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PrettyFlyforaMaiTai · 2025-02-19T15:54:46+00:00

I noticed the old thread is almost full so thought we could start a new one to carry on the discussion about the rebrand and merching. Are you an ‘As Ever’ or ‘Whatever’? link to the old thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_royal_family/5277002-as-ever

Uricon2 · 22/02/2025 18:59

BasiliskStare · 22/02/2025 18:58

@Uricon2 I think they are stunt lemons

I truly hope so. The lemons annoy me, as you've probably gathered😂

Mylovelygreendress · 22/02/2025 19:02

NormaMajors1992coat · 22/02/2025 17:45

We will need a bingo card for the watch along - random and pointless appearance by Harry should definitely be on it, plus reference to "my husband", the hand framing face gesture, back view / partly obscured shot of a child, chickens, dogs, outfit change, mention of "my home state California" or "my neighbourhood", bare shoulders, jam, effusive hugging, not so subtle reference to being an amazing mother, crisp white shirt, throwing shade at the Waleses, what else?

I’m in !

BunnyLake · 22/02/2025 19:03

Uricon2 · 22/02/2025 18:37

Agreed, dripping honey on to the exterior of a croissant from a yard above puzzled me very greatly.

Maybe appropriate kitchenware in the form of a knife to cut said croissant is in limbo with the dog biscuits and jam.

ETA it was more pouring than dripping, really.

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Seems like it would be a sticky mess to me, so it’s probably her signature dish.

Mylovelygreendress · 22/02/2025 19:08

For you @Uricon2

IcedPurple · 22/02/2025 19:11

Uricon2 · 22/02/2025 18:37

Agreed, dripping honey on to the exterior of a croissant from a yard above puzzled me very greatly.

Maybe appropriate kitchenware in the form of a knife to cut said croissant is in limbo with the dog biscuits and jam.

ETA it was more pouring than dripping, really.

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Wouldn't the croissant be a sticky mess with all that honey on top? How would you hold it to eat?

And she was pouring the honey from quite a height. Even pourable honey comes out in gloops, not a neat line. I reckon that was photoshopped in.

Baital · 22/02/2025 19:12

At my suggestion I got a lemon tree for my birthday a few years ago. Sadly it has not yet produced any lemons, and is currently (currant-ley ?!) overwintering the shed yet again, with the leaves going yellow

MummyJ12 · 22/02/2025 19:13

Ironically, Harry could overshadow Meghan’s show by default. As a couple of days after the new launch date of With Love, Meghan, Harry’s immigration documents are to be made public. (3 out 4 of them and redacted).

Baital · 22/02/2025 19:14

My my!

Mylovelygreendress · 22/02/2025 19:16

IcedPurple · 22/02/2025 19:11

Wouldn't the croissant be a sticky mess with all that honey on top? How would you hold it to eat?

And she was pouring the honey from quite a height. Even pourable honey comes out in gloops, not a neat line. I reckon that was photoshopped in.

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But it was an elevated croissant!
Keep up.

IdaGlossop · 22/02/2025 19:17

Uricon2 · 22/02/2025 18:56

I think a programme about genuine short cuts, how to make things that are nice simply, easy meals everyone likes etc could in the right hands be good. Faffing around with tomatoes and spreading bagels with the infamous jam, not so much. It makes Pippa Middleton's widely mocked entertaining book look as if written by Mrs Beeton.

I think the problem is that she is going with a "concept" but not able to back it up with enough cooking ability.

PS that vase with the lemons continues to annoy me mightily, I still hope they weren't real and thus what my Nan would have called a "wicked waste of food"

She should have done her version of Come Dine With ME.

She could have had such fun monopolising the conversation, not letting any of her guests get a word in edgeways, commissioning chefs from the global majority to concoct vegan delights, and noisily showcasing her quiet luxury wardrobe.

smilesy · 22/02/2025 19:25

Mylovelygreendress · 22/02/2025 19:16

But it was an elevated croissant!
Keep up.

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As I have already said, I like butter and jam in a croissant but I think the idea of honey in or on a croissant is bleugh 🤢. Why is she even putting honey anywhere near it, let alone the fact that she has rendered it impossible to eat. Does she even know what a croissant is?

Uricon2 · 22/02/2025 19:26

I'd pay a lot- a lot-to see a "Gordon's Kitchen Nightmares" /"Love, Meghan" mashup, wherein the Michelin starred chef critiques the food skills of a certain Duchess.

NormaMajors1992coat · 22/02/2025 19:27

I feel like "as a mom" should be on the bingo card.

NormaMajors1992coat · 22/02/2025 19:28

And something about the morning rush to get them breakfasted and ready to go.

JSMill · 22/02/2025 19:28

Vespanest · 22/02/2025 18:44

If we play take a shot with the word love we'll be pissed before the first ad break

🤣🤣🤣

IdaGlossop · 22/02/2025 19:33

smilesy · 22/02/2025 19:25

As I have already said, I like butter and jam in a croissant but I think the idea of honey in or on a croissant is bleugh 🤢. Why is she even putting honey anywhere near it, let alone the fact that she has rendered it impossible to eat. Does she even know what a croissant is?

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I have seen it suggested that dripping honey has a sexual reference. She is missing her barbecue days, and thinking longingly of her (expert, of course) 'tending to' a man from the front seat of a car.

But honey and croissant is a bad combo.

MissRoseDurward · 22/02/2025 19:38

Wouldn't the croissant be a sticky mess with all that honey on top? How would you hold it to eat?

I like honey, but I rarely eat it and never in public, because I always end up a sticky mess!

wordler · 22/02/2025 19:41

This show could have worked without the cooking experience background if Meghan had had even a small reputation as being a regular hostess or party giver.

At every normal social occasion - family birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving etc they put out some sort of press statement about how they are celebrating quietly ‘as a family’.

They’ve never been known to host an occasion after they got married in the UK or in the last five years in the US.

So she has no formal cooking experience (like Jamie Oliver or Nigel Slater), no demonstrated expertise in food / restaurant industries (like Nigella), no demonstrated interest in cooking regularly and experimenting with recipes as an amateur (like Jennifer Garner) and no demonstrated interest or experience as a hostess of medium to large gatherings.

smilesy · 22/02/2025 19:50

IdaGlossop · 22/02/2025 19:33

I have seen it suggested that dripping honey has a sexual reference. She is missing her barbecue days, and thinking longingly of her (expert, of course) 'tending to' a man from the front seat of a car.

But honey and croissant is a bad combo.

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She can’t possibly be that juvenile that she has to put some sort of sexual reference in everything she does with cooking, surely? Couldn’t it just be that she really just doesn’t have a clue 🤷‍♀️

BorneoBop · 22/02/2025 19:51

NormaMajors1992coat · 22/02/2025 19:27

I feel like "as a mom" should be on the bingo card.

And 'their amazing' said in a wistful voice sat next to parents who have lost their child to suicide.

squishee · 22/02/2025 19:53

As Ever?
Was Never.

Said Riiver on YT.

RecoIIectionsMayVary · 22/02/2025 19:58

smilesy · 22/02/2025 19:50

She can’t possibly be that juvenile that she has to put some sort of sexual reference in everything she does with cooking, surely? Couldn’t it just be that she really just doesn’t have a clue 🤷‍♀️

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Carrots two ways? Apparently the roast chicken engagement spring to mind.

@Baital Mine just flowered indoors - I do have to live with quite a few plants in the winter, could you not squeeze it indoors?

smilesy · 22/02/2025 20:02

Carrots two ways? Apparently the roast chicken engagement spring to mind

Well yes. I was just hoping that she wasn’t carrying along in this vein with the honey. Otherwise she is clearly 12 🤪

RecoIIectionsMayVary · 22/02/2025 20:03

squishee · 22/02/2025 19:53

As Ever?
Was Never.

Said Riiver on YT.

So why the rebrand - wouldn't it have been better to just let ARO disappear?

It is just a case of any publicity?

IcedPurple · 22/02/2025 20:14

MissRoseDurward · 22/02/2025 19:38

Wouldn't the croissant be a sticky mess with all that honey on top? How would you hold it to eat?

I like honey, but I rarely eat it and never in public, because I always end up a sticky mess!

That's another reason I thought jam was a crap product with which to launch your brand. It's messy and unsightly to eat no matter how posh it is.

Remember that photo of Nacho tucking into a jam sandwich back in the ARO days of yore? All you could see was teeth and a messy looking sandwich. Not very elevated.