Okay, so this morning I'm making a new product by the good people at Pillsbury. They're these delicious looking things called Flaky Twists with chocolate icing. Uh...yum. So, they're actually just the regular sized cinnamon roll in a different package & you, get this, UNroll the cinnamon ROLL and TWIST it into a...twist. Sexy, no? Anyway, on the directions for use, it states the following:
SEPARATE dough into 8 rounds; unroll into strips (some cinnamon may fall off). Really. Crap, I really wish I had read these directions fully. I took mine back to the store as being a defective product.
Me: "Good sir. I would like a return of my currency post haste. Your breakfast pastry product has malfunctioned."
Manger: "Oh, I'm terribly sorry to hear that sir. Allow me to make an exchange for you. May I ask what was the problem?"
Me: "The product that I purchased stated in print that the Flaky Twists were cinnamon. In the process of attempting to make this product, some of the aforementioned cinnamon did indeed fall from the "twists," thus rendering them less cinnamony than I believe is reasonable."
Manager: "Um...okay. I'm sorry to..."
Me: "Please return my currency equal to what I exchanged for the purchase of these "Flaky Twists."
Manager: "Yeah, I was just getting ready to...."
Me: "I will thank you to perform this post haste and bid you good day gentle sir."
Manager: "Sure, I'll get right on that, if I could just see your receipt, I'll get right to..."
Me: "I said GOOD DAY!"
So, after I received my money, I bought another package of the Flaky Twists, trusting that this would be a better experience. Perhaps the first came from a bad lot. Accidents happen. Screws fall out of machines, the electricity goes out, child laborers pass out from malnutrition or exhaustion. You know....needless to say this same scene repeated seven times before I noticed the tiny, tiny writing, "...some cinnamon may fall off." Oh. My. To quote half alien baby Maggie from the Simpson's Treehouse of Horror V (I think), "This is indeed a disturbing universe."
So, anyway with directions like that on a product that requires an oven to be 350 degrees, if you can't understand that in the process of twisting these flaky twists, YOU SHOULD BE NO WHERE NEAR AN OVEN. You should also probably be required to wear a crash helmet and never EVER have refined sugars.
Monday, January 19, 2009
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