Before Christmas, brownie maker Bad Brownie, was punting what it called “this festive season’s must-have stocking filler” – a giant half-kilo Ferrero Rocher-inspired brownie.
Bad Brownie deftly dodged Ferrero’s lawyers by coyly calling its creation the ‘Ambassador’s Golden Balls brownie’ in a nod to the classic ‘ambassador’s reception’ TV ad. This had UTC fondly recalling saying “Monsieur, with zees Rocher you are really spoiling us” in a dodgy French accent whenever someone offered him something in the mid-1990s.
However, the notoriously sweet-toothed UTC was a bit put out that nobody in the office thought to buy him one of the huge brownies for Christmas.
It was gently pointed out to him that the 500g monster, which has a solitary Ferrero Rocher nestling at its core, costs a not inconsiderable £26. Or about £25 more than any of his colleagues would be willing to spend on a gift for him.
This prompted a spurt of abacus bashing from the tight-fisted old codger, who worked out that you could in fact buy 900g of the real thing for £26. And have 50p change left over.
Or ten bob, as he still insists on calling it.
