Dirt protest
Conor Pope
Somebody sent me some dirt in the mail today. Yay! While other people in this building are getting lovely presents – bottles of wine, amazon boxes and the like – delivered to their desks, I’m getting letters like this (and I’m quoting it in full):
“SURELY someone should take ALDI and the Irish producer to task for ADDING a heap of dirt to the potatoes before packing them.
It’s a real nuisance when using them in the kitchen and all of it ends up going down the sink and adding to the material in the drain pipes.
Quite simply it detracts from the quality of the product.”
Quite.
The anonymous letter writer has thoughtfully included a sample bag of Aldi potatoes, empty save for the offending dirt.
Happy Christmas.
12:24 pm
Um, potatoes in lots of small vegetable shops come with soil on them also. Presumably Aldi has “dirt” (does this person mean the soil that they grew in?) on the potatoes because washing them is an extra process that adds to the cost of potato production, and Aldi, being the discount retailer that it is want to pass on all savings to customers. If you don’t like “dirt” on the potatoes, go elsewhere!
Comment by Laura