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Has food gone too far? After JD's thread about cheese, I had to go feed.
Anyway, I noticed that a tapenade I'd bought (Green Olives with Lemon & Garlic Tapenade) came with the following description on the packet:- "Succulent green olives delicately blended with lemon juice, herbs, seasoning and extra virgin olive oil. This piquant, rich tapenade is best enjoyed with smoked salmon, cream cheese and a wedge of lemon, whilst watching the sun go down on an island bay in the Aegean sea." This was from Tesco Finest* range. Tesco, the UK supermarket associated with low prices. The supermarket who also have a Tesco Value range much loved by people like my unemployed heroin-addict friend. Is this a disgruntled employee alert? "You're not going home Simpkins until you've written me a sophisticated blurb for our new Finest Tapenade. Think Aegean!" I ate mine with toast. Very nice, though. Just off to have another slice! "You know, you're the classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain" | |
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I think this is like 1 of those 'Room 101' things, "poncey descriptions 4 food menus". I think it was something comedian Phil Cool hated. | |
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I don't know if you have these in the UK, but in the states we have these people that go to college for some completely useless degree, so useless that they can't find a real job , so they end up as these super intellectual, retail job having freaks. Maybe you have one at your grocery store and the manager was just trying to make him feel better!!!  | |
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If I'd known it said "piquant" on the packet, I'd never have bought the motherfucker!
Mind you, it is nice but "Delicately blended"? What are they mixing it with watchmaker's tools? I'm enjoying it but, fuck, if I'd only known to book that flight to an Aegean island, I'd be enjoying it a lot more. Why the bay? What if there's fucking blizzard going on there? BTW:- Searching for Aegean Sea on google found me this amazing website. The Nelson Instutute of Marine Research in Santa Barbara, California seem to get up to all kinds of scrapes. Check out http://www.nimr.org/mission2.html Check what happened when they went to the Aegean Sea! There's a bloke in a city under it who wants to conquer the world!? "You know, you're the classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain" | |
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purplelu said: I don't know if you have these in the UK, but in the states we have these people that go to college for some completely useless degree, so useless that they can't find a real job , so they end up as these super intellectual, retail job having freaks. Maybe you have one at your grocery store and the manager was just trying to make him feel better!!!
I think this is just a case of some guy getting stoned in his lunchbreak & coming back to write this claptrap. It's in such small print that you have to virtually headbutt the jar to read it. I think a little sentance would have been more visable and have more impact. Something like:- "Like antidisetablishmentariaism but cheekier" "You know, you're the classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain" | |
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