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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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ArabellaScott · 22/10/2021 20:19

@KittenKong

I was at a wedding where the cake was made by Tunnocks. No it wasn’t a giant tea cake (shame), it was a big white wedding cake decorated with roses.
... Cadbury's Roses?
ArabellaScott · 22/10/2021 20:18

@Babdoc

When the SNP supporters boycotted Tunnocks for naming it the “Great British teacake” and putting union jack flags on the packet, their sales rocketed 35%! Tunnocks had to increase production to meet the increased demand. I do hope the same happens again. Great company, always on the side of the goodies!
Oh, yes, I'd forgotten about that.
Wildfart · 22/10/2021 20:16

Hilarious.

Are the teacakes on the right side of the history plate or have they simply #been kind?

TheSpottedZebra · 22/10/2021 20:09

@EsmaCannonball

I like the coconut version of the caramel wafers. If the TRAs make them repent this gesture, I'm not sure I can give them up.
Esma you have contributed so much to this thread, but I feel this ^ has been overlooked.

THEY DO COCONUT WAFERS???? This is brand new (and very welcome) information!

Babdoc · 22/10/2021 20:02

When the SNP supporters boycotted Tunnocks for naming it the “Great British teacake” and putting union jack flags on the packet, their sales rocketed 35%! Tunnocks had to increase production to meet the increased demand.
I do hope the same happens again. Great company, always on the side of the goodies!

BettyFilous · 22/10/2021 19:24

@EsmaCannonball

I once, briefly, thought my dog had testicular cancer. It was after a family birthday party and I picked him up and discovered a large, flesh-coloured lump on his genitals. Upon further, panicked, investigation it turned out he'd managed to get half a Tunnock's Teacake stuck to the side of his balls and he'd licked most of the chocolate off.
DH and I are howling. 😂🤣😂 Thanks Esme.
Theunamedcat · 22/10/2021 19:22

@EsmaCannonball

I once, briefly, thought my dog had testicular cancer. It was after a family birthday party and I picked him up and discovered a large, flesh-coloured lump on his genitals. Upon further, panicked, investigation it turned out he'd managed to get half a Tunnock's Teacake stuck to the side of his balls and he'd licked most of the chocolate off.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My mom had to slam the brakes on in her car I was holding some no bake chocolate cake on my lap when we looked down it looked like someone had shit on the gearstick she said i didn't think it was that close couldn't you have waited....we howled the other people (who were checking we were OK) were Confused

KingsleyShacklebolt · 22/10/2021 19:21

@SusannaRowan

Was it fair of LGB Alliance to put Tunnocks on the spot like this? They would have know the furore that would follow and could have sent a private thank you message instead, for what was a kind gesture. I feel a bit sorry for Tunnocks, I get the impression they are a kind, old fashioned company, who have unwittingly stumbled into this. Unless Tunnocks are nailing their colours to the mast (which is probably unlikely). I know ultimately the aggressive TRAs are at fault, but it just makes me feel uneasy.
That's it exactly. An old-fashioned, family run business which goes out of its way to support local causes. This isn't a big political statement from them.
PigeonLittle · 22/10/2021 19:21

I have it on good aurhority after their support of the LGB Alliance, every Tunnocks Teacake you eat from now on will be calorie free.

Fill your boots Brew

Ereshkigalangcleg · 22/10/2021 19:20

Tunnocks seem to be getting a lot of support on Twitter from people fed up of cancel culture who have read the DM piece... easily cancelling out the whiny ones.

KittenKong · 22/10/2021 19:17

I was at a wedding where the cake was made by Tunnocks. No it wasn’t a giant tea cake (shame), it was a big white wedding cake decorated with roses.

nothingcomestonothing · 22/10/2021 19:13

OMG I love their plain chocolate tea cakes - so glad I can now eat them with impunity!

DdraigGoch · 22/10/2021 19:12

Tunnocks are already being boycotted by many of the hardcore Scottish nats as they have a union flag on their packaging.
After all, it doesn't matter if you piss off those who were already boycotting you.

SusannaRowan · 22/10/2021 19:11

Was it fair of LGB Alliance to put Tunnocks on the spot like this? They would have know the furore that would follow and could have sent a private thank you message instead, for what was a kind gesture. I feel a bit sorry for Tunnocks, I get the impression they are a kind, old fashioned company, who have unwittingly stumbled into this. Unless Tunnocks are nailing their colours to the mast (which is probably unlikely). I know ultimately the aggressive TRAs are at fault, but it just makes me feel uneasy.

KingsleyShacklebolt · 22/10/2021 19:06

Tunnocks are already being boycotted by many of the hardcore Scottish nats as they have a union flag on their packaging.

Tunnocks do an awful lot for charity. They will pretty much give any cause free boxes of tea cakes or caramel wafers if you go to their factory and pick them up. We use to get loads every year for the PTA events, if you give blood at the main centre in Glasgow there are loads of tunnocks snacks in the tea area. Family run, local company which supports its local community.

Grumpyosaurus · 22/10/2021 18:58

@EsmaCannonball

I once, briefly, thought my dog had testicular cancer. It was after a family birthday party and I picked him up and discovered a large, flesh-coloured lump on his genitals. Upon further, panicked, investigation it turned out he'd managed to get half a Tunnock's Teacake stuck to the side of his balls and he'd licked most of the chocolate off.
LOL.

Hasn't put me off Tunnocks.

Pumperthepumper · 22/10/2021 18:56

Tunnocks are really, really generous with freebies, I hope this doesn’t put them off.

KimikosNightmare · 22/10/2021 18:53

@nauticant

I'm not really a fan of dragging businesses into this situation, whether that's done by GC people, trans activists, whatever.
I agree. Tunnocks obviously from their brief response give biscuits out as a mixture of a nice gesture and a marketing tool.

Tunnocks isn't endorsing anything.

I don't think it will make the slightest dent in Tunnocks sales.

catzwhiskas · 22/10/2021 18:11

Mail article hilarious with India “calling for calm” and Esma’s post above caused convulsions for several minutes.

SirSamuelVimes · 22/10/2021 17:30

Ooh tunnocks teacakes. Delish.

ArabellaScott · 22/10/2021 17:29

Fake news. No one has the will power to boycott those beauties.

The first time ever a Mail comment has made me lol.

ArabellaScott · 22/10/2021 17:27

@EsmaCannonball

I once, briefly, thought my dog had testicular cancer. It was after a family birthday party and I picked him up and discovered a large, flesh-coloured lump on his genitals. Upon further, panicked, investigation it turned out he'd managed to get half a Tunnock's Teacake stuck to the side of his balls and he'd licked most of the chocolate off.
Confused
ErrolTheDragon · 22/10/2021 17:26

Does it never occur to the transactivists that rather than wailing about a group representing lesbian, gay and bisexual people being given something nice, they should simply ask tunnocks if they can have some of their own too?

nauticant · 22/10/2021 17:25

I'm not really a fan of dragging businesses into this situation, whether that's done by GC people, trans activists, whatever.