Teh One Who Knocks
12-07-2016, 03:48 PM
By Richard Spillett for MailOnline
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A mother has complained to Tesco because her bag of alphabet potato shapes did not contain the correct letters to spell her son's name.
Nichola Hart says she was left 'very disappointed' to discover the £1 bag did not contain the letters 'L' and 'O', meaning she could not spell out 'Logan'.
The 30-year-old says she replaced the 'L' with an 'I' and the 'O' with a 'C' in a bid to please her boy, but he noticed the mistake.
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A mother is angry after a bag of alphabet potato shapes did not contain the letters to spell out the name of her
son, Logan, for his tea
Ms Hart was so furious she posted a complaint on Tesco's Facebook page along with pictures of the letters spelling out 'ICGAN'.
She wrote: 'My son is 4 and learning his letters, I wanted to spell his name (Logan) to my shock there wasn't any Ls or Os but a lot of the repeated letters.
'In the end I improvised by using and I as a L a C as a O so spelled "icgan" which obviously wasn't his name.. he noticed this straight away and I had to explain why. Very disappointed.'
Her message has become a huge hit on the internet, with fellow web users suggesting ways she could have got around the bind.
Rich Smith wrote: 'Top tip : Parents! Call your child "ICGAN" so you can easily spell its name out with alphabet potato shapes.'
Craig Moore added: 'Should have just used a "T" and a "Q" and cut bits off. Job done. God damn nuggets, alphabites and beans sounds good though.'
And Robin Peters added: 'To be honest most sensible people consult a bag of potato shapes *before* naming their child.'
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She tipped the whole bag out and said many letters were repeated while others were missing
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Ms Hart bought the 500g bag of Crispy Potato Letters from her local Tesco in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
The mother-of-two, who also has a 14-month-old son Miller, served them up for Logan with chicken nuggets and baked beans.
She said: 'It is misleading, why would you sell them as alpha-bites, really they should just be called 'certain letter bites'.
'It was just lots of repeated letters, a lot of Y's and a lot of J's. I had to improvise, which wasn't really nice.
'When Logan comes home from school he's always practising his letters.
'So I thought I'd buy some Alpha bites and then hopefully we could go through it at the dinner table.'
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She added: 'I thought that's what most parents do, make it like a fun-time dinner.
'Apparently it does say on the packet that not all of the letters are in there, but again I don't see the point in that.'
Tesco responded to the complaint on the Facebook: 'I am sorry that you did not have the correct letters in you pack of Tesco potato alphabet letters.
'I understand that you were disappointed with the range of letters you had.
'The bags are packed with a random selection of letters, and we don't state that you will get every letter. I apologise for any disappointment this causes.'
http://i.imgur.com/KkyepwZ.jpg
A mother has complained to Tesco because her bag of alphabet potato shapes did not contain the correct letters to spell her son's name.
Nichola Hart says she was left 'very disappointed' to discover the £1 bag did not contain the letters 'L' and 'O', meaning she could not spell out 'Logan'.
The 30-year-old says she replaced the 'L' with an 'I' and the 'O' with a 'C' in a bid to please her boy, but he noticed the mistake.
http://i.imgur.com/plvb9Px.jpg
A mother is angry after a bag of alphabet potato shapes did not contain the letters to spell out the name of her
son, Logan, for his tea
Ms Hart was so furious she posted a complaint on Tesco's Facebook page along with pictures of the letters spelling out 'ICGAN'.
She wrote: 'My son is 4 and learning his letters, I wanted to spell his name (Logan) to my shock there wasn't any Ls or Os but a lot of the repeated letters.
'In the end I improvised by using and I as a L a C as a O so spelled "icgan" which obviously wasn't his name.. he noticed this straight away and I had to explain why. Very disappointed.'
Her message has become a huge hit on the internet, with fellow web users suggesting ways she could have got around the bind.
Rich Smith wrote: 'Top tip : Parents! Call your child "ICGAN" so you can easily spell its name out with alphabet potato shapes.'
Craig Moore added: 'Should have just used a "T" and a "Q" and cut bits off. Job done. God damn nuggets, alphabites and beans sounds good though.'
And Robin Peters added: 'To be honest most sensible people consult a bag of potato shapes *before* naming their child.'
http://i.imgur.com/oPSIdut.jpg
She tipped the whole bag out and said many letters were repeated while others were missing
http://i.imgur.com/GHdX2FP.jpg
Ms Hart bought the 500g bag of Crispy Potato Letters from her local Tesco in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
The mother-of-two, who also has a 14-month-old son Miller, served them up for Logan with chicken nuggets and baked beans.
She said: 'It is misleading, why would you sell them as alpha-bites, really they should just be called 'certain letter bites'.
'It was just lots of repeated letters, a lot of Y's and a lot of J's. I had to improvise, which wasn't really nice.
'When Logan comes home from school he's always practising his letters.
'So I thought I'd buy some Alpha bites and then hopefully we could go through it at the dinner table.'
http://i.imgur.com/ojIcjNg.jpg
She added: 'I thought that's what most parents do, make it like a fun-time dinner.
'Apparently it does say on the packet that not all of the letters are in there, but again I don't see the point in that.'
Tesco responded to the complaint on the Facebook: 'I am sorry that you did not have the correct letters in you pack of Tesco potato alphabet letters.
'I understand that you were disappointed with the range of letters you had.
'The bags are packed with a random selection of letters, and we don't state that you will get every letter. I apologise for any disappointment this causes.'