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Good news about Tunnock's teacakes

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Stealhsquirrelnutkin · 22/10/2021 16:30

Don't you just love it when a company that makes stuff you like comes out as being ethically sound?

mobile.twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1451448320522661900

What a wonderful excuse to add chocolate tea cakes and caramel wafer biscuits to my next grocery order.

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Waitwhat23 · 27/10/2021 23:19

I went to buy teacakes and caramel wafers today and realised I'd completely forgotten about Snowballs! My favourite. Had one with a coffee earlier.

Sexnotgender · 25/10/2021 11:23

I flew Logan Air recently and they were handing out Tunnocks caramel wafers during the flight. Yum!

KittenKong · 23/10/2021 21:33

I worked in a deli as a student. Oh no...

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 23/10/2021 21:31

First two weeks I couldn’t eat crisps…after that I could eat them right off the conveyor belt 😀

Dd did work experience in a fish and chip shop and hasn’t eaten cod since 🤢

nauticant · 23/10/2021 21:26

Crisp factory eh? Please please don’t say anything horrible about the manufacturing/packing process - I couldn’t bear it!

A friend of mine worked in a crisp factory and said that however nice the crisps from the shops might be, they are nothing compared to having them immediately after they've been cooked.

Bellendejour · 23/10/2021 21:20

I’ve sent them a supportive message!
I also plan to buy some tea cakes tomorrow
#tunnock’s4life

KittenKong · 23/10/2021 21:04

@RufustheBadgeringReindeer

No worries kitten 😀
Dad was a civil engineer and worked on some factories and an abattoir (before mum banned him). He would not eat jam or chicken 🤢. Lemonade was ok through!
drinkingcherrywine · 23/10/2021 21:02

I am properly delighted by the tunnocks website, the teacake woolly bunnet is genius.

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 23/10/2021 19:48

No worries kitten 😀

KittenKong · 23/10/2021 19:34

Crisp factory eh? Please please don’t say anything horrible about the manufacturing/packing process - I couldn’t bear it!

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 23/10/2021 19:27

I worked in the smiths crisp factory for a short while

They did crisps for all sorts of supermarkets

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 23/10/2021 19:20

Small teacakes…

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 23/10/2021 19:20

RainbowZebraWarrior

Do they do the really small ones?

drinkingcherrywine · 23/10/2021 17:43

Just back from Asda, happy to report that their specialised night in marketing aisle was full of tunnocks everything, (waves to the asda marketing team). I bought loads of teacakes and wafers, even at the inflated prices Grin

Saltovinegar · 23/10/2021 17:06

How bizarre that people have nothing better to do than get over excited about a donation of food which people ate and enjoyed and which a thank you was quite rightly given.

I may not have been clear. My comment was aimed at the people seeking to boycott Tunnocks, I have ordered a vast array of their goods and will enjoy every last crumb.

KimikosNightmare · 23/10/2021 16:53

How bizarre that people have nothing better to do than get over excited about a donation of food which people ate and enjoyed and which a thank you was quite rightly given

The donation is being out of all proportion- starting with the opening post.

Don't you just love it when a company that makes stuff you like comes out as being ethically sound?

Tunnocks are being co- opted far beyond what they actually did.

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 23/10/2021 15:27

iirc, back in the days of Bath Uni. entanglements, weren't feminists accused of attempting to 'gluten' some of the TRA disrupters at an event there? And the WPUK event at Bath (custard creams, iirc).

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3419981-Event-in-Bath-Transphobia-in-the-UK-confronting-anti-trans-fear-mongering?pg=2

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3402310-Another-protest-against-WPUK-where-they-advise-face-coverings?pg=2

RainbowZebraWarrior · 23/10/2021 15:19

@RufustheBadgeringReindeer

I prefer M&S teacakes anyway….

I shouldn’t even be on here 😒

Tunnocks make the tea cakes (and wafers) for Ringtons and M&S. Most people swear M&S and Ringtons ones are better. AFAIK they are the same recipe. Ringtons make Sainsbury's, M&S and Fortnums tea (irrelevant, but just thought I'd share)
Ereshkigalangcleg · 23/10/2021 15:09

Curious as to why people think companies give free stuff to events?

TrainedByDinosaurs · 23/10/2021 15:07

@Journeyofthedragons

I can't belive the support on here, a feminism board of all places for a company who had an advert banned as recently as three years ago for being sexist and degrading to women.
I’d not seen the ad before, that was bad.
Saltovinegar · 23/10/2021 14:50

@TeamRex

I still think the original tweet was unfair. Whoever posted it must have known the inevitable pile-on would happen.

What a ridiculous comment. It was just a "thanks" tweet.

This.

How bizarre that people have nothing better to do than get over excited about a donation of food which people ate and enjoyed and which a thank you was quite rightly given.

Firesidefox · 23/10/2021 14:43

Agree. I have ordered some.

KittenKong · 23/10/2021 14:40

Oh it’s hit the big time... The Daily Record has reported it in its usual top notch journalistic fashion... ‘see they t’nox, thems homa-fobic now’

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 23/10/2021 14:13

I prefer M&S teacakes anyway….

I shouldn’t even be on here 😒

RufustheBadgeringReindeer · 23/10/2021 14:08

There's nothing wrong with a marketing exercise. I would not have any issue with Mermaids, as another registered charity, asking for a box of tea cakes and being given them

No, and I wouldn’t have an issue with mermaids saying thank you on twitter either

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