So I wrote to Tayto...

Mossy Monk · 29-11-2006 09:39PM

Healio wrote:

looololollololoololollo

Am i the only one who got that???

no

Kingsize · 29-11-2006 09:55PM

murfie wrote:

ugh, all this talk of Tayto and cadburys chocolate!! i am dying for both, damn american brands are not the same!

i used to go to school near the tayto & cadburys factories when i was a kid..
Imagine the sweet smell of chocolate being made mixed with the warm scent of fresh crisps.......

jesus

No wonder im a fat BStard

29-11-2006 10:19PM

Was there a rumour on the street that they are planning a special photo op with the OP as the star in a commercial on customer satisfaction? Could it be possible that Tayto may have plans to deliver a whole truckload of product to his door with the cams running? Picture the CEO of Tayto kneeling before his feet pleading for forgiveness for the broken wrapper, and his mouth stuffed with their product smiling at the millions of viewers on commercial break? Can fantasies such as this come true? Ask the next person that buys a lottery ticket for their opinion.

Kintarō Hattori · 29-11-2006 10:29PM

Many years ago I bought a pack of chicatee's and there was a completely back one in the packet. It wasn't that it was burnt, it was made of something else. So as I was a young lad I enlisted the help of my mother and we wrote to the company asking what it was.m We didn't ask for anything nor did we want anything from them but a few weeks later a delivery driver dropped off several boxes of various crisps!!

Turns out the black thing was flavouring.

kaisersose77 · 29-11-2006 10:32PM

anyone remember farmer browns crisps? dunnes used to have them yrs and yrs ago. I sent back a packet like the op and a few weeks later the courier who delivered them to dunnes called to our house and gave us a massive box full of 6 packs. The box must have being the size of a washing machine. Better than the tayto cheque thats for sure!

Elessar · 29-11-2006 10:40PM

I once almost ate a Cadburys chocolate that had a dead moth underneath it. Yes, the moths wings actually went in my mouth. I told my mother and she actually walked into Cadburys a few days later and showed them the moth-chocolate and they gave her the biggest milk tray box they had. I thought we should have gotten a few more...

L31mr0d · 29-11-2006 11:01PM

murfie wrote:

ugh, all this talk of Tayto and cadburys chocolate!! i am dying for both, damn american brands are not the same!

Pretty sure you can buy them on ebay... pretty sure you could probably find the OP empty packet of Tayto on ebay also.

We have a friend across the road that lives on things like this, when I used to work in Superquinn years ago you would see her going around the store reaching to the back of the dairy shelves trying to find anything out of date, so she could go up to the counter, buy it, then bring it back and get another one free. She became so well known that the managers would put people on alert when she entered the store.

I always remember the day a comerfords cakes van pulled up outside her house and proceeded to wheel about 40 cakes into her hallway, she had complained about something and got a huge payout. She gave us about 5 of them as she didn't really like cakes...

If you've got the gaul, you'll more than likely get away with it. One happy customer with a 6 free bags of Tayto is worth more to them then one gisgruntled customer telling all there friends to steer clear of tayto and try walkers instead.

abetarrush · 29-11-2006 11:09PM

i got some dodgy Haribo in tesco which were "poorly handled" so they send me about 20 euro of free sweets

w00t

Caco · 29-11-2006 11:39PM

Just My View wrote:

I had a split condom once.
I posted the baby to Durex and they sent me a free 3 Pack and a very trendy children's allowance book cover.
There's service you don't see every day.

Lol!

I found a strip of corrugated cardboard in a fish finger once when I was a kid. My mam sent it back to Birdseye and we heard no more about it!

nlgbbbblth · 30-11-2006 12:33AM

petes wrote:

Theres always one.

I'd say it's a lot more than 'one' person that writes to companies regarding defective or substandard products.

passive · 30-11-2006 12:38AM

The vending machine in college didn't give me the can i paid for...so i called the people and they sent me 80 cent. exactly. sellotaped to a polite letter.

Another time i used 2 toy daggers and some sellotape to retrieve two bottles of 7up that were stuck at the bottom of the machine....

Me: 3, Rest of world: 0

emeraldstar · 30-11-2006 01:17AM

OP, i think it would've been a lot better if you'd sent some of the actual crisps....

i love when i get a defective Cadbury's product. Three free 100g bars: 2 Dairy Milk and 1 Golden Crisp

My aunt sent something back to them once and got two 100g gram bars AND a box of Milk Tray

Found a wire in a Superquinn sausage once :eek: ....we got a £50 voucher for the shop.

Zhane · 30-11-2006 01:19AM

What gets me is that he ate the crisps knowing they were defective.

JohnCleary · 30-11-2006 01:26AM

Zhane wrote:

What gets me is that he ate the crisps knowing they were defective.

I'm a student, a hungry student. Quiet, richboy

Rabies · 30-11-2006 01:29AM

JohnCleary wrote:

Anyway, I ate the crisps, but then a few of the lads in the class said I sould write to Tayto for the craic. So I did, and included the defective pack. Couldn't include the crisps because they wer ein my belly.

You still ate them? Christ time must be bad if you needed to share a pack of stale crisps.

Do you sit on O' Connell street much with a McDonalds cup? If not you should try it. Might be able to buy a happy meal.

Ruu_Old · 30-11-2006 01:31AM

murfie wrote:

ugh, all this talk of Tayto and cadburys chocolate!! i am dying for both, damn american brands are not the same!

Too right, Americans must not like their cheese 'n onion crisps a'tall. Boxes regularly shipped over from teh mammeh for me.

JohnCleary · 30-11-2006 01:31AM

Rabies wrote:

You still ate them? Christ time must be bad if you needed to share a pack of stale crisps.

Do you sit on O' Connell street much with a McDonalds cup? If not you should try it. Might be able to buy a happy meal.

I don't associate with anything to do with Dublin, including the county!

Rabies · 30-11-2006 01:36AM

JohnCleary wrote:

I don't associate with anything to do with Dublin, including the county!

Where did you buy/find this pack of stale crisps?

Ruu, I'm the same over here. No Tayto and the Cadburys doesn't taste the same. Must get the mother to send some over.

Fanny Cradock · 30-11-2006 01:37AM

According to some Boffin: if you were to eat a packet of crisps every day for a year it would amount to consuming approximately 5 litres of cooking oil.

JohnCleary · 30-11-2006 01:40AM

Rabies wrote:

Where did you buy/find this pack of stale crisps?

Ruu, I'm the same over here. No Tayto and the Cadburys doesn't taste the same. Must get the mother to send some over.

Sligo

Rabies · 30-11-2006 01:42AM

I can see why the stale packs are sent there

JohnCleary · 30-11-2006 01:46AM

Rabies wrote:

I can see why the stale packs are sent there

It wasn't a stale pack, foo'

monkeyfudge · 30-11-2006 01:59AM

Just My View wrote:

I had a split condom once.
I posted the baby to Durex and they sent me a free 3 Pack and a very trendy children's allowance book cover.
There's service you don't see every day.

ewww... Did it split while being used and you sent it back covered in your spooge?

I got a dodgey can of Pepsi as a kid. There was no coating on the inside of the can and it took about a week to get the taste of aluminum out of my mouth. They gave me a free tray of Pepsi for my troubles... but I was kind of put off pepsi for a long time.

Rabies · 30-11-2006 02:07AM

JohnCleary wrote:

It wasn't a stale pack, foo'

You said the crisps were soft, or is that a new thing with Tayto.

connundrum · 30-11-2006 11:11AM

I once bought a 1L carton of Fruice Apple Juice, and opened it and took a swig out of it (no glass for me ladies

). So I felt something in my mouth and it turned out to be something that resembled a slimey, mashed up one of these.

I immediately vommed a bit, and then put the bottle aside and kept the evidence. I rang the helpline (Coca Cola Bottlers) and they said they'd send out someone to collect the specimen and carton. So the woman called round, bringing 6 new 1L cartons of Apple Juice with her. I told her that I wouldn't accept them as compensation (I really haven't touched Fruice products since), and I thought by doing so that I'd be offered more compo... how wrong was I??

I rang a couple of weeks later and they said they'd tested it and found that what I thought was a dead worm, was actually unprocessed apple core. Bollocks.

mickith · 30-11-2006 11:21AM

i remember my sis found a little hair in a cadburys bar. she sent it off to the factory with a nice letter saying how distrought she was. a few weeks later she received a big box full of cadburys bars. dont think i bothered sendin it back, probably just would have eat it!

TerrorFirmer · 30-11-2006 11:23AM

I remember reading a story about a woman who found the majority of a mouses head in a large bar of cadburys, and a boy who found a giant decaying beetle or cockroach in his biscuit bar.

Suddenly, stale crisps don't seem quite so bad.

Gary ITR · 30-11-2006 11:46AM

I was a rep for cuisine de france and was asked to collect a 'sample' from a lady who claimed to have found a piece of wood in her scone. So i drive to her house, took me two hours to get there and when I get there she shows me the sample... the scone had been cut in half and buttered and ON TOP OF THE BUTTER there was the stalk from an apple. I don't know how i didn't kill her

30-11-2006 11:59AM

Kingsize wrote:

i used to go to school near the tayto & cadburys factories when i was a kid..
Imagine the sweet smell of chocolate being made mixed with the warm scent of fresh crisps.......

jesus

No wonder im a fat BStard

Yeah tayto is closed now and cabury's is still there thriving
I grew up around there too
weirdly enough I don't like chocolate
wonder if it's anything to do with the fact it's the only thing I could smell as a kid

Pighead · 30-11-2006 12:04PM

coolsmileygirl wrote:

weirdly enough I don't like chocolate
wonder if it's anything to do with the fact it's the only thing I could smell as a kid

Doubt it, Pighead grew up with the waft of Harp Lager flying up his nostrils on a daily basis. Did it put me off? Did it fcuk, i'm drinking gallons of the stuff every day.

So I wrote to Tayto...

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