IT’S THE “AGED 27 1/3” BIT THAT MAKES ME CRY WITH LAUGHTER
this kills me!
They actually did it, too.
this is the most adorable thing i’ve seen in my life
I guess you can say that 3 year old was “spot on”
this post has nothing to do with my blog but I love this so much and I had to share
I could see it being called Leopard Bread, too. But Giraffe is even better.
Customer service done right.
Okay– so the picture of the bread made me wonder whether the name change stuck, so I Googled “sainsbury’s giraffe bread” and found not only numerous references to “Giraffe (Tiger) Bread” from the Sainsbury’s Web site, but also this followup story on the change from the BBC:
By the time the BBC story was written, however, customer manager Chris King, aged 27 1/3, was no longer employed at Sainsbury’s. Apparently he’d left the company to go study to be a primary-school teacher. Perfect.
Technically, they are called Costasiella kuroshimae…
… but their informal name is ‘Leaf Sheep.’ They’re one of the only animals in the world that can perform photosynthesis; they eat algae, suck out the chloroplasts, and incorporate them into their own bodies.
It’s a phenomenon known as functional kleptoplasty, if you want to get all geeky and technical about it (which I do). Basically it means they’re kind of like solar-powered slugs!
