Bowled over by Cully & Sully
Last February, I wrote about a little known company called Cully & Sully.
Cully & Sully produce prepared meals.
Now this isn’t your ordinary stuff that you get stacked on the supermarket shelves that contain more MSG than BSE. This is your home cooked variety, with no additives or preservatives. And it is lovely. And their reputation is spreading as it deserves to.
Herself and myself have become somewhat addicted to these and they are part of our regular order. But there is a problem.
Their Fish Pie, which is our favourite, comes in a nice little ceramic bowl. None of your plastic or foil rubbish. When we ordered our first ones, we thought this was great – free bowls to make a little set. So we built a little set of spare bowls in case we needed spare soup dishes or something. And then we built a little set to put flower pots in.
But then it began to get ridiculous. Now the dog drinks out of them. We have filled a few with coloured pebbles and use them as door stops. We use them as candle holders. And still the damn pile keeps growing. We have run out of storage spage completely.
In fact I am now having to extend the house to cope with all these bowls. Fortunately it isn’t costing much, as I’m using the bowls as bricks. We are nearly up to roof level at this stage.
I wrote to Cully [or Sully?] and complained. I demanded that the least they could do was to supply us with free Fish Pies for life, in compensation. But then it occurred to me – a lifetimes supply of bowls???
Cully has just replied to the last post I did. He’s a little late but business is good, so he is very busy. I’m glad about that, and I’ll forgive his tardiness.
He says [and I quote]
It’s me, am I to late?
Will I be forgiven if I get some free pies to Grandad?
I am in a quandary. What am I to do? I’m on a pension, so a free pie or two would be nice, but it would mean more bowls!
There again, when the extension is finished, I could always build a four bedroom detached house for Sandy?
I am completely bowled over and don’t know what to suggest
I know. I’m stuck between a bowl and a hard place.
BTW, would you like a bowl-er hat?
Might i suggest that you take your favourite wee shotgun out and use the bowls for target practice.
Being ceranic and all they should give a satisfyinf smash and crash when hit with your no doubt excelent marksmanship
This would have the added benefit of saving the worlds endangered clay pigeons and would leave a few more breeding pairs in the wild
That is a damn good idea!! Thank you Sean.
And I can also leave loads up trees for clay pigeons to nest in.
Thereby killing two birds with one stone?
You could start your own business!
You could advertise yourself as a revenge dealer. Anyone who’s been wronged in some way or dumped or fired or… some other 4th thing could contact you with their enemys address.
You fill the bowl with dog poo with a little message attatched to it and post it off.
This company already exists in the US and is quite successful. Seriously.
LOL Grandad! They are lovely (not as good as my own though;-))… we too have eaten the fish pie with he free bowls! 🙂
You would think they could do an exchange program… you know return your bowl get a euro off your next pie kind of thing… I think they pride themselves on being environmentally friendly… so maybe that’s a thought?
Have you not all checked out the FBA (free bowls association). While you are there check out our cookbook in the recipe sections. You can text the ingredients right to your phone so you don’t even have to write a shopping list!
FBA = http://www.cullyandsully.com/free-bowls.html
Actually they do have a system. The details are on their site – the Free Bowls Association. They are a strange pair and I really like their style. They are very progressive. I wrote to them asking if I could add the letters FBA after my name, but haven’t heard back on that one.
@Offspring – trust you to come up with that. Though it would solve the pile-of-poo-outside-my-gate problem. I’ll think about that one.
Ahhh! Cully got in ahead of me!
CULLY – WHERE’S MY LIFETIME SUPPLY???????
Be gratefuk for what little you have, you may never know when you need it.|
At least if there’s ever a national bowl shortage, we’ll know who to call.
And when will Cully and Sully be extending their reach beyond the Pale?
Gratefuk. Now there’s a unique typo.
Yup, Dario. I have the market cornered in bowls. I have a monopoly and can charge what I like…
As far as I know they now deliver Nationwide [to shops, I mean], but I can understand them avoiding Cavan. Everyone else does.
As for your typo – the less said, the better 😉
To be honest… I like the bowls. I just wish they were stackable.
Hint, Cully, Hint
The bowls are great. They are good and sturdy and will fit in with any décor.
But how I agree with you, Will!!!! If they stacked properly I could avoid the avalanche that happens every time I open a cupboard, press or wardrobe.
Cully?
Are you still there Cully?
Make you bowls stackable Cully…
Cavan is … well … em …
We have roads now!
But it’s too dangerous to drive on ’em with the Skobies drag-racing up and down in stolen cars….
People who live along the racing backroads of choice could be encouraged to keep a stack of bowls handy — say, under the hedge — for hurling at the skobes as they speed by?
Could be a lorra fun, as Cilla would say…
Touche, Mr. Grandad …
As above except you could make them into Stingers to pop the tyres. They are ceramic bowls, right?
Dario – What ya mean outside the Plale? Cully and Sully are two cute Cork hoors. Well, well outside the Pale. Worse than being Cork hoors, one is of the Darina Allen clan.
And while I’m at it, Dubliner Cheese is from Cork too.
Beware the Reds under the bed (bowl and cheese board).
You know what you should do Grandad? Take a leaf out of the http://www.yournameontoast.com website and start a charity type thing with a good story behind it – yournameonabowl.com or whatever. I’ll kick it off and offer you €20 to whatever charity you choose for the venture.
🙂
Great idea Alan. The only problem is that I have actually used all the bowls now in the extension and any future ones will have to go into finishing that off [I’m still working on ideas for the roof but I think it’s going to end up a bit like Gallarus Oratory]
Grandad
I have the same problem with tobacco tins, someone suggested I should hand them in to a local school. It brings back memories of primary school, where did those teachers get those tins for their chalk? Bowls could be handy for all sorts of curriculum.
My other tip is: come up with a winning recipe like treacle pudding, easy to make in the microwave in said bowls. Or yorkshire pudding, also a few minutes in the microwave or oven. You could them just freeze them or sell them!
Last but not least, stick them together with that fish tank glass glue. Silicone i think. In an artistic fashion of course. Could make a very original multi-pot stand. You could go for a world record!
Still doesn’t work for you. Take them to your local butcher, deli, restaurant, you might get a free lamp chop, slice of salami or pizza out of it.
Should none of the above inspire, just make your own bloody fish pie.