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[Guest]

Anyone seen the new BM TV ad for 100% BRITISH chicken breast nuggets? BM staff set up a marquee and are handing out chicken nuggets to happy families.

 

Then, at the end of the ad there's a picture of the product in its box. The box has a photo of a field on it and a big green tick!!!!!!

 

The company reckon that this 'rebranding' will restore consumer confidence in their products!!!

 

Why are these companies allowed to put fields and grass on their boxes when the poor turkeys will have never seen daylight, never mind grass!!!!!!

[clootie]

Don't get me started on Mr Matthews Poet !

[Janty]

My F-I-L was attempting to feed six of his grandchildren in one go not so long ago.He went to the freezer and pulled out a bag of Bernard Mattews chicken nuggets and some chips. My little one then proceeded to tell the others just wat was in chicken nuggets and that his parents don't even buy BM products because they were so awful and that the chickens had been soaked in their own poo and wee! In the mean time F-I-L was getting more irate by the minute. He was trying to shut my son up without success and he said that my lad could have something different. Then the others asked why they had to eat it when my son didn't (he had been quite graphic in the detail). F-I-L gave up at this point and left M-I-L to sort the mess out.

 

[clootie]

Well done Janty Junior !!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

That's just .

 

That McDonald's ad also makes my blood boil. We all shout at the telly when that comes on .

[Blackrocksrock]

I was also horrified at it too - they are awful

[Reikiranf]

I hate BM & hoped he'd got his comeuppance with the bird flu incident but no! Instead he got hundreds of thousands of pounds compensation for something which I believe his own bad practice brought about

 

As for McDonalds where they sing that "Ba da da, ba ba, I'm loving it" in our house we sing "Ba da da, ba ba, we feed you rubbish

 

*edited for foul language*

[Tessa the Duchess]

 

As for McDonalds where they sing that "Ba da da, ba ba, I'm loving it" in our house we sing "Ba da da, ba ba, we feed you rubbish [/color]

 

 

I agree the BM ad is a disgrace. Isn't there some government organisation which looks into ads which are dishonest etc., anybody know what they are called? Maybe we could all e.mail them and say how misleading the BM ad is.

 

Tessa

[Cinnamon]

 

As for McDonalds where they sing that "Ba da da, ba ba, I'm loving it" in our house we sing "Ba da da, ba ba, we feed you rubbish [/color]

 

 

I agree the BM ad is a disgrace. Isn't there some government organisation which looks into ads which are dishonest etc., anybody know what they are called? Maybe we could all e.mail them and say how misleading the BM ad is.

 

Tessa

[abwsco]

I agree the BM ad is a disgrace. Isn't there some government organisation which looks into ads which are dishonest etc., anybody know what they are called? Maybe we could all e.mail them and say how misleading the BM ad is.

 

Tessa

 

Would it be the advertising standards agency.

[chelsea]

BM are awful products. Even when I ate meat 18 years ago their chicken drummers were horrible.

 

I will never forget the mis treatment of turkeys by staff in that video footage a while back...

[Valkyrie]

Trade Descriptions Act? Methinks BM is definitely a whapping great fibber - how can he break so many laws and get away with it - that compensation is a disgrace.

 

Great story Janty!

[Reikiranf]

Edited for foul language? I put asterisks in it I didn't write the word! Trade descriptions should be doing something about companies with no morals jumping on the bandwagon. I suppose I'll have to look at the products to see if they really are 100% chicken breast as opposed to the usual chopped up bits glued back together Not that I would ever buy them them but we do need to see whether BM's appearing to clean up his act in what I hope is a last ditch attempt to save his appalling business.

 

But perhaps we should all be more aware of what we buy and read the labels a bit more carefully, whilst looking at the sugar levels in cereals I found that one cereal contained beef gelatine When I told this to a vegetarian friend she was shocked as she said you wouldn't ever expect a cereal to be unsuitable for vegetarians and then she checked her daughters "no nasty additive" jelly sweets and was horrified to discover that they also contained beef gelatine.

 

I suppose that it serves as a lesson to us all to study packaging and vote with our money by not buying products from such companies.

[Valkyrie]

Watch out for some varieties of sprinkles that you put on cakes etc. I only glanced at the ingredients to see what the additives were and saw gelatine on the list - which surprised me because I thought they were made of sugar mainly.

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

It is indeed the ASA you can complain to, but beware they are very strict in terms of criteria they acknowledge as a rightful complaint.

 

I complained about the Denise Van Outen parachute jump ad promoting how British Morrison's are with all of their British good and local apples. It's general rot, because they sell about 15 varieties of apples with only one being British and the rest being from South America, Asia and South Africa, but they wouldn't do anything about the complaint because Morrison's weren't lying in saying they did local British apples because they DID offer a token one line of British apples. Clever wording can let you get away with loads as a company.

 

Here's the ASA website:

 

http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/

 

and their how to complain form:

 

http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_complain/

 

LOVE the story Janty!

 

Anna x