Trading under a flag of cake

[hirez]

If you repeat a phrase enough it becomes meaningless, and then tiresome

Comments

[jarkman]

I always felt like 'deep fill' amounted to a confession of past sins. Like writing 'Contains less gristle' on a sausage.

[valkyriekaren]

Now with 40% less insects!

[hirez]

"No longer vegetarian!"

[jarkman]

"Almost free of plutonium"

[nemesis_to_go]

I have a vague memory of a Mr Kipling one-liner on vintage TV comedy show - probably Not The Nine O'Clock News, or something. Or it could have been a radio comedy show of similar date, probably written by Barry Took and John Junkin, as they all seemed to be in them days. But in my head, it comes with pictures.

Anyway, it spoofed the Mr Kipling TV ad of the time, and it went something like this...

Soft-focus image of cakes. Nice music. Warm, cosy voice-over:

When I asked Mr Kipling how he makes his exceedingly good cakes, he said,

"I don't bloody know, I've got a bloody great factory in Bolton does all that."

[hirez]

I think that was NTNON.

[badnewswade]

Whenever someone says "we take [x] very seriously" I always hear clown music in the background and imagine them wearing makeup and a little red nose.

[valkyriekaren]

I remember the first time I tasted a Mr Kipling apple pie - the grainy, cloying, stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth pastry, and the glutinous, sickly-sweet filling. It bore absolutely no resemblance to the golden-topped pies stuffed with thick slices of apple that I had grown up on.

I did used to like Fondant Fancies though.

[mimmimmim]

I view 'deep fill' as an alternative to a plate pie, but I'm not sure if anyone commercial even makes plate pies.

Now my BMI has gone over 30, I'm not allowing myself either cake or pies :( I think the beer got me here, but it's the cakes I'll miss, not the booze...