It's Mumsnet/George Foreman story time! Add a line and you could win a grill worth £70: bring them home time....NOW CLOSED

[AnnMumsnet]

The folks at George Foreman have been inspired by the hilarious post-a-line-at-a-time storytelling threads started by MNers in the past (like this one), so to help promote their fab new comp on their pages on MN (where you could win a family holiday to Lanzarote), they're challenging you lot to get your creative juices flowing and come up with some novel posts.

You'll see, below, that the George Foreman team have started a story and now they're inviting you to add to it. Anyone who does (and who sticks to the 'broad rules') will be in with the chance of winning a 10 portion Grill & Griddle from George Foreman, RRP £69.99

Broad rules:

1 One line/ sentence per post (you can post more than once, but don't get too carried away)

2 You don't have to mention George Foreman grills but can shoehorn in if you want - feel free to cunningly and by stealth include references to the great qualities of the grills (namely fat reducing, healthy eating, quick cooking, versatility, speed of cooking etc )

3 Try to keep it (at least) vaguely clean - this is a family product after all .

4 Everyone who adds a comment will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a 10 portion grill & griddle from George Foreman worth £69.99.

5 Draw will take place on Monday 5th August.


So, the story starts with a scenario many of us might recognise....

The Watson Family Holiday....

As the packed car trundled slowly down the ferry ramp into Calais, Susan briefly felt the relaxation of being on holiday.

Already this morning, Jude and Eleanor had been squeezed into the back seats with a selection of toys, treats and promises of fun to come. Susan had thought ahead and grilled some chicken strips on her George Foreman and created some chicken and salad wraps for for a healthy lunch on the road. Buster the cat had been transported into the care of their helpful neighbour Alf.

Now the sat nav was being tuned to France - and as she selected their destination Susan hooked it up so Dan could see the next instruction. Their heavily-loaded people carrier rolled off into the ferry terminal, and Susan said......

[TooManyWakesInTheNight]

laughed Dan, pointing at the neighbour's sorry excuse for a grill, while pointedly wiping down the George Forman's easy-wipe grill...

[TooManyWakesInTheNight]

"It's FOREman" Susan huffed, whilst contemplating starting up an AIBU about bad spelling, before realising her deliberate mistake...

[down2earthwithabump]

Susan was turning into a lean mean error-reducing spelling machine, when she was distracted by a huge rumble in the jungle, well a rumble from somewhere at least. The noise was ear-splitting...

[mignonette]

Unfortunately Buster the cat had eaten so many delectable pieces of pure perfectly grilled meats from the George Foreman grill that he had grown into the most enormous domestic cat anybody had ever seen and was now six foot of pure alpha predator.

[JParkson]

Alf gulped, and wondered whether such a gleaming specimen would fit through the cat-flap Dan had insisted on fitting...

[HRHwheezing]

"I wonder whether one can grill my lovely brioche" Said Samantha brique

[JParkson]

Jude and Eleanor spotted Buster, and in typical childish fashion, gleefully joked that they should be grilling Buster to reduce his waistline a bit...

[loopylou6]

Susan wondered if she should maybe start giving Buster's whiskers cast food a quick blast under the forman to rid it off unnecessary fats. After all Busters size was worrying.

[mignonette]

Horrendously, an English tourist misunderstood what Samantha brique had said earlier- ("I wonder whether one can grill my lovely brioche" Said Samantha brique) and was now desperately trying to cook 'Chicken-in-a-Brick/Samantha Brique) to the horror of all around, especially Susan who knew the Habitat chicken brick was no match for the succulence of a Foreman chicken fillet.

[mignonette]

And the look on Samantha Bricks face as she was turned into a living chicken in a brick was no longer beautiful...

[loopylou6]

not that she ever was beautiful...

[gazzalw]

Susan turned it over and exclaimed "It says made in the Philippines on the bottom!"

'That's right,' said Dan, nonchalently, 'Its the Griller from Manila'

[gazzalw]

'Dad!' sighed Eleanor 'That was Joe Brazier. If you wanted to be funny you should have said 'George Foreman took his orchard produce to the Congo and made 'the Crumble in the Jungle''.

[xalyssx]

She sighed again disappointedly, then she decided to order a tonne of George Foreman grills on her smartphone to share with the other people at the campsite. Unfortunately everyone else on Mumsnet had cleared the stock out completely, and there was a pre order list of over 9000.

[HorseyGirl1]

...baps which needed to be toasted for the campsite barbeque - it was a big job which only George could do

[gazzalw]

'How do you like your baps Dan? White and floury or brown?'

[mummy81]

Dan replied "I'm easy. I'll have anything".

[ForgetfulNameChanger]

"Did you call?" Cooed Samantha Brick reappearing as if by some wicked magic.

[Crazybit]

Elanor snaps back at Jude 'Well it's better than being named after the little brother on Peppa Pig!'. They both give a sideways glance to the Foreman..

[ApplesinmyPocket]

"Talking of Pig," Susan seguéd, "Would anyone fancy a lightly peppa'd pork chop - grilled to sizzling perfection on the George?"

[sealight123]

'What are you doing?!' Susan yelped, 'Don't you know that toys can come to life? Were you not paying attention to Toy Story at all?'

[sealight123]

Ignore my last comment...Like a div I was still looking at the first page of the thread lol

[sealight123]

Eleanor wimpers 'We can't eat George! I take it all back...I love Peppa Pig really...and Babe..don't forget babe!'

[MadameDefarge]

Suddenly Susan remembered her guarantee..and was shocked but happy to see eleanor suddenly stagger out of the poste clutching a brand new grill, but her happiness was shortlived as Eleonor revealed she had seen a real horse steak: the sight has made her turn vegetarian, it wasn't even decently hidden in a value lasagne - what to feed the pesky brat, thank god veggies tasted fab grilled on Gorgeous George's grill thingy...