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Originally Posted by Halcyon
<snip>- Ferrero Rochers chocolates. [/b]They make them out to be this perfect luxurious chocolate when in fact they are little hazelnut balls and biscuit.
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I've always thought they were silly. I am sure that even taking into account the Treasury's attempts to cut budgets, the "Ambassador" would be able to afford something a bit more interesting than a mountain of hazlenut, Biscuit and Chocolate balls. If they actually did offer that, I am sure all the foreign diginitaries would be going away thinking we are cheapskates. Still, they would go well with the Happy Shopper wine we would also be presumably offering.
That's just reminded me of another two ads I hate. Both starring that Jamie Whatsit from the Naked Chef. In one, he is on a salmon farm, talking to the manager (interesting to note that according to Private Eye, that very same farm suffered a bit of a setback when 250,000 salmon died this summer due to overstocking the lakes).
In the other, he is talking to a store manager about how good (& cheap) Sainsburys is. One interesting thing about Sainsburys. One of my Dad's friends was a lifelong greengrocer at the New Covent Garden Fruit and Veg Market (he sold to trade), and he went round our local Sainsburys looking at the Veg they called "Grade A". He said that any reasonable greengrocer wouldn't even rate it as high as F.