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What am I talking about?
Kraft Dairylea Lunchables, that’s what I’m talking about.
I was feeling a tad peckish yesterday and went to the shop to purchase myself a snack.
I was looking around and the little light blue square plastic pack caught my eye.
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A review by deano_76 on Kraft Dairylea Lunchables Pizza March 20th, 2002
Author's product rating:
Value for Money
Very poor
Product Quality
Poor
Product package
Average
Taste
Quite nasty
How loyal are you to this brand?
Not at all
Advantages:
Handy for packed lunches
Disadvantages:
Loads - read the op
Recommend to potential buyers:
no
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Oh my Lord, I have just been ripped off in the most bizarre fashion possible.
Somebody, somewhere must pay for this incredible outrage, what an absolute SKANK!.
What am I talking about?
Kraft Dairylea Lunchables, that’s what I’m talking about.
I was feeling a tad peckish yesterday and went to the shop to purchase myself a snack. I was looking around and the little light blue square plastic pack caught my eye. Dairylea Lunchables Pizza – Pepperoni and cheese variety. I quickly snatched it out of the refrigerator and went to the checkout.
“£1.49 please” said the cashier.
“E, E, E, Excuse me?” I replied sounding a bit like Gareth Gates’s twin brother.
“£1.49 please sir”
I tried not to cause a scene and paid her the money seeing as how the shop was packed to the rafters, then I sauntered home in a mad trance. A quid and a half for this tiny plastic box, it had better be good.
**THE PACKAGE**
No not the film with Gene Hackman, but the Lunchables box. ‘Fun to eat, no need to heat’ says the slogan. It had better be bloody fun to eat after the amount I’ve just shelled out. The package claims to contain 3 pizza bases, 9 pieces of pepperoni, 9 pieces of cheese, a sachet of pizza sauce and a plastic pizza sauce spreader. When I opened it, the pack contained everything it had promised but was two pieces of pepperoni short.
The plastic pizza sauce spreader contains the dumbest warning that I have ever seen on an English pack. ‘Plastic spreader is not edible’ DUH! You don’t say? Like I usually go around eating chunks of plastic.
**THE IDEA**
The idea behind it is quite simply to take it with you as part of a packed lunch and be able to handily make yourself three small pizzas.
You take the pizza base and snip open the pizza sauce and spread it evenly over the base. Then you top it with Pepperoni slices and cheese to give you a wonderful mini pizza, or so they claim.
**THE REALITY**
The pizza bases are about the size of the top of a can of coke, they taste like a wet digestive and are so unpleasant that you need more than pizza bloody sauce to make them even half edible. The pizza sauce is quite tasty in itself and the sachet contains well enough for all three bases, the cheese is cut into tiny triangles that are so minute in size, that there might as well not even be any.
The pepperoni slices are even smaller and to add to the insult, they were two pieces short as I have already said. The smell is awful too, the aroma is like the one you'd usually associate with the inside of a refigerator coated with mould.
The entire contents of this pack must only cost a maximum of 20p and they have the bear faced cheek to charge nearly £1.50. You could literally buy yourself a pack of chilled meat, a small block of cheese and some crackers from the local supermarket for £1.50, I’ve done it in Morrisons.
**NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION**
Each 97g pack contains: 280 calories 11g of protein 25.5g of carbohydrates 15g of fat 1.6g of fibre 1g of sodium 190mg calcium (24% RDA)
You really don’t want to know what is in the ingredients, all I am saying is that most of the stuff in here comes with three E numbers. The rest is just disgusting.
**OTHER INFORMATION**
If you have any complaints, of which I have dozens I might add, then there is a free phone help line. They don’t need to charge for the phone after robbing you blind in the first place.
The pathetic slogan ‘How to com’moo’nicate with us with a stupid looking cow staring at you, gives way to the number. 0808 1000 858
Or you can use the freepost service: Kraft foods UK Freepost SWC3320 Cheltenham GL50 3ZZ
And they have an email address too: Talk2dairylea@Krafteurope.com OOH! Are they in for some bombardment?
**MY FINAL THOUGHTS**
This Lunchables Pizza was rancid, it was absolutely tiny and I wouldn’t even buy one again if it were on special offer. Buy one get ten free, sorry not interested.
You can buy three or four varieties of the normal Lunchables with crackers and ham.
Two varieties of this pizza version and there is even a Dairylea lunchables Hot dogs variety. I personally, won’t be trying out any of them. Take my advice and stay well clear of these pathetic mini meals. Sure they are handy for lunch boxes, but so are packets of crisps, and sandwiches.
For the price you pay for one of these bland snacks you could quite easily fill a Childs lunch box with enough treats to last him all day.
Dairylea, you suck! And you can sue me for it.
If you have any kind of moral sense then avoid these dreadful packs of daylight robbery at all costs. Thanx for the read
...and I quote, from a Kraft spokesperson (Kraft make Darylea) said “…Darylea is made using only the highest quality turkey, chicken or ham meat, as clearly labelled on the pack” Pfft! Yeah, sure… “Highest quality”. That’s a total lie. These taste, look and smell horrible. The hot dog ones are sickening to look at (let alone eat), the Pizza ones contained a sort of cold tomato puree to put on the base of it, the chicken burger ones are indescribably ... ...Adults don’t deserve it. No one deserves it. And no one should pay any money for this, certainly not £1.50 for them. 49p is a more realistic price, although I would never approach it, even then. What people have to realise is that kids shouldn’t eat this rubbish. It’s unhealthy, too (It contains about a quarter of a 6- year-olds Recommended Daily Allowance- horrific considering the taste).
It’s unhealthy. It’s disgusting. It smells horrid. And many ...
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cold and tasteless Review ofKraft Dairylea Lunchables Pizzaby
samanthar12000
Advantages: Good for kids packed lunch Disadvantages: Taste disgusting.
I buy my kids lunchables all the time, my kids love them they come in handy little cartons that fit easily into a lunchbag or schoolbag. They are reasonably priced and there is enougth in each tub for a light lunch or snack.
My kids normally eat the cheese, meat and biscuit ones so for a change we thought that we would try the pizza ones, and what a shock we were in for, talk about something being poor quality, these make my stomach turn just at ... ...which are infact biscuit type pizza bases! You get a pack of tomato puree type sauce with some cheese and cold meat.
The smell from the tomato would turn your stomach unless you like that type of smell and the taste is not very nice at all.
My kids did not enjoy these, to me I think they are someones bright idea(or maybee not so bright)for another way to make money out of kids lunches.
I would not recommend that you buy these unless you are sure ...
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