The CHOICE 2006 Shonky Awards

[bowerbird]

Okay - first a little background - Choice magazine is our consumer watchdog. It has started the first "shonky awards" for those products that are just sooooo bad - they are a riot!!

http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=105458&catId=100285&tid=100008&p=1&title=The+CHOICE+2006+Shonky+Awards#special

These are a riot!!

Among the awards are the "Pigs can fly award" for two round magnets that are supposed to do away with the need for laundry detergent and the shonkiest quote

“We don’t consider wholemeal flour to be a characterising ingredient in wholemeal bread.”

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[Riddley]

Somehow this got onto our news and we saw Roy and HG about 1 hour ago.
Classic. The magnets are super, they would cure rheumatism and clean your clothes.

[serenity]

“We don’t consider wholemeal flour to be a characterising ingredient in wholemeal bread.”


That's wonderful. It vaguely reminds me of the spokeswoman for MacDonald's arguing that caramel dipping sauces are "healthy" because the sugar provides energy...and that their soft drinks are healthy because the main ingredient is water. :)

You just can't make this stuff up.