To decide not to buy Heck sausages after "The Fixer" last night.

[higgle]

I presume the Keebles family who run this business thought that by being on The Fixer with the seriously lovely Alex Polizzi people would want to buy more of their stupidly named sausages. The whole programme made me decide never to try them. This hugely self entitled family lived the high life in a rented farmhouse, drove around in a Range Rover and felt they should enjoy a seriously large income from making sausages and selling them to Tesco and others. They employed their daughter who couldn't be bothered to get up in the mornings as head of marketing (aged 18) and their son who hadn't got a clue, and clearly demonstrated that selling to a school catering business was beneath him.

Their marketing philosophy seemed to involve making video clips of themselves doing twatish things like rolling down hills and giggling. They spent time deciding whether people were "Heck" or "not Heck" The whole thing was like Pedlars doing food.

So, please not I will not be contributing to support your Joules/Boden/Aga type rural idlyl with my sausage shopping money, I'll continue to buy from the nice "Black Farmer". IABU?

Utterly reasonable.

Apart from the useless daughter (grrrr) I got most annoyed at the parents thinking it was ok and normal to pay for the son's £4.5K per annum parking fines. Certainly wouldn't happen in my house!

(I don't eat sausages, but if I did, I'd be with you, OP)

Never heard of them.

All sausages are made out of testicles, gristle and shite anyway

I was shouting at the TV - and I also said I would never buy their sausages!

I didn't see the programme - love Alex though so I'll try and catch it.
From your description I wouldn't buy them either though, I bet she made her special 'you're a bunch of idiots' face didn't she

The sausages are lovely though (& gluten free)

YANBU!

Their children were seriously annoying - especially the stroppy son!

Did n't see it - they sound a total contrast to the micro brewers of last week & very irritating so doubt I'll catch up on iPlayer.

Are they like the twatty chocolate people ? The ones who import special beans form their own chocolate plantation they decamp too every year then make into a solid block of chocolate and try and push it for use in everything. Pleading poverty while living in a great house ferrying the kids to private school ?

Totally agree! But I am a pescaterian anyway..

The usess children and the wet parents living the life of riley. Grrrr!

Stupid, stupid people! It never occurred to them that they could save 170000 pounds per annum in seasoning, and more if the let go if the lazy/clueless children and their parking fines.

The pitching was DIRE. They just do not deserve success.

Even DH who is a massive meat water and not too fussy said no one would want the sausages after seeing the lack of food hygiene in their kitchen. The Dad was wiping his face with the dishcloth and pouring cream back in the pot that had been on the pork.

I found Alex Polizzi seriously irritating as well as the (useless) family. Why did she keep calling them darling, she sounded like Patsy out of Ab Fab.
Also, why did she send them into Booths to do their pitch unrehearsed, she only asked them in the car park who was even doing the pitch? Obviously it was a set up to make them look even stupider and she'd already done the deal with Booths.

The 18 year old needed her arse kicked and to be sent to college to get some qualifications and experience elsewhere.

I'm sorry to have missed that. What channel was it, please? I might find it somewhere else.

It was bbc, so probably on iplayer.

I'm veggie but have purchased them previously for DH, they seemed to have less crap in than some other brands. I'm a bit put off by the description of the hygiene in the kitchen though! I'll have to watch it on catch up. It does sound like they don't take the business seriously or have a solid work ethic.

Their packaging was dire and they wouldn't listen to the advice about how to market their sausages. Surprised that since they had failed previously they had the money (courtesy of bank loan/overdraft) to employ their whole family, live in style and drive posh car!

I agree with most of the comments above.
There was some mention of why their original business with the millions of turnover went down the tubes, but I didn't hear correctly, was it a murder?

I'd put up with a lot of wankiness for a good sausage. My belly is my top priority.

A murder 2bemused?? I missed that bit. That sounds lots more interesting. Just what is in their sausages?

I like ms polizzi but hate her 'daaaaahling' everyone.

Wow! I've never been on AIBU and had anyone agree with me, so I was right in thinking they were seriously ghastly.

What's the choc OldRaver?

< veggie, chocoholic here>

Yanbu

kept thinking it was a spoof where you meet tim-nice-but-dim's family (ie the son's)

Well they certainly didn't make me want to buy them. I loved the bit when the daughter was interviewed for her current position and at the end when she was cleaning the catering van, a much more fitting position imo.

Never see the sausages but don't buy anything is tesco as none near me. Sick with the black farmer ones when I buy them