Trust the Gorton's Fisherman?
Truth in product packaging. And Gorton’s, with your advertising message exhorting me to trust you: I’m looking at you.
The dream:
Look at the size of those things!
Don’t they look good? The reality:
Oh. Look at the size of that thing.
They’re tiny. And what the photo doesn’t show is that the box is a lot bigger as it needs to be: it’s only half-full. This is not unusual for boxed frozen products here.
I don’t remember packaging in the UK being so blatantly misleading. Maybe labelling laws are less stringent here?
(To be fair to the fisherman: his teeny fillets did, however, make a pretty decent fish finger sandwich.)
The dream:
Look at the size of those things!
Don’t they look good? The reality:
Oh. Look at the size of that thing.
They’re tiny. And what the photo doesn’t show is that the box is a lot bigger as it needs to be: it’s only half-full. This is not unusual for boxed frozen products here.
I don’t remember packaging in the UK being so blatantly misleading. Maybe labelling laws are less stringent here?
(To be fair to the fisherman: his teeny fillets did, however, make a pretty decent fish finger sandwich.)
US food has been a recurring theme for me lately. I recently wrote to M&Ms suggesting that they put the odd roasted coffee bean in with the peanuts and I got a very snooty reply saying "we like to develop our products in-house...thanks anyway."
If I should mysteriously go missing and Coffee and Peanut M&Ms
come on the market then feel free to avenge my death. Or at least claim a lifetimes supply of the new fangled things, which I think a splendid idea. I bet Revels would make them.