Do you have tourist tat in your county? What’s the worst you’ve seen or bought? Spotted these beauties at my local shop today!

by SoggyWotsits

26 comments

  1. Do they have the one where it’s jammed down a country lane and they don’t know how to reverse?

  2. Tartan tins full of shortbread and Highland cow toys designed to choke small children and sea turtles.

  3. Hope that was for sale in Devon as a “It’s shit over there” thing!

  4. Rock in the shape of a massive veiny cock with Blackpool stencilled down the shaft

    Edit: is a sentence I never thought I would type

  6. I think the font they’ve used for Cornwall is the same one used for Thetford logo of Porta Potties fame used by campers, that’s making it even funnier for me.

  8. As a youth I had a summer job in a tourist shop on the south coast, we sold sticks of rock which had a local scenes printed on the label, but they all still said ‘BLACKPOOL’ on the writing in the middle.

    Over the whole summer only one person came back in to complain.

  9. I live in the midlands but not in Stratford-upon-Avon, therefore no.

  10. A wall made out of corn would have been a better picture.

  11. Can’t say I’ve ever seen any “South Yorkshire” themed tourist tat.

  13. Those mugs are a bit cheap and nasty. I always think the boxes of cheap, low quality fudge with a postcard on them are a bit naff (but I also feel strangely sentimental about them too).

  14. Only real touristy thing for sale is lots and lots of scratchings

    Can’t complain though, stuff is phenomenal

  17. I love looking at the worst examples of tourist tat. Spelling mistakes and statements that don’t relate to the location. I have a fridge magnet where the designer obviously had CAPS LOCK on because instead of it saying London it says IONDON

  20. In Brighton – we have a lot of tat on the pier and the seafront – you know, rock, magnets, mugs etc.

    What I’ve never truly understood is the tat shops on the high street sell a lot London specific tat – soldiers in bear hats on a brolly, houses of parliament magnets, the London Eye on a tote bag. I mean, we’re close to London, but I’m not sure why you’d be buying London tat in a completely different city.

  21. Manchester – you can get all sorts of shite with bees on it. None of us give a toss. I get that it became a solidarity thing after the arena bomb and that shook all of us who lived here but before that it was just something that got put on the bins and bollards in town.

  22. Went to Edinburgh and so much tourist tat.
    Best of all, nestled between a display of AI generated Highland cows, Tam o Shanters including fake ginger hair and some generic Celtic woodwork was a collection of London busses.

  23. Big red London bus fridge magnets with “Manchester” on them

  24. Terrible AI art of highland cows doing people things.

  25. Took my wife to Spain for our 20 year anniversary. Walking out our beautiful hotel, the first stall we saw was selling t-shirts saying I LOVE SLUTS.

    We got one each.

  26. In York so it’s mostly all the viking stuff, plastic Viking helmets, mugs with Viking stuff on, random Viking statues etc

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