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To think James Middleton's marshmallows are doomed?

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NightWanderer · 17/01/2017 06:39

A friend (cough, cough) was reading in the Daily Mail that James Middleton is still trying to save his marshmallow business. If anyone doesn't know, they print out Instagram pictures onto marshmallows and sell them for 15 pounds for a box of 9.

They're marshmallows, sugar and gelatin. Who in their right mind would pay 15 pounds for 9 of them, even if they do have a photo on them?

I don't know why I'm so interested by the way. There is just something so WTF about the whole thing.

Apparently he already lost 1 million pounds through them. Does no one sit him down and say dude, it just isn't a good idea?

Here the DM link
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4126498/Dragons-Den-pal-turns-Middleton-s-marshmallow-firm-around.html

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Figgygal · 17/01/2017 06:41

My friend had them once they are pretty fun but not sure who would pay that for a novelty item regularly

BootCampSucker · 17/01/2017 06:58

YANBU. I also have a strange fascination with the concept of Boomf and cannot work out why anyone would ever think it likely to be a successful business.

CaoNiMa · 17/01/2017 07:00

It's the classic "rich guy project".

BootCampSucker · 17/01/2017 07:03

I'm also quite disappointed in Nick Jenkins as he is my weird crush who generally says what I'm thinking on DD (and therefore must be extremely clever Wink).

Grindelwaldswand · 17/01/2017 07:07

They look disgusting and sickly I wouldn't eat them if James paid me the £15 to take them off his hands Grin god knows what chemicals are in them/printed on them

NightWanderer · 17/01/2017 07:13

I'm so relieved people actually replied to this. Grin I mean, I get it that sometimes businesses take a few goes before becoming successful, but I just can't see this one working EVER.

I think I read somewhere that Rob Kardashian's sock business isn't doing so well either.

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ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 17/01/2017 07:16

They are so cheap to make, how can he have invested and lost a mil?

Figgygal · 17/01/2017 07:18

Googling rob kardashian sock business now

AllTheBabies · 17/01/2017 07:18

Hasn't he been trying to save that business for about 3 years? You'd think at some point he'd give up!

Didn't he also have a doomed company that was something to do with cake?

TobleroneBoo · 17/01/2017 07:26

They are being heavily advertising on Facebook, they have these "exploding" packages ( whether it's for the marshmallows or something else they may, i don't know) but it's been the sponsored post on my Facebook every day for about a month now

ClaryIsTheBest · 17/01/2017 07:28

I didn't know that.

It could be fun for a baby shower or something similar. Why not? :)

stopfuckingshoutingatme · 17/01/2017 07:29

I think about this shit too ! Will socialite and columnist Donna air dump him?

stopfuckingshoutingatme · 17/01/2017 07:29

She likes em rich

ClaryIsTheBest · 17/01/2017 07:30

Or just for some other celebration. Children's birthday? Bachelor party?

Is James Middleton the cute, bearded one?

CaoNiMa · 17/01/2017 07:34

He has the look of a young Rasputin about him. I wouldn't trust him.

ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe · 17/01/2017 07:40

Oh I don't know about the Rasputin connection...

I can imagine naming my cat Rasputin, but I can absolutely not imagine naming the poor thing Middleton.

TheCakes · 17/01/2017 07:40

Why would you want a squishy, edible version of your kids/boyfriend/dog??
I'd rather have a picture for the mantelpiece and a pack of marshmallows to scoff.

ClaryIsTheBest · 17/01/2017 07:40

CaoNiMa

Now I have to google whether he is the guy I think he is. Or whether I kind of accidentally switched his face with somebody else's face mentally.

FrancisCrawford · 17/01/2017 07:44

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ClaryIsTheBest · 17/01/2017 07:46

Oh gosh! He's not the super cute one. He looks really weasely without the beard.

And ok with the beard. But then who is the cute guy I had confused him with?

CaoNiMa · 17/01/2017 07:48

He just strikes me as a wrong 'un. I'm not even sure why. I think its his eyes. Sly.

(God, I'm turning into my mother and her "Never trust a man with a thin upper lip" kind of chat)

ArgyMargy · 17/01/2017 07:51

I don't like marshmallows. Some years ago you could pay £5 for a cupcake in Selfridges food hall - no idea if you still can. It's perfectly possible to attach a value to a product that bears no relationship to the cost of the ingredients - it's called branding. Look at designer perfume for a prime example.

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SittingDrinkingTea · 17/01/2017 07:55

Does he realise that in the real world many people have to budget carefully?

I very much suspect he doesn't, hence thinking a business charging £15 for nine marshmallows could turn a profit.

Cosmicglitterpug · 17/01/2017 07:59

He just strikes me as a wrong 'un. I'm not even sure why. I think its his eyes. Sly.

I was thinking he looked shifty.

ClaryIsTheBest · 17/01/2017 08:05

I mistook him for Carl Philip of Sweden.


Ooops.

Carl Philip is hot. James Middleton looks a bit like a weasel (but it is much better with the beard, tbh)

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