Dear Pret A Manger...

[FairyTiggybelle]

I recently bought a can of your fizzy orange juice drink from your Trafalgar Square branch. As I drank it sitting under an enormous blue cock, I read the can. "No nasties" it said. Then I read the ingredients. It turned out there was more grape juice in it than there was orange juice. Now I know that grape juice isn't some weird artificial chemical and lots of people drink it on purpose and lead happy and fulfilling lives, but I do think that in this case the grape juice was a "Nasty". It was something I didn't want to drink, somewhere where I didn't expect it to be. Black pudding is loved by many people and is also perfectly edible, but you wouldn't slip it into a strawberry cheesecake. Or would you my dear Pret? Maybe we should all start checking your cheese sandwiches for traces of roast badger? Your crisps for deep fried weasel flakes? Your brownies for... real brownies?
Am I being unreasonable for expecting Pret A Manger's labels to reflect what is inside?

Oh he's lovely.

As soon as you add the word fizzy? You should remove the word healthy.

Which sandwich shops do roast badger sarnies?

I know it's orange I've read post,ginger scottish colloquialism=' fizzy shit in a can
I'm astounded your that naive,did you think it tricked down the orange stream

For the dirty minded amongst us

Am I the only person who is unable to refer to the blue cock without giggling?

I wish that cock hadn't come out my mouth. Your smutty minds are derailing a serious thread with comments about it.

TiggyD when you say I wish that cock hadn't come out my mouth you are not helping matters, are you?

You should have immediately spat it out over a poor person and got straight back into your sedan chair in disgust and kicked tiny tim whilst at it.

Weeeell, grape juice does not = nasties IMO

You could contact trading standards?
Also inform them that the Blue Cock was not what you had hoped for expected??

Tiggy

I really, really miss their yoghurt brownie pot

If Pret did do roast badger sarnies it would still be 1 part badger to 9 parts mayonnaise so would taste the same as most of the other ones anyway.

When I was on Jury Service I had Pret EVERY DAY. Yes, I was a posh city slicker for an entire fortnight. (Apart from one day when I had M&S but we don't talk about that). I was living the dream. I felt like I was Gordon Geko, it was brill. (Sighs)

YANBU and I wish I could write as entertainingly as you

As soon as you add the word fizzy? You should remove the word healthy. Does this mean fizzy water isn't a healthy drink? Or do we get around it by calling it 'sparkling'...?

Fizzy is the addition of CO2 to the drink,it wasn't naturally occurring its added in factory
Sparkling water,is naturally occuring the effervescence is the gases
Highland spring water,naturally effervescent.fizzy drinks have addition of CO2

But they do put on the can what's in the drink - it's up to the general public to read it. Personally, I like their drinks but you should have had the elderflower on instead.

To hell with labelling laws, I do think it's slightly dishonest that they suggest they are the holy grail of honesty and then shove grape juice in an orange drink and while move of us know that a orange juice drink will only contain a small amount of actual orange it's still dishonest. Grape juice is used instead of sugar, they add orange flavourings because after processing all orange juice tastes of nothing...it's pretty poor food too...but not the worst but not something I'd describe as healthy.

What about orange juice from concentrate. Water taken from juice so that it's down to concentrate, it's then transported closer to where it's going to be sold, water is added and hey presto, juice again - ick!

A colleague found a grape in his shepherds pie in a cafe.....

Dunno if it's more or less annoying when I ordered "haddock in white wine and dill sauce" in a hotel as it was the only non-meat option and it arrived with bacon in it :/

Haddocks are made of meat.