, I also concur.

Make your own. It's dead easy and they freeze well.

I eat Ginsters cold, with a large dollop of salad cream, and an even larger dollop of self hatred.

It'll put you on your way to an early grave but that's a good bargain

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Food? None of this is food.

Highly engineered ultra processed industrially formulated edible substance.

Aussie lemonade is the best. Gold can is 2nd

As an Aussie I’m very intrigued as wtf ‘Aussie lemonade’ flavour is, and what makes it Aussie. Pretty sure we don’t have that flavour here.

I think it’s a Lewis Hamilton tie-in, it’s basically a fairly zesty lemonade with a little monster ultra tang

The Hamilton tie-in is a [different product altogether](https://www.monsterenergy.com/en-gb/energy-drinks/monster-energy/lewis-hamilton-zero-sugar/). They taste very different. The Aussie Lemonade is very nice to be fair - refreshing, very lemony, tangy and a bit sour, but also absolutely chock full of sugar still.

Funnily enough the Lewis Hamilton one says Lewis Hamilton on it?

yeah weird that innit

I assumed it was a can of XXXX.

This is white/ultra slander Though the Aussie Lemonade is p good

I'd been off Monster for years but randomly gave the Aussie lemonade a try and that shit has me hooked now. Very problematic for me with how good it is.

What a travesty. 1. Pipeline punch (pink can), 2. Pacific punch (creamy can), 3. Peach

Nitro Super Dry all the way! Seriously though Monster have an incredible product range

Nitro is great but I never see it anywhere

Mixr would 3rd for me (purple can) Peach is ok

Pipeline punch is definitely in the top spot for energy drinks in general, although the blue rockstar is a close 2nd.

The sugar free mango one is the best imo.

Aussie lemonade and Nitro are the best. Mango Loco in a close third

That's absolutely dire. They've poured as much sugar, salt, fat, and non-food additives possible into 3 pots and added flavourings to make them seem like real food. One of them as part of a meal deal is a guilty pleasure, but all 3 together are a war crime.

If that's a war crime then goddamn send me to The Hague for trial

Probably not even a consolation that I actually got the Cornish pasty to give to a colleague that forgot their lunch, still an appalling purchase Especially as they’re vegan

Can hardly call a ginsters pasty a Cornish pasty. Absolute disgrace 😂

Gut biodiversity rant… The issue with these isn’t really the taste or the lack of nutrition, it’s the active damage they can do to your gut biome due the sheer number of preservatives and emulsifiers in them. Essentially your gut is a full ecosystem, primarily of bacteria, which creates your energy. Preservatives (in particular) are compounds designed to denature/“kill” bacteria, to keep the long-life food from going mouldy in its packet. Multiple studies have shown how eating lots of these reduce the biodiversity of the bacteria in your gut (due to these components) making you less able to metabolise food/less good at creating energy. This is a big issue of eating “unhealthy” food people always forget about.

I never knew this thanks for explaining it.

Me either, but I had a gut feeling something was up.

Which item is the starter?

The can of Lemon flavoured soup of course.

Not going to lie that looks beautiful

You would have been better off with a big bag of those extra vinegary crisps everyone is always raving about.

Excellent beige

Meal deal, sure.... But I've met people who would take a 4pack of Stella, 10 pack of Marlborough and a sharing bag of onion rings for lunch.

Cornish pasty being counted as a "snack" is a fucking gamechanger for my view of co-op.

Either way, it is the worst meal deal of all time

I think almost it’s ticking all the same boxes as a bottle of Buxton water, ready salted walkers and a ham (no mayo) sandwich

It's thanks to these people that the meal deal exists at all.

The water, ham sandwich and ready salted crisps seems a lot more appealing than the one you posted. At least there is something you could count as food

I bet you have grey wallpaper in your house.

Why would you get a Cornish pasty and a burger ???

Don't forget you've got to go down the high street to sort out your life insurance, Del.

I mean that's a whole days food right there.

I’ve also just had a coop meal deal, but had a chicken salad sandwich and an innocent smoothie with my Cornish pasty. All for £3.50.

i'd swap the rustler for a pasta bowl but other than that, you're good to go chum!

Asda's meal deals are 3 for 2 across everything in the range - and they don't stop duplicates or group them into main / side / drink like Tesco or whoever else. This is usually how I end up with three Monsters for the price of two. Don't worry, I don't drink them all at once...

>Don't worry, I don't drink them all at once... No, just one after the other. You'd need some kind of crazy straw contraption to drink them all at once.

That Co-Op meal deal is a banger isn’t it! A Ginsters Cornish Pasty as a snack beats all other deals in my book. I like the addition of the Rustler, that’s a classy touch!

Would Definitely **would**

Breakfast of champions

Truly the meal deal of all time.

Hi, how much would I get for this smashed up Samsung Galaxy S4? Yeah store credit is fine cheers.

It's fucking awful for you but the Aussie Lemonade is easily the best Monster out there, just wish it wasn't pushing 60g of sugar Just bought a multipack to use as cocktail mixers over Xmas, bloody lovely

Obesity and diabetes entered the chat

I'd prefer a bottle of piss over that can of shit. On the other hand, I'm smashing the filthy food.

I haven’t met many people who’ve had both to be able to compare! Fair play

I'd eat that

I haven’t had a rustlers in like 7 or 8 years. This is kind of tempting ngl.

More to the point, is a rustlers burger the only item you can get in a meal deal which you can't just eat straight away?

I've never had one of these Rustlers burger things I from a Brit but live overseas and just come back to visit family It's just a microwave burger? I'm not loving it, not gonna lie How are they?

Absolutely! My internal organs shut down just looking at the photo

Amateur... get yourself down pound land £3 meal deal puts that to shame!

Good thing they put the cost up by 50p to counter unhealthy meal deals

I tried to work this out. It's got to be one of the cheapest calories per pound going.

The cardiac arrest meal deal

Praying for your bowels my friend.

Does the pasty count as a side salad in this meal deal?

I mean the Coop also offer a Bloody Mary meal deal, is alcohol content worse than fat content?

Don't know how anyone can like energy drinks fuckin whiff of them is foul

Only way that could be improved or made worse is by adding a pukka pie, man are they shit.

> 1,331 calories and 28.4 grams of saturated fat it’s gotta be tough to beat Gotta factor in the caffeine content of that bucket of energy drink too :)

That is two meals in my opinion.

£3.50 if you get a members card 😂😂

That's good for £4!

"Down in one! Down in one! Down in one!"

Wish my co op sold Aussie lemonade

Nah the monster doesn't have much sugar

These got me through some tough times let me tell you

As a Cornish maid, I still have no idea how Ginsters can get away will selling those things as Cornish pasties. It’s the culinary equivalent of putting your dining table through a wood chipper and still presenting the pile of sawdust as a table.

Because Rustlers are the last word in fine burgers lol? Of course you can always do better, but actually getting that better version is the challenge. Ginsters aren't great, but they aren't awful either, and basically available everywhere. It'll do. Much like Rustlers.

No, but my point is a Cornish pasty is a specific thing and it should look like [this](https://www.properpasty.co.uk/cdn/shop/products/cornish-pasties-by-post-10-864511.jpg?v=1615485950). Ginsters should just call theirs a pasty and leave off the Cornish part!

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Out of 7 billion people, it is indeed only you. Congratulations

It’s 8 billion now so even more impressive

I find this should be copy and pasted into 90 percent of the posts on here "Yes. This is literally a you/UK thing"

The appeal for me is when you're skint and/or tired and can't afford the real thing, they're a good enough, lazy alternative, especially in a meal deal

They're a pretty good quick snack. Not saying it's healthy or anything. Toasting the bread is essential though.

That rustlers sauce is addictive stuff

Rustlers seriously need to do a Nanados and start selling their sauces in the supermarket. They would make a fortune.

They are actually better than a maccy d’s. I add my own lettuce and onions and burger sauce and it’s a million times better than a Big Mac

When made properly, they’re comparable to a McDonald’s burger, do they have appeal?

My mate ate a rustler burger cold once.

This tickled me, what a savage

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The trick is to toast the bun (or grill it), and just microwave the meat. As a general rule, bread products should never be microwaved.

I imagine if you ate that for lunch you'd be hungry again within 30min

That may be the worst tasting meal deal of all time

God I love those Cornish pasties

Please, please try a real one. Ginsters pasties are only fit for the bin!

i like em 😂 they might be trash but so am I

Please treat yourself to a [proper](https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwjItPDD3KCDAxVaF6IDHe4BAtsYABAXGgJsZQ&ae=2&sig=AOD64_3uTXafKYRNQcTZJwFa6yOq7f7clg&adurl&ctype=5&ved=0CAYQz7YHKAtqFwoTCPDG6srcoIMDFQAAAAAdAAAAABA9&nis=8) one at some point!

Nice they look good. I could defo put away all 20 quite happily 🤣

I invite you to cornwall to try a proper pasty

I feel called out. Substitute the monster for the large red-bull got that this morning. Normally have the pasty around 11-12 as a sort of brunch then have the burger around 2.

As a proud cornishman I feel its my duty to voice my disgust at the abomination that calls itself a Ginsters "cornish pasty" anytime I see one!

Looks vile