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[WitchHazel]

Had an Ocado delivery yesterday, which came with a catalogue from the children's toy retailed "Great Little Trading Company". Page 4, bottom left hand side.

 

It's also here online http://www.gltc.co.uk/pws/ProductDetails.ice?ProductID=10000002520 but the description is slightly different between the online version and the print version. Look at the second picture to see what made me chuckle and shudder.

 

If I wasn't a chicken keeper, I don't think I'd shudder. (Not vegetarian, in fact we do raise a number of our birds for the table each year, so I'm not quite sure why I'm shuddering at all!)

 

What about you - smile or shudder?

 

What else have you come across that does both to you?

[Reikiranf]

I think that's quite funny There seems to be a trend for toy food at the moment, even Ikea have a range. The thought of a small child carrying that around like a teddy & the looks they'd get, tickles me

 

 

Smile & shudder for me is 'The Inbetweeners' I'm not sure if I laugh because I'm uncomfortable & embarrassed or because it's funny My 17 year old DS finds it hilarious.

[Cinnamon]

I am with you on 'The Inbetweeners' - I think it is hysterical,but watch it through my fingers most of the time,& know that I shouldn't find it anywhere near as funny as I do.

Same with Dolly Parton - she is awfully tacky but I love her!

[craftyhunnypie]

Flowers & birds bring a smile to my face, frogs make me shudder big time.

Emma.x

[craftyhunnypie]

Oh sorry I didn't quite get the meaning of the thread. You meant smile & shudder at the same time. Der!

Emma.x

[WitchHazel]

Oh sorry I didn't quite get the meaning of the thread. You meant smile & shudder at the same time. Der!

Emma.x

tee hee

[Plum]

That chicken definately does

[Couperwife]

incy wincy spider

 

you know the spider gloves with the smily faces and googly eyes I dont like spiders (much) but I like cuddly toys - but these are so wrong, yet cute

[Calamity Jane]

Three chickens running after a frog !! And catching it

[WitchHazel]

Ooh yes, my girls and my cat hunting for a mouse together...and then fighting over it. Chook won.I

[patsylabrador]

Mine's chicken based too. It's when they're stretching a poor wormy victim. Gruesome but funny.

 

 

An Idiot Abroad, I can't bear to watch it while I'm still laughing at it.

[rachel19]

The X factor generally - you can't help but cringe whilst happily watching sometimes

[pips_pekins]

I love to see my chickens having fun but hate it when they find some poor frog

 

Also, there is an advert running on telly at the moment for gravy with real meat juices and it shows a toy cow jumping into a gravy jug and kind of melting?! The first time I saw it I thought the cow looked sweet and it made me smile until it became clear it was for gravy. I am veggie so perhaps I found it more shudder inducing than most

[Cinnamon]

Oh,that IS creepy,that gravy bull

So is the little bear thing that lives in the freezer on the Birds Eye adverts.

[Willow]

That toy chicken is a bit ick

 

I love the inbetweeners it is sooo funny but sooo gross too. My teen is happy to watch it with me but not his dad

 

I've not seen the ads so can't comment but they do sound a bit ick as well. I don't have a problem linking animals to the food we eat, I think it's healthy to understand that connection but don't trivialise it

[WitchHazel]

Also, there is an advert running on telly at the moment for gravy with real meat juices and it shows a toy cow jumping into a gravy jug and kind of melting?! The first time I saw it I thought the cow looked sweet and it made me smile until it became clear it was for gravy.

 

Ooh, you've reminded me of an advet that was on when I was a teenager (a loooooong time ago), It was for Paxo stuffing, and there was a happy looking cockerel advertising "paxo the Rooster Booster" (with accompanying jingle), My dad and I both agreed that it didn't seem right somehow. However, I still find myself humming the tune on the odd occasion that I buy Paxo.

[pips_pekins]

... the little bear thing that lives in the freezer on the Birds Eye adverts.

Oh yes, I find the bear creepy too. I think its the voice

[WitchHazel]

THat whole Fenton and the deer thing.

 

I was horrified when I saw the deer being chased (and if they had been sheep, of course, Fenton would have been shot), But it did make me chuckle...and I knew it shouldn't.

[chickencam]

Are we not all taught not to play with our food

 

I am really not sure about cuddly food

 

I am glad that I am not the only one who hates the gravy cow, he is wrong on all levels