High street icon M&S has come under fire for its Christmas party food range.
One item in particular has rubbed shoppers up the wrong way - and it's a British classic.
As part of its Christmas party menu, Marks & Spencer is selling 'posh' beans on toast.
Called ‘Posh cheesy beans on toast’, the snack features brioche bread with haricot beans in a tomato sauce - also known as baked beans - with creamy Barber’s mature cheese melt and finished with Barber’s mature cheddar cheese.
And despite essentially being mini portions of beans on toast, the snacks are on sale for a whopping £5.
Shoppers have taken to Twitter to joke about the whole thing.
One person said: "Are M&S seriously [selling] beans on toast as a Christmas party food? Has the UK sunk that low?”
Another wrote: "I would like to know who do M&S think is serving beans on toast as hors d'oeuvres?"
A third put: "That's not just daylight robbery. That's M&S daylight robbery."
Someone else put: "Look, I'm as lazy as the next person but really? £5!"
While one said: "I've never seen anything more unnecessary in my life than @marksandspencer selling 'posh' beans on toast for FIVE POUNDS."
Yet another person added: "This isn’t just a rip-off. This is an M&S rip-off. Cheesy beans on toast for a fiver as party food? Pull the other one, chaps."
The bean bites are part of the store's wider range of Christmas foods which includes Molton Cheddar Profiteroles, a Percy Pig Pigloo cake and a Turkey and Ham Christmas Pudding Pie.
An M&S Spokesperson said: "If you love beans on toast, this is the party food for you. Made with a super buttery brioche bread base, topped with haricot beans in a rich tomato sauce with a creamy Barber’s mature Cheddar cheese melt, finished with a sprinkling of even more Barber’s mature Cheddar cheese for ultimate ooze, and ready in just 12 minutes.
"They are delicious! You can pick them up on a 4 for 3 offer running across our award winning range of 41 fresh party food lines, saving up to an impressive £5.50.”
