Sausage Package Illustrates What Happens When You're A Jerk To The Copywriter
We did try to investigate the truthfulness of the statement on the package, but Wikipedia offered no evidence that Mr. Harriott was at all unpleasant.
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He can be annoying, but I wouldn't go as far as calling him a prick.
Hahaha, there may be no evidence, but someone clearly did not like Mr. Harriott.
I'd suggest that it should have said "Prick package with a fork" but that might be worse.
Well I guess this is probably obvious to most of you.
This product and its packaging were made in the UK, where they don't seem to understand that the word "prick" has another meaning in the US. I'd fire the package designer, if it were my company.
@Rectilinear Propagation: Noooo... what's worse is the idea of whether the "special recipe" actually contains Ainsley Harriott.
@Rectilinear Propagation: Even "Prick plastic with a fork" would be worse if you think about it enough.
That is just too funny!
I'm curious why someone felt the need to obfuscate the ingredients?
I dunno. The guy signed on to advertise the "new, thicker Fairy" that "keeps on going," which leads me to believe that is overall judgment in terms of marketing copy is seriously impaired.
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Looking at the perfectly clean bottom edge of the label, this is obviously a photoshoped pic.
Still pretty funny though . . .
Ainsley Harriot is always a happy fellow. But that just cracked me up. I also think the package means to prick the sausages with a fork so they don't explode when you cook them. Why that particular instruction would be so giagantic on the front of the packaging though is odd. Maybe A. Harriot is actually a demanding diva behind the scenes and that was the package designer's way of getting even.
I'm guessing fake. Wouldn't pass copyediting with the unnecessary period.
Please rewrite...
"Jerkoff with an eating implement"
@Trai_Dep: as a brit id like to say we bloody well do know the double meaning of prick. I just find that were less juvenile/sensitive when it comes to things like this.
@Rectilinear Propagation: Well given it's a package full of sausages, calling it a "prick package" might be a pretty good description.
prick is the proper word to use, "dick" on the other hand would have been too obvious.
@mavrick67: Just uncooked. Boil them and put them on the grill; they'll have that nice golden brown and delicious color you're familiar with.
something that isn't gray and upappitizing out of the UK . . . um, Keira Knightley? Kate Beckinsale?
I also note that the first letters of the top three lines spell out "Ass."
@ganmerlad: Evidentally they were in sale in Ireland till someone notices the innuendo.
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@shepd: I'm not denying it's fake, but I have no problem believing it could slip past the copy editor. If copyediting was such a precise science we wouldn't have jewels like Lance Snack Food's slogan, "I Got Lance In My Pants."
Photoshopped packaging... At best, this might be a 4chan-esque post. Why consumerist?
Actually,you never prick the skins of sausage...only handle with tongs.If you prick em,they lose all their juice.
Most packages warn you of this...
@smileboot: W/e. That's not it at all. I'd wager that it's that the brits have their own impressive catalog of slang terms for wang, and 'prick' is just lower on their funny scale. Penis humor, while not entirely universal, is more than represented in british humor and popular culture. Brits love bawdy body humor.
Hahahahahahah.. it's the UnCola!
If you prick with a fork, juice is not the only thing that will be lost......
"OUCH!!" There goes that Viagra moment!
@Maous: OMG Y IS DIS HEAR?!?!11
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Who?
Man, I NEEDED that belly-laugh... not sure my colleagues appreciate it though. :-D
@hypnotik_jello: Actually, I thought that was it.
Although, I see the "other" meaning being inferred here.
ENGRISH.COM !!!
Wikipedia also reports that Chef Harriott appears in ads for "Fairy Liquid". Here near San Francisco, if I were to discover someone selling "Fairy Liquid", I certainly would not wash my dishes with it.
@m4ximusprim3: I smoked a fag, then knocked her up because I needed a rubber.
(Not all pencils have erasers...)
Errr.... I'm from the UK and am well aware, as is everyone else in the country, I can assure you, of the "other" meaning of the word "prick". Really.
Aren't those just the instructions for cooking?