AIBU to ask whether you’re Team Colin or Team Cuthbert?

[Kimchidreams]

Yes I know it’s a trivial question but the lawsuit’s ridiculous and I’m bored. Other supermarkets have their own version of Colin, so why are M&S targeting Aldi? Also loving Aldi’s hilarious Twitter feed. So AIBU M&S are right or YANBU Aldi all the way.

Also - having read about the case (possibly too much) it’s to do with people not being aware of the “origin” of the cake. So they could walk into Aldi and purchase their cake and believe they have been to M&S and purchased their cake.
Which is frankly, stupid. I’ve never once walked into Aldi and mistaken it for M&S or vice versa.

@chilling19

Hopefully pic posted

Morris has a haunted, empty look about him. I wonder what’s gone on in his past? Is there a backstory on the box?

Cuthbert, quite frankly, looks insane. Reminds me of Dr Strangelove. I wouldn’t have him in the house.

I've never eaten a ' Coin' but even I'm aware of its origins! I preferred the soft icing m and s cakes they did anyway.

Well, I mentioned just the face and it wasn't even in a defence of Aldi. Just an observation.
They are the same face, different eyes.

@SchrodingersImmigrant Incorrect again. It’s an entirely different shape of face - look at the photo you posted. M&S’s isn’t round.

@emilyfrost

Well, I mentioned just the face and it wasn't even in a defence of Aldi. Just an observation. They are the same face, different eyes.

@SchrodingersImmigrant Incorrect again. It’s an entirely different shape of face - look at the photo you posted. M&S’s isn’t round.

I wasn't comparing M&s

Aaaaah. I see where it's gone wrong😂 sorry @emilyfrost

"Waitrose and Sainsbury use same face as each other just different eyes" That's what it was supposed to say. Sorry. I need to stop thinking people see into my brain😂

Btw is it just me or is Asda's one same face base like coop just different colour?

I don't know how much development goes into creating each product, but however much or little, it was M&S who did that work. And they've marketed it successfully enough that the colin cake is associated with their brand and competitors want to copy it. I think it's a piss take to copy something so closely and basically sponge ( [ grin] ) off someone else's work. We don't support people making knock off designer handbags even though we are okay with rivals making similar versions. Similar is fine so long as they aren't pretending to be the real thing I think.

@SchrodingersImmigrant

Aaaaah. I see where it's gone wrong😂 sorry *@emilyfrost*

"Waitrose and Sainsbury use same face as each other just different eyes" That's what it was supposed to say. Sorry. I need to stop thinking people see into my brain😂

Oh ha ha I see

"Similar is fine so long as they aren't pretending to be the real thing I think."

How is it pretending to be the "real thing" though when it's in an Aldi box?

As long as the purchaser knows that they are buying an Aldi Cuthbert?

Colin all the way.

Colin for me.

@diddl

"Similar is fine so long as they aren't pretending to be the real thing I think."

How is it pretending to be the "real thing" though when it's in an Aldi box?

As long as the purchaser knows that they are buying an Aldi Cuthbert?

But the person eating it doesn’t necessarily know that they’re eating an Aldi product - if you see an unboxed cake that looks like that you’re likely to think that it’s M&S because they’ve promoted the product heavily over the last couple of years.

It’s in the nature of celebration cakes that they’ll be bought by one person and then shared around lots of others.

diddl on a party buffet table though you won’t see a box. You have a piece and think gosh Colin’s gone downhill I won’t buy one for DC’s birthday next week not realising party host served pretend Aldi Caterpillar.
Booths (posh northern supermarket chain) used to do one too think he was called Cedric.

if you see an unboxed cake that looks like that you’re likely to think that it’s M&S because they’ve promoted the product heavily over the last couple of years.

In all fairness I doubt many would have been able to pick the m&s one out of a line up.

Most of those who know m&s sell a caterpillar cake called Colin wouldn't know what his face, feet or toppings looked like, they just know it's a chocolate flavoured caterpillar shaped swiss roll cake.

Am I the only one that's never tried either?

I've never eaten any of them.
I'm not much of a cake eater though ( just give me crisps!)

I suspect this is a shot over the bows to Aldi from M&S to stop doing close copies of a range of products. They’ve chosen Colin because it’s well-known, and more newsworthy than the packaging on pork and leek sausages

if you see an unboxed cake that looks like that you’re likely to think that it’s M&S because they’ve promoted the product heavily over the last couple of years.

You'd think M&S would be concerned about the Waitrose cake more as they are a more similar competitor than Aldi

You'd think M&S would be concerned about the Waitrose cake more as they are a more similar competitor than Aldi

@ForThePurposeOfTheTape They’re not concerned about Waitrose because their caterpillar cake doesn’t look exactly the same 🙄

When I heard this I thought of another 'Colin', the Middlesbrough football manager (it's an anagram of Neil Warnock, I will leave you to work it out!).

Ludicrous court case given how little they must make of their turnover on such cakes.

Team Colin!

Would Cuthbert even exist if M&S didn't create Colin all those years ago?

And if it wasn't all about impersonating an already very successful product, they could have chosen literally any other animal, or as PP said, their silly little carrot character.

Would Cuthbert even exist if M&S didn't create Colin all those years ago?

Yes of course he probably would. M&s didn't invent the chocolate Swiss roll caterpillar cake.

I'll go for whichever is cheapest! Once you've chopped the caterpillar head off they all look the same! 🤣🤣

I have twins, I buy two Colin's cut the head off one and the tail off the other and have cut and shut Colin