Kittylicious

Oven fresh cookies

Wednesday, January 4, 2012 5:52:05 AM

Cookies, cookies, cookies. One can never get too many cookies.

We bought some new cookies in an Indian shop. They looked pretty interesting and I'm always willing to try out new sorts of cookies.

I was intrigued about the signs on the front of the package saying "100 % oven fresh" though:

How can they be oven fresh when they're actually in a sealed package. And for how long can a shop claim that they're fresh?

I turned the package around and looked:

Apparently for an entire year!!!

Another New YearBlondes. Do they really have more fun?

Comments

Mad Scientistqlue # Wednesday, January 4, 2012 6:07:56 AM

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I guess it all depends on what the mystical phrase 'oven fresh' really means in marketing land!

DHdarkesthour # Wednesday, January 4, 2012 7:46:29 AM

The chemicals in them clean your oven

FlaRin # Wednesday, January 4, 2012 8:29:55 AM

It was great finding that shop - Patak's curry pastes again :YAY: and fresh curry leaves :YAY: and all the spices that I want for real curries

The cookies are a little odd - can't quite put my finger on why...perhaps they're flavoured with a spice I don't recognise...

Quite nice though

Dark FurieFurie # Wednesday, January 4, 2012 11:44:01 AM

Easy enough. You patent the packaging after making a slight change to regular packaging and call your new invention an Oven. Then the cookies will always be fresh from an oven when you unpack them.

Aren't you guys glad I don't use my mind for evil and work in marketing?

Freya RedFreya # Thursday, January 5, 2012 1:26:22 AM

I don`t know about Danish law, but from my vast knowledge of consumer law ( GCSE Business Studies),

it could be seen as misleading : "not as described"
Sainsburys our local supermarket has a bakery and produces bread,cakes and biscuits everyday. I would say these were `oven fresh` and if you time it right, they are literally out of the oven. As you know there is vast difference between a packet of biscuits, etc and those freshly baked

KittyliciousZaphira # Thursday, January 5, 2012 6:12:57 AM

@ Aadil ~ That's exactly the point, I think, and the phrase that puzzled me in the first place.

@ DH ~ Or perhaps they even clean the inside of me!

@ Flarin ~ They weren't my favourite cookies either, I think their taste was too subtle.

@ Mik ~ So, "oven" is now a registered trademark, eh?

I wonder what they'll call the things we call ovens now then?

@ Freya ~ Danish law is usually pretty strict with things like this, and I guess a complaint would change what it said on the package.

It was a small Indian shop, where they probably import lots of their stuff themselves, so they might have slipped through the holes in the net somehow.

I want a cookie!

DHdarkesthour # Thursday, January 5, 2012 6:38:13 AM

Originally posted by Zaphira:

Or perhaps they even clean the inside of me!

How about both

KittyliciousZaphira # Thursday, January 5, 2012 8:38:22 AM

Sounds good to me!

FlaRin # Thursday, January 5, 2012 12:10:22 PM

Combined oven and cat cleaner.

Seems legit.

Dark FurieFurie # Thursday, January 5, 2012 3:48:10 PM

I invented that.

DHdarkesthour # Thursday, January 5, 2012 9:20:34 PM

Put the cat in the oven and do both at the same time

KittyliciousZaphira # Friday, January 6, 2012 6:02:54 AM

*sharpens claws*

FlaRin # Friday, January 6, 2012 6:23:32 AM

<sighs, puts on crash helmet again and looks in closet for Kevlar bullet proof vest>

DHdarkesthour # Friday, January 6, 2012 7:35:12 AM

Not with the oven switched on

KittyliciousZaphira # Friday, January 6, 2012 10:48:20 AM

Come closer and I'll show that it's almost not warm!!

Gavin Tripp-Sheedygarlingmatthews # Friday, January 6, 2012 10:54:52 AM

Oven fresh.*

*Cookies in package may not be oven fresh. Oven fresh refers to picture on package. Cookies in box are a free gift accompanying picture on package.

Mik, we should probably not go into business together. For the sake of humanity.