The cake outlet selling Colin the Caterpillars for £1.50 - it made me feel sick

There are probably few people in life who don't actually like a slice of Colin the Caterpillar cake. A sponge roll filled with smooth chocolate buttercream and covered in a milk chocolate shell, not forgetting the chunky white chocolate face and feet, what's not to love.

At Park Cakes' outlet shop in Oldham, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of big and little Colin faces staring right at you, beckoning you to eat them up.

OK, that might be a slight exaggeration, but when you look at the prices, they may as well have been shouting my name.

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All the stuff here has come from the neighbouring Park Cakes Factory, famous for baking products for the likes of M&S, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and Aldi - and it's things that haven't quite made the grade.

So you might find a bag of mis-shaped caramel crispy millionaire bites or shortbread, or a large Colin cake in two halves, but it's nothing that can't easily be fixed up - or just propped in place until the whole thing is sliced up anyway.

And for just £1.50, it's a damn sight cheaper than the £8.50 you'll pay in M&S.

In fact everything here is cheap, in date and the shop is open to the general public.

We're talking three swiss rolls for £1, huge bags of flapjack, millionaire or cookie dough bites for £2, Victoria sponges and a four-pack of egg custards for 70p each and a bag of around 40 mini Colin sponge rolls for £2.

Again some of the faces had come loose, along with some of the bits of shell and chocolate beans off their backs, but they were still good enough to eat. My colleagues certainly didn't complain when I turned up at our nearby Chadderton office with a bag full of