{"id":1019,"date":"2025-11-17T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T10:02:47","slug":"ms-shoppers-absolutely-flabbergasted-over-ridiculous-195-christmas-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/ms-shoppers-absolutely-flabbergasted-over-ridiculous-195-christmas-dish\/","title":{"rendered":"M&S shoppers absolutely flabbergasted over \u2018ridiculous\u2019 \u00a3195 Christmas dish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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M&S shoppers are divided over a \u00a3195 dish being sold for Christmas 2025 (Picture: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last Christmas, we heard how Gen Z were killing off the traditional turkey feast,<\/a> with many opting for spag bol, Indian takeaways and tiramisu on the big day instead. <\/p>\n

This year it seems a different dish<\/a> is taking center stage: The Beef Wellington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charlie Bingham recently caused a stir when he launched a \u00a330 ready meal<\/a> version of the classic British meal in Waitrose<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, he has well and truly been topped by M&S<\/a> and Tom Kerridge who are now selling one for an eye-watering \u00a3195 and it’s been hailed as the ‘ultimate showstopper’ for Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n

Described as a \u2018whopper of a Wellington\u2019, the dish serves six people and features portobello mushrooms, chicken mousse duxelles and a hint of black truffle parceled up inside an all-butter hot water crust pastry, served with a beef and red wine gravy. <\/p>\n

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The Beef Wellington serves six people (Picture: M&S)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shoppers have been sharing their thoughts on the dish on Reddit<\/a>, with many left flabbergasted by the price.<\/p>\n

A user known as u\/BocaSeniors!sM said: \u2018There\u2019s overspending at Christmas<\/a>, then there\u2019s f***ing that!!\u2019<\/p>\n

While u\/Heavy-Schidna-3472 wrote: \u2018Lol, that\u2019s just ridiculous.\u2019<\/p>\n

u\/veeb did the math claiming it\u2019s \u2018\u00a332.50 per serving\/person\u2019 which they thought was \u2018insane\u2019.<\/p>\n

And u\/vicariousgluten agreed it would only be \u2018justifiable\u2019 if \u2018it included Tom Kerridge to do the cooking and cleaning up\u2019.<\/p>\n

Similarly, u\/hhfugrr3 commented: \u2018That\u2019s just stupid. I\u2019d pay that in a restaurant, but not for a cook-at-home ready meal.\u2019<\/p>\n

A Reddit<\/a> user who claimed to be a butcher also shared their take, with u\/Conquano saying: \u2018As a butcher I find this absolutely ridiculous, but if someone has the available\/expendable income for such fancy things and that\u2019s the way they want to spend their money then I\u2019m not going to judge.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The product was made by chef Tom Kerridge (Picture: Dave Benett\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, not everyone was flabbergasted by the price, with some pointing out that the cost of meat has risen and a beef fillet doesn\u2019t come cheap.<\/p>\n

u\/TheBaronNash posted: \u2018A lot of people here obviously haven\u2019t ever purchased a whole beef fillet.<\/p>\n

\u2018I did a welly for new years a few years back and the beef alone was \u00a387 from the butcher, plus easily \u00a315-\u00a320 in additional ingredients. With prep time, delivery and the M&S surcharge this is a totally expected price (provided it\u2019s appropriately sized). It\u2019s not a cheap dish to make properly.\u2019<\/p>\n

And u\/weeksy79 added: \u2018Blimey, a lot of people not exposed to how the other half live. Worked at a nice farm shop over a decade ago, people would spend \u00a3800+ on their Xmas shop.\u2019<\/p>\n

An M&S spokesperson told Metro: ‘The M&S Collection Tom Kerridge Beef Wellington has been a big hit with customers – it\u2019s selling very well and we only have a few left on our Christmas Food To Order page. <\/p>\n

‘Serving six people and weighing over 2kg, the hand-butchered British beef fillet is matured over 17 days and created as it would be in a restaurant – it\u2019s the absolute best quality Wellington we\u2019ve ever created.’<\/p>\n

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Comment now<\/title><span class=\"metro-comment-cta__text\">Would you spend \u00a3195 on a Beef Wellington for Christmas dinner? Share your thoughts!<\/span><\/span><a class=\"metro-comment-cta__button\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\">Comment Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>This comes after another expensive Christmas item caused a stir online. Harrods recently launched <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/11\/05\/shoppers-outraged-250-department-store-advent-calendar-feels-like-a-prank-24623863\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a \u00a3250 Food Halls advent calendar<\/a> for the festive season and it\u2019s fair to say that the contents did not impress everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/tiktok\/\">TikTok<\/a> user @gracebooth97 shared an unboxing on the video app and became progressively more frustrated with what was behind each door.<\/p>\n<p>She had high hopes for the Food Halls one, which promises a \u2018selection of sweet and savoury treats to unveil each day\u2019 alongside some \u2018keep-forever Harrods pieces\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gracebooth97\/video\/7566271178701131030\" data-video-id=\"7566271178701131030\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px;min-width:325px\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@gracebooth97\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gracebooth97?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@gracebooth97<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Feel like this may be a controversial take lol<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Grackle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7566271344384510742?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound – Grackle<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>However, instead of an array of unique and quirky things to try, Grace was disappointed to discover the calendar predominantly contained <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/chocolate\/\">chocolate<\/a> and tea.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You\u2019re having me on, I feel like I\u2019m being pranked,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If I\u2019m getting something from the Food Hall, I want variety, not just chocolate. This isn\u2019t a tea and chocolate advent calendar\u2026 Give me some mustard, give me something fun, fresh, and different.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the comments many agreed with her, with some branding the calendar \u2018a scam\u2019, \u2018confusing\u2019 and \u2018underwhelming\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Do you have a story to share?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Get in touch by emailing <a href=\"mailto:MetroLifestyleTeam@Metro.co.uk\">MetroLifestyleTeam@Metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><title>Comment now<\/title><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-preferred-source\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M&S shoppers are divided over a \u00a3195 dish being sold for Christmas 2025 (Picture: Getty Images) Last Christmas, we heard how Gen Z were killing off the traditional turkey feast, with many opting for spag bol, Indian takeaways and tiramisu on the big day instead.  This year it seems a different dish is taking center…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wigyouup.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}