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I've said it before but the difference between the two channels in regards to presenting food is like comparing ice cream to dog ****. QVC bring in people from the food company who actually make the products so you know (or you're more likely to believe) you're getting artisan food that is often only produced once you order it.
The other night I caught Me Mam with Peter V talking about some overpriced food box that apparently neither had actually tasted any of the items until they were on air but everything was "amaaayzing". The company was called Winter Lodge and had 50 years experience, but the way they worded it they could have been talking about 20 workers with 2.5 years experience each. I certainly can't find them online. They didn't make the food, they just sourced it and boxed it with their name on. It sounds like it could be a side venture from IW themselves under a different name like Garden Bargains or the ill fated pet supply company they tried a few years ago (Animal Bargains?).
It didn't give me confidence in the product. It just looked like two grown men who couldn't believe their luck that they'd been given free food and were getting paid to eat it on television. Another one for the showreel Mr Volauvent.
I saw some of that and had a good laugh.
Their over the top reactions to every bit of food they tasted was hilarious. But at one point, was for the Serene box, Peter said along the lines of it's a Dutch company, a Scandinavian Country and we know how good their chocolate is. Thought, WTF when did the Netherlands become a Scandinavian Country.
Agree with the rest, QVC appear and behave like professionals, IW behave like a bunch of back street cowboys, like a bunch of Del Boys except Del Boy had a likable personality, IW on the other hand are the most unlikeable, annoying, irritating, loud mouthed amateurs on Selly Telly, when a channel tries to convince the viewers that people like Peter V, Alex Knowles, Emma Boydell, Shona Lindsay et al are all experts in the products they are selling then you know they are nothing but a bunch of con artists.