WARNING: Eccles Cake Rip Off !

Gizmodo

I have just got back from my local co-op because I needed a loaf of bread for post ride sausage sandwiches.

I had the shock of my life - I was just about to buy a pack of 4 Eccles Cakes when I noticed ....

They weren't Eccles Cakes! :!: Be Warned they are now disguising Mince Pies to look like Eccles Cakes to fool us into buying a more seasonal filling :!: It's a dispicable trick that should be made illegal in my opinion and I will be writing to my MEP (when I find out who he or she is).

Thankfully they had a small label on the packaging that they were in fact mince pies, but they sure looked like Eccles Cakes.

You've been warned, keep your eyes peeled and be safe out there!

Stewie Griffin

Never had an Eccles cake which I might have mentioned before but I do like a good mince pie.

Note to everyone; don't quote me and delete the "pie" from that sentence.

DIESELDOG

I blame Wiggle...

Love n hugs

DD

sungod

foolish marketing people, obviously they followed the logic:

eccles cakes ↠ delicious

mince pies ↠ delicious

therefore mince pies = eccles cakes

but of course delicious is surjective, and eccles cakes != mince pies

*this posting may contain less than 100% of mathematical rigor

martinwitnam

Stewie Griffin wrote:

Never had an Eccles cake which I might have mentioned before but I do like a good mince.

Sorry Stewie! It had to be done!

Gizmodo

sungod wrote:

eccles cakes != mince pies

Java or php programmer?

nevman

Its easy to tell the difference
Eccles cakes are hand-finished fruit and butter-enriched pastry cakes
Hang on,isnt that a min......

sungod

Gizmodo wrote:

sungod wrote:

eccles cakes != mince pies

Java or php programmer?

about 30 years of c (hence the lack of uppercase)

john-e-big-guns

Eccles-cakes are s**t...

Chorley-Cakes are miles better...great nurishment for long rides

Gizmodo

sungod wrote:

Gizmodo wrote:

sungod wrote:

eccles cakes != mince pies

Java or php programmer?

about 30 years of c (hence the lack of uppercase)

Then you have my sincere condolences and utmost respect. As a colleague of mine once said, "C is a write only language".

finchy

john-e-big-guns wrote:

Eccles-cakes are s**t...

Now I know how Basil Fawlty felt when confronted with culinary ignorami. :P

sungod

Gizmodo wrote:

Then you have my sincere condolences and utmost respect. As a colleague of mine once said, "C is a write only language".

oooooo, blasphemy!

but readability is the coder's job, not the language's, for assembly language it can take several lines of comment per instruction to correctly document, when i were lad i did over a million lines of assembler on various mpus, and microcode for bit-slice processors which was *really* fiddly, so you learned how to document stuff or you didn't last long

plus c lets you put things like this in there...

double ***ksocks;

...just for a laugh

Stone Glider

I do not care, I shall name names! TESCO

They taste delicious BTW.

pipipi

I used to cycle past a small village near Maidstone in Kent. Called Eccles.

Took a while to work out why everyone thought it was a cake from oop North.

LeicesterLad

john-e-big-guns wrote:

Eccles-cakes are s**t...

Get out.

lemoncurd

john-e-big-guns wrote:

Eccles-cakes are s**t...

Controversial stuff, even Jeremy Clarkson wouldn't go this far.