PR Gaffe of the Month
July 1, 2008 - 16:08 — Dusty Muffin
Rayda Jacobs’ Confessions of a Gambler won the Sunday Times Fiction Award in 2004, and has recently been seen on the local cinema circuit.
Last Friday, The Cape Times invited readers to a literary lunch at Meerendal, to launch Jacobs’ latest offering, Masquerade.
Today’s paper carried an apology on page three: “The incorrect menu was published in last Friday’s paper…The Cape Times apologises for any offence or embarrassment caused”.
It had occurred to me that it seemed a bit odd to serve chicken, ham and pistachio galantine, Meerendal wines, and Cape brandy pudding at a function honouring a Muslim woman.
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hahaha!
hehehehe
hahahaha
that'll fuck 'em :)
Hey chicken
Do you get grumpy when they don't cater for vegetarians? Or do you just not eat?
Not at all babe...as long as they serve alcohol
I'm just dandy!
Arb
you are incorrigible*. And that's why we dig you.
*It's in your dikshinry. Look it up.
Dusty
Jeez, I hope someone got hawled over the coals for this one. Bad. So not PC.
DM
This is funny. Being one who eats halaal food, I know all about this. I have had instances where halaal was not catered for during conferences/training sessions and then I just don't eat. The weirdest was when I was in Namibia for two weeks. I ate all kinds of fish you can possibly think of... poached, grilled, fried, baked, braaied.... when I got home I drove straight to the nearest halaal steak house from the airport.
It's always a problem but now it doesn't phase me at all.
Sems
I can see the funny side, but doesn't it push your buttons at all? A lack of respect, or even acknowledgement of your preferences. I mean, I get pissed off in a restaurant when I say, "cold milk please", and my coffee arrives with a friggin' boiled-milkskin on it. Waiters have gone home bleeding.
Haha Dust
Once went to a conference and one of the muslim woman there asked if they had a vegetarian platter and she was directed to eat the salad garnish and cheese cubes around the slices of ham and 'pigs in blankets'. I was appalled! She drank coffee the whole day.
No Flutts
Tell me that's not true. Or that it happened a long, long time ago.
Dusts
Someone ended up with egg on their face and quite deservedly so. I admit I had a good giggle at this though. Idiots!
Lily
Ja it is quite funny, in a Mad Magazine kind of way.
Glad I'm not on the receiving end though. Eish, I've made some blunders which still make me want to crawl into a hole.
apology: sooner late...?
sheesh. a bit of cultural education goes a long way. socially inept as i am, i reckon that might even be a bit of a stretch for me and the f+m disease.
what's the bet that the beaut who submitted it, didn't even consider/recognise the gaffe until the first complaint?
mort
I just phoned Meerendal to find out what the new menu is (chicken and fish. Much better). The folk at Meerendal didn't know about the apology in the paper. Ai yai yai yai yai.