£29 for pork scratchings !

[shopperholic]

I was just wondering if they were talking about Simon dairylea... :mysmilie_17:

Ah yes, Simon "lots in store" Dairylee, could be.........oh yuk! I don't know which is worse. :mysmilie_17:

 

[Vienna]

I kid you not when I say this but when we were kids and losing our milk teeth around the age of 7 or 8, perhaps had a wobbly one which was hurting but we wouldn`t let Mum just pull it out, she`d give us either a big chewy caramel sweet or a bag of pork scratchings and by the time we`d had a few seconds chewing or crunching, the offending tooth would be out.
In fact I did exactly the same with my youngest grand daughter ( cruel Nan ) when she had a wobbly tooth. I gave her a couple of pieces of Thorntons toffee.
Consequently I`d not only add the price of the p and p onto this item but I`d also add on the cost of a replaced filling or crown and therefore nowadays I wouldn`t touch pork scratchings with a bargepole let alone my teeth.

 

[historymystery]

Nothing to do with Simon "Hairy chest, top shirt button permanently undone" Biagi, I trust? :mysmilie_17:

According to the first review on the Q website they were hairy!!!! uke:

 

[historymystery]

shopperholic, you are awful......but I like you!:mysmilie_59::mysmilie_15::mysmilie_19:

Erm.........are we still talking about Pork Scratchings. :mysmilie_17:

 

[shopperholic]

shopperholic, you are awful......but I like you!:mysmilie_59::mysmilie_15::mysmilie_19:

:mysmilie_15:

 

[ERICS MUM]

not a very nice product for any Muslim QVC watchers to witness.

 

[shopperholic]

not a very nice product for any Muslim QVC watchers to witness.

I suppose it's a case of were do you draw the line, the "Real" Pie company sell sausage rolls and pies with ham in, and just yesterday I happened to see the body of dead animals slapped on the table being carved, then being told they're at this minute in the field waiting to be slaughtered. which isn't nice for vegetarians to witness, so I suppose they'll have to do what everyone else does and turn over.

 

[maymorganlondon]

not a very nice product for any Muslim QVC watchers to witness.

You could equally say it's not a very nice product for any Jewish QVC watchers to witness, for the same reasons.

By contrast there are those who are offended by the method of killing animals for meat which is similar under both Halal and Kosher rules. I won't go into it here, but you can do a search in any of the internet search engines.

You could say that meat-based products in general are not very nice for Vegan and Vegetarian QVC watchers to witness, regardless of how the animals are killed.

There are always things in food, beauty, fashion, home furnishing, or other departments, which QVC and other retailers sell which are bound to offend or upset some of their potential customers... and I'm not talking about the sheer ugliness and bad taste of the style of the items.

The decision then is for the customer to decide if they want to shop for the non-offensive (to them) things the retailer sells, or not shop at all on the basis that some products are offensive to them.

It concerns me that we will all end up with our shopping choices drastically curtailed and homogenised into the dullest, narrowest range for fear that someone somewhere will be offended.

By all means provide people with the information to make informed choices, and then let the make their choice. Personally it would offend me more if the choices are taken away from me before I even know what's on offer. It is definitely possible to become too "PC" about things in life.