M&S Food

[Vagus]

Every time we’ve been in one of the above shops lately, as we’re tilled out we’re asked are we collecting something or other..little packets with, I assumed, a small toy in. We’ve always declined.
This morning, out of sheer curiosity, I accepted and received two of the said packets.
One packet contained a small (about the diameter of a pound coin)plastic jar pretending to be Mediterranean sauce, and a collectors card. The other contained an even smaller packet of pink lady apples..except when you opened it, it was two small bits of cardboard. And a collectors card.
If I was a child and collecting these things I’d be mightily disappointed, as a curious adult I was mightily baffled as to the point of these ‘toys’.
Anyone collect these things? What are they supposed to be for??

[fiction-factory]

I recall it's for a mini-kitchen set

[-SharonA-]

Kids??
I have about them, but never seen any of them.
https://www.marksandspencer.com/c/food-to-order/little-shop

[Vagus]

Oh, right, thanks for the link Sharon, explains it a bit.
So you can get a little display case to put them in, but that’s about it really.
I wonder if many children collect them and think they’re nice? I can see them going straight in the bin, they’re really quite naff.

[ummmm]

My son would have loved them.

[jakep]

My proxy grandchildren use them when playing shops.