Yel

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I've no idea who this person is, but I'm embarrassed for her at how unprofessional she is. Although she's now deleted lots of the Facebook posts.

Her coming here and being disruptive @ tattlers is clearly against our rules and the dictionary definition of trolling. Just as going on someone's feed and being disruptive @ them is trolling and anyone from tattle that trolls is banned.

When you overshare your private life you're not able to control the narrative, fame has always worked like that.🤦‍♀️

These threads aren't for you, they're about you.

She should take her own advice and not read this thread if she doesn't like it. Thankfully we don't live under a dictatorship where only positive opinions are allowed. If you don't like gossip, don't read a gossip forum.
 
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GizAMin

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Don’t care what anyone says....Alba is a genius, and it takes some decent parenting to raise a kid that clever.
Plus their brownies are amazing.
 
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Pixipoppy

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If this pregnancy is anything like the other it will go as follows
Was definitely an accident, not planned, probably not really wanted but still
Will complain about not being able to drink, but will be pictured drinking anyway
Give birth
Palm child off fresh out the womb in order to go on holiday/out drinking
Constantly complain about child

here’s hoping this one doesn’t sleep ever and is a real dick.

watch out Rach, that second child comes at you fast and fat.
Bit harsh to say she didn’t want her pregnancy... this one or her first! I’m sure her second pregnancy wasn’t an accident and even if it was, she has said she would want more kids anyway. I don’t get the hate for them, they’re a bit annoying and laddish but why the vitriol. Why would you wish a difficult child on someone anyway, who cares! Some people have it easy, some don’t. No need for the bitterness :unsure:
 
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Helicopter68

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I think she did complete her PGCE because I remember her saying she used to teach English. I think she would have been a great teacher to be honest! She's relatable, funny and has a great personality. If she was unprofessional then she wouldn't have made it through the PGCE programme (which is bloody hard work) or got a job :)
 
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This page has been fascinating.

Putting my cards on the table I run a similar buisness although I'm all about the product and not interested in becoming insta famous.

I hear all the time how much better my brownies and cakes are than here - not from friends but from customers who would be unlikely to go out of their way to say this unless it was true. My products are very very different to theirs. I use local farms for my eggs and dairy. Where as they seem to use palm oil products. I use high quality vanilla not the low grade synthetic mix they do. This allows them to save a huge amount of money and have a longer shelf life, but their high in Palm oil products are bad for the environment (think of the orangutans!) and for people's health. butter has been shown to be far bettet than these chemically altered oil spreads that their products are loaded in. My products are the same price, I probably make far far less per item but the quality is #1 to me.

Anyone that likes their products I urge to try other places that are less Instagram famous and use better ingredients. No offense to anyone but some people like chocolate that's made with vegetable oil to maximise profits while others prefer high quality chocolate that uses cocoa butter. I only use high quality cocoa butter chocolate in my products.

I hope this doesn't come across as bitchy, but I feel so many get lured in by social media for an inferior product and they don't even realise.
 
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WainDoh

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I don’t remember seeing that about the wage thing. What’s that all about? When was it?
It was around the last election, looks like its been deleted now. I have screenshots, though :).

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The tweet crying about the inevitable starvation of her unborn child was somewhere between the ÂŁ600 shoe brag tweet and the list of highly expensive holidays she had planned for that year alone:

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I do hope they are not starving, though....
 
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Geo2323, new member, 5 posts all on here and each one defending everything or offering an explanation - ie, stating isabell hasn't had to pay out for shop fitting ect, bigger capacity hence no longer selling out 🤔

We see you hun, we see you. 👀
 
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Rxt156

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This is all getting a bit mumsnet can we go back to complaining about the wannabe influencers pllzzzzz😇
 
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Ginger_roots

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I’m from the east of England but there is always discussion of the north not following the rules (don’t wear masks, don’t socially distance, not sticking to the rules regarding meeting others)
Is it true? Is that why rates are worse up north? Or is it something else? I just don’t understand why it’s always been so bad up north once lockdown 1 eased off, I keep seeing people saying it’s not that bad but surely the rates would reflect that?
Like the "north" is one big, flat cap, conglomerated lump where we all hug each other, eat corned beef and shout ee by gum at each other indiscriminately...

ETA : I live very far up north and it hasn't been bad at all here.
 
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Fitnessbunny2020

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We live in a free world , if you don't want to buy their brownies then don't buy them. They could sue people making comments to be critical of their brownies and praise Lidl for loss of earnings! You get what you pay for at the end of the day
Are you joking? 😂 that’s like saying Burger King are gonna sue McDonald’s because I prefer McDonald’s chips lol
 
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HAB88

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i’m not saying she shoved the raspberry in whole but you can tell from the picture she hasn’t just “licked it” it’s literally squashed between her fingers. There will be acidic juices that baby’s digestive system is not mature enough to handle. Some babies wean early with medical advice and have purées and things which is fine it’s recommended by a doctor/midwife/health visitor who is WAY more qualified than me and generally do it because the benefits outweigh the risks.
However baby led weaning as this would be classed as has multiple signs of readiness before you start; the biggest one being that baby is 6 months.
i’m not saying I’m the perfect parent however my 5.5 month old hasn’t had anything other than milk because I appreciate that giving her adult food before she is ready can cause her huge digestive issues down the line. That’s what makes them so irresponsible, amongst leaving the kids to swan off on multiple holidays and snorting god knows what whilst their kids are dumped on the parents.
You sound fun.
 
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SootySweepAndSoo

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Are you being serious? Of course they’re making a lot of money. Their whole family is employed by the business. Plus lots of other people (who will be on minimum or relatively low wage, they take on unskilled and train up). Also very old fashioned to think they’re reliant on partners to fund lifestyle. As many have mentioned here the prices are higher end and the ingredients are cheap, but guess what their products taste amazing and always sell out so that’s fine if you don’t want to pay it, other people will. But it explains why they’re making plenty of money. And as for you using them selling out quickly as an example for why they’re not making money, as if they’re not making enough, I’d argue it just shows that their products are popular and continue to be so- yes 30 people sounds like a lot but if there are more people wanting mail brownies than those 30 people can make they are going to sell out. I have followed these girls and the bakery for years, they are hardworking and business shrewd - nothing more to it. Yes some of you might think they’re unprofessional but perhaps that’s why it works best for them to be self employed; not everyone has to be a corporate robot and if they’re making a great living, can afford bigger houses and more holidays than the rest of you then who’s laughing :)
Hey new member (twin) who has created an account 39 mins ago just to purely post on this thread 👋🏼
 
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EllaCabella

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Anyone who has Rachels personal Instagram account will have seen she was partying in a house until the early hours last night at what looks like a group of at least 15 ppl, maybe more, is she insane? How could you even post that with a clear conscience never mind going to the actual party... it literally looks like a club. I generally have supported the twins and felt sum of the flack they get is unwarranted but they have lost all faith from me now. It’s a completely selfish thing she has done and 2 shamelessly put it on social media for everyone 2 see.... what a joke. I dont know how personally I could ethically buy their products now knowing how little they care about the rules. I hope next time she thinks about her postponed wedding she thinks about the things she is doing and realises her own actions are a contribution 2 her own misery as well as people around her... sad and irresponsable
 
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Chellbell90

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Honestly so weird! £50 Tesco and Asda voucher 😂 give them all a bonus so they can spend it how they like ffs. Asda voucher 😂😂😂
whats wrong with supermarket chained vouchers? How materialistic, that is someone’s food shop for the week which you wouldn’t know if their staff would want or need. I’d absolutely love my food shop paid for (and a bottle of gin!!) You’re also missing off the other vouchers- amazon, local shop, voucher of their choice, I think you’re being slightly unfair even if they are slightly showing off they “treat” their staff.
 
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judgejohndeed

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Errrrr do they think we were born yesterday? We’ve seen their huge houses and endless holidays this year, I’m pretty sure they can absorb a lost 20 quid, fucking hell
 
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hereforthe_tea

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The twins are clearly very business minded. Some of their choices (cake jars for unused bits of cake etc) are savvy and you could argue, good because of reducing food waste.
But, they ethics really don’t sit right with me. If they were a larger company they would have to display nutritional information and I’m guessing that would be pretty shocking.
At a time where we have sugar taxes, people are becoming more aware of what is healthy or not they are pumping so much sugar, fat and almost completely ultra processed ingredients into what seems like mainly a younger demographic. They market themselves as a fun, small bakery which sells hand baked goods, which should at least mean decent ingredients but that’s not the case at all. And I’m not talking about the price but the quality of their ingredients. It’s all chemicals. I’d be shocked if they hadn’t heard of ultra processed food and didn’t know what they were putting into their products. It’s just all addictive crap and I’m guessing they just don’t care.

And now, a story about adding clearpay/klarna to their website. No one should be using finance to buy crappy brownies. They know this. We know this. But they are greedy and don’t seem to have a conscious. I don’t want to criticise a seemingly successful woman run business BUT at the same time their customers are mainly younger women/girls and they seem willing to continually exploit this audience.
 
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jackolantern

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It's just weird man. Fair enough if it was coincidence but if not what did they do, coordinate when to go to poundtown with their other halves? What a fucking weird conversation to have. Hi Lauren hun, I'm pregnant so like, can you go and get on it with Ed now? Much obliged babe, btw shall we do sticky toffee cupcakes for the baby shower? x
 
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Eu4

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I like their sense of humour and they clearly work hard at what they do. Have you seen the timehop photos? Surely if they were snobby then they wouldn’t be showing bakes that aren’t as refined as what they’re doing now? It’s nice to see how they’ve improved and built up from scratch. And no matter how much or how little money you start with, you can’t buy talent or skill: you have to practise hard.
 
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WhatABore

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I dont know what's classed as a small business really, but are they really a small business anymore?
A shop, a factory type thing with a bunch of staff, products in shops across the country, a permenant stall in another shop.
Enough profit to buy themselves 2 big houses and fund multiple holidays abroad?

Very hard to have any sympathy for them when they're off on their 4th or 5th holidays abroad whilst others are struggling to decide if they can afford heating.
 
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HAB88

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Have just seen M&S have brought out cake jars...how long until the twons say they've nicked their idea?
 
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