William McGonagall is alive and well

[venta]

I'm just munching a small custard pie/tart (Bakers Over, 40p, not bad), and I've suddenly noticed that the bag it came in bears A Poem.

It begins "Early in the morning while you're sleeping/Bakers' alarms are bleep, bleep bleeping." and meanders along, containg such horrible lines as "Cakes with cream, cakes with caramel, they're so fresh you can't resist the smell."

A note at the bottom tells me it was written by a fourteen year old from Essex. I'm not sure it's his fault; I wrote some pretty horrible poetry myself aged 14. But what on earth possessed Bakers Oven to share it with the world ?

Ouch.

Comments

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Bah for smoothies with banana in.

[venta.livejournal.com]

They do thickies which are all yogurty and not necessarily bananananany. I don't know about the other smoothies.

I had thought they were ubiquitously orange-using, but I wrote to them and grumbled, and they sent me bottles of lots of nice things which don't have orange in them. You could try it :)

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Yoghurt is quite dominant too though. It's just frustrating that they use banana to thicken all their smoothies and the taste takes over the whole thing, when (for instance) pulped strawberry, peach or mango do just as well at thickening without ruining the flavour.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Less of this talk of ruining, bananas are lovely :)

I treat innocent to my opinions occasionally, and they do seem to like (and listen to) feedback - tell 'em, and they might start making a non-banananany one.

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

I've nothing particularly against bananas, they're just a very dominant flavour - if I buy a "mango and passionfruit" smoothie I want mango and passionfruit, not BANANA with a hint of mango and passionfruit. They should have to relabel them all "BANANA and". That'd teach 'em.