I stopped attending this event for this and other valid reasons. Had a good day at Chelmsford MRC and treat Spalding as the Premier event for this area.

Terry

BUY food from an exhibition outlet?  Not b...y likely for all the reasons you state.  I a) take my own or b) buy from the organisers if they are providing (eg the Crawley club show at Horsham).  It supports the club's funds as well...

Cornish pasties are not eaten using a knife and fork! You pick it up and eat it.

Having experienced some dire catering experiences at other shows in the past I have sympathy with you. Some shows provide excellent catering at good value, especially some of the smaller events.

I had a perfectly decent bacon roll for

...when I said 'boycott' in my original posting, I meant the catering outlets, not the exhibition itself!

As a comparable price I paid

As a comparable price I paid

Catering at a lot of events is at best marginal, not just model railway exhibitions and caterers seem to want to make as much as possible without supplying a quality product. The problem is that the great British public keep buying sub quality product. Personally I try to take my own snack and then stop at a suitable hostelry on the way home without the crush to relax and reflect on the day. Why waste time at an exhibition eating when you could be watching or playing trains? ;-)

All I will say is the catering at our humble little show has often been praised for quality and value.