Fish pies and blackmail
I am thinking of becoming a professional blogger.
To do this, I need to scrap all my other work activities. Therefore I need an income.
So what I’m looking for is a sponsor.
No. I don’t want a sponsor for the site [that’s too cheap]. What I want is a sponsor for me.
The problem is that a sponsor for the site could have a big advertisement on it, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to walk around with a big advertisement on me. So a little bit of deviousness is called for.
I have chosen my sponsor, though they don’t realise it yet. It won’t cost them any more than €50,000 a year [index linked, of course] so that isn’t a big deal.
I have written a few times in the past about Cully & Sully and their fish pies, and how I’m inundated with their ceramic bowls. It’s payback time.
You see, I now rank as number one in Google in Ireland if you search for them. As a result I get a lot of visitors to my site looking for them. I’m the first port of call, as it were.
So I am in a position where I can do them a lot of good.
I can tell everyone how I virtually live off their pies and how delicious they are. I have also discovered their soups, and there is nothing quite like the Minty Pea Soup. I can sing their praises until the cows come home.
Or
I can tell the world about my weekly dose of salmonella, and how I keep pleading with the grocery store to send me anything but Cully & Sully stuff.
It’s up to Cully and Sully.
Over to you, Lads……….
-oOo-
My blog is worth $66,051.18.
How much is your blog worth?
Hah!
I think I’ll keep away from those pies…
You might find brains in them!
Please do not say anything nasty about their delicious pies. At lease not until after they have refused my kind offer.
I thought you had shares in the place and not just bowls.
Grandad the fish pie sounds good….but minty pea soup? I am thinking a cross between toothpaste and peas? Please tell me I am wrong.
Laurie
Sorry Laurie, you got caught it my Jedi Filter.
Actually they are called Pea and Minty soup. My mistake. Minty as in mint sauce, not minty as in toothpaste.
All their products are great – they’re just like this blog [guaranteed additive and preservative free].
They are delicious [pending a reply from Cully and Sully, of course].
I think you crashed their server.
I click and get nothing I don’t think that I know what a fish pie is.
I know what a cow pie is.
Come Grandad, aren’t you selling yourself a bit cheap here! You should be talking BIG bucks. Those missiles ain’t gonna come cheap!
But you can let them know that you’re doing a great job with marketing their products already. I am a victim of your cunning strategies. Would love to try out the grub you’re speaking so highly of. Minty peas or peaty mints or whatever it was.
I probably did, Sue. See how much trade I send their way?
Their fish pie is a load of fish [prawns, Alaskan hake, haddock] mixed up with mushrooms and butter in a creamy sauce. This is covered in creamy mashed potato, and comes in a lovely little ceramic bowl. Just pop it in the oven and away you go. Absolutely fantastic.
If you click on the Cully & Sully category in the sidebar, you’ll see some of the problems I’ve been having with the number of bowls we’ve collected though.
Of course, if they don’t sponsor me, then the pies are disgusting.
Foreigner – Unfortunately, they don’t export, as far as I know. Maybe I can persuade them to go into the export business with all the trade I’m pushing their way.
And you’re right. €100,000 p.a. [index linked]
sounds…er, creamy.
think my tastes run more to the Pooh ice cream, thanks.
p.s. now i think about it, these pot pies witht their buttery, creamy sauce are begining to sound suspiciously like..yes, that’s it: Serena’s Secretions! Why you dodgy ol’ fart!
I hate to disappoint you Grandad but I saw a survey of ‘own brand’ fish pies some months ago and the Cully & Sully one only came in 2nd! The winner was the fish pie from the M&S Gastro-Pub range of food. I tried it out and I’m afraid I have to agree with the survey – it was equally tasty, much less sloppy and had decent chunks of identifiable fish in it – and I haven’t bought a Cully & Sully one since. I recommend you grit your teeth (if you’ve any left) and venture into Marks and Sparks to put my theory to the test.
I guess I just lost you the C&S contract! I do like their ‘Mild Chicken Curry’ though and their mushroom soup is DELICIOUS!
Don’t be disgusting Doc… How can you think of food and make-up in the same sentence?
Steph – I’ll have to take your word for it about the fish. M&S don’t have a branch up the mountains.
I enjoyed that! Yes…I haven’t gone away you know!
Hiya John! I’ve been waiting for some stranger to walk up to me at the coffee shop and say “Howya Grandad” like you said you would! Where have you been?
If I may …
Somebody recently said to me:
I’ll find you in Dublin when we arrive …
To which I responded,
‘Yes, among the million or so inhabitants. ‘
So if John does find you, it’ll prove he’s in the CIA.
Hi Grandad, just wanted to say what a clever thing you’ve done. Maybe instead of looking to C&S for sponsorship you should outsource your services to all those companies who are spending thousands trying to do what you’ve done for free. You get my vote in the netvisionaries btw. Hews