I'm probably a bit late to the party with this, but Dubai chocolate still seems to be selling at a massively inflated price. Can we market anything else like this? Just put pistachios in stuff, prefix it with 'Dubai' and add a 150% markup. Dubai sausage rolls. £10 a pop. Dubai milk. £5 a pint. Dubai..... newspaper. Just smear some pistachio butter in the paper - like a sort of inedible baklava. £30. I really should be paid to just come up with ideas. Dubai ideas.... TWO million pounds. Very good, Ben.
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You wouldn't get Pump Up The Volume these days
@TheBreadmonkey Pump Up the Volume, if you have some kind of ear protection

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no. you would not. and I might never have discovered the pixies. so, I rest in the comfort of knowing that this is not, in fact, the worst timeline. at least there's that.

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They. Are. ADORABLE. ❤️

@TheBreadmonkey Right?! I would have gone apeshit if I saw someone like that when I went to Red Square!
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@TheBreadmonkey Well, that’s a memory I didn’t need back.
@TheBreadmonkey As a kid I hated Doobie Duck with the fire of a thousand suns
@TheBreadmonkey Honestly there are some “Dubai chocolate” things in Home Bargains that aren’t far from this.

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See also:

@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey Dubai-style rum: now with free flogging

@Nickiquote

They can get into the dubai bin

@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey Green, and not inspiring hunger 🤢
@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey wait until Iran declares all Dubai chocoolate products targets for their missiles
@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey yeah you.gotta actually price it at triple the going rate then do a 50% discount if you wanna shift stock
@TheBreadmonkey I have your slogan:
Do buy Dubai.™
@TheBreadmonkey Bit surprised the bottom hasn’t fallen out of the market for Dubai chocolate, given… current events… which have taken a little of the shine off the Dubai brand, I feel (in a way that even the slavery couldn’t, go figure)

@considermycat

No one cares about anything. Nothing is real. We're all just atoms.

@TheBreadmonkey

The alt vision for making silly money

A flat pancake burnt to a crisp & sell it as MAGA? For $500

The worst ones can be called a "Trumped" & served in an old macdoodles wrapper with fools gold shavings @ $2,000 each?

@TheBreadmonkey I'm going to do the opposite: make new labels for everything so I can make eg "Sacramento pistachios" labels so I can pay 20% less
@TheBreadmonkey Oh, is that what that crap is? They marketed at me so hard about it before I ever saw it that I refuse to try it. Pistachios, huh.

@jmax

Literally just pistachios

@TheBreadmonkey just wait until the VC money tap runs dry and they have to try to make an actual profit out of Gen AI.
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Pre-rolled marijuana cigarettes sold as Dubai Doobies

@Gorfram @TheBreadmonkey

but is there pesto?

@saltywizard @TheBreadmonkey
? Pesto on my Gulf State Ganja?

@Gorfram @TheBreadmonkey

there was a joke earlier about how the pistachio in dubai chocolate resembles pesto.

@saltywizard @TheBreadmonkey
Thanks. My imagination failed me on that one.

@Gorfram @TheBreadmonkey

but now that i've had some coffee and time to think about it, if the rolling papers are sufficiently chocolate-colored and the ganja is sufficiently pesto-colored, your dubai doobies are shoe-in. nice work. I can't speak for the other sharks, but i'm ready to offer you $420 mil for a 42.0% stake.

@TheBreadmonkey There was a sign on the back of the bus here in Adelaide yesterday that said: "Invest in Dubai Real Estate - high yield returns, guaranteed."

The ad might just be a few weeks out of date...

@TheBreadmonkey I don'tbai chocolate.

@TheBreadmonkey

It's another form of washing, along with the "influencer university".

All of these different forms of propaganda “washing” work the same way: by promoting something nice, and covering up something atrocious. Lockheed Martin wants you to think about its cheery rainbow Pride parade banner, rather than its killer drones and missiles. Saudi Arabia wants you to think about Phil Mickelson hitting a long drive down the fairway at a golf tournament, rather than Jamaal Khashoggi being murdered and hacked to bits with a bone saw. And the sheikhs in Dubai, Hamdan and his father, want very much for you to think about Dubai chocolate, rather than any of the skeletons in their capacious closets.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/dubai-chocolate-is-regime-propaganda

“Dubai Chocolate” is Regime Propaganda

The viral pistachio-filled candy bar is everywhere—but there’s nothing sweet about the United Arab Emirates and its human rights record.

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"here's your Dubai Gruel, loser, that'll be £12.99 plus 20% gratuity . . . you are grateful, right?"

@TheBreadmonkey Would Dubai Chocolate crème eggs be too valuable for bum stuffing, do you think?
@TheBreadmonkey I see we've raised our target to 2 million pounds.