Went for breakfast this morning in Dublin City Centre and the absolute grifters are trying to charge 14.5€ for porridge

46 comments

1. *luxury* porridge*

2. But it’s luxury porridge.

3. Is there gold leaf in it? The porridge gets into your blood faster that way.

4. Throw in an innocent juice to up the price is a genius move chef. Is that the place on bachelor’s walk

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6. You could make it in vodka and it would still be cheaper.

7. Broccoli in scrambled eggs. Jesus wept.

8. Mmmmmm expensive sliiiiiime

9. Start the day the flahavans way, the natural way to start the day.
   €14.50 you could buy roughly 20kg of the stuff in Lidl for that and maybe even a pot thrown in at that price.

10. That’s crazy, even if it does include a drink. Sure the item above has four eggs, bacon, bread and a drink too and is €2.50 cheaper! Madness.

    EDIT – what did you have, OP?

11. Insane

12. Ah here. Where is that? Surely worth naming and shaming?

13. That’s ridiculous! I sometimes meet my mother for breakfast and we always go to The Bank on College Green. She gets porridge which is about €5. It’s a big bowl which comes with berry compote, a small jug of cream, cinnamon and a drizzle of whiskey. That’s good value!

14. Hahahaha

15. Pictures beside the meals indicate that this must be a tourist trap.

16. Jesus christ, prices are seriously getting ridiculous. What kind of fool is paying 14 quid for porridge?!

17. Don’t be going anywhere with pictures on the menu. This is on you.

18. Innocent juice doesn’t grow on trees you know….

19. **Luxury** porridge??

20. What’s the price under the sticker? 😂

21. Who is paying these prices?!

22. That’s fucking scandalous .

    I wouldn’t have the neck to charge that if I owed a restaurant.

    Porridge is so cheap and easy to make , surely no one would pay that price.

23. I’ve never seen that font used outside of a Chinese establishment.
    It’s like the default (terminal-like) font or something.

24. They must think they’re in an airport in Oslo or Geneva or somewhere.

25. Luxury porridge is an oxymoron if ever I saw one, how ridiculous.

26. Name and shame! That is a shocking price 😂😂

27. It has to be about just making sure they are hitting a minimum € amount per customer?

    Not worth their while to have someone come in, occupy a table, order a porridge and coffee, and leave having spent less than €10

28. But it’s luxury. lol

29. Name and shame

30. It is Luxury Porridge, regardless that the actual cost is about 1 euro…

31. Da Fuq?!?!!!???

32. Will they come to my house and do the feckin washing up afterwards and mind my crotch fruit? Jesus Christ. Some people just have brass balls 🙄

33. That is fucking insanity. The concerning thing is that there’s definitely a demographic willing to spend that for a bowl of porridge.The mind boggles.

34. You can get 22kg of dry Tesco brand porridge oats for €14.50

35. It’s luxury tho

36. What in God’s name makes this porridge ‘Luxury’?!

    It’s just porridge with a bit of fruit and juice or tea/coffee on the side. What a scam.

37. As it’s Dublin, the decent porridge has to be imported from outside the county. The shipping in and over the border has got to be the reason for the gouging. And yes I meant “County”! If it’s that good it must have come from Cork!

38. I was in Spain last week. €1.60 for a fresh huge croissant and coffee. It’s time to leave this country.

39. The missing 0 at the end of €14.5 is provided by your mouth open wide in disbelief

40. They’re getting ready for everyone returning to work in offices. Claim they are making up for lost profits during covid while absolutely fleecing people

41. Their goldylocking you into buying the eggs for €12

42. 14.50 for water porridge? For fucking FAMINE PODGE! are you mad?!

43. Mmmm luxury porridge, straight from the human cow

44. The term ‘luxury porridge’ is such an oxymoron. There’s nothing luxurious about it, and that’s why we like it! I choose porridge specifically for it’s misery. It’s back to basics. It’s winter-time back in the 80’s. It’s “Please sir, can I have some more?”.
    It’s “We’re here eatin porridge for breakfast, dinner & tea, and you have 28 pounds, 7 and 3 pence up the fuckin chimney?!”

45. Name and shame them op, as consumers we’re entitled to name the company online. Charging that for porridge is scandalous

46. I live in Poland now after living a few years in Dublin. For 14 euros here can buy food for 2 or 3 days in the supermarket .

    I’m lucky enough to keep earning in euros here but nonetheless prices in Ireland are insanely high.