Monday, January 9, 2012

Oh Gardenia

How stupid,that some Chinese are actually boycotting Gardenia just because it's associated to that Al Bukhary fellow.
How silly that some Malays actually think that all Chinese are boycotting Gardenia and just eating Massimo or High 5 or Roti Benggali because they really want to support Massimo.
How childish that some want to inflame us by telling half truths,dictating that we should eat Massimo just because it belongs to the dethroned Sugar King.

I'll simplify how this story came to be,by retelling you tales based on what I heard through the grapevines.Thus what you're about to hear,has reached my ears,by first being sieved past many cochlea tunnels and the whole truth though unverified,is generally agreed upon by the general gossip mongering populace as to how this no bread-ner episode bloated into yeastsentially nonsensical proportions

  • Robert Kuok the former sugar king and of course croony of Mahathir was forced to sell Chuping,the sugarcane land where he makes his moolah.
  • Fed up he threw a tantrum,took up residence in China,gained the trust of the Chinese and embarked on an unpatriotic crusade.
  • That culminated in a Malaysian palm oil snub when "someone" recommend that the Chinese shove it to a Malaysian delegation that China had enough supply,preferring them to get their supply of palm oil from Indonesia rather than Malaysia.That powerful a person this is.To be able to dictate China's choice.
  • And MFM felt that brunt of that,ripe for a tit for tat session,since it was a company owned by him
  • Not happy that his pocket was to be pinched further,he goes and incites the malaysian chinese press with yellow bonfire inflaming hotcake selling,outrage boiling,headers.
  • Of all things Gardenia has to play along and cry victim when actually the nail was in the coffin from a long time ago probably cos they want to plead bail out ? ala Rapid style? or what other devious plans only their directors might know or probably would have devised.Which all leads to that fella residing in China being the blame guy,if ever Gardenia were to call it a day

Thus this is not a bread war but rather a tycoon's personal war waged against his former cash cow country due to his reasoning that any unfair corporate force overs are probably racially spurred.
And the so called 'victimised' bread company is fighting the wildfire with an itsy bitsy microwave to camouflage their dwindling sales figure.

Don't be mistaken if you NEVER see me eating Gardenia,it's because of 2 main reasons
  1. I never liked the fact that this brand could last a whole 2 weeks without cultivating some form of fungus and
  2. I prefer High 5 the brand that can get fungusy within one week
Who the heck eats Massimo huh?The packing is horrid and unattractively garish,and it looks like a tightly wrapped expensive small bread condom.

Honestly Gardenia,you're just wasting your time with these stupid refutes.
Just buck up,use less preservatives,more flour,increase the thickness of your bread slices,lower your prices and Malaysians of all colours and creed WILL ignore the war cries and support you once more.
After all,we know that HE'S not gonna line OUR pockets nor divide his fortune equally amongst his customers even if we support HIS brand right?

Bad,bad,bad Gardenia and Massimo for both playing politics and fanning polemics.