QUIZ: Can you guess how much unis are charging for these sorry self-isolation food boxes?

I mean how much can one banana cost anyway?


Never waste a good crisis, that’s what they say. And with thousands of students self-isolating in halls and, annoyingly, needing food to survive, some unis have seen an opportunity – charging extortionate prices for food parcels.

As the Pet Shop Boys famously sang: I’ve got the brains, you’ve got thousands of hungry students unable to go to the shops, let’s make lots of money.

We can’t give any examples – that’d defeat the whole point of this quiz – but rest assured, some of them are big rip-offs. Can you guess how big a rip-off thought?

Five questions, short and sweet. No prize for winning, apart from being glad you’re not having to fork out these prices for depressing scran:

Related stories recommended by this writer:

You could be kept at uni until Dec 22nd if you want to go home for Christmas

This grad invoiced Rishi Sunak for £41,717.32 to get a refund on his degree

Unis are extorting students with £18 a day food parcels, says universities minister