This week's Aldi bargain

The description is a jem... Essential for all your baking, especially icing and dusting.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

On a slightly related note, I visited a public toilet over the W/E and the proprietor had thought fit to affix a handwritten sign on the hand drier in the gents, 'hand drier' it proclaimed, what people were using it for prior to this I don't know.

Co-op dusters have "ideal for dusting" written on their packaging.

Adam

The message from "ARWadsworth" contains these words:

Better than "Serving suggestion".

The message from "Phil L" contains these words:

One of our cats likes to sleep in the tumbledrier, but lost interest once our then toddler chose to join her.

Do they keep a poisons register for would-be purchasers of this to sign?

It's surprising that they have used words with more than one syllable.....

The message from "Phil L" contains these words:

Yes it is.

I especially like the "Caution" one about packaging. That is *so* true.

Yes. Put it on a plate.

Don't blame Aldi, It's only repeating what it says on the packet.

I just love some of those "serving suggestions". A box of Sainsbury's "wholewheat biscuits" (their version of Weetabix) shows three "biscuits" splashing around in what seems to be milk, in some indeterminate plate. I mean, you're hardly likely to serve them chargrilled, hard-boiled or deep-fried with a side-salad (or are you?!).

Have ya never watched your mom or wifey making a cake?

Putting the sugar in a fine sieve and sprinkling over the cake, using the sieve and a gentle tap on the side of the sieve with the palm of your hand.

This is whats known as dusting.Tsk!

The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

Take some chryranthemumumnumunumunums, and arrange them.

reminds me of a gem from the New Yankee Workshop: "I'll trim the edge of this laminate flush using a flush cutting bit in my laminate trimmer"

Pete

The message from somebody contains these words:

Ah, but as we all know, peanuts aren't nuts - so to warn those allergic to nuts that a pack of peanuts may contain nuts isn't unreasonable.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Guy King saying something like:

This keeps coming up on various ngs. The nut warning is because the packaging machinery may have been used previously to pack some real nuts and traces might be left in the machine. Some people are so sensitive to nut traces that the slightest amount could give them severe problems.

No but you can butter them and spread some jam on.

That's another "isn't life stupid" thing which does the rounds on newsgroups... the reason for them using this disclaimer is more bureaucratic stuff which says that if the front of the packet shows a picture of Weetabix, sugar and milk, then that's what the packet actually has to include.

David

Ah right. So the packet of poppadums with an elephant on the front doesn't really contain any elephant?

Owain