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[challenge entry] this doesn't strictly fit the competition remit

cluck for bigger
but i think it's close enough in the circumstances
also, i nicked the idea off that 'saturday live', which i normally think of as shit

From the Unlikely Company Mergers challenge. See all 319 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:39, archived)
# If those Americans try to take over my beloved McDonald's I'm going to be furious,.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:40, archived)
# indeed, they took our Woolworths too
BOTH ARE BRITISH INSTITUTIONS
(I helped save b3ta! Victor Meldrew, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:44, archived)
# Look at what happened to KFC!
(Kent Fried Chicken, that is...)
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:48, archived)
# Coca-Cola was founded in Cleethorpes
"Cola" is an acronym for "Cleethorpes Original LemonAde"
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:09, archived)
# 7-Up was originally made in 7 Upton Park, Slough
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:15, archived)
# What about Tizer?
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:19, archived)
# WHat up with that?
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:41, archived)
# Uncle Joes, innit, FFS....
*slaps* *hard*
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Propps, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:50, archived)
#
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELag3LFbVIc
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:56, archived)
# RIS?
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd whee, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:42, archived)
#
images.google.co.uk/images?q=uncle+joe's+mint+balls
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:47, archived)
# Ahaa
(I helped save b3ta! Bob Todd whee, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:58, archived)
# Don't get it
Ris this!
(cenaris Is dividing 3 by waffle, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:44, archived)
# sorry, 'Ants, I'm riding the RIS bus to RISoville on the otherside of RISland for this
edit: Ahhhhh, I get it now, Nicely done!
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:49, archived)
# RISland
is that what they've rebranded River Island these days..?
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:53, archived)
# "what the fuck, is that supposed to be a.... shirt??"
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:57, archived)
# Haha
Far better than the Primork idea I had ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Propps, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:52, archived)
# what about..
..primulark?
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:56, archived)
# That's a bit cheesy
*Baddum Tish*
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Propps, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:06, archived)
# Ants and Uncles.
(I helped save b3ta! atomic A-bomb-a-nation, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 15:53, archived)
# hehe...I was only introduced to Uncle Joe's
mint balls recently by my girlfriend (that reads rather oddly) so I get this - yay!
I think they're a Manchester/Lancashire/Northern thing...she was amazed I 'd never heard of them.
(I helped save b3ta! enceladus, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:17, archived)
# they're a wigan thing specifically
i'm from there, but was run out of town for thinking they're "only ok, but nothing special. just some minty boiled sweets, really"
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:26, archived)
# haha!
that was pretty much my feeling about them.
(I helped save b3ta! enceladus, Tue 26 Jan 2010, 16:40, archived)