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Mum was angry that alphabet potato shapes bag didn’t contain the letter to spell her
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francie
07-12-2016
" Nichola Hart complained to Tesco, furious at being let down by the supermarket. The 30-year-old mum of two had bought a bag of alphabet potato shapes in order to teach her son Logan to spell, so she was livid when she discovered that there were no Ls or Os in the bag, so she was forced to write 'ICGAN'. http://money.aol.co.uk/2016/12/07/hi...3D333750083_uk

A letter to her MP is in order surely. Stupid woman.
blueblade
07-12-2016
Jesus wept !

I wish that were all I had to worry about, bloody alphabet potato shapes.
molliepops
07-12-2016
Anyone relying on frozen potato products to teach their child to spell shouldn't really be shouting about it.
James Frederick
07-12-2016
TBF when I and my brothers were younger still my brother now had them one of the exciting parts was spelling or seeing get your name.

I don't think it's bad enough to kick up much off a fuss but I can see the kid getting disappointed.
Ben_Copland
07-12-2016
She continued: "In the end I improvised by using an 'I' as an 'L' and a 'C' as an 'O' so spelled 'icgan' which obviously isn't his name... he noticed this straight away and I had to explain why. Very disappointed."

So why is she trying to teach him how to spell his name when he already knows full well how not to spell it?
Harvey_Specter
07-12-2016
So she should be.

Absolutely ridiculous that those letters weren't included.

Tesco should feel very ashamed for stocking sub-standard products.
James Frederick
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by molliepops:
“Anyone relying on frozen potato products to teach their child to spell shouldn't really be shouting about it.”

That may not been all she does but everything helps when teaching them.

It has been used as a trick before the kids don't realise they are learning.
francie
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Harvey_Specter:
“So she should be.

Absolutely ridiculous that those letters weren't included.

Tesco should feel very ashamed for stocking sub-standard products.”

I feel a total Tesco boycott is in order.
Zeropoint1
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Ben_Copland:
“She continued: "In the end I improvised by using an 'I' as an 'L' and a 'C' as an 'O' so spelled 'icgan' which obviously isn't his name... he noticed this straight away and I had to explain why. Very disappointed."

So why is she trying to teach him how to spell his name when he already knows full well how not to spell it?”

To be fair calling the poor thing Logan is bad enough without admitting it to the world. Though it's better than Jaxon or Brooklyn I suppose.

I wonder if there's a chav reading that story and loves the name Icgan?
shaddler
07-12-2016
I suppose calling a product Potato Alphabet does imply that it contains all the letters of the alphabet. It's a funny thing to complain about, though.
dee123
07-12-2016
Logan is such a trashy name. That poor kid with an idiot for a mother.
Ben_Copland
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by shaddler:
“I suppose calling a product Potato Alphabet does imply that it contains all the letters of the alphabet. It's a funny thing to complain about, though.”

Because she does nothing else all day and needs stuff to fill her time, and a couple extra bucks off a news publisher.
Shrike
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by James Frederick:
“That may not been all she does but everything helps when teaching them.

It has been used as a trick before the kids don't realise they are learning.”

Its clearly unlikely you will get the letter combinations you want in such a small selection as you'll get in that packet though. I doubt there are 26 pieces anyway, and for some names you'll need multiple instances of some letters. Anyway - mums should know that for a good old rude word session you need Alphabetti Spaghetti!
Arcana
07-12-2016
It's all a plot to make people buy multiple bags to increase the chances of getting the right letters. 😒
francie
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by James Frederick:
“That may not been all she does but everything helps when teaching them.

It has been used as a trick before the kids don't realise they are learning.”

According to the article she purposely bought the food to teach him (which btw he could already do) but Tesco pointed out "The bags are packed with a random selection of letters, and we didn't state that you will get every letter." Either she can't read or lacks basic common sense.
Fried Kickin
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by dee123:
“Logan is such a trashy name. That poor kid with an idiot for a mother.”

If they move to Australia he could be Logan the Bogan
Deep Purple
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by francie:
“According to the article she purposely bought the food to teach him (which btw he could already do) but Tesco pointed out "The bags are packed with a random selection of letters, and we didn't state that you will get every letter." Either she can't read or lacks basic common sense.”

I think that has been proved.
francie
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Deep Purple:
“I think that has been proved.”

I was trying to be polite.
Jambo_c
07-12-2016
She could change his name by deed poll to Icgan.
MAW
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by shaddler:
“I suppose calling a product Potato Alphabet does imply that it contains all the letters of the alphabet. It's a funny thing to complain about, though.”

She may indeed have thought it funny to complain.
sodavlac
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Jambo_c:
“She could change his name by deed poll to Icgan.”

Or she could have spelled their surname out, or a different word altogether that's not related to names.

Unless that's the problem here, and the only word she can spell is her son's first name? (Yeah, yeah, I know she managed to send her letter of complaint where she spelled many a word successfully).
calamity
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by blueblade:
“Jesus wept !

I wish that were all I had to worry about, bloody alphabet potato shapes.”

she cant have much in her life to worry her then.
dee123
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Fried Kickin:
“If they move to Australia he could be Logan the Bogan ”

Nah Logan isn't that bad, a bogan name would be something like Khodii
patsylimerick
07-12-2016
The responses make it worth the read - particularly liked this one:

Dear Tesco, I also bought a £1 bag of Tesco 'alphabet' potato shapes and was furious to discover that they did not contain commas, full stops and umlauts, not to mention mathematical signs. To say I am incandescent with rage and have an overbearing sense of entitlement is an understatement. I shall be writing to my MP or sitting on the sofa watching Jeremy Kyle, whichever is the easiest. Suffice to say I shall never, *EVER* be shopping at Tesco ever again. Yours. P.S. When do you start discounting the Christmas stuff so I can pop in for a bargain?"

francie
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by shaddler:
“I suppose calling a product Potato Alphabet does imply that it contains all the letters of the alphabet. It's a funny thing to complain about, though.”

"Apparently it does say on the packet that not all of the letters are in there, but again I don't see the point in that.' ( her own words http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...to-shapes.html )

Perhaps her child could teach her to read what's she's buying.
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