CheapShow - Ep 327: Silversquirt
Episode Date: April 7, 2023Paul reopens his candy store this week and invites Eli in to sample his latest sweet offerings. Surprisingly, they’ve never covered jellies before (or jams, if you prefer) and they thought they’d ...look for the cheapest to see if they pass muster. Will a Vimto or Slush Puppie jelly be any good, or will they be embarrassed by the Hartley’s brands? CheapShow intends to find out! It’s also been a while since we last had a Tales from the Shop Floor on the show and so the cheap chaps dip their toes into another tale of woe from the world of commerce. Before you think that this all seems pretty normal, bear in mind that in this episode, Eli tries to convince his new “mink” character isn’t a total embarrassment and Paul would rather come up with a load of mucky James Bond film baddies. Bloody idiots. See pics/videos for this episode on our website: https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-327-silversquirt And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com And if you want to, follow us on Twitter @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow & @elisnoid Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US! URINEVISION 2023 is coming, so catch up with our 2021 episode: https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-232-urinevision-2021 Send your entries to thecheapshow@gmail.com before 5th May 2023! MERCH Official CheapShow Merch Shop: www.redbubble.com/people/cheapshow/shop www.cheapmag.shop Thanks also to @vorratony for the wonderful, exclusive art: www.tinyurl.com/rbcheapshow NEW ART: Get hold of Spunk.Rock’s exclusive new CheapShow Artwork: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/CHEAPSHOW-EST-2016-by-spunkrock/115961855.WFLAH.XYZ www.instagram.com/spunk__rock Send Us Stuff: CheapShow PO BOX 1309 Harrow HA1 9QJ
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Welcome to the Eli Silverman Show, hosted by Eli Silverman.
Ladies and gentlemen, Eli Silverman.
Hello.
I've done my bit now, so this is all your show this week.
I'm not feeling up to it.
Well, I'm poorly.
Paul's poorly.
I'm poorly.
I feel fine, and neither do I have a hangover.
Sorry, it's your show this week, so go on.
Is it my show this week?
Is that an actual...
Is that a promise?
Go on, your show this week.
What does that...
No, I'm not just going to accept this
because there's going to be some kind of hitch, isn't there?
Tell me, what are the terms of it being my show this week, Paul?
You're in charge.
What's the contract?
And do I get to tell you to shut up
and you must shut up for the whole time I ask you to shut up for?
Yeah.
Right, so you can't answer me now.
That's it.
That's the only rule.
I get to turn you on and off.
You're always welcome to turn me on
because you've been turning me off for years.
Ooh, like I've ever been trying to have sex with you,
or get you to do anything to me of that nature.
You have.
No, I... Oh, what?
I hope for nocturnal bum kissing.
Yeah, you do.
I don't hope for that.
Anyway, sorry, I'll stop.
It's getting out of control.
I wish you'd shut up.
It's my show.
Actually, there is a new character on the show, Paul.
Oh, God, wait.
Who I wanted to introduce to you.
Go on.
They are quite shy.
Yeah.
They're a beast.
Beast of the field.
Oh, I see.
All right.
Oh, no, I see.
Paulie comes up with Big Daddy Bigfoot,
and Eli's like, oh, shit.
Paul comes up with Endorphin Dolphin.
Once again, Eli considers the concept shit. I don't know what you're talking about. But it looks like, oh, shit. Paul comes up with endorphin dolphin. Once again, Eli
considers the concept shit. I don't know what you're talking about.
But it looks like, for some reason, Eli's got some kind
of feral animal character
ready to go. So... Without any
further ado, ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome, ladies and gentlemen,
ladies and gentlemen, without
any further ado, here is
Dopamine Mink, as in
the dopamine mink. Dopamink.
Hello.
I'll fucking give you pleasure.
Dopamink.
Wiggly. I'll give you pleasure.
Come on. You want some?
You want some?
The Eli Silverman show has been cancelled.
Oh, come on. No, this is awful.
Just some hand service.
Hand service?
The dopamine.
You're pathetic!
Welcome to Cheap Show.
I hate you and your fucking noodle posse.
People love noodles
It's just a fact of Cheap Show
You're gonna have to learn to fucking accept
Cheap Show
Cheat Show
It's the Price of Shite
Paul Gannon
Eli Silverman
Welcome to Cheat Show
And I go and I nuzzle
You had your chance and you blew it
Off his guttles
What a charming little fella
I think you should pay for some of his services
Because I have, Paul
Okay, so let me just run this idea through
Dopamine can offer hand relief
Yeah?
Or both ends, actually
Because they're very twisty
So you can actually be on one end
So to speak
And they're like ferrets.
They're in the family mostidae, which is a ferret family.
Yeah.
Which has whippets, ferrets, things like that.
Things of that nature.
Whip it out.
Martins.
And you could have the dopamine,
because it's like dopamine,
which is the pleasure chemical in the brain.
But I just want to run this theory through.
Similar to an endorphin.
No, no, I want to run this theory through.
You could have it on one end, and because he's so twisty,
you could have the other end doing stuff as well around the sides.
Yeah, all right.
No, this is all well and good.
The details aren't the important part right now.
Or you could have him one end here, like a loofer.
Like a loofer.
Like a ferret loofer.
Like I'm rubbing my perineum with a towel.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
That's 20 quid, mate.
I'll get him back.
No, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I just want to i just want
to logically see this through so just bear with me a minute right forget the details of the actual
sex acts i'm sure they're all very pleasurable and affordable yes my point is you said to me
you should take up some of his services right his sexual services yes i mean that's he's he's been
on the game for years please and you want me to do this. However, you are that character. So are you suggesting that you would like to have me pay you for pleasure?
Which, going back to my earlier point,
how is this not you wanting to have sex with me?
You're wrong.
I just need to say that on all of those things.
I'm happy.
I'm happy if this is the character you need to be for us to get intimate.
Listen, if you buy some of the ferret services,
the mink services,
Yeah.
You want to hear a bit
backstory about the Mink?
No, not really.
Because I know...
Rescued from becoming
a fur coat.
But rescued from being
a fur coat
but now does sex acts.
Yeah, he needs must.
Musk.
Needs Musk.
How about that?
Fuck that.
Right, yeah.
It was worth it
just for that gag.
We're moving on
welcome to the
economy comedy podcast
where as ever
every week
Eli and I go for the
no no
the
discount store
discount
we go through
say it again
every week
every week
we go through
the
charity shops
jumble sales
and
discount stores
and thrippity shelves
and the thrippity shelves and And the thrippity shelves.
And bring you the cheap fun
that we find amongst the trash.
And today it is a nice trip back to my sweet shop.
The one that I opened up recently
that I'm in charge of.
Therefore, negating any characters necessary
for that segment.
I think that character, you know, I mean...
So you're saying that I am a character.
Paul Gannon, the sweet shop man is different. No, I'm not saying that. Because he's not. Because that would just break the whole... I think that character, you know, I mean... So you're saying that I am a character, Paul Gannon, the sweet shop man
is different?
No, I'm not saying that.
Because he's not.
Because that would just
break the whole...
Can we introduce you to him?
Hello, Paul from the sweet shop.
Come in.
Hi, Paul.
How you doing?
I'm fine.
Don't start this shit again.
You're on.
Stop multiplying, Pauls!
Oh, there's a third one.
Yes, now a third one.
Why is there a third one?
Oh, Jossney Choddorff.
And why is he saying that?
No one's...
Oh, there's loads of us. I can't believe it. Oh, hello. Oi, Pauls! And why is he saying that? No one's...
Oh, there's loads of us.
I can't believe it.
Oh, hello.
Oi, pause.
If all the pause could be quiet for one second.
Let's all suck Eli off.
Hmm.
So we've got to go back to the sweet shop today to try some nice cheap treats.
Cheap treats.
Also, we have a Tales from the Shop floor.
We haven't had one of them in a while,
mostly because a lot of them have been depressing.
However, as I'd like to state again,
the entries are still open for your Envision.
Send your entries, no more than three minutes,
no less than two, to thecheapshowatgmail.com.
We are gathering tracks for your Envision,
which will take place in June this year.
You have until the beginning of May to get them in
and we've already received
some admissions
we've had a few dribbles
come in
we've had a few dribbles
come in
I was going to say as well
Paul
I was going to say as well
go on
when you said
we're open to entries
send photos of your entries
so do you want
everyone to start
sending pictures
of their arseholes
I don't actually
no I don't actually Paul I, I don't actually, Paul.
I'm just trying to lighten the tone.
Oh, yeah.
I'm going to lighten the tone.
Please send me your parted pussy flaps, please.
No.
I don't want to see any wing pieces.
Parted pussy flaps.
Parted.
I'm sorry.
I farted.
I farted.
It made me farted.
All right.
Oh, is that your old gran?
She's departed. If you're departed your old gran? She's departed.
If you're departed, old gran can party a flat.
I farted.
All right, fuck it, Earl.
No, this is not that funny.
Sorry.
You don't want to throw sharted in there while you're at it?
No, sharted.
No, sharted's No, sharted shit.
Sharted's not a good word.
It's not.
Look at you.
You've got tears
in your eyes over that.
Pathetic.
It's the sort of
the chain of causality
from death
to vaginal widening
and then farts.
Your honour,
exhibit A
for why Eli's
remained single.
Fuck me.
Oh, oh, so what we've got.
So if you want to get your Eurovision entries in,
look at the metadata.
Don't send your entries.
Send your entries, but not photos.
Let me get this information out
so people can at least know what they're doing.
Email your entries, thecheapshow at gmail.com.
We'll have ideally MP3 if you've got her.
And yeah, get them in before the beginning of May
and if you wanted more information or
you want to know what's going on look at
the description for this podcast no
longer links and emails to all the other
Eurovisions we've done no longer the two
minutes please no I said two minutes is
fine a little bit over that is okay but
if you get close to three you got less
chance of being in the final oh well
you've changed the rules last time I
said this last week.
Oh, it can be up to
two and a half minutes then.
You have to be clear
because then it's like,
oh, we're allowing
one 12-minute suite.
No, I'm saying...
I'm doing a prog entry.
The closer you are
to two minutes
in your runtime of the track,
the more likely
you will get through
to the final selection.
Okay.
It'd have to be
a very, very good song indeed
to warrant a longer running time
than, say, two minutes thirty,
three minutes,
four?
Get off!
Fuck off, four!
All right, fine.
You don't want to have a clear time limit.
That's fine.
Don't constrict our peoples.
I'll constrict them.
And just to be clear,
do not send photos of your entrances.
That's what I wanted to say before.
What if it's the picture of their front door
of their house? Oh, that's fine. I do want to see people's
front doors. Or a nice gate. Shut the front door.
Yeah, or a nice gateway. Gateways?
I like gates. And alleyways.
What about turnstiles?
Eh, not so keen.
No, alright. Or don't send pictures of your turnstiles
in then. Turnstile, is that where
those things you have in the countryside where you stand on the plank?
That's more of a style, isn't it?
Oh, that's a style and a turnstile.
I was thinking it's a gateway, isn't it?
It's like a kind of rotating gate
that keeps people in and out.
Yeah, but it comes from styles,
which is the old-fashioned version.
I mean, I presume so.
And then they turned.
Yeah.
When they turned, it was a turnstile.
Yeah, I don't know what you call those bits
in the country where it's a gate,
but it's got like a little kind of,
you know, like you move it.
Yeah, they have those around here on the New River.
Do you know what I mean though?
They have urban ones.
Swing gates.
Let's do a new podcast
about gates and hinges.
Welcome to Gate Show.
Send photos of your entrances.
By which we mean
your arsehole.
Please send pictures.
Hello, welcome to
Hinges and Gates.
The new podcast.
Where we discuss
pictures of listeners' arseholes.
Oh, the craggier the better.
I need to wet my whistle.
Shall we have a break?
What do you mean, wet your whistle?
Have a drink.
I need a...
You mean like this refreshing bottle of nice cold water I've got?
Can you pour me some of that out, please?
No.
I'm going to have a nice long...
All I could do is wetting my whistle.
I'm going to go get myself a glass of water then.
Scooch it.
Scooch it.
Scooch.
Scooch. I don't know what to say
I know
I got you
you haven't got me
it's not good practice
if your podcast host
has nothing to say
to his co-host
well you can always
just hand over the reins
to me and say
Eli say something
about any subject
I'll talk about this
I'll talk about that
I'll scooch it up
and I'll
have you got a tale
from the disco lights?
No.
So that's it, right?
We've got that coming up
and that coming up
and this coming up
and we've got a show
ahead of you.
That's good, isn't it?
It's a cheap show.
Fucking hell.
It's good to have a show.
We've got nice things to taste.
Yeah, we do.
Before then,
we have a tale
from the dance floor,
shop floor.
And I think we should
get to that
as soon as possible.
I don't know why
you've kept this thing going
I've checked out
I keep trying to end it
but you can't end it
can you
I'll do an ending for you
you need that
go on
end it
oi
Eli
think about this carefully
if you bring in that
mink character again
no he's got to come back
doesn't he
no
he has to
doesn't really
come on
oi
dover mink
dover mink, come on.
Biscuits.
I've got cake.
Yeah.
Hey, I'm the dopamine.
Hey.
So, has your friend decided what he wants to do?
Why does he sound like Jimmy Biscuit?
Hey, I don't know.
He's a little...
That's me.
I'm a dopamine.
Hey, I have a psychological problem.
The longer this character goes on the more i worry
it's going to fall into horrible racist stereotypes so i just want to move swiftly on i'm a little
mink man i can't how can i be you know just mate you need to do your research no if you need to
you know you're making him sound like a rabbit if you don't say rabbit to me i can't take this
i don't want this anymore I don't want this anymore.
I don't want this, or you, or that character.
I'm a mink, eh?
No.
And do you want to have sex with me for money?
I've made her feel good like dopamine.
That was gangbusters last week.
Gangbusters.
Brought the house down.
Your mink is putting the house back up.
Slowly.
Well, anyway, I'll leave my menu.
Okay?
A menu?
Yeah.
Let's have a look at the menu Here you are
Shilling
Handjob
I've got a nice little soft paws
Tuppence
Because I
Tuppence
I'm the type of creature
Who lives in the water as well
Tuppence
Semi-aquatic they call it
Which means I have nice soft pads
But they're a bit rubber
A bit of
A bit
What is
Purchase
How you say Purchase. How you say?
Purchase on the old knob shaft.
Tuppence.
I'll go now.
Yeah, I think you should go.
So I was just going to say tuppence for arse play.
Oh, yeah.
It's not very expensive.
I'll go.
Yeah, please go.
This has not worked.
Okay, you like?
No, don't...
Okay, you little fella.
Come on, I've left loads of cheese down there.
There's cheese everywhere. Right, now that you've gotten that out of your system, can we move on? No, he's gone., little fella. Come on, I've left loads of cheese down there. There's cheese everywhere.
Right, now that you've gotten that out of your system, can we move on?
No, he's gone.
Fuck this and fuck you.
Get out.
And stop tap dancing as well.
Oh, off he goes.
Hopefully forever.
Can we move on?
Yeah.
Hello there, my children.
Sit down.
It's time for one of my favourite sections of Cheap Show.
Why, it's the Tales from the Shop Floor section.
And I'm here to introduce to you a lovely story.
And I hope you enjoy it very much because I enjoyed reading it
and I hope you enjoyed listening to it.
Shall we begin?
Huh?
I don't understand.
Why is that voice?
What's that voice for?
I just brought my nan in. That's not your nan.
You don't want to put your
real nan round me.
What are you going to do to my nan?
What are you going to do with me, boy?
Your mum didn't. What are you going to do with me, boy?
Your nan. I actually want to start this segment
again, Paul. Come on, boy. It's very poor.
Oh, I'm sorry. All this coming
from Dopamine. Even the name has lifted my mood. It's obviously poor. Oh, I'm sorry. All this coming from Dopamink.
Even the name has lifted my mood.
It's obviously a work of genius.
That mink, whatever you care to say about him, his smells, his profession, is a resident.
I'm Nanny Storyteller.
I know you want to tell you a story.
Where did you get this story, Nanny Storyteller? Well, I part my flaps.
Don't.
And out slides the story in a nice little tube.
You keep story tubes up your snatch.
Okay.
I'm listening now, Paul.
I'm listening.
We got there.
We need to unmask the concept, okay?
We need to get to the concept quickly. I'm going to go ahead and agree with Eli from five minutes ago.
Okay, everyone, we'll start again.
Get back. I don't like it.
I don't like the idea
of an old lady queefing out stories
that we read. I do.
I regret it. Okay.
I put my hand up. I wholeheartedly
regret that concept. Okay.
So let's start this section again.
We haven't done this in a while, okay?
We'll just do it normally.
We'll just do it normally.
Hi, everyone.
Welcome back to Cheap Show.
Hello.
And now it's time for a segment
that we haven't done in quite a while,
but it is a mainstay over the years, Paul,
of Cheap Show,
and that is Tales from the Shop Floor.
Stories, incidents, little anecdotes
from the world of retail.
Started off just charity shops
then expanded
into all kinds of professions and businesses
and now I'm going to
part my bum flaps and squeeze out
this week's story
it's come from where chocolate's made
I'm going to just squeeze out this week
this week's story
you'll give yourself an embolism.
Has this been a difficult story?
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Has it got a lot of...
Come on, come on.
Oh, it's a nutty story.
Oh, is it gnarly?
Is it like a log with walls?
Walls?
Oof.
Oof.
Oof.
He's done a poo-poo noise, everybody.
Here's the story.
Let me just clean it off.
Who sent this story in?
I'll sniff it and find out.
This one comes from Adrian,
unless I should read the email
and they say don't use my real name.
La, la, la, la, la.
Doesn't say anything about not using their name.
So we're going to do it.
This one comes from Adrian
and it's a Tales from the Library.
Hello, Adrian.
Hello, Adrian.
And here is his story.
Okay.
I can't wait to get into this.
We haven't done it in a while.
It's a nice little bit of fun.
And the 10 or so minutes it will take to read the story
should heal my bottom up considerably.
Yes.
Because it feels like right now it's like a boxer's ear.
Well, you're punched hard.
He's bleeding.
His arsehole.
Your ragged arsehole is bleeding
where the huge spiky story came out.
Imagine like taking a donut and stamping on it.
That's what you're looking at right now.
Are you happy?
No one's happy.
I'm really not.
You're right.
It's true.
No one is.
Right, here we go.
To my dearest loves,
Lady Paula Gannonberry
and Dame Eileen Silversquirt a bit too much effort i'm trying
to be funny we're not gonna do it but we're not gonna do those characters i do like silver squirt
quite a lot it's like a bomb film or something silver squirt well we're silver squirt he squirts
squirts up the eiffel go on he squirts up the what he squirts up the Eiffel. Go on. He squirts up the what?
He squirts up the what?
The Eiffel Tower.
Okay, yeah, you did say that.
Wait, I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what.
I'll be James.
Ah, I'm James Bond.
James Bond.
And I'm here to see you.
James Bond, James Bond.
I'm James Bond, James Bond. And I'm here to see you. James Bond, James Bond. I'm James Bond, James Bond.
And I'm here to see you, silver squirt.
You'll never catch me alive.
What's your big plan?
I'm going to squirt me off the town.
Ooh.
Oh, silver.
Silver squirt.
He squirts in the eye of love.
People are not enjoying this.
I am, and I think that's mostly more important.
It's killing me.
Silver Squirt.
He's the guy.
He's got some spunk in his eye.
I see you've got a henchman called Throb Knob.
I'm Throb Knob.
Oh, shut up. You can talk with Throb Knob? I'm Throb Knob. Oh, shut up!
You can throw a Throb Knob in Silver Square.
He should be mute.
Who?
Throb Knob?
Like, what does he throw his knob around?
He fucking chucks muck.
No, maybe he beats people to death with his big dick.
He has poison spank.
Shut up.
How does it even work?
He's got poison spank.
It's good.
It's not good.
Because you could fling it.
Silver Square would be good because you could argue his cum is like mercury. Yes. That's why poison spunk. It's good. It's not good. Because you could fling it. Silver squirt would be good
because you could argue his cum is like
mercury. That's why he's called silver
squirt. I'm
James Bond. James
Bond. And I've come to
take you down.
My spunk is like mercury and I
do some maintenance to the Eiffel Tower.
Do you expect me to talk?
No, expect you to watch me spunk at the Eiffel Tower. Do you expect me to talk? No, expect you to watch me
punk
at the Eiffel Tower.
That's what I said.
It's Frobnob.
He'll fucking poison you
with his cum.
Right, good stuff.
No, really good stuff.
On a serious note, Paul.
Yeah.
We haven't even got
into the story yet.
He would be a good villain.
Villain's henchman
because he could not only put the poison cum into someone's martini, say.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He could also fling it.
He could.
It's corrosive as well.
Yeah.
See what I mean?
It's all round henchman weapon.
He likes to chuck his mark.
Now, I've just said my bit now.
I've done it.
Right, here we go.
Here's a tale from the shop floor about something vile and disgusting as per usual.
For context, this took place in the great state of Montana, USA,
around the late 80s, very early 90s.
Oh, it's an old classic story.
Period piece.
At that time, I was a literature student doing my internship
at a local library in a small dusty town.
It sounds boring, and most of the time it was,
but it did mean that I could spend most of my days studying up
and relaxing
with a few hundred good books.
I don't understand. He's an intern,
but he's working at a library, and it's not very
busy. And it's unpaid. An internship
suggests that, doesn't it? Yeah, I guess so.
But, you know, he's enjoying it, gets to read
books. He's in the library. Yeah.
He's got that library smell. Lovely library
smell. Yeah, that lovely, musty library
hall of stories. Youy library hall of stories.
You know, hall of stories.
It wouldn't have a nice smell if you were responsible for sourcing the books.
Would it?
Why?
Because they'd come out your arse.
Anyway.
He's in the library.
Is it?
He works at a library.
The most notable moment during my entire time there happened one sunny Saturday afternoon.
On that day, an older woman, around mid- mid-60s came in picked up one of those
cheesy romance novels with a half-naked fabio looking guy on the cover sat down on one of our
easy chairs and began to read god i was waiting for something else there so no problem yet she
was being quiet and decent for the time being the trouble started when she got up to go to the
bathroom taking the book with her.
At this point, as always, I'd like to suggest to Eli what happens next.
She's going to bang the button in the store.
She's going to launch the nukes, is she?
Yeah, she's going to, yeah, all right.
I think there'll be some kind of masturbation thing. No, no, who wouldn't think that, Paul?
I think of it all the time.
No, it's a romance novel. No, it's a romance novel.
She's gone to the loo.
It's like,
what would I do
if I took a romance novel
to the loo?
Yeah.
Except you wouldn't make a novel.
You'd take a Razmack,
wouldn't you?
I know.
Sometimes I like classy literature.
I can't really get off
to the written word.
People do like erotic wordists,
don't they?
No, they do.
All sorts make to take a world.
So I don't want to assume, but what I'm actually thinking,
what popped into my mind for the end of the story, Paul,
is there's some kind of discharge from her
and it's sort of someone has to wipe it up or something.
Right, well, let's crack on and find out.
So when I saw her go, I sighed.
For sanitary reasons, our library's policy was that any book
taken into a bathroom had to be purchased by the person who took it.
In some states, libraries can legally sell their stock for up to three quarters of the prices listed on the back cover.
I went over to tell my boss.
So essentially, it's against the rules.
They're saying if you take a book into the toilet, then you could be getting all kinds of poo or piss particles on it.
And therefore, it's not fair to put it back on the shelf for another person to take home.
Well, piss wouldn't be
too much of an issue.
Yeah, but if it's a guy
and he's reading
and having a slash at the same time.
Yeah, he's probably knob flex.
He's got a bit of, you know,
piss splatter on his fingers
and then he licks his fingers.
Greasy knob flex.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Or, you know,
his penis has a wonk to it
and it misfires.
I know, I understand
the thinking behind the rule, Paul.
Just saying.
There are loads of reasons
why I think it's fair to say
if you take a book into the toilet,
you're taking that book
home with you.
Right.
Fine.
Alright.
Fine.
Right.
Yeah.
So, I went over
to tell my boss
and he said that he'd
confront the woman
when she got out.
After waiting about 20 minutes,
the woman came out
of the bathroom
and my boss told her
that she had to buy the book.
It was a cheap paperback.
I can't imagine
it would have cost
more than a few books
at most.
She groaned
but pulled a few greenbacks out of her purse and handed them over.
She then asked if she could continue reading the book in the library,
which he agreed to.
Again, no real problem for now.
A while later, the woman went back into the bathroom, book in hand.
Both my boss and I saw her this time,
but she'd already bought the book, so there's not much we could do about it.
A few minutes later, another woman, this time looking but she'd already bought the book, so there's not much we could do about it. A few minutes later, another
woman, this time looking quite proper
and middle-aged, also went into
the bathroom. Shortly afterwards,
this woman emerged with a look of anger
and disgust on her reddened face
as she marched up to my desk.
Do you know, the middle-aged
woman asked, that someone is masturbating
in there? Yeah, of course she is.
Ten points for eli silverman house
yes thank you um apparently the older woman wasn't just reading her book on the throne
she was having a good old-fashioned spod off that's what said the thing and being quite vocal
about it i told my boss and the two of us went over to the bathroom to solve the problem we
as discreetly as possible as we waited, we heard what sounded like a hog grunting
outside a Dennis Russo.
Sounded like a hog grunting out a Dennis Russo song.
Demis.
Dennis Russo.
Demis.
Demis Russo.
Like a hog grunting out a Demis.
Do you want me to say this bit?
No, I'll say it.
Like a hog grunting out a Dennis Russo song.
Quickly building into a crescendo of Gregoryregory which is what nice detail said yeah
when the old woman came out the bathroom my boss immediately told her that she was no longer
welcome the woman became irate and began to curse out my boss arguing that she'd already bought the
book and could do what she liked with it this escalated to a shouting match yes in a library
and eventually the woman
stormed off growling that this was an injustice and she couldn't believe his nerve the words that
my boss yelled after her have always stayed with me and i think they serve as good instructions
for life in general he said i don't give a damn if you do it but damn it don't do it in here
and there you have it. A Tales from the
Shop floor that features not shit, but
generic joshing. Hope you enjoyed
it, Adrian. Thank you, Adrian. Did enjoy
it. Questions? Question?
Gregory, who do we think that is?
You know what jumps to mind? Maybe the character in the book.
Gregory Peck. Gregory Peck. Because
this woman was mid-60s,
but we're talking late 80s. Yeah,
Gregory Peck would have still been a reasonable
heartthrob, right? No.
But when was his era?
Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck. Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck.
He's got a big old knobby.
He gets the ladies from B.
Come on, that wasn't bad.
He gets them all sloshy.
He's fucking Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck.
I'm going to need a verse from you now.
Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck.
Oh, if you...
No.
No, fail.
Fail.
You just full up, fail.
I wasn't intending on doing a song,
and now you've thrown it on me,
and now I've got to step up.
So let me just think.
I'm going to do some research oh god you can't research gregory peck gregory peck american actor oh i know gregory peck yeah he was in the omen atticus finch oh yeah in the omen um he wasn't
so much of a sex symbol actually was he he was more of a sort of serious leading man yeah roman
holiday the omen guns of navarone, Moby Dick.
I love...
Cape Fear.
He was original Cape Fear, wasn't he?
Oh, he was good in that as well.
Really good in the...
Have you seen the original Cape Fear?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's very good.
You don't have to do a song.
It's fine.
No.
No, the moment's gone now, Paul.
If you're all up for fapping, you want to make it happen,
you better start your napping.
I'm fropped.
I can't't you know what
i'm just trying to think aren't i don't stop stop let's talk about the rest of the story
he was in a kilt to kill a mockingbird He likes to eat a brown turd.
He was in the film
The Omen
and you will soon be coming
when
you come on fire
when I fucking
slouch my dog off
and slap my fanny.
Slab and a slap.
Slosh, slosh.
Slab and a slap.
Hey, Paul.
I've just remembered something.
Don't walk out. Don't do a fake walkout! Paul! I've just remembered something. Don't walk out.
Don't do a fake walk out.
Come on.
I've remembered something that will...
Come on.
Come back.
Come back.
Come on, we're having fun this week.
Come back.
Come on.
Come on.
Paul!
Please, this is weird now.
Stop staring into the distance
come on we've got stuff to eat
it's going to be fun
come on have a sit down thank you
don't do a fake walk out
Paul
if you want a bit of fun
put on a jewel in the sun
and then you'll bloody come
because it starts Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck Gregory Peck Gregory Peck okay happy Peck. Gregory Peck. Gregory Peck. Gregory Peck. Gregory Peck.
Okay. Happy?
Yeah.
A jewel in the sun?
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
Now, I saw this product, Paul.
Yes.
It was called Splash.
Right.
Good, eh?
That it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can you even tell what kind of product it is?
It's like some kind of confectionery with a juicy centre.
Warming to splash now.
Yeah.
Splash mountain.
Am I okay to cut this bit out?
No, no.
Cut it.
No.
How dare you?
Gregory Peck.
Don't say that.
Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck.
We've said nothing.
Gregory Peck.
We've done nothing on the story.
Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck.
Gregory Peck. That's better. Let'sck. Gregory Peck. Gregory Peck.
That's better.
Let's just end it with that.
No.
We've done nothing on the story.
What is there to say?
An old lady bought a romance novel,
fapped it in the labs,
and got told off.
The end.
I wouldn't do that.
I would like some more...
Well, I don't understand this.
Batter.
Did she have...
Some fanny batter or something.
What do you want?
You mean you want some more fanny batter?
I would like the story to contain more descriptions of old lady fanny batter.
Can I be clearer than that?
I'll tell you what.
I'll read the last bit again.
Okay.
Scroll, scroll, scroll.
Yeah.
And then the old lady gave the book back to us and she jumped out the shop and we couldn't
help but notice the book...
What shop?
Library.
You have to do it in Adrian's voice.
That didn't sound like him.
I didn't do it in Adrian's voice when I read the email out in the first place. Not in his voice,
in his tombra, in his register.
You know, not like something you've
made up. I want it to sound more realistic.
Right, in that case. And then the old lady
stormed out of the library, leaving the book on
the counter as she did so. When we went
to put it back on the shelf, we decided
not to because the whole thing smelled of
fanny spaff.
Is that better?
Is that what you'd like?
A drippy drip.
No.
Dripping.
Oh, goopy drips.
Obviously used their label for a bookmark at one point.
Leaving a fleshy stain upon them.
Is that what you want?
Yes.
Is that better for you?
Actually, that, yes.
That worked for me.
I'm sorry.
Gregory Peck.
Right, press the button then.
Oh, just a lovely day in Paul's Sweet Shop.
I'm Paul Gannon, proprietor of Gannon's Candies,
the sweet shop that I now run for...
Excuse me.
The sake of it.
Yes.
Why are you standing outside of your shop talking?
I like to just stand outside and monologue.
I wanted to go in.
I actually want to...
Well, come on in then.
I've just opened it just now, just this second. A ting-a-ling-a-lingle. A ting-a wanted to go in. I actually want to... Well, come on in then.
I've just opened it just now.
Just this second.
A ting-a-ling-a-lingle.
A ting-a-ling-a-lingle.
Why don't you come on in?
Ah!
Oh, welcome in. What's that smell in here?
Shit.
We've got a problem with the pipes.
Oh, I see.
I can't.
It's one of the drawbacks to this store, unfortunately.
You want to come in and see all the candy,
but unfortunately it's just bog loaf.
Pounds and pounds of bog loaf stench coming
through. Bog loaf.
Bog loaf.
Bog loaf.
Now, bog loaf.
He's the guy, a guy
who shits out loaf-shaped
turds. I'm Roger
Moore. Oh, haven't you heard?
I'm here to meet
Bogloaf. Bogloaf.
Wah, wah,
wah. Bogloaf.
Anyway, sir, welcome
into my shop, Gannon's
Candy. Hello. Well, I'd
like Chinese
cinders and an old
Spanish man's teardrops
and a half a quarter of a pound of desensitised nail clippings.
Oh, we're just out of those this week, unfortunately, sir.
Oh, I've got the pink ones.
We don't, unfortunately.
I've got the crispy ones.
All we have are the...
I've got the sugary ones.
We've only got the fungal shrimp.
Fungal shrimp, fungal shrimp, fungal shrimp.
Stop singing every word that's said.
He's the shrimp, the shrimp that looks like a mushroom.
But he came too soon.
Right, okay.
That's his Achilles heel.
What?
That he has a premature ejaculation.
Fungal shrimp.
Bond, I'm going to kill you.
I'm going to take over the world at one time.
Oh, oh, oh, oh. You've fetched in your britches. take over the world at once. Oh! Oh! Oh!
Oh!
You fetched in your britches.
You fetched in your trousers.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Stop it now.
You have a shop to run and we have some sweet stuff to taste.
We do.
I've got some interesting sweets.
And now,
I thought we'd start with
some biscuity type of things today.
Biscuity things.
All of these. We're doing it in little mini segments.
Mini segments.
Rather like a Terry's Chocolate Orange.
Yes, and like Terry's Chocolate Orange, you can drop us on the floor and we shatter.
Because that's the way you're meant to do it, isn't it?
You're meant to drop it and then it breaks.
That's a gimmick someone made up.
I don't know.
I mean, it says on the top, doesn't it?
Tap on the top to break it.
I hate that.
I hate all of that gimmicky fast food advertising.
It's like that bloody McDonald's ad from a couple of years ago well the guy gets a burger sits down and he
puts his chip empties his fries into the lid of the i do that though yeah everyone fucking does
it it's like fucking the first thing you think to fucking do yeah so what's the problem but then
in the ad he does that and then someone else across the restaurant yeah yeah that gives him like a winky nod like yeah that's what i do oh
wow they have this little this wordless bond you and me we've got a special thing because we put
the fries in the top of our fucking cardboard thing like every other cunt you and me we figured
out the cheat code you know what i mean we figured that cheat code you know why you know what i'm
doing and that i i feel like dropping the terry's up chocolate orange yeah it's going to be one of a cunt. You and me, we figured out the cheat code to lie, didn't we? You know what I mean? You know why I object? And I feel
like dropping the Terry's chocolate orange
is going to be one of those things.
You're doing it. Who's doing it?
You do that as well. Of course I do.
You peel your banana, do you?
Oh, not me. Oh, like me, I peel it.
Shove it! Go on.
Go on. Where's it going to be shoved?
Maybe listening at home, you'll have an idea
of where he's going to shove his banana. But let's see where this goes i i think meet us but let's see where he
goes i was thinking meet us but meet us is delete us because i'm going up the arse i'm sorry come on
we're gonna eat some stuff i'm not in the mood to keep on a tange i'm tangenting is what i'm saying
shuttle we're gonna to try these. These
have always been sourced from the B&M that we
went on a shop around recently and we bought
some sweet shop stuff to sample.
And this is a lot...
Is it Lotus? It is Lotus.
Lower rice slip the B&M was in. Yes.
This is Biscoff and Go.
Biscuit spread and breadsticks,
it says. So I imagine
it's a spread based on the famous flavor
of uh biscoff biscuits which are those free biscuits they give you in certain types of
cafes that you once said you couldn't buy in packs and then i instantly and everyone online
instantly said yes of course you could buy them in packs but i think their popularity has gone up
because their offering has been diversified obviously to hence this product and i'm sure
you can get that in jars like and I'm sure you can get that
in jars like Nutella
oh you can
you can get Biscoff spread
in big
yeah like Nutella jars
and again I think it's
they did
there was someone
who did it online
or something
made
used the biscuits
to make a big splodgy mess
oh well you can make
a cheesecake with this
kind of spread
that's it
that's what I'm thinking of
which is
I'd imagine quite nice
I've not done it
a Biscoff cheesecake
yeah
that's really fucking nice
so I'm expecting a kind of Nutella it's like A Biscoff cheesecake. Yeah. That's really fucking nice.
So I'm expecting a kind of Nutella.
It's like choc dip, isn't it?
It's a choc dip, but it's more of a nutty.
Is it nutty?
Would you prefer to dip your breadsticks in a cheese dip or a choccy dip?
Like a Dairy Lee dip or something?
I would go for the Dairy Lee.
I'm always going to go.
Yeah.
I'm a savoury hound.
I'm a savoury hound.
Well, you've got more of a sweet tooth than I do, Paul.
True.
But I think when it comes to these kind of things,
I'd much rather have a cheesy dip than a chalky dip. Yeah, same here.
Bisc off and go.
So this is for a lunchbox,
do we think? I'm trying to scratch at some
pervy thing to go with bisque off and go.
You don't have to. I do.
You don't have to metaphorically take your clothes off to have a good time.
Excuse me, darling. We've had a good night
tonight. Fancy coming back to my place for a bisque off and go?
It's not going to catch on, Paul.
No, it's not.
Oh, well.
All right, here we go.
Let's open it up.
Bisque off.
I was fuming.
Now, do you...
No, come on.
Come on.
No, I just don't get it.
Bisque off.
I was fuming.
Pissed off.
Oh.
Bisque off.
Oh, look at it.
It's very diarrhea coloured.
He's opening it now.
It's got a...
It has a very...
Well, I mean, it's just a Biscoff-y colour.
It's that nice caramel.
It's a twin-pack product, and one has little biscuit sticks,
very much like a chopped dip, if you know those,
and the other is the sauce pot.
Sauce pot.
And again, it's that same caramel-brown kind of Biscoff-y colour.
It's almost a dark color it's a light almost
a dark beige or a light a toffee colored what's the smell like it's a very thick i thought it's
gonna be runny but actually this is quite thick and uh gloopy very dense it's a bit denser than
the chocolate isn't it it's a bit more watery there so um not much to say about these i've
always found you never get enough there's not much smell of that is there i was expecting a
sort of caramelly or something. It's there,
but it's subtle.
It's the mashed up biscuits,
isn't it?
I mean,
I don't know how they make it.
What does it say on the lid?
Can I see this, please?
It literally just says
biscuit spread and breadsticks.
Yeah, biscuit spread,
you see?
It's made of biscuits.
Now the smell is making sense to me.
It's made of mashed up biscuits.
I mean,
I don't think it's made,
I don't think it's like this.
Yes, it is.
It's got, why is it called biscuit fucking spread saying that i'm sure your process is a bit more complicated than just mashing up a biscuit because they have to add that viscosity to it don't they
right i'm crunching on this now yeah that's perfectly lovely it's nice especially if you
like those kind of biscuits it's reminding me because of the crisp sort of unsweetness
of the biscuit stick of a
crouton or a bread stick.
Like a, what are those biscuits?
Biscuits? No, those ones with
shut up. Rich tea. Yes.
A rich tea biscuit. You knew what
I was trying to get to. Yes. It's like a
rich tea biscuit, isn't it? Yes.
But it's not. Don't try and say I'm an idiot when you
can tell what I'm actually trying to say without even i must be onto something yeah but it's a
bread stick it has a very obvious bread flavor which goes nicely with the very sweet biscuit
dip but here's the thing i often find you never get enough bread sticks for sauce you know i feel
like the ratio is off you always end up with either loads of uh dip left well you need that's
your that's on you you have to to organise your chip to dip ratio.
What is that ratio?
How have they mathematically measured this out?
Do they know that if you do the
exact amount of dip per scoop
of your breadstick? They make some
kind of calculation
on that, probably, don't they? But
Paul, what's the problem? You've run
out of breadsticks, you just finish it off with your finger.
That's how I please the ladies, yes.
Perfectly lovely.
They were a quid were they?
Something like that?
Yeah, they weren't that much
more expensive than a quid.
I think it was like...
Nice.
Yeah, so...
Probably not very good for you.
In Gannon's Candy Store
I like to ask my guests
who come in to test my products
whether I should stock it
or block it.
Oh God, it's the fucking
en-shitification again
enshitification of
every single segment
is going to be the same
just like all the
fucking app
designs on your phone
what ratio
I don't want
I want to just do it
like the old fashioned way
give it a mark
out of five or whatever
well you do that then
don't binarise everything
I'm not
I'm just
you did
what did you say
we stock it
oh it's a shocker
fuck this
do we stock it or block it?
Or would it be something we should stock in my candy store
or block from ever being sold again?
I can't...
And then I'll allow you to give it a score.
I think you should stock it.
Yes.
It's a three out of five for me, Paul.
Perfectly nice, but what's it for?
You wouldn't want that as part of a box, innit?
It's a lunch snack thing.
Yeah.
You'd want something a bit more nutritious,
like an apple in there, wouldn't you?
But again,
if I'm going to have a lunch box,
I would much rather have the Dairy Lee dippy thing,
you know?
That'd be good for like an office worker,
if they're grabbing a coffee on their lunch break,
wouldn't it?
It'd be nice with a little coffee,
that.
I'd go with that.
It definitely goes,
that's how the Biscoff biscuits were manufactured.
They're supposed to go with coffee,
aren't they?
But this is why I like the Dairy Lee thing,
because what you tend to get is,
the quote unquote blandness of Dairy
but the breadsticks are more
interesting.
They've got chives or
something and there's a bit
more flavour at that end.
Those are nice.
Those are nice those ones
aren't they with the chive
sticks and they're almost
like large chip sticks those
ones aren't they?
Well that's the problem.
They have a sort of texture.
Yeah.
The problem is that all these
breadsticks are a delivery
system for the same old
biscotti biscuit taste, right?
It's quite boring.
Maybe I'll go down to 2.5, actually.
They're nice.
You know, I'd eat it, but it's nothing special, is it?
And that Biscoff flavour is just the Biscoff flavour.
Yeah.
Which I don't know what that is.
It's sort of a bit...
There's a bit of a burnt biscuit flavour and a bit of...
It's a biscotti spread.
Biscoff, pissed off, more like.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Now, that was...
What, that was a joke you
were going to make before what's next in the shop this is something you picked out that you wanted
us to try on the podcast so we're going to do it i've never seen this before it's a cabri's dairy
milk crispello did i pick that out yeah crispello it is fingers of like crispies coated in milk
chocolate so it's kind of like a kit kat but with little biscuits in instead of like a wafer.
This would be nice.
This would be,
what were those ones,
Snack Time,
where they called the little biscuit,
little chocolate biscuits?
Snack bars.
I like those.
You know what?
Have they stopped making those?
No,
but I had a pack
maybe about a year ago
because like,
oh,
I haven't had them since like my childhood,
but I tasted them.
They didn't taste like anything
in my remembrance
because it like,
it tasted off.
Everything tasted off everything tasted off
and when you say off
you mean not right
rather than actually rotten
the biscuit felt off
and the chocolate felt fake
and I looked at
the sell by date
no it was perfectly
within its sell by date
it was just horrible
it's horrible now
they probably changed
the recipe
so I don't know
maybe this is
more like what
a snack bar used to be like
because it's
I don't think
you can get this in the UK as a proper thing because even here it says on a little sticker
produced in egypt imported by some company to amsterdam the netherlands oh so maybe why it was
from b&m wasn't it i yeah but sometimes b&m get their stock from europe don't because they get
they get australia and they get it cheap don't they that's why yeah interesting but that's why
it's an interesting place for us to find stuff to taste, isn't it?
There you go. You know? It is, because you
do get variations on a theme. So,
little side note,
do you know we, every now and then, we get those things
that are like flump, or fruit
salad, or wham bar
flavoured? Well, we've had a lot of drinks recently.
We had the waters and the actual sodas,
yeah. On Instagram, I saw one of
those companies, you know, that do the kind of nutrition meals
where it's like slop in a jar and you eat it and a lot of fucking...
Like Huel.
Yeah, like Huel.
But they were doing now a range of Bassets or Barretts, whatever it is.
Barretts, Bassets, candy flavoured.
Flavoured Huel.
Yeah.
So you could have...
They had Flumps and they had Wham and they had...
That's what I mean.
They just own the copyright to those flavour chemicals.
It's weird and they'll just give them it anywhere.
I almost sometimes think they sell it on the iconography rather than the actual flavour.
But there must be something.
There must be a proprietary copyrighted chemical make-up of what they are.
Wasn't there, surely?
I think if you can create something that tastes vaguely like the item it's based on.
I don't know.
Job done.
Anyway. Flavour boffins, get in touch.
Right, so describe it to them, Paul.
It's a stubby finger of chocolate that is going to be packed with little circular biscuits.
And you get four in a pack.
Yeah.
Kit Kat-like.
It is, but they don't have Kit Kat Cadbury's, do they?
No.
So I know it's going to eat it.
It's very sweet, isn't it?
It's got that kind of empty sweetness.
Do you know what it reminds me of?
You know when you get those mini Malteser bunnies
where it's mostly chocolate,
but they have those pellets of Malteser malt within them?
It's like that, yeah.
Or honeycomb you get in Maltesers, don't you?
No, it's a malt biscuit type thing.
In Maltesers?
Yeah, that's why it's called Maltesers.
Oh.
Yeah, there's no honeycomb in them.
But weren't there all those ads where they bit into them and showed it? Yeah, but that's the malt. That's the malt teasers. Oh. Yeah, there's no honeycomb in them. But weren't there all those ads where they bit into them and showed it?
Yeah, but that's the malt.
That's the malt.
That's the malt biscuit.
Yeah, the same malt you put in a milkshake.
No, I meant it's sort of a honeycomb sort of shape, the stuff.
It's sort of like an...
No, it's an airy biscuit.
Yeah, it's like a spongy, airy biscuit.
But not the honeycomb.
It's like that honeycomb you used to buy in the 80s that came in a big, thick box.
It was a different thing, yeah.
Oh, I've listened back.
Oh, you're getting a boner.
Yeah, I used to fucking love them back in the day.
Those honeycomb bars.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, man, I've got a proper fucking...
I know, you like those.
This, however, is the Crispello.
It's perfectly fine.
It's fine.
The chocolate isn't very good quality.
This is the problem, though.
It's sugary.
It almost feels like Americans like a Hershey's or something.
That's what I was going to say.
It has that kind of Australian American
profile chocolate
yeah
where it's slightly more
waxy and overly sweet
yes
it doesn't taste like
a dairy milk chocolate base
no
but
still not too bad
it's not too bad
should I stock it
or block it
I would
I would block it
I would block it
you're going to have
so many more
different
similar things
similar better things
did they sell
it's not terrible I'd give it if we want it the score out of 5 everyone please do I'm going to say more different similar things similar better things did they sell terrible
I'd give it
if we wanted to score
out of five
everyone
please do
I'm going to say
1.75
2
that's rational
yeah
that's down to earth
and sensible
wasn't great
wasn't I mean
wasn't
nasty
actively nasty
no
it was
I was expecting
to kind of go
yeah but I finished
the finger
it's a fine
if simple
it's a heavy finger based episode it's a fine if simple it's a heavy finger
based episode
it's a fine
if simple
combination of a
biscuity crunch
with a chocolate
sweetness
yeah and as I say
I don't know
does nothing else
doesn't ask any
questions
doesn't want to
come round here
doesn't want to
borrow your
fucking milk
borrow your milk
no just have some
sorry mate
I'll borrow your
milk then I'll
fucking puke it up
squirt it back
into your bowl
milk comes out the end it back into your bowl.
Milk comes out the end.
Jack off into your Cheerios.
It's milk, isn't it?
Yeah.
No.
I was going to say,
I don't know if it was ever originally sold in the UK
at some small window of time.
Oh, you think maybe
they've gone for it
because it's made elsewhere
in the world
and there might be
a slight nostalgia thing
for some people.
Maybe Australians who live here, sorry.
No, I was going to say, sometimes I've seen them sell Australian dairy milk products,
Cadbury's products, and they had those ranges of chocolates you just don't get over here,
like Dream Bars or whatever they were.
So, I don't know.
Next and final item.
You wanted these.
This was the ones I wanted.
I don't remember picking out the Crispello.
Did I pick that out as well?
Yeah, you did.
You specifically pointed that out and threw it in the basket. I think it's one last thing on the Crispello. Hello, I out the Chris Bello. Did I pick that out as well? Yeah, you did. You specifically pointed that out through the basket.
You know what?
I think it's one last thing on the Chris Bello.
Hello, I'm Chris Bello.
I'm Marty Bello's brother.
Oh, yeah.
From Wet, Wet, Wet.
And even, I don't have the Scottish accent.
No, I was about to say.
I was born in Swindon.
Is that a Swindon accent?
I see you with my fingers.
No, why are you singing?
You're not a singer.
I do a knockoff band of Chris Pello.
What are they called?
Dry, dry, dry.
Dry, dry, dry.
Love is all around you.
I still feel it grows.
Now, Chris Pello.
Yes.
I'll be asking you to leave, please.
All right.
Do you like wildlife?
I like, I'll see that mint guy on the way in.
Oh, yes.
I'll see if he gives me around the world.
He can deal with
anything you have coming.
So,
one last word
on the Crispello.
I'm doing it again.
The fucking owl.
He's going to do the owl.
Don't do that
fucking owl.
Woohoo!
He smells of gravy!
Right, we're doing
this next item.
One last thing
on the Crispello.
Alright, go on.
Jesus.
Go on.
On the packaging of the Crispellos, which you, go on. Jesus. Go on. On the packaging
of the Crispellos,
which you can see
on the photos
on the website, everybody.
Look, they have three colours,
four colours,
indicating the four fingers
that you get in the bar.
But the fact that
they're different colours,
to me, Paul,
I thought they might have
different fruit-flavoured
marshmallow inside
or something like that.
That would be fun,
but no, you're right.
Do you see,
that's why I picked it out.
Yeah, no.
Because I thought,
do you agree, though,
that that's what it sort of suggests?
It suggests that there are flavours at play.
But there isn't.
They're all the same flavour, aren't they?
Just biscuit and chocolate.
I think it's just a colour splash to draw the eye.
That's all I wanted to say about the Crispello.
Bit deceptive, bit deceptive.
So, next, final on this part of the show,
Milky Way biscuits.
Because, you know, I love Milky Way.
You do love Milky Way.
It's not a flavour profile that's ever made me violently sick in my life.
Why?
Because it's milk chocolate sort of thing.
These are weird.
These are not what I thought they were going to be.
I thought they were going to be like custard creams, these.
That were stuffed with some kind of milky filling.
Milky Way filling.
They're not.
It looks like it's a vanilla biscuit of some kind with a chocolate bottom.
What does it describe itself as on the packaging?
Let's see what it says on the packet, please, Paul.
Short cake biscuit with a milk chocolate base.
So how is it Milky Bar, then?
The chocolate's meant to be on the bottom, is what they're saying.
And that's the way they are up in the pack, isn't it?
Yeah.
But chocolate is the base.
This one's got a little satellite on it, on the biscuit.
Oh, there's lots of different designs.
Yeah, it's nice.
There's a robot there, Paul.
Beep bop.
And I've got a rocket there.
Yeah.
And then there's a Saturn-like planet.
Is that the one you got?
No, I've got a little satellite.
Oh, that's different as well.
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to try this.
I quite like those.
I was worried at first that it was going to be a heavy Milky Bar cream filling kind of thing.
Yes, you'd have like a jammy Dodger.
But instead of jam, you'd have Milky Bar, that whipped up stuff that's in the centre of Milky Bars.
Or as I say, like a custard cream.
But I'm going to go into this because shortbread's fine.
I like shortbread.
I love shortbread.
As long as the chocolate isn't repulsive, we could be all right here.
Oh, the mastication action.
Oh, hot stuff.
That was fine.
Fine.
Perfectly normal sort of shortcake biscuit.
Couldn't really taste the chocolate.
No.
It was just a very fine, if slightly cheap, flavoured shortbread biscuit.
So, not very good in terms of selling me the idea of eating a Milky Way.
No.
Or anything.
No, not really.
As I say, if you hadn't told me it was a Milky Way,
I wouldn't have suggested it was branded that way.
No way.
Although I am going to do this.
Oh, he's dipping his Milky Way biscuit into the remaining Biscoff.
Biscoff. Biscoff biscuit spread. Biscoff biscuit spread. Quite nice. Oh, yeah. Let's do a little cocktail. Yeah, he's doing a dip. He's dipping his Milky Way biscuit into the remaining biscoff. Biscoff.
Biscoff biscuit spread.
Let's do a little cocktail.
I'll give that a two again.
I mean, is that okay? Two out of five?
They're not offensive, but just not
anything really happening with them.
The best thing about those is the different little
designs they have. The best thing I can say about them
is they are unremarkable.
They're not offensive. They're fine.
Stock them or block them?
Block them.
Fuck them.
I'll give them a two
and I'll block them.
So, of the biscuit section,
what was your favourite
of those three items, Paul?
I mean, I'm going to have to
probably say biscotti,
biscoffi, whatever it's called.
Biscoffi.
Biscoffi.
They missed a trick there,
didn't they?
Boffins.
Biscoffi with biscoffi.
Yeah.
Ah!
Biscoffi.
Breadsticks.
Large breadsticks
What about this?
I've Spoffy in your Biscoffy
Right, we'll be back after this short break
Oh, I've shat, it's toffee
Don't finish your thought
You've started so you'll finish
Oh
Spoff my Biscoffy toffee off
Wasn't really worth it
Wibble wobble, wibble wobble, jelly on a plate.
A wibble wobble, wibble wobble, jelly on a plate.
Jelly on a plate.
Jelly on a plate.
Wibble wobble, wibble wobble, we're eating jelly on a plate today.
No, it's not.
In fact, that's a lie though, isn't it?
Is it?
There's no plate in here.
Jelly on a spoon.
Jelly on a spoon.
Jelly on a spoon.
I'll take you to the moon. Let me give you some jelly on a spoon. Jelly on a spoon. Jelly on a spoon. I'll take you to the moon.
Let me give you some jelly on a spoon. How about that?
Nah.
Oh, God.
Paul, shall we go against
expectations and not compare the
jelly to anything? It tastes like
spunk!
Right, here we go.
We've got some
jellies. We've never done jellies on the show.
We ain't never done, no.
I bet we have.
No, I don't know.
Paul, I always ate a panna cotta in an Italian restaurant the other day.
It's a big cake thing, isn't it?
No, it's like a custard jelly.
It's milk jelly, is how I describe it.
Oh, I don't think I've ever had that.
No, fair enough.
I didn't bring it up because it was quite nice.
I kept it down. Good, yeah. Delicious p I've ever had that. No, fair enough. I didn't bring it up because it was quite nice. I kept it down.
Good, yeah.
Delicious.
Panna cotta.
Let's just get into this.
Oh, Paul,
let's just get this
started straight away.
By the way,
panna cotta.
Panna cotta.
Right.
We bought some little jellies.
So I don't think
we've done jellies before.
We might be wrong,
but we're doing it again
because we saw some jellies
that have been branded
by some familiar
flavors that we've done in the past right plus some generics the genetic well not the genetics
like brands compare them against because basically just to quickly sum up we've got some slush puppy
juicy strawberry jelly some vimto jelly and to match them up i've got a hartley's now hartley's
are a brand again they're not just a generic. They make jams and jellies.
We have got some Hartley jelly, but it is 10 cal,
which suggests to me this is like their diet jelly product.
So it's not the full-on full strength,
but there's a strawberry one to match the slush puppy
and a...
This is a blueberry and blackcurrant jelly.
Blueberry and blackcurrant.
Okay, a very purple jelly.
It's close as I could get to Vimto.
Yes, I think that is very close to Vimto.
Because all it says here on the bottom is,
Vimto flavoured jelly made with the secret Vimto flavour.
Yeah, they're very...
Was it always a secret?
Yes.
Isn't it just like blackberries and plums or whatever?
No, it's that distinct Vimto flavour.
That's why they've been so successful.
Sort of like that KFC secret spices or whatever.
It's like Iron Brew or whatever.
It's like, you know.
It's their own proprietary special Vimto flavour.
Yes, and because they're huge in the Middle East.
Is it?
They have certain festival.
I don't know which one it is.
Like a big, I think it's a big Islamic festival.
It's part of the tradition.
In a similar way, like people in Japan
celebrate Christmas with KFC.
It's like a branded thing that's become
a huge part of a tradition.
Oh, yeah.
I don't remember more, but I read an article once that Vimto is huge in the Middle East.
Good, good, good research.
Good research.
I'll have to look into that.
What do you want to start with?
Let's go with the slush puppy because I think it's going to be the worst.
Maybe.
Because we've talked about slush puppy before.
You had those chews and the bonbons and all sorts of things.
And you were like, it doesn't matter.
It's just generic strawberry or whatever flavour.
Really terrible.
There's no, there's no, nothing to it, you know. Even worse than things like those it doesn't matter. It's just generic strawberry or whatever flavour. Really terrible. There's nothing to it, you know.
Even worse than things like those flumps and stuff.
At least they sort of taste like what flumps used to taste of,
or whatever, you know.
But this is the thing about this jelly, right?
In that, so, I guarantee you,
if we'd got 100 different types of pots of strawberry,
they would all taste the same.
What makes this one stand out,
and what makes people want to buy it,
is its association with the brand of slush puppy.
Right?
That's kind of it.
Oh, I'm just getting that.
That hit as soon as I open it.
I'm opening my pot.
That's just pure...
Oh, Christ.
Whatever the chemical is,
that is the artificial strawberry.
It's almost that school sports day
cordial kind of strawberry flavour, isn't it?
What?
School sports school.
Did you not have sports day in your school?
Sports day.
I don't understand.
I'm just imagining the gym.
You're imagining...
You know what?
I don't want to know where your brain's going.
It's just funny.
It just made me laugh.
You say that made me laugh i don't know
what i don't i genuinely don't stay it's the fact that did you not have cordial sports day cordial
special cordial on sports day what are you talking about we used to have like big you know but it
wasn't called no one has said it was just cordial it was cordial any time of the year i associate
with drinking on a sports day.
That's what made me laugh.
The way you kind of poetically did that.
And I wanted you to go further with what was going on.
I wasn't going to,
because I didn't think it was going to be that much of a big fucking deal.
And we'd waste one minute talking about.
Let's eat this jelly then.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I'm in a good mood.
What's the texture like?
It's kind of runny on the top and thick on the bottom, isn't it?
I don't understand that about jelly.
It almost gets that water at the top, doesn't it?
Yeah.
Oh.
It tastes like a strawberry jelly to me.
Christ.
That's sweet.
Yeah.
And you can taste the sweeteners there.
You can still taste sweeteners and it's sweet.
Yeah.
That's just generic, man.
Well, here's where I want to run it against the Hartleys.
There is a slight sort of artificial tartness as well.
Do you know what it reminds me of?
Apart from fucking sports day.
I don't know if you said it.
It's like when you get... Sports day cordial.
It's like when
you get... I could be such a euphorism.
Have a sip on the sports
day cordial. It's that same flavour you get
from like a panda pop strawberry or a
Mr Freeze pops when it's gone
melty and there's a little bit of juice left at the bottom.
100% with you on that Paul, I agree. gone melty and there's a little bit of juice left at the bottom. 100% with you on that, Paul.
I agree.
It's almost like there's a giant jelly factory
that just pumps out the same stuff
into different marketed boxes.
I think that could be the case.
But now we're going to taste the 10% Huntersons.
Is it Huntersons?
No, it's not.
It's Hartleys.
Hartleys.
Think of Yellow Pages.
Yeah, if you need to think.
I was looking for jelly.
Yes, my name.
Wibble wobble heartly.
Yeah, good.
Now, this strawberry has a darker hue.
It's a much more kind of Ghostbusters 2 slime colour.
Well, no, it's much purpler than this.
It looks orange in comparison, the slush puppy one, doesn't it?
Now that we compare the two it looks well orange
it actually looks
kind of fecally
it does look
brownie orange
it looks
oh it looks like a
Knorr sauce
pot cube thing
yes it doesn't
the colour isn't very good
on the Slush Puppy one
is it
to the eye
now it looks like
that doesn't look like
strawberry either
that looks too purple
to be strawberry
again it looks more like
the slime from Ghostbusters 2
ah
pinky purple.
I'm going to give this a taste now
just to see how it goes
and I'll hand it to you
just after my mastication.
What's the texture like there?
It's a little bit more runny.
It smells almost exactly the same, right?
It tastes very different,
but it's still that
fake strawberry thing you know.
It's hard to explain.
It's both very familiar
and yet it's almost like
chalky or pastoral,
you know, like kind of palm of violety kind of.
Well, let's go to the first thing that jumps out, Paul, and that is much less sweet.
Yes.
Yes.
In a good way.
In a good way.
It's less tart.
Yeah, and it's less of that artificial tartness, that acrid sort of.
Yeah.
Almost that sort of Coca-Cola, what makes Coca-Cola have that sort of tartness, you know?
But it's much nicer.
It is.
It's much nicer.
I've just had another go at the slush puppy one again.
Oh, I much prefer that Huntley's.
Yeah.
Huntley's.
It's much more, I mean, look, they're all,
it's all fake shit,
but what I'm saying is that one,
you can taste the artificiality.
This one affects some kind of natural.
There is still a sort of aspartame
or whatever sweetener aftertaste on the Huntley's,
but it's not as bad as that whole,
the overly sweet sort of sharpness.
I don't like the Slush Puppy one.
And it's just more artificially somehow, even though.
Do you agree, though? I agree.
Stock it or block it?
Block it.
We're going to block the Slush...
Yeah.
Now it's time for the Vimpto Jelly.
Vimpto, Vimpto.
Now it's familiar in its colour.
It's a very purple, rich kind of...
Is there such a thing as a royal purple?
I don't know.
It is a dark purple, I guess is what you'd call it.
Paul, this is the exact same pot that the slush puppies came in,
and that was terrible quality.
Yeah.
Hmm.
What's the nose saying?
It smells like Vimto, to be fair.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, he's drunk the water.
He's drinking the Vimto juice.
Oh, God, that's all strange.
That's like taking a pure hit of it.
That's probably connoisseurs, like, I just drank the water off the journey.
I just got to smell the bouquet.
Oh, I guess a 19...
Oh, yeah, that's very Vimto, isn't it?
It's a 1994, I believe.
You know, there's what Vimto has.
It has those fruit notes, but it also has a strong vanilla.
Think about it.
It's got a creamy thing going on.
That's the vanilla.
But you can taste grape almost.
Yeah.
And definitely blackberry.
I've grown to sort of like it more, the taste of Vimto, over the years.
I think the thing is, the older you get, the more nostalgia you have for it.
That's weird.
Because I don't remember liking it as a kid.
I remember it thinking it tasted kind of cheap and shit.
I'm going in.
I'm going in.
Oh, it's a lot thicker.
It's weird, that one.
Halfway through, there's a kind of hospital.
I don't know how to describe it.
No, I know what you mean.
Like a kind of a mouthwash.
Yeah.
Medicine.
It's a medicine, though.
Halfway through.
Cleaning product.
It's about halfway through, you know what I mean?
It's sort of a...
It's whatever they use to clean out the hospital beds
after the old lady's dead.
Yeah.
It's whatever that is.
I don't think Vimto really works as a jelly.
It's weird how the flavour comes in and out.
Vimto police works as a jelly. It's weird how the flavour comes in and out. Vimto police.
Shut up.
It's not as repulsive as the slush puppy one.
No, but there is that medicine note, which I don't really like.
Yeah, that's strange, that.
I wonder if that's all the sweetness or whatever in it.
Yeah, I think I still prefer, of all the three we've tasted, I prefer the low sugar.
Well, just for shits and giggles, let's try the Hartley's
10 Cal Blueberry
and Blackcurrant flavoured jelly
and just see where we go with this.
Yes, because it's not
an exact analogue
flavour-wise, is it?
You get these packs
we got of the jellies,
just so people are aware.
It's like four little mini pots
in a pack
and it was like only a quid or so,
wasn't it, for that?
So, fine if you've got kids
and you want to throw them something in their lunchbox, I guess.
I wouldn't put the bisque off and one of these.
You know what I mean?
They're going to...
Fucking kids.
That's another myth.
Oh, that sugar makes kids go...
Well, but anyone go...
Yeah.
Yeah, no, I know.
There you go.
You explain that to my proctologist.
Well, this smells absolutely lovely.
I actually really like the smell of this.
Okay.
Why?
Well, it's got that...
It's got a fresh brambly sort of smell.
Yeah, it has.
It's got that brambly, broobery, blackcurranty kind of...
Sports Day School cordial.
Mother, I won first prize, Mother.
I got the egg and spoon race, Mother.
That's what I mean.
Oh, Mother.
It's the sack race.
Ah, yes.
I have figured it out.
I should put my feet to the corners and waddle along to victory, Mother. Okay, Paul, thank you. I It's the sacres. Ah, yes. I have figured it out. I should put my feet to the corners
and waddle along to victory, mother.
Okay, Paul, thank you.
Hmm.
I am parched, mother.
Pass me, pass me, mother.
What?
Pass me my cordial.
Mother.
Another thing on that point.
I remember our school used to have a giant kind of tub
where the juice came out
in like a giant plastic vat.
But it had a McDonald's logo on
and the orange juice that came out
was like the orange juice
you used to get at
McDonald's back in the 80s
as a juice
that's sort of flat
but not actual orange juice
yeah
that flat horrible
powder that you add
a load of water to
and then whatever
was there a tap
on the spigot
on the side of the
yeah like a giant plastic keg
so it was on a table
with a spigot
giant plastic keg
yellow
with the McDonald's logo on
so we used to think
as a school
oh it must be officially
sponsored by McDonald's or something you know possibly they did sort of gift it the the McDonald's logo on. So we used to think as a school, oh, it must be officially sponsored by McDonald's or something, you know.
Possibly they did sort of gift it, the local McDonald's or something.
It's interesting.
I hadn't really thought about that for, I don't know, what, 40 years?
Well, that's good.
That's depressing.
Anyway, I'm going to have a bite of this.
Oh, God, it's very runny, this one.
Oh, yeah.
That smell is purely like those pastels.
Fruit pastels or something.
Those pastels I used to get that were meant to be like throat pastels,
but you'd eat a whole pack of them
because they were all blackcurranty
with the sugar on the outside.
You know?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, them ones.
Those blackcurrant pastels.
That meant to be good for your throat.
You should only have one a day
and you cane the pack.
Yeah, you cane the whole lot.
Those little jelly pastels.
And then you had the runs the whole next day.
Well, that was you.
Mother!
Stop.
Mother, I have the runs.
Scoop it up, mother. I did it in the sack, in the sack and race. And! Mother, I have the runs. Scoop it up, mother!
I did it in the sack, in the sack race.
And I smeared it on the...
I dropped my cack in the sack race, mother!
I can't... This is so splodgy.
Isn't it? It's the runniest one.
It's the runniest one.
Easily the runniest so far.
Get it in your mouth.
Flavour-wise, it's almost kind of not there.
The smell's stronger than the actual flavour.
Bit watery, isn't it?
It's very watery.
No, to me, it tastes's stronger than the actual flavour. It's a bit watery, isn't it? It's very watery. No, to me,
it tastes more artificial
than the equivalent strawberry one.
Yeah, weird.
I need you to rate those.
My favourite might be
the 10-cal strawberry
followed by the Vimto
followed by that one we just had
and then at the arse end
the slush puppy.
I have to concur.
Yeah.
I have to concur.
Well, I mean,
for the price,
they're not offensive,
but I would argue
there are better things
you can put on a lunchbox
than any of these.
Maybe the heartless.
You can probably get
better jelly, can't you?
Make it at home.
Just give a kid
one of those blocks of jelly.
That's all they want.
You know the block of jelly
that you boil in a kettle
and you put it in a thing
and you melt down?
Just give them the block of that.
They prefer that.
I used to eat that.
I love that.
I was a good boy. No, I did. I used to prefer that. I used to eat that. I love that. I was a good boy.
No, I did.
I used to always like...
I used to eat that shit.
Everyone does.
That's the best stuff.
It was probably completely like 90% hooves.
Well, it's gelatin, isn't it?
Which is hooves and bones.
But I don't think it's bad for you.
It's just, it's tougher jelly, isn't it?
Yeah.
I think I like my jelly firmer.
I like it firmer.
But also, I don't really like jelly as a thing anyway.
I like trifle.
I love a trifle.
Trifle's fine.
And that has jelly in it.
True.
But what else do you have?
I don't like ice cream with jelly.
I don't like custard with jelly.
I would eat.
Well, that's what trifle is.
Yeah, but it's all packaged together with biscuit and flavour.
You know what I mean?
There's a conceit.
We can almost make a trifle now.
With that biscoff.
I'll put my fingers in the bisiscoff. I'll do my,
put my fingers in the Biscoff.
I finished off the Biscoff
with my fingers.
Do you want me to give you
a creamy top as well?
With what?
Well,
Eli,
let's have a little thing
about our well of comedy.
No,
I'm going to leave the shop now.
Are you going to leave?
Well,
I'm going to close up the shop.
Okay.
Because I,
it's only,
it's a pop-up shop.
It's only here temporarily.
Once you go,
that's it,
me done for the day.
Okay.
But I've made some calculations
and I appreciate your feedback.
So thank you.
Come by anytime
and we'll taste some more sweet treats
in Gannon's candy style.
Okay.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
But before you go.
No, no, no, no, no.
Goodbye, my good night girl.
Caught up in your wishing well,
your hope and sadness.
I'm Chris Pello.
I had to show him the packet again.
I also can't remember any of the songs Wet, Wet, Wet did right now as well.
Exactly.
So fuck off.
I'm just going to sing you out the shop.
Okay, I'm gone.
No.
I've got nothing. I'm going to go. I'm going to lock up the shop. Okay, I'm gone. No! I've got nothing.
Press the fucking stick.
I'm going to lock up the shop right now.
We're going to end this episode.
Okay.
Very complicated key set he has.
Ornamental, you might say.
I'll do the
shop closing up sound effects. Thank you very much.
I don't need feedback from the likes of you.
All right, sorry.
Go back into your little world of sports days.
Mother, mother, mother, it's the relay race, mother.
It's the egg and spoon race.
I haven't got an egg.
Use your bollock.
I shall put my plum upon the spoon, mother.
Use your bollock on the spoon, mother.
Here we go.
And off they go.
Pathetic, Eli.
Pathetic.
You were playing along there.
Yeah, I always play along with Eli.
Come on.
Just press the button.
Let's get out of here.
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really this week
also don't forget
your tickets for Digitizer Live
that's happening
in July
yeah
I keep forgetting while While you're looking
that up, I've got a little friend here.
Go on. He likes cheese and
I'm hoping to tempt him
with this little bit of biscuit. He likes
chocolate sometimes as well. He's a
naughty little scamp.
He does do
sex work, so Paul, if you didn't like
the mink, I think you're going to
love serotonin rodent
digitizer live is on saturday the 29th of july there's a link to it on our website there's so
many stars of digitizer and beyond going to be there on the night we're going to hopefully have
ashens suze kempner all sorts ash frith will be there and all your favourite digital digitiser characters
so yeah
links on our website
to the tickets
it's on
Saturday the 29th
of July
join us
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of celebrating
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30th birthday
can I go up
a tanner up your arse then
tanner up your arse
I need five Bob
tanner up your arse
nibble on your beaters nibble on your meters two pants then. Tanne up your arse. Only five, Bob. Tanne up your arse. Nyeh, nyeh, nyeh.
Nibble on your betas.
Nibble on your meters, two-pants.
Where's he going? On the serotonin rodent.
On the serotonin rodent.
Nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh.
Nyeh. Serotonin rodent.
Nyeh. Spittle.
Spittle trail on your backside.
Who's this coming up now?
I'm an ant-phetamine.
No, it doesn't work.
I'm sorry.
We're ant-phetamines.
Ant-phetamine isn't a chemical in the brain.
It's a drug.
It doesn't mean nothing, does it?
It doesn't mean nothing.
It's all fucking nonsense, this shit.
I wish I could fly.
I'd hop to the sky, wish I could fly. Fuck off.
I'd hop to the sky, but I can't.
Fuck off.
That did not work.
The antphetamine.
I'm an antphetamine.
Fuck off.
I've got a better reaction than your fucking mink wank.
Don't say that.
He's still behind the cupboard.
See you next week.
Bye-bye.
Bye, everyone. you