Right, who wants some chocolate sending?

From: Mouse28 Aug 2011 23:49
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 560 of 661
No rush! If I could be arsed to go back and look through the videos again i could figure out what you got left. Did I send you a Kitkat? Maybe you have a Kitkat left...
EDITED: 28 Aug 2011 23:49 by MOUSE
From: JonCooper29 Aug 2011 08:29
To: steve 561 of 661
hmmm, not quite Julian Clary or Tom Minchin, I'll keep thinking
From: Woggy 1 Sep 2011 07:16
To: ALL562 of 661

Hmmm chocolate.....

 

Righto, I'd like to let you know that I decided to try Morrisons own 'Value' Fruit & Nut milk chocolate, and It's quite nice actually. It's in purposely designed bright yellow packaging to make you feel like a scruff when you buy it though.

EDITED: 1 Sep 2011 20:51 by WOGGY
From: Mouse 1 Sep 2011 18:49
To: Woggy 563 of 661
I swear some of the branding on No Frillls Value stuff is to upsell snobs to branded stuff.
From: JonCooper 1 Sep 2011 19:44
To: Mouse 564 of 661
damn right, my daughter won't buy any 'blue stripe' stuff in Tesco - despite me preferring the taste of their lemonade to any other
From: ANT_THOMAS 1 Sep 2011 19:54
To: JonCooper 565 of 661
But will she eat or drink Tesco Value if it's in the cupboard?
From: JonCooper 1 Sep 2011 20:28
To: ANT_THOMAS 566 of 661
hahaha, yes, it's the 'stigma' in the shop that bothers her - which I think they intend (to a certain extent)
From: Woggy 1 Sep 2011 20:57
To: Mouse 567 of 661

That's exactly what it's for. I read about it the other year, it's so supermarkets can sell the 'same' product to people of different incomes and charge richer people more money for essential the same thing.

 

i.e. premium sausages, they can rip off snobby people and get them to pay more for the sausages if they're called primium and in fancy packaging, but they know that if that was all they sold they'd alienate a large percentage of ther potential customers who couldn't/wouldn't pay the higher prices. So they have the cheaper products which are essentially the same thing, but they put them in packinging that screams cheap and nasty to stop the snobby people from paying too little.

From: Mouse 1 Sep 2011 23:29
To: Woggy 568 of 661
Hmm. I think that might be ace. :D
From: DrBoff (BOFF) 2 Sep 2011 09:22
To: Woggy 569 of 661
Well, I'm pretty sure the Premium and Value sausages aren't the same.
From: ANT_THOMAS 2 Sep 2011 09:23
To: DrBoff (BOFF) 570 of 661
I thought that too. There is a definite difference between some, maybe not compared to the difference in price though. With some products the difference in quality is certainly not that much.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 2 Sep 2011 09:41
To: DrBoff (BOFF) 571 of 661
Yeah, the packaging is different.
EDITED: 2 Sep 2011 09:42 by X3N0PH0N
From: Mouse 2 Sep 2011 09:43
To: ALL572 of 661
I'd like a Pepsi / Coke challenge please but with sausages.
EDITED: 2 Sep 2011 09:43 by MOUSE
From: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ) 2 Sep 2011 10:10
To: Mouse 573 of 661
My sister works in the prawn industry (no John), and they have different specifications (size, quality, colour consistency, etc) for the different levels of packs they produce for the supermarkets. In the past, she worked as a quality tester, testing bananas (no John), and melons (no John). If she worked in a sausage factory (no John), I'm sure she'd be able to sort you out (no John).
From: graphitone 2 Sep 2011 10:15
To: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ) 574 of 661

How does one tell the difference in quality from one prawn to another?

 

Would one check for buck teeth, myopia, varicose veins, that sort o' thing?

From: DrBoff (BOFF) 2 Sep 2011 10:19
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 575 of 661
packaging != sausages
From: DrBoff (BOFF) 2 Sep 2011 10:19
To: ANT_THOMAS 576 of 661
I think "level of chewy bits" is an important factor to consider here.
From: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ) 2 Sep 2011 10:24
To: graphitone 577 of 661
I think it's mostly done on basic literacy and religious beliefs.
From: DrBoff (BOFF) 2 Sep 2011 10:26
To: Kenny J (WINGNUTKJ) 578 of 661
"So, er... Geoff, what do you think, as a prawn, that you can bring to our customers?"
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 2 Sep 2011 10:36
To: DrBoff (BOFF) 579 of 661
Oh, poor naive Science-Boff.

Sausages very much == their packaging.