[Food] Elderly couple rave about 'gorgeous' pâté before realising they've been eating cat food

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

SO easily done, I always find

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/elderly-couple-rave-gorgeous-pt-24172646.amp

 

[zefarelly]

lovely

The cat's on Foie-Gras I take it.

 

[Si Gull]

How strange, our cats raved about their gorgeous cat food before realising they were eating paté.

 

[beorhthelm]

is pate overrated, or cat food under appreciated?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Presumably elderly couple accompanied their bread and pâté treat with a fine white wine served straight from the toilet bowl before relieving themselves in next door's flower bed

 

[Robinjakarta]

Well, according to the tin, it was gourmet cat food: gourmet mouse.

 

[zefarelly]

But... the tin has a picture of a cat on it....

Did they think they were eating cat páté? Or Cáté if you like.

pussy fudge

 

[Mr Bridger]

This is easily done as well.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

My step gran did stuff like this, oh how we laughed at her sometimes thinking she was dotty....

In fact they were the early signs of dementia...

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My step gran did stuff like this, oh how we laughed at her sometimes thinking she was dotty....

In fact they were the early signs of dementia...

Indeed. It's easy to forget how effortlessly we can slip into inadvertent cruelty. I've done it more than once, myself.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Indeed. It's easy to forget how effortlessly we can slip into inadvertent cruelty. I've done it more than once, myself.

True, I believe you can still laugh at things, but be sometimes think about things a little more, and ask why did they do that, bad eye sight, amnesia, dementia etc etc....

Still can be funny, laugh or cry conundrum I guess..

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Indeed. It's easy to forget how effortlessly we can slip into inadvertent cruelty. I've done it more than once, myself.

Does inadvertent cruelty count as cruelty tho? I'd suggest not. Cruelty is a bit more calculated shirley?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Does inadvertent cruelty count as cruelty tho? I'd suggest not. Cruelty is a bit more calculated shirley?

Yes. I suppose I meant causing offense by avoidable thoughtlessness. I remember once a student of mine turned up for work wearing all black (this was early 90s) and I quipped 'either you've run out of coloured clothes or you hamster has died'.

Her reply was 'Actually it was my grandmother'.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Yes. I suppose I meant causing offense by avoidable thoughtlessness. I remember once a student of mine turned up for work wearing all black (this was early 90s) and I quipped 'either you've run out of coloured clothes or you hamster has died'.

Her reply was 'Actually it was my grandmother'.

You were lucky they didn't kick off about "coloured clothes" - the correct terminology is 'Afro-Caribbean' clothes.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Yes. I suppose I meant causing offense by avoidable thoughtlessness. I remember once a student of mine turned up for work wearing all black (this was early 90s) and I quipped 'either you've run out of coloured clothes or you hamster has died'.

Her reply was 'Actually it was my grandmother'.

You'll be disappointed with that avoidable thoughtlessness

lolol

 

[studio150]

Why would you contact a newspaper with this as a story, and why is it newsworthy.

I know we are in the era of clickbait (or should that be kittybait?) but this just shows how much standards have fallen.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

They'd lived in France since 2015 and still not learnt enough French to understand food labels.

 

[Badger]

 

[Gwylan]

They'd lived in France since 2015 and still not learnt enough French to understand food labels.

Oh, I can believe that. A few years back we went with friends to France to stay with her father-in-law. Our friend had an accident and I had to go to the hospital with her as her FiL (who'd lived in France for nearly 20 years) couldn't speak enough French to talk to the doctor.

 

[HHGull]

The daughter was going to wet herself for 10 minutes? Now there’s a sight