Manchester Christmas Markets are back, and visitors are pouring down to the nine sites to get their hands on hot sausages and as much mulled wine as they can manage.
But this year, you might need that gluhwein to help you get over the price of those sausages. The cost of wurst has shot up, in some cases to £7, while gluhwein can start at £5 and lager at £6.
The manager of the Pig & Barrel and Clowbecks Farmhouse Kitchen on Piccadilly Gardens, where hot roast pork rolls have gone up to £8, from £6.50 last year, said it was bound to happen that prices would go up this year.
Una Le Roux told the MEN: "All prices have gone up everywhere - whether it be fuel prices, staffing prices, food prices, everything has gone up. We've not really put prices up since before the pandemic in 2019.
"I've only had one complaint so far. People at the moment seem to want to be out and spending money."
But is it too much to ask consumers to shell out £28 for a family of four to have a sausage in a bun? Or is that inevitable in these times of high inflation?
What do you think? Let us know in the comments section below.
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