TOT: is this reasonable?

Cats are not collectivists. Have you heard the expression 'like trying to herd cats'? Each cat will want what the other has and, given some, will ignore it.

They have enough of that particular nutrient. My body is like that. One day is 'gimme chips!' the next day its 'Chips? Ugh!'

Well, there's also the labour involved in filling the container, and the food which can't be re-used.

you've already paid for the food - but surely it just goes back in the pot,

We had a ginger cat, when I was a kid, who was quite partial to cooked broad beans !

That must explain why Jo(anna), my neighbour spends so much money at the vet !! (Cocker spaniel cross golden retriever - with the drug-sniffer nose) - Dudley the dog, not her.

Have to be careful if its a smallish dog. The oddest things are dangerous such as grapes, currants and sultanas...

.. I recently had occasion to visit the emergency vets to get our dog checked after being in a road accident, she was fine, but there was a similar spaniel cross there who had scoffed some dried fruit that had dropped on floor while its owner was baking...

.. the artificial sweetener Xylitol is also highly dangerous as it triggers an insulin surge. Fortunately its not widely used in the UK except in chewing gum, but some peanut butters have it, so don't use it to disguise medicines..

Dave

Dogs can be like this as well. A friend has found that with her dog it will eat the same brand of dog food (varied flavour/content each day) for around two weeks but then completely go off of it. Switch to another brand and the dog will eat heartily again for a week or so before going off if it. Switch back to the other brand and it's OK with that for a couple of weeks. In general the dog now gets a swap of flavours and 2/3 different brands on a daily basis. Sometime the same brand for a bit longer if purchased in bulk at a competitive price.

House special curry = anything unsold from the night before and anything returned to the kitchen :)

You really don't want to know what goes in 'Turkish' kebab meat packs, or how many times they have been re-heated :-(

Goatskin and fat, isn't it?

In message snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, at 12:56:31 on Wed, 15 Jul 2026, Nick Odell snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.ca remarked:

I've told you million times, not to exaggerate. The standard markup on wines and beers is to triple the buy price. Spirits it's much higher.

In message <113652u$258c2$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 21:10:05 on Tue, 14 Jul

And yet the hospitality outlets still struggle to make a profit. By the way, the markup on the food is the same.

In message snipped-for-privacy@perry.uk, at 20:21:15 on Tue, 14 Jul 2026, Roland Perry snipped-for-privacy@perry.co.uk> remarked:

I was recently given a free container, but told to fill it up myself.

car was parked a fifteen minute walk away from the restaurant in question. And didn't have any suitable containers in it, anyway.

That depends.

In message <1146tac$2vj1s$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 07:19:56 on Mon, 27 Jul

I know some hospitality outlets don't struggle, but the majority do.

As for markups, the standard pricing algorithm is to take the cost of all the ingredients in a dish, and multiply by three.

In message snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, at 09:46:11 on Wed, 15 Jul 2026, Scott snipped-for-privacy@gefion.myzen.co.uk> remarked:

Water is basically free, did your dad know where to get free beer (approx £2/pint wholesale).

Can be as low as 15% cost of ingredients and as high as 50%, depending on various factors. An early GF was catering manageress at the BBC...had quallies in catering. And was the first person to say that Jimmy Sav8ile was 'weird and pervy'

Subsidised canteen?

I met JS at BH. He wasn't pervy towards me, but I was a smelly 19 year old hippie.

I was quite new and was a bit shocked to find that his 'old record club' programme wasn't recorded at a party, just a tape of a party.