I’ve wondered about having a Blog for a while if for no other reason than it would give me the chance to rant about the “Socialise with Pukka Pies” poster. Before I go any further I would just like to say that meat and potato Pukka Pies are the best pies in the world. If Pukka Pies would like to pay me for that free advertising I accept all major credit cards, and would even consider being paid in pies (NOT Steak and Kidney!)

How did they come up with that poster! I can just imagine a couple advertising executives sat round trying to brainstorm meat and potato pies.

Actually before I go any further I just have to say that apparently the term “brainstorm” is no longer deemed to be politically correct as it offends people with brains that …. well whatever their brains do it offends them. Fair enough, the only problem is that we are now supposed to say “mind shower” which sound like the safety instruction on a dodgy former soviet block hairdryer.

Anyway the ad men are sat there:

1^st ad man - “So what do you think of when you thing of pies?”

2^nd ad man - “Fat men”

1^st ad man – “go on”

2^nd ad man – “Cold rainy days at the football”

1^st ad man – “not quite what our client is looking for”

2^nd ad man – “Peas”

1^st ad man – “Some good ideas, but what I see are fast cars, glamorous women in low cut tops. I see sex appeal. We want our customers to know that if you eat pies you can have any woman you want”


Well I have to say despite eating a lot of pies growing up I never managed to break into the exciting James Bond-esque world of Pukka Pies which lay just beyond my reach over the counter of the local chippie. While the guy who ran the chip shop was spending his Friday nights in Monaco with a glamour model on each arm I was set in my room eating pies and watching re-runs of Star Trek DS9. Which is kind of ironic when in the next advertising campaign Pukka Pies revealed that they were not, as had previously been assumed, a small company based in Leicester, but were in fact aliens on a “taste invasion”.