29 July 2008 - Posts

Absolutely crackers

Honestly, this place just gets weirder...

It all started last night when I picked up the phone and someone asked if they could place an order.

Ah, excellent - a reader calling up about our excellent new subscriptions offer (a tantalisingly good deal of buy six issues, get six free, by the way).

Imagine my surprise then when the lady on the phone said she would like some Peking duck, egg fried rice and sweet and sour prawn balls...

Er, pardon?

When a chap then phoned up this morning and asked if we did deliveries, it became clear something was amiss. 

Upon further investigation, it transpires that our number has been included on a website called, of all things, www.prawncrackers.co.uk (crackers being the operative word as they clearly can't tell the difference between a magazine and a Chinese restaurant).

The worry is that if it's like this now, what's it going to be like on Friday night?

Anyway, I'm sure that we can forget about the whole sorry incident when they deliver us our complimentary Chinese takeaway ... right Prawn Crackers? 

posted by Caroline Harrap with 2 Comments