Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Dupery.

I was duped.
At my supermarket they were displaying shelves of cookies in tins, the easily recognizable tins of royal blue or red with pictures of the delicious butter cookies, Danish butter cookies.
And with big lettering they announced
BUTTER COOKIES
and at a price that seemed quite reasonable.
So I bought one.
it turned out the price was not quite so attractive but worse, when I got home and tore the cello tape off to open the tin and taste the cookies, my favorite cookies, I was in for an even greater disappointment.
They were bad, no, they were very, very bad. Tasting stale and as if the makers had forgotten the main ingredient......butter.
So I put on my glasses and checked the tin carefully and, lo and behold, it never said DANISH butter cookies, in fact , in small, small print it said these cookies were made in Portugal.
If I were a Danish Cookie Maker, I would sue the pants off these folks in Portugal for absconding with and imitating the packaging of the famous butter cookies from Denmark.
I was duped by a look-alike product, and now I have to eat all these cookies.
Well, I could feed them to the dogs. They don't care if they are bad imitations.
They'll eat anything.

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