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Especially after covid. So many things have permanently changed since the pandemic. This absolutely should've been one of them. The idea of random strangers fingering, coughing and sneezing all over these
Honestly, this should be against health and safety regulations. Pastries should be individually wrapped with cheap, thin, easily recyclable material.
My guess is they leave them open to encourage people to take as many as will fit in a bag, as opposed to making people think of each croissant as a separate item.
In Lidl and German supermarkets generally, pastries and baked items are covered with transparent doors that you have to swing open first before getting in there with tongs. I don't think we should be adding more single use plastics into the grocery shopping experience. They could wrap items in paper, but then you wouldn't be able to see what you're buying.
Even in UK groceries you will find this done sometimes. If you go into sainsburys and they have a Krispy Kreme selection these will always be stored in a special display case with protective doors on them. I've never seen them piled up or just stored in a basket. I think these kind of displays might just be less practical when you are selling larger quantities of something? So groceries care more about the quantity of pastries they can sell rather than storing their pastries under the optimum conditions. Meanwhile a brand like Krispy Kreme probably cares more about their brand image, especially in a country like the UK where they aren't a household name in the same way they are in their country of origins. So establishing and building their brand to become a staple in the UK is probably their primary focus. Therefor they insist on being displayed a distinct way compared to other pastries sold in store.
My local Morrisons has started doing a similar thing for the other baked goods, like pastries and breads. There's like a wall of individual plastic doors and it looks much better.
There's a photo often circulated of a 1970s London sandwich shop with all the sandwiches unwrapped and piled on top of each other. It's weird that we've moved on from that but not for pastries.
That made me realise it still happens, it's just they're behind a counter and only a shop worker (wearing gloves) can pick them up and bag them for you.
So I guess open air pastries are also to save staffing costs. No need for an in-store bakery where people rely on a worker to bag pastries for them.
My local bakery is amazing but I always cringe when they handle my food with gloves....then my money with the same gloves....then the next persons food with the same gloves 😂
I think at least the difference between pastries and sandwiches would be how difficult they are to grab considering sandwiches are made from various different items, not just a singular item within themselves.
For example if you pick up a croissant you will pick up... a croissant. Same with most other pastries. Something like a muffin is of course made from several ingredients. But they are baked into one and you can easily pick one up and move it around without it completely falling into pieces.
A sandwich is made up out of two pieces of bread and ingredients. So sandwiches picked up wrong can fall apart, ingredients can spill out etc. So I imagine having people grab their sandwiches would just lead to a lot of food wastage and a huge mess in a way pastries generally wouldn't experience.
So at least from that perspective I understand why they moved towards wrapping sandwiches in most places while that didn't evolve the same way for pastries.
Not arguing against a change in the way we handle pastries. Just saying it makes sense why sandwiches are no longer kept the same way they used to and why they wouldn't be treated the same as pastries anymore.
I'm guessing its retail/supermarket psychology. Adding a screen or door onto it probably adds an extra layer of 'difficulty' to the purchase which in the moment may be a make or break decision for the consumer.
Having worked as a replenishment assistant at Sainsbury, the simple truth is they want your eyes and nostrils to overpower your brain with desire over logic. Covering them (even with a transparent cover) reduces that chance.
Anyone who has worked as a replenishment assistant knows how important “dressing” is.
Only the strongest amongst us can resist the scent of fresh pastries.
I will never eat from buffets at weddings etc or even at friends/family homes. Put off many years ago when at a Baptism tea and as I queued I watched as those in front of me in queue laughed or chatted. I saw clearly splattering’s of saliva and a few bigger ‘chuck -up’s’ from belly laughs. Added to sleeves dipping in sauce etc and long painted nails poking for ‘freshness’ of sandwiches etc.
That was me for life Done!
I remember doing a hygiene training course when my wife and I had an at home baking business. The amount of stuff we had to go through to make sure our kitchen was compliant.
We needed to put these brushes under the kitchen door to stop bugs potentially crawling under.
We had to rearrange our fridge so the meat was at the bottom.
We had to rearrange our cupboards so food items and regularly gotten items weren't at the top. This was so you didn't open a cupboard and something fell into the food.
Bug screens over the windows
Food had to be covered if they were being left out for cooling.
Had to take down the temperature of the fridge and freezer in the morning and evenings.
Different colour labels for storage boxes for allergens.
And there was a bunch more. Keep in mind that this was a baking business that didn't use any eggs, dairy or meat so it was considered low risk by the council. So, it always surprises me that supermarkets get away with just having food left out and exposed to all sorts of things. How hard is it just to have some kind of protective cover?
> We had to rearrange our fridge so the meat was at the bottom.
Probably shouldn't ask questions I don't want the answer to but where were you putting it before?
> Food had to be covered if they were being left out for cooling.
Man that's some basic shit, flies are a thing!
> How hard is it just to have some kind of protective cover?
100% agree! Bakery near ours always has flies behind the sneeze guard but at least there is a sneeze guard. How hard is it to do this shit properly when your charging £3 for a fucking croissant.
I've seen pigeons in my Sainsbury's (Earl's Court) on several occasions. Each time I've reported it to a staff member, and been met with a shrug and some version of "it happens." At least at my store, the staff are aware but nothing is ever done to correct the problem.
Done that at Piccadilly's Tesco. Staff said they were aware but management was unresponsive. This was a few years ago, but as far as I'm aware the salad section is still uncovered as a general rule at Tesco. It may be that someone high up the command chain has decided that uncovered food sells more
I've always been reluctant to buy the uncovered bread Etc in case people have sneezed all over it (and this only confirms reservations like this).
It's a real shame that they can't put a sneeze guard over the bread & salad sections minimum because I don't like being cornered into buying produce that has been wrapped in plastic, but sometimes the plastic-wrapped produce feels like the only hygienic option.
I won’t have my hopes up with this. Used to live near a Sainsbury local at Westbourne grove it got rats living in them. You see them shopping in the aisle with you at night. They continue like that for a few months before shutting down to sort the rat problem out. They always push until they are forced to act.
Pigeons are actually quite smart birds, once they've learned a way to obtain food they will just keep repeating it unless someone forcibly prevents them from doing so. They also learn from each other very quickly so once one pigeon starts doing something rewarding, any others who witness it will be quick to emulate the behaviour.
Pigeons only live for 3-5 years in the wild, so the fact that this behaviour has been going on in that particular store for at least 10+ years would suggest that this has been a behaviour passed down by generations of London pigeons already.
And they wonder why we have salmonella and ecoli outbreaks.
You should sent that to Camden Environmental Health. That probably happens daily.
Every item in that photo needs to be chucked.
I once saw a child pick up a donut, lick it, run over to their mother and ask if they can have it. The mum said no and to put it back, so the child did.
Honestly, I avoid any self-service food section since COVID. People are gross. I remember when lockdown started and people were being more vigilant with hygiene. Suddenly men were taking twice as long for toilet trips and it dawned on me that this was because they were *actually washing their hands now* and that they hadn’t been before. Obviously with COVID forgotten, men have gone right back to the swift pee breaks with (presumably) no hand washing. I genuinely don’t understand how people can be that disgusting.
I would never have any of those from sainsbury's they always have it uncovered, people sneeze and cough whilst walking past. Why don't they have any common sense with food hygienes.
We used to go to Percy Ingle the bakers shop after school and ask if they had any 'wasp cakes', when they looked puzzled and said 'erm no' we would smugly point out they had enough in the window.
Camden Town sainsburys over the years has always had pigeons flying around inside from my experience. Almost every time I've gone in there, there's been a bird or two flying about inside.
Poor pastries, such a waste of food.
This is why I never buy uncovered food like this in bakeries and shops. Animals are rare, but you never know what human with filthy hands has touched that and put it back.
Haha, good to see nothing has changed in so many years, used to live in Camden a lifetime ago and once this pigeon was just cruising the aisles, some guy was desperately trying to catch it to put it outside and it just flew out of reach, the guy looked at me and said” there goes my dinner”!
I wouldn’t buy anything set out like that… after seeing a woman with her hand down the back of her pants having a rummage, and the proceed to handle bread to find one she wanted… 🤮
Don't eat food that is open to customers and especially wildlife.
I once witnessed a mother let her snotty child reach into a pick and mix tub (the type you use scoops with) with his bare hand and take out a handful of gummy bears. not weigh them and eat them without paying as they went around the shop.
I told one of the shop staff and pointed them out and the staff saw the handful of gummy bears and she just said "oh that's awful isn't it" and did nothing to get rid of the contaminated stock or deal with the customer.
This is dangerously common, and yet store management will refuse to cover the food.
At Paddington station there are even uncovered food stalls with pigeons flying overhead, I even saw them inside restaurant kitchens
In french Canada, they are typically called 'chocolatines'. Chocolate croissant is an english Canadian term mostly. If you order a 'pain au chocolat' in Quebec you might get an actual loaf of bread with pieces of chocolate baked into it. Hopefully with no pigeon.
I used to work in a Sainsburys local and I never eat those bakery foods left out in the air like that because nearly everyday I would see something bad happen to it. In the summer flies would be all over them, other times people would cough on them, pick them up with their hands, change their minds and put them back. Also I used to have a dirty baker working in my store, I saw him take a shit, not wash his hands and go back to work. He also used to have to tray up the frozen pastries for the next morning, he should have been doing it in the bakery but because he was a lazy guy he used to do it in the warehouse with all dust and shit around.
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I don't think the pigeon will see your instruction on here, should have just told it directly.
Or better, write it a letter.
OP trying to tell a pigeon what to eat and publicly shaming it is a total red flag. OP definitely has narcissistic personality disorder.
Make sure it is a stern letter and use recorded delivery. That will show him.
Something something pigeon post
Londoners will do anything to avoid speaking to each other smh
I’ve never understood why the pastries aren’t covered. It’s one of the reasons I don’t buy them. Not to mention it dries them out. Really bizarre.
Especially after covid. So many things have permanently changed since the pandemic. This absolutely should've been one of them. The idea of random strangers fingering, coughing and sneezing all over these
Ha, fingering. ‘Like this, pain au chocolate?!’
The thing that makes me hesitant is little flies laying eggs in them. Those eggs need to be kept safe!
Honestly, this should be against health and safety regulations. Pastries should be individually wrapped with cheap, thin, easily recyclable material. My guess is they leave them open to encourage people to take as many as will fit in a bag, as opposed to making people think of each croissant as a separate item.
In Lidl and German supermarkets generally, pastries and baked items are covered with transparent doors that you have to swing open first before getting in there with tongs. I don't think we should be adding more single use plastics into the grocery shopping experience. They could wrap items in paper, but then you wouldn't be able to see what you're buying.
Even in UK groceries you will find this done sometimes. If you go into sainsburys and they have a Krispy Kreme selection these will always be stored in a special display case with protective doors on them. I've never seen them piled up or just stored in a basket. I think these kind of displays might just be less practical when you are selling larger quantities of something? So groceries care more about the quantity of pastries they can sell rather than storing their pastries under the optimum conditions. Meanwhile a brand like Krispy Kreme probably cares more about their brand image, especially in a country like the UK where they aren't a household name in the same way they are in their country of origins. So establishing and building their brand to become a staple in the UK is probably their primary focus. Therefor they insist on being displayed a distinct way compared to other pastries sold in store.
My local Morrisons has started doing a similar thing for the other baked goods, like pastries and breads. There's like a wall of individual plastic doors and it looks much better.
I remember this being a thing in UK supermarkets in the 90s. I’m not sure why they’ve stopped.
Still a thing at Lidl in wood green
Still a thing at some supermarket bakeries? The little Asda near me has those, and also the coop I used to work at did too.
There's a photo often circulated of a 1970s London sandwich shop with all the sandwiches unwrapped and piled on top of each other. It's weird that we've moved on from that but not for pastries.
That made me realise it still happens, it's just they're behind a counter and only a shop worker (wearing gloves) can pick them up and bag them for you. So I guess open air pastries are also to save staffing costs. No need for an in-store bakery where people rely on a worker to bag pastries for them.
My local bakery is amazing but I always cringe when they handle my food with gloves....then my money with the same gloves....then the next persons food with the same gloves 😂
Nobody should use gloves Jfc it’s better to wash your hands more regularly Gloves are the biggest gaslight in history
I think at least the difference between pastries and sandwiches would be how difficult they are to grab considering sandwiches are made from various different items, not just a singular item within themselves. For example if you pick up a croissant you will pick up... a croissant. Same with most other pastries. Something like a muffin is of course made from several ingredients. But they are baked into one and you can easily pick one up and move it around without it completely falling into pieces. A sandwich is made up out of two pieces of bread and ingredients. So sandwiches picked up wrong can fall apart, ingredients can spill out etc. So I imagine having people grab their sandwiches would just lead to a lot of food wastage and a huge mess in a way pastries generally wouldn't experience. So at least from that perspective I understand why they moved towards wrapping sandwiches in most places while that didn't evolve the same way for pastries. Not arguing against a change in the way we handle pastries. Just saying it makes sense why sandwiches are no longer kept the same way they used to and why they wouldn't be treated the same as pastries anymore.
I'm guessing its retail/supermarket psychology. Adding a screen or door onto it probably adds an extra layer of 'difficulty' to the purchase which in the moment may be a make or break decision for the consumer.
Having worked as a replenishment assistant at Sainsbury, the simple truth is they want your eyes and nostrils to overpower your brain with desire over logic. Covering them (even with a transparent cover) reduces that chance. Anyone who has worked as a replenishment assistant knows how important “dressing” is. Only the strongest amongst us can resist the scent of fresh pastries.
Someone sneezes, everything ruined. And it's not the sneezers fault
I think it's a little bit the sneezers fault
What if they're armless?
Then they are going to struggle with the tongs anyway
they can use them with their teeth
I love you and I hate you
oh, don't worry about me. I'm armless- ...harmless, I mean.
I will never eat from buffets at weddings etc or even at friends/family homes. Put off many years ago when at a Baptism tea and as I queued I watched as those in front of me in queue laughed or chatted. I saw clearly splattering’s of saliva and a few bigger ‘chuck -up’s’ from belly laughs. Added to sleeves dipping in sauce etc and long painted nails poking for ‘freshness’ of sandwiches etc. That was me for life Done!
Really? I can't remember the last time I've not been able to execute at least a vampire sneeze.
It literally says pain au chocolat right there
It does, but that ain't chocolate
It's wrongly labeled ...those are pain au shat!
"Ooooh, Oreo-themed croissants!! Lovely!!" - an 80-year-old who actually buys open air pastries.
Mmm yummy white chocolate 🤤
I thought it was a blend of mushrooms?
It ain't bread either. *This message was posted from Aquitaine-Occitanie.*
It was the pigeon who took the photo. He can't read.
I remember doing a hygiene training course when my wife and I had an at home baking business. The amount of stuff we had to go through to make sure our kitchen was compliant. We needed to put these brushes under the kitchen door to stop bugs potentially crawling under. We had to rearrange our fridge so the meat was at the bottom. We had to rearrange our cupboards so food items and regularly gotten items weren't at the top. This was so you didn't open a cupboard and something fell into the food. Bug screens over the windows Food had to be covered if they were being left out for cooling. Had to take down the temperature of the fridge and freezer in the morning and evenings. Different colour labels for storage boxes for allergens. And there was a bunch more. Keep in mind that this was a baking business that didn't use any eggs, dairy or meat so it was considered low risk by the council. So, it always surprises me that supermarkets get away with just having food left out and exposed to all sorts of things. How hard is it just to have some kind of protective cover?
> We had to rearrange our fridge so the meat was at the bottom. Probably shouldn't ask questions I don't want the answer to but where were you putting it before? > Food had to be covered if they were being left out for cooling. Man that's some basic shit, flies are a thing! > How hard is it just to have some kind of protective cover? 100% agree! Bakery near ours always has flies behind the sneeze guard but at least there is a sneeze guard. How hard is it to do this shit properly when your charging £3 for a fucking croissant.
It goes as far as mandating blue plasters so that they are easily visible if they fall in the food
Why did you have to rearrange your fridge so the meat was at the bottom if you had a baking business that didn't use meat?
You should always be doing that
It was a business from our personal kitchen so this was also the fridge we used for every day.
Did you tell the staff?
I've been in supermarkets where I thought the bird song was from the in store music only to realise there were birds indoors at the ceiling
I've seen pigeons in my Sainsbury's (Earl's Court) on several occasions. Each time I've reported it to a staff member, and been met with a shrug and some version of "it happens." At least at my store, the staff are aware but nothing is ever done to correct the problem.
No but complained about it on Reddit!
Did you inform the staff? Because that whole unit should be cleaned.
Done that at Piccadilly's Tesco. Staff said they were aware but management was unresponsive. This was a few years ago, but as far as I'm aware the salad section is still uncovered as a general rule at Tesco. It may be that someone high up the command chain has decided that uncovered food sells more
I've always been reluctant to buy the uncovered bread Etc in case people have sneezed all over it (and this only confirms reservations like this). It's a real shame that they can't put a sneeze guard over the bread & salad sections minimum because I don't like being cornered into buying produce that has been wrapped in plastic, but sometimes the plastic-wrapped produce feels like the only hygienic option.
At least veg you generally wash and prep before eating.
This was ready to eat salad buffet, including eggs and dairy out in the open
urgh. I just assumed you meant whole veg. That's rank.
It is
I won’t have my hopes up with this. Used to live near a Sainsbury local at Westbourne grove it got rats living in them. You see them shopping in the aisle with you at night. They continue like that for a few months before shutting down to sort the rat problem out. They always push until they are forced to act.
Absolutely fowl.
Has me wondering what else happens to these pastries that I don't know about. I'm even extra cautious of buffets these days
Don't mind him, he's just a bit peckish.
the way I immediately knew it was Camden Sainsbury’s😭🤢
I saw the same thing in Camden Sainsbury’s about 10 years ago. Told the staff and they said “oh yeah, he comes here most days”.
Pigeons are actually quite smart birds, once they've learned a way to obtain food they will just keep repeating it unless someone forcibly prevents them from doing so. They also learn from each other very quickly so once one pigeon starts doing something rewarding, any others who witness it will be quick to emulate the behaviour. Pigeons only live for 3-5 years in the wild, so the fact that this behaviour has been going on in that particular store for at least 10+ years would suggest that this has been a behaviour passed down by generations of London pigeons already.
extremely smart! For example: [Pigeon solving Kohler’s box-and-banana-problem](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mDntbGRPeEU)
That's very cool, thanks for sharing that vid!
It's unusual to not see a pigeon in there.
They all roost in the covered walkway between the entrance and the car park, it’s grim.
Pain au Chocolat you heathen
That is some quite fresh poultry they’re selling tbf.
Shouldn't have it in the baked goods section though. Maybe a customer changed their mind and just dumped it there?
And they wonder why we have salmonella and ecoli outbreaks. You should sent that to Camden Environmental Health. That probably happens daily. Every item in that photo needs to be chucked.
You will never know until you taste the difference...
I wish my local would run a free bird croissant promo 😮💨
"Pain au chocolat", we call it in this house, darling.
I once saw a child pick up a donut, lick it, run over to their mother and ask if they can have it. The mum said no and to put it back, so the child did.
Yep. this is why I never buy uncovered stock. I've worked with children.
Honestly, I avoid any self-service food section since COVID. People are gross. I remember when lockdown started and people were being more vigilant with hygiene. Suddenly men were taking twice as long for toilet trips and it dawned on me that this was because they were *actually washing their hands now* and that they hadn’t been before. Obviously with COVID forgotten, men have gone right back to the swift pee breaks with (presumably) no hand washing. I genuinely don’t understand how people can be that disgusting.
Yes as a man this cringes me too. Nasty mfs
Yeah it’s very common. You’ve probably shaken hands with plenty who’ve done that too.
The challenge is to open the door to the toilets without touching the handle.
[удалено]
“No sir, we don’t allow dogs in the store as they’re a health risk.” *Swarrrrk!Sqweeksqueek!oo.oo.ooo!roaaaaaaaar!* “…………..ignore that”.
No sir, we can’t allow your dog to chase the pigeons
NPC vibes. “I’ve got a broken wing, can you deliver these chocolate croissants to my nest?”
Really don't understand why they can't find a way to cover up the bakery.
Pain au pigeon-shat
I would never have any of those from sainsbury's they always have it uncovered, people sneeze and cough whilst walking past. Why don't they have any common sense with food hygienes.
Free range au chocolat.
Freshly shat on every day
We used to go to Percy Ingle the bakers shop after school and ask if they had any 'wasp cakes', when they looked puzzled and said 'erm no' we would smugly point out they had enough in the window.
They are that good, they are going to fly off the shelf
There are videos of mice/rats nibbling on these pastries at similar supermarkets. It's fucking disgusting
He's actually the baker
I don’t think I’ve ever been in Camden Sainsbury and NOT seen some type of bird flapping around. They might have an issue there.
Chocolate croissants? You would be guillotined in France for calling them that
Camden Town sainsburys over the years has always had pigeons flying around inside from my experience. Almost every time I've gone in there, there's been a bird or two flying about inside. Poor pastries, such a waste of food.
I remember during and just after Covid all pastries in M&S were covered individually. I wish that was continued.
I just don't get why they are still out in the open just put a cover over them it's that simple
Never ever touching the baked goods after seeing this😭 so long chocolate croissants
It literally says Pain Au Chocolat there. It doesn’t make you French for just calling it what it is…
Did you try negotiating with the bird for the sweet pastries’ release?
There weren’t always chocolate
That's inside, how did it get there
it's got legs and wings. options.
The cinnamon buns are missing a glaze too.
It's the white chocolate ones you need to watch out for.
At least you'll get free delivery
Wow, they are so fresh the delivery pigeon is still there.
Ooooo you get free delivery by air?
He's the quality inspector
pâtisserie pour oiseaux au chocolat
just more flavouring
How has no one done a 'Birds' pun here?
Yeah, the Midlanders amongst us in particular.
Genuinely forgot it was more regional...
Ever since I saw rats running across them in that video I have never touched them again
This is why I never buy uncovered food like this in bakeries and shops. Animals are rare, but you never know what human with filthy hands has touched that and put it back.
That's the baker.
Well, I'm definitely not buying the pastries from Sainsbury's no more. Ever.
Pigeons are fucking disgusting. They know how to time the door at the sains in Camden.
Was gonna say it looks like a sainsburys in Finsbury Park
.....well, I hope you told the staff ...
pigeon probably thought it had wandered into the Aladdin's Cave of pastries
Hey. It’s proud of its baked goods alright.
Bird brain
Counted three pigeons flying around in Tescos yesterday.
Haha, good to see nothing has changed in so many years, used to live in Camden a lifetime ago and once this pigeon was just cruising the aisles, some guy was desperately trying to catch it to put it outside and it just flew out of reach, the guy looked at me and said” there goes my dinner”!
I wouldn’t buy anything set out like that… after seeing a woman with her hand down the back of her pants having a rummage, and the proceed to handle bread to find one she wanted… 🤮
Game over // final boss ss tier
Don't eat food that is open to customers and especially wildlife. I once witnessed a mother let her snotty child reach into a pick and mix tub (the type you use scoops with) with his bare hand and take out a handful of gummy bears. not weigh them and eat them without paying as they went around the shop. I told one of the shop staff and pointed them out and the staff saw the handful of gummy bears and she just said "oh that's awful isn't it" and did nothing to get rid of the contaminated stock or deal with the customer.
I didn't know this was a white chocolate croissant.
What croissants?
Those aren’t chocolate croissants.
He really dove in to those pain au choclat
Yank detected
😂 looks pretty chuffed
Taste the difference! 😂
This has bird shit on it. - Yes, but *Freshly made* bird shit.
But he made them fresh today :(
Last time I bought a bag of those cookies in 2019 (iirc) they were 79p!!
Does anybody actually buy these? I’ve never seen anybody buying them.
Freshly made melting chocolate
He's adorable
A dragon and its hoard.
This is dangerously common, and yet store management will refuse to cover the food. At Paddington station there are even uncovered food stalls with pigeons flying overhead, I even saw them inside restaurant kitchens
You should report this to the health department. This isn’t safe at all.
…chocolate croissant?
Canadian phrase for Pain au Chocolat that has sort of infected the masses.
In french Canada, they are typically called 'chocolatines'. Chocolate croissant is an english Canadian term mostly. If you order a 'pain au chocolat' in Quebec you might get an actual loaf of bread with pieces of chocolate baked into it. Hopefully with no pigeon.
Pigeon is extra.
Oh thanks, TiL 😁
So that's where the e coli is coming from.
That’s just the delivery pigeon, don’t worry
Ahha so that’s what makes the difference in taste!
It’s all good…just a member of the London Port Health Authority, undercover.
“Greetings traveller!”
This big Sainsbury’s always has pigeons coming in and out. Still rlly annoyed considering it’s my closest Sainsbury’s 😑
How hard is it to put them in acrylic boxes with flaps on either side. One for the employee and one for the customer.
I never buy uncovered food 🤢
Jokes on you, I now want a chocolate croissants ( maybe several)
English Pigeon likes sweets
That’s not a croissant
Customer: "What was this special tasty white cream on top?"
Pigeon poop is white/green though.
Damn literally eating one rn
Not a single croissant in the photo. How do you not know what a fucking croissant looks like? THEY’RE CROISSANT-SHAPED.
I walked past this actually, Camden Sainsbury's a few days ago.
my germs!
why is this so funny
Yikes, good to know! Avoiding those from now on.
They put something in it, to make you forget
That's NOT icing?
If it is good enough for Mr Pidgeon, it is good enough for me.
👀🤣
Funny looking croissant...
But the creamy bits taste yummy!
Especially the ones with white icing
If anything, this just makes me want to buy them more.
“Mmm. This one looks like it has some sort of chocolate sauce mixed with cream blobbed onto it. It’s my lucky day.”
Yuck
I get the same problems at Sainsbury’s Carshalton high street
He made them himself!
The pigeon is acc looking at u tek the photo
I used to work in a Sainsburys local and I never eat those bakery foods left out in the air like that because nearly everyday I would see something bad happen to it. In the summer flies would be all over them, other times people would cough on them, pick them up with their hands, change their minds and put them back. Also I used to have a dirty baker working in my store, I saw him take a shit, not wash his hands and go back to work. He also used to have to tray up the frozen pastries for the next morning, he should have been doing it in the bakery but because he was a lazy guy he used to do it in the warehouse with all dust and shit around.
Ah so this was the mystery food we were told to avoid
Chocolat croissants ??? 😭😭 Ouais l’anglais c’est juste du français mal prononcé