Mum complains that alphabet letters won't spell sons name

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Really? Do we complain about everything now?

Is this really news?

That Brioche woman is staying with her sister for Christmas - I pity the sister having the sourpuss there for the best part of a month

I'm confused-I thought Alphabites were an unfeasibly expensive cereal by that Bear company who make squashed fruit products. Are they also a processed potato savoury product?

Are alphabites actually nice? Never allowed any as a child, just oven chips. Contemplating spelling out a few things to DP.

I will admit to emailing Marks and Spencer to complain about insufficient jam in their Jam Bakes. Ever such a nice lady mailed back with an e voucher to their value.

Wasn't it Europe causing all these problems?
Shocking that this still happens after the vote to leave! Everything should be perfect now

That woman deserves my first ever

Alphabites weren't invented when I was young (pre historic home freezer days) but we had alphabetti spaghetti. It would take hours to eat as me and dear siblings would be swapping letters to make the best possible words.

What a stupid woman, clearly she should have bought a bag of alpha bites and road tested the letters before choosing her child's name.

You could spell twat though so not all is lost...

It really annoys me that businesses actually take complaints like this at all seriously. They've actually apologised though at least no freebies!

I think I might have a winner here on the non-news front. It does however incorporate a couple of MN themes, in particular U and non-U and the use of anonymous notes to communicate with neighbours....

Festive Fury

Bogeyface, my dd's name is never on anything either. The 'ie' spelling of it is every where but not the 'y' spelling.

She's nearly 22 and is just about over it

I'm 41 and still not over it! I do have a very small selection of tat that I've bought just to prove my name is on some things!

Why didn't she just use the chicken nugget in place of an 'O' or ask him what the missing letter could be. Pointless article.

My name (Both the one I'm known by and my full name) were never on anything when I was a kid; 30-odd years on they are on most things so I buy anything I find with my name on! DS2 can never find his name ;)
I have to make sure I only do alphabites for DS2 when DS1 isn't about, as he spells swear words for DS2 when I'm not looking 😂

I think she should practise mindfulness.

Then buy paper, pencils... perhaps a book or two.

And some veg.

we had alphabetti spaghetti

Ibet that woman still wouldn't be abletospell her child's name.

She would probably claim that she had dyslexic spaghetti.

Clearly, she's mad and I'm about to prove I am as well but my first thought was. I bet that means they just randomly make letters, rather than making them in the proportions used in English, they should fix that. Imagine not having the right letters to put on your DP/DH plates :)

Does this make anyone else want to go out and buy some alphabites? I haven't bought them for years but I want to use them to 'swear' at my DP now

Mischa

I dare you to go to the Daily Wail and complain that you don't have the right Alphabet letters to spell "Fck, you, You twatting tw*t!"

Complain that there are no punctuation marks either.

*Alphabite, not alphabet - I want a new autocorrect for Christmas

Well if they are called alphabet bites they should have the whole alphabet in them. I agree with the lady who lodged the complaint. It's like having no faces on potato smilie faces - edible but that's not why you bought them. This particular complaint was from a woman who wanted to write her son's name for his birthday - imagine if it had come from the mum of a child Cancer patient who has to be convinced to eat by doing 'silly' things like putting his name on a plate or adding on a couple of smilies - would that hypothetical mum's complaint be more valid?

As a mother of children with a German surname I'm offended at the lack of umlauts. Although I suppose we could just use peas.

toomuch

Our surname has an apostrophe so DDs had to improvise that. Didn't seem to traumatise them.