Tunnocks

[banjo]

ive just had a teacake with my coffee,shame it was a lees and not a tunnocks as tunnocks are far superior.

[Dexter St. Clair]

That takes the biscuit: Staff at Tunnock’s to go on strike
But now about 500 staff are planning two one-day strikes, on Thursday and next Tuesday, at the firm’s headquarters in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire.

They are understood to have rejected an annual increase in their wages of around 2% and voted by a majority for industrial action in a ballot organised by the Unite union two weeks ago.

Production will be shut down for four days as they are due to be absent on Friday and Monday because of the September weekend holiday.

Mr Tunnock, the grandson of the company’s founder, Thomas Tunnock, had said the night out was to reward staff for their help, especially during the recession. One worker said: “Conditions at the factory are generally okay but we feel we should be getting a better pay offer than 2%. We are helping to make tens of millions of pounds for the company and we feel we are relatively low paid for all the work we put in. Pay offers in the past have always been higher so we don’t see why we should settle for this.”

The Herald

[Sharon]

Spotted some fun things to tickle a Tunnock's fans fancy.





From > http://folksy.com/shops/NikkiMade

[Josef]

That takes the biscuit: Staff at Tunnock’s to go on strike
But now about 500 staff are planning two one-day strikes, on Thursday and next Tuesday, at the firm’s headquarters in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire.

Better not be the day they make the mutton pies and apple crumbles. It's one thing to hit corporate profits, and quite another to deprive citizens of such delicacies.

[Dexter St. Clair]

I too missed the headline workers win pay rise but the BBC didn't

Tunnock's pay dispute ends as deal accepted

The new pay offer from Tunnock's was accepted by the majority of staff

More than 500 workers at the factory in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, are to have a 2.5% increase backdated to the start of July, followed by a 2.5% increase from next July.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11547110

[The Egg Man]

Spotted elsewhere online.

Adam McNaughtan's Tunnocks Caramel Wafer (Tune - the Barren rocks of Aden)

A hundred year an' mair's gone roon
Since Thomas Tunnock raised eighty poun'
An' proudly paid his money doon
To be a purveyor an' baker.
At weddin's, pic-nics an' soirees,
Wi' bags o' buns an' full high teas
Tom Tunnock showed his expertise
As Lanarkshire's pie-maker.
But little was he thinkin' as the dough he made
For the mutton pies an' tottie scones that he purveyed,
He was layin' the foundation o' a world-wide trade In Tunnock's Caramel wafers.

When the First World War was done,
Archie Tunnock, Thomas's son,
Came back hame to Uddingston,
Breid-winner o' the faim'ly.
Archie baked an' Archie planned,
An' he watched the company expand
To be the finest in the land
For wholesome food an' hamely.
Wi' a growin' reputation for traditional fare
An' a knowledge o' technology beyond compare,
Profits ploughed intae machinery a' helped prepare For the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer.

The Saicont War brought mony a qualm:
Synthetic cream an' turnip jam
An' trifle bein' delivert by tram
Wherever they could send it.
But Archie Tunnock had a scheme
To match a sweet-toothed nation's dream,
A chocolate biscuit treat supreme
When the sugar rationin' endit.
Steyin' at the bakin' plate frae morn till night,
Mixin' caramel an' milk until he got it right;
In nineteen fifty-wan the world got its first bite At a Tunnock's Caramel Wafer.

The rest o' the tale is easy told:
The distinctive foil of red and gold,
The vans that multiplied ten-fold,
Deliverin' Caramel Wafers.
Frae Motherwell to Martinique
Three million people every week,
Jew an' Arab, Turk an' Greek,
Agree on their favourite wafer.
But though the Caramel Wafer may be known world-wide,
It's always been in Uddingston that Tunnocks bide,
An' the firm an' the community and faim'ly's pride Is the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer.

[Mori]

http://www.scotlandcanmakeit.com/claireduffy

[Dot]

I have an unopened box of thirty six tea cakes so that should last a wee while.

[HollowHorn]

Sit on them, Dot. See if they hatch.

Happy Christmas, btw.

[Josef]

I did have an unopened box of Tunnock's Wafer Creams. But then J Junior noticed them.

[banjo]

mrs b treated me to some tunnocks teacakes yesterday yumm.

[Mori]