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EARLIER THIS WEEK, Tesco customer Dav Nash purchased a packet of Free From strawberry and vanilla cones (read: knock-off Cornettos) from the supermarket.
When he arrived home, however, he was horrified to find that the cone had no chocolate, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of the ice-cream.
Nash did what anyone would do and decided to pen a rather lyrical complaint to Tesco on Facebook.
Once upon a time, a small independent store called Tesco crafted a very special Cornetto (of course, it was not a Cornetto for legal reasons). This very special Cornetto didn’t have any milk in it and consisted of delicious vanilla and strawberry ice cream, wrapped in a crunchy, chocolate lined cone with a strawberry sauce through the middle.
Everybody rejoiced at this wondrous creation. Until one fateful day.
Imagine the horror of the unsuspecting customer, after carefully unwrapping the delicious treat to find that the previously crunchy cone was soft, lifeless…flaccid. The chocolate was gone! No more was the cone a testament to confectionary engineering. No more was there a solid, tantalising chocolate end to the cone!
The customer fell to his knees and cried sugarless tears of bottomless grief. The glory days were over and the prospect of a world without a chocolate coating brought an incurable ache to his heart.
“Will there be a happy ending to this story, Tesco?” the letter concluded.
The answer to that question is a big fat yes.
Not only did Tesco reply, but they crafted their own fairytale response.
Brilliant.
What happened in the end, you ask? Dav sent his details to Tesco and received confirmation that he would receive a £4.00 refund.
It may not seem like much, but as Dav puts it…
Written by Amy O’Connor and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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Not to be a spoil sport but- I was always told it’s illegal to collect frogspawn?
@Kevin Hill: me also
@Colin Keogh: for educational purposes its aloud as far as I know
@Kevin Hill: It is here but schools are allowed for educational purposes. This was in NI.
@Kevin Hill: they were on ground that was drying so were going to die. Did the same myself in early march and have a few thousand tadpoles in a pond which I’ll be releasing as soon as they are frogs. Could have been famous too!
She’s delightful ! At least she didn’t waste her COVID months in and out of the off license unlike some …ahem
Illegal… Jesus every child the far side of the red cow collected tadpoles as a kid, and caught bees in a jam jar.
Jesus I’ve been doing this for years, because frogs return to the same spot every year to spawn so they generally spawn in drainage ditches near us which end up drying up. So we collect them, rear them and release them in a nature reserve near us also. Never thought to put it on the internet. Guess I missed my five minutes of fame.
The world we live in now everything is a sensation.
That’s more than a jar of frogspawn, I hope they will be released eventually
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