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Pizza problems.

by dennypoos @ 2009-01-30 – 18:31:16

Every once in a while I can't be arsed to get my cooking head on and slum it by buying a cheapo pizza, knowing that I have sufficient stuff in the fridge to tart it up and make it edible. This I did with a one quid pizza from Asda.

I was about to consign the box to the recycling bin when I noticed this:

Yes, bloody cheese flavour. Of all that's holy in the land of pizzas. I could hardly believe my eyes but on turning the box to see the list of ingredients it got worse:

Now I know it was only a skanky quid pizza but really, harumph. Feeling a tad miffed I sent the company, Green Isle Foods, (Aka Northern Foods) the following email:

Hi guys,

I recently purchased one of your 'San Marco' pepperoni pizzas and was surprised to find that instead of cheese, (mozzarella usually), your pizza had Cheese flavoured analogue.
Could you inform a poor customer exactly what this is and bearing in mind your blurb on the pizza box, "..we are passionate about what we do. San Marco is the real taste of Italy", do the Italians know that you have discovered something better than actual cheese, for surely as passionate people you wouldn't put an inferior ingredient on your pizzas, "inspired by the finest Italian recipes" as they are?

kind regards,

Dennis.

I await their reply with a smile upon my face. There is some curmudgeonly fun to be had here.

Dennypoos.....................caught out this once but vengeance will be mine

The 'Itchen Way'

by dennypoos @ 2009-01-30 – 07:54:06

I've finally managed to edit and cobble together the photographs I took on my epic walk from Southampton to Winchester. They can be viewed by following the link below. I've put them together to be viewed as a slide-show, full screen and with captions. If you've got a couple of spare minutes have a look. I'd appreciate any comments, other than that there are too many in the set as I realise more editing needs to be done.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennypoos/sets/72157613036525173/

Here's an example:

Arh-Har.

by dennypoos @ 2009-01-30 – 07:25:31

You cannot but help having your feelings towards your fellow man confirmed by this little article I spotted in 'The Independent' this morning:

Friendship comes cheap in cyber-land

In the mysterious world of Facebook, the online social networking site which has 150 million members, it is easy to gain friends, to poke friends, to write messages on a friend's "wall".

Losing a friend is a more secretive business. There is no message to the person who has been defriended. They simply find themselves barred from their former friend's site, like an uncool person being turned away from a nightclub.

The firm Burger King has exploited this grey area of cybernetiquette with a clever US ad campaign. "Friendship is strong," the ads read. "But the Whopper is stronger." To prove its point, the company offered a free hamburger to anyone willing to ditch 10 of their Facebook friends.

Rather unsportingly, it then informed those who had been defriended that their online relationship had been sacrificed for a sandwich. Some 234,000 friendships had been terminated before Facebook objected.

Social networking is a game for bored people, a form of voyeurism. The idea that online friendship has anything to do with the real article is simply a whopper.

That about sums it up.

Dennypoos.....................one amongst another one.