"Tested By Experts."
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I was in Aldi yesterday buying cat food by the barrel load. (My cats love Aldi cat food best of all and it is super cheap.) My son noticed that on the label, it read "Independently taste-tested by experts." I found it hilarious because, who are the experts? Is it a panel of cats? People with a specialised palate for pet food? I kept imagining a cat with a Brian Blessed voice tasting a bowl of Aldi cat kibble and saying "This is simply SPLENDID! In all of my nine lives, I have never eaten tastier morsels and I once caught a VOLE!" My cats will eat Tesco bags and toast crusts so they are not qualified to be expert cat food testers!
Of course it's just bullshine to get people to buy Aldi cat food, but has anyone seen something equally ridiculous on a product?
Of course it's just bullshine to get people to buy Aldi cat food, but has anyone seen something equally ridiculous on a product?
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But now I, too, am imagining a cat who talks like the Blessed Brian, and it's kinda awesome.
Apparently though
I'm imagining a cat that talks like Brian Blessed and wears a cravate and smoking jacket, with discerning taste.
I dunno, the cat on the tin looked proper posh. It would totally give you a CDWM score of "5" if you served it KitEKat instead of the cat food that comes in tiny gold tins.
That other bit that you posted is interesting. The Aldi cat food doesn't smell rank and some of it looks okay enough to eat on toast. Which is just as well, because after I got my pension forecast, I may just be tucking into VitaCat.
I have a leather jacket that has a label inside that says , we took a lot of effort making this garment please look after it don't throw it on the floor . Or words to that effect. Bloody cheek.
A leather ain't a leather until it's been thrown about a bit.
I always imagine male cats in winkle pickers and plus fours. Oh, and driving gloves. Lady cats dress like 60s' mod girls. I need to finish mat leave.
They sure ain't. Takes years to train one up to fit properly and appear windswept and interesting .
Fray Benson pies are like that, I think they throw the cat in too for good measure. <boak>
I think we've found the experts!
I don't claim to be an expert as you put it, just know decent meat when I taste it, and Aldis meat stinks. My toilet pan would say the same if it could talk.
It was a joke dude, based on the cat food label. I am not about to get into a debate about Aldi's meat.
So you "once bought a meat pie (sic) out Aldi" from which you feel you can authoratively conclude that; "Aldis meat stinks".:rolleyes:
I prefer to trust the millions that buy their meat from Aldi's every week and find it to be perfectly fine.:)
calm down dear:rolleyes:
I dont like meat from aldi and you do, thats fine with me.
I used to spoil my cat and buy her more expensive cat food like Gourmet. Then one day I noticed that the tin had a picture of a bowl of Gourmet garnished with a sprig of parsley. So just for a laugh I wrote to them.
It started off normal enough. Just telling them that I was an avid customer of theirs and thanking them for their excellent product which my cat adores etc..
Then I said that I couldn't help noticing the garnish in the photo, and thought I would have a go at doing the same. I then went on to say that I thought why stop there? so I tried providing a side salad. Didn't have much success with that, unless it contained anchovies. I then decided to try a full three course dinner, complete with a dessert, but again, no real success.
In fact I only ever achieved partial success with a lightly seasoned seafood chowder. So Tell me, is it normal to garnish your cat's food, or are you completely out of your f***ing minds?
yours.. etc
I didn't blank the expletive in the letter.
The funny thing was the letter I got back. It was worded so politely, thanking me for my custom and feedback. It then went on to say "We have noted your somewhat curiously worded question. We have had a consultation and have decided to remove the garnish from the picture on future tins. We take any feedback from our customers very seriously indeed and hope you will remain a valuable customer.."
...could mean: clinically proven... to fail
*I am already married but my husband hates cats!
Was just going to post something similar. I know dog food is tasted by humans.
lol!
Unfortunately my cat had to be put down aged 16. I held her while the vet injected her.
But I would have given anything to have been at that Gourmet cat food meeting about the garnish..