Kevin the Carrot!!!

Sorry didn't realise there was already a thread for this story.

It's all the greedy " must haves " whipped up in a frenzy by a bloomin' advert.

I heard this on the news. I have never seen the advert and didn't know what they were talking about.

If they’re fighting over Kevin they’ll go crazy over Pas al the parsnip ( and no, I’m not joking, that featured in an email to me!! )

Meant Pascal the parsnip

I write as a survivor of a Teletubbies stampede in the 90s. The was a national shortage. Yummies everywhere were tearing out their straightened hair. I was walking past W H Smith minding my own business when a staff member appeared outside the store shouting: “We have Teletubbies in stock.” There was an hysterical rush and I was almost knocked over. Nothing has changed. Eh-oh.

There were loads of Kevins, large and small, in our Aldi yesterday. One chap said he was buying some to put on eBay. I think people will be stuck with them. If you look on eBay, no one is buying them.

Rather stupid really, isn't it? ?

Yes!

I know its crazy!my youngest grandaughter wanted one last yr(she was just 4)and couldnt get one- probably the same this yr! Its because of stupid greedy adults putting them on ebay for profit that genuine CHILDREN(whom theyre surely meant for?)cannot get them!

I think they’re cute! I can understand why children would like a bunch of them. ??

DH happened to be in Aldi first thing on Thursday, and came home bemused and said everyone was buying carrots - long ones. Then I eventually realised what he meant as I happened to have read about Kevin toys.

It's foolish but I find it a kind of amusing bit of fun. An obvious proviso is, of course, that NOBODY is hurt in the scrummage.

I think of those hard-nosed Aldi marketing executives sitting in a meeting talking about how they can trump Iceland's recent anti-palm oil marketing coup and win back the Christmas shoppers. Oh yeah! A carrot made from petro-chemicals. And let's tell the punters that sales will help the Teenage Cancer Trust. Yeah, that'll get them queuing and fighting one another - a nice example to set their children.

Never forget that every toxic product manufactured is contributing to the rise in teenage cancer rates. Better that Aldi donate five million directly to the trust than manipulate customers into buying a piece of crap that will be in landfill come summer.

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Anybody recall the tales of terrible behaviour in toyshops when Cabbage Patch dolls were the 'must have' one particular year?

And they were so dreadfully ugly dolls. They looked like the kind of thing you would give to a child you hated!

Pity kids didn't eat the real thing.

The sweetness of carrots in a home-made chicken soup is just something else. I enjoyed a big pan of it this week. Better than any toy carrot !

I saw these in the trolleys of people in Aldi this morning. I didn’t realise they were so sought after as they were around last year or the year before. Some people will buy anything, they will be on EBay soon.

Yes I remember the Cabbage Patch dolls and further back in the seventies Gonks, all of them hideous. When I was a child I had two dolls and a teddy bear, nothing else, and I loved them all.

My nephew who always thought if himself as an 'entrepreneur' once bought a huge number of some talking toy (I have no idea which one) in order to sell them on eBay. He still has them all.

Yep my daughter says theres some kevin the carrots on ebay already for up to £900! What the heck??And yet my little grandaughter cant get one-not even the storybook.its blooming ridiculous! Yes i too remember the ugly cabbage patch dolls- none of my kids wanted em thank goodness.(i think i won a gonk at a fair tho)and the ominous monster high dolls?my other daughter calls them 'death dolls' so wont buy them for her 8yr old!

I want one ?

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Yesterday whilst shopping in Aldi the lady in front of me in the queue had two baskets full of these toys.

Oh dear! Pascal the parsnip may have been a mistake!, he is waiting for our Twin GC age 6 to come home from school, he definitely doesn’t like Kevin (and I have ordered Kevin, Katey, Jasper, Chanteney and Baby). Its a bit of fun....Pascal, Pascal, put that down! Lol x

Btw....Pascals scowl is a bit like my hubbys!