Free Petrol!
I genuinely didn't mean to do this.

I'd just finished working a 12 hour day and had stopped to get some petrol on the way home. I was the only customer so I parked close to the shop and put about £10 worth of petrol in.

I went into the shop and picked up some milk and a Ginster's scotch egg bar, for which I have a strange fondness*, and went to the til.

I didn't bother telling the bored cashier my pump number because I was the only customer, and kind of figured she could work out which was my pump. Clearly I overestimated her. She rang up my purchases and mumbled a price to which my tired brain didn't really pay attention, and I handed over my card.

Upon returning home and looking at my receipt I discovered that the silly cow had charged me for the milk and scotch egg bar but had been too preoccupied by staring blankly into space to notice me filling my car with petrol 10 feet away.

So, sorry Shell, I have stolen £10 of petrol from you. Actually, it worked so well I'm thinking of trying it again!

*I'm willing to bet that any replies to this post will be about the merits or otherwise of scotch egg bars, and not about the actual content of my post. This is fine, and I'll start the ball rolling my saying that, yes I know they're really just egg mayonaise surrounded by "meat" and breadcrumbs and in that sense not a true scotch egg, but dammit, they're just so yummy!
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 10:24, 13 replies)

I'll take that bet


They are quite nice and have a stronger pepperery flavour to them.
(Barry Chuckle has gone out in the thong to feed the pigeons, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 10:28, closed)

Indeed,
much better than Ginster's sausage rolls which tend to be dry and taste like cardboard covered in shite.
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 10:36, closed)

Undoubtedly
The King of savoury snacks.
( Stu71 ....bad money dies, I love the scene, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 11:05, closed)

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuungry
Surprised you weren't caught by the automated licence plate cam - perhaps it's a myth.
(jmaxi returned again on, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 11:19, closed)

^^^I tend to think it's a myth
however, I did go into the shop with the intention of paying, so if I am caught out I can just explain that my only crime was over-estimating the intelligence of the cashier.
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 11:30, closed)

Buffet bars
I'll see your scotch egg bar and raise you a buffet bar! Sausage meat in breadcrumbs filled with coleslaw. Splendid.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 11:37, closed)

Buffet Bars?
Oh my goodness, no! I have tried one once and thought it was horrible. A dry, tasteless abomination compared to the moist savoury goodness that is the scotch egg bar.
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 11:45, closed)

Ginsters
I'm all for the buffet bars. Except I haven't seen either them or the scotch egg bars for a couple of years now...
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 11:47, closed)

Bob Fossil
they tend to only be sold at petrol stations/motorway services. Much to my chagrin I have never found one in a shop or supermarket. Curses!
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 11:50, closed)

Bob Fossil
There's an Esso petrol station on the A45, near junction 15 of the M1 which sells both scotch egg and buffet bars. That is the kind of information that would actually be useful on a sat-nav system, instead of things like airports or hospitals.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 12:08, closed)

Ginsters-Nav!
I would buy that.

Then I would buy a car to put it in, and drive around all day seeking out buffet bars.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 16:12, closed)

I'm very sorry
but I don't know WHAT you're talking about.

egg mayonaise "meat" and breadcrumbs? and then, what is a "real" scotch egg?

little help?
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Sat 12 Jan 2008, 4:48, closed)

miss kitty
a "real" scotch egg contains a hard-boiled egg in the centre, surrounded by meat and covered in breadcrumbs. See here. Try to get hold of one if you can, they are truly the king of sausage-and-egg-based savoury snacks.
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Mon 14 Jan 2008, 9:51, closed)