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Aunty Post
18 Mar 15 08:06
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Was talking about advertisers, and restaurant's menus adding superfluous and meaningless descriptions to their products.

For instance "With Real Herbs"!

Outside "Tesco Express" yesterday is a pile of bags of logs. Not just ordinary logs but "Real Wood Logs"!

Oh yeah!!!

Obviously they weren't "Kiln Dried Hardwood Logs" so rather than just saying "Logs" they had to colour it up a bit!
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Report Jack Hacksaw March 18, 2015 9:16 AM GMT
If they just called them 'Logs' the majority of Tesco clientele would just hold their nose and give them a wide berth.
Report Aunty Post March 18, 2015 9:19 AM GMT
Well how about something more descriptive like "Freshly Cut Logs"?
Report Big_Issue March 18, 2015 9:23 AM GMT
I agree with the OP in the way Advertiser's embellish products descriptions with meaningless guff, to make them sound more grandiose, makes my pish boil.
Report Aunty Post March 18, 2015 9:33 AM GMT
Another one seen on a menu at a "Gastro Pub".....

"Proper Chips"!
Report Jack Hacksaw March 18, 2015 9:40 AM GMT
In their defence, a lot of place now sell processed logs.
And proper chips would hopefully mean not french fries or frozen crap.
Report Aunty Post March 18, 2015 9:51 AM GMT
Yes Jack but what are "Processed Logs"?

Never seen them. Do you mean kind of cobbled up from sawdust and shavings?

If so what poncey description do they put on them?

"New technology Hi-Energy Hand Crafted Logs"
Report hectoratoratora March 18, 2015 9:53 AM GMT
Aunty Post ,good thing you dont work in log marketing."freshly cut " is a no no.Naturally seasoned hardwood is the way forward .Also mugs love a bit of meaningless jargon with their purchase ,perhaps something like coppiced or cordwood.
Report Jack Hacksaw March 18, 2015 10:21 AM GMT
Dunno what they are called exactly but you have got the drift, AP.

Probably focus on the fact that they are re-cycled and energy efficient.
Report Aunty Post March 18, 2015 10:31 AM GMT
Aunty Post ,good thing you dont work in log marketing."freshly cut " is a no no.Naturally seasoned hardwood is the way forward .Also mugs love a bit of meaningless jargon with their purchase ,perhaps something like coppiced or cordwood.

You missed the point here!

I was taking the p!ss you see.

If they were hardwood or "kiln dried" they would have said that.

So if they are not hardwood, or kiln dried, they may well be softwood and still green.

So "Freshly Cut" was a joke you see, as are all my other suggestions.

So clearly they are not either which is why they are just "Logs" with the added superfluous "Real" which is what my post was all about.

I'm full well aware of what "Coppiced" is and it certainly won't produce logs for wood burners!

I'm also fully aware about how they could blag on about "from sustainable forestry" but that is not the point of my OP.
Report hectoratoratora March 18, 2015 10:42 AM GMT
AP sorry about the missunderstanding ,i thought you were deadly serious .Have just re read your posts on the basis that you were joking and i now realise they were hilarious.
Report FlowerMyth March 18, 2015 10:47 AM GMT
Don't worry hector, Aunty's got a bit of form with logs, don't ask him what happened in 1973 - the saga with log seller's misses and the paid/unpaid bill!
Report FOYLESWAR March 18, 2015 11:11 AM GMT
agree with op here about jazzing things up ............I bought a bag of crisps the other day said on the packet "  cracked sea salt and dry  balsamic vinegar crisps  "ffs salt n vinegar then !
Report HH Sultan Vinegar March 18, 2015 11:50 AM GMT
re jazzing things up, a cringeworthy example of 'pretentious? moi?' has to be from a bar I once visited in Fulham who had 'oeuf vinaigre' on a bar snacks menu - or a pickled egg   Plain
Report Aunty Post March 18, 2015 2:29 PM GMT
Aunty's got a bit of form with logs

Christ, that's impressive!!!!

After all these many years, when I think back to that I still get angry!

It was actually late '80s to early '90s and I got 20 bags at a time, in the winter months, and at 3 week intervals.

Always paid on delivery, if I was around, or otherwise dropped off if he was in.

This was the first and only time that I went (same day) and gave the money to his mother who looked like a fekking witch.

How dare he effing challenge me without at least asking her?

I realise now that she was probably senile but to talk to me, a pillock of society, as he did, is disgraceful!

Given little time left he is on my list of people to "take out". Sawn in half length ways, on his own band saw! Angry
Report blackbarn March 18, 2015 2:44 PM GMT
Sultan - the big jar of pickled eggs in the chippy near my daughter's house says - "Allergy Advice - Contains Egg".  Presumably if you are allergic to vinegar, you're on your own.
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