I was flying back to London from Cork Airport yesterday and I spotted this advert:

When I looked at it in more detail I noticed the text on the top right if the hoarding:

The original picture that I saw presented me with the (not very) tantalising picture of 2 sausages, 2 eggs, 3 rashers, 2 pieces of succulent black pudding, a tomato and a generous portion of baked beans. However, if that hasn’t got you sprinting to the Sports Bar (located at Gate 6) and you stop to read the “what you actually get” text, you realise that all you really get is:

  • 1 sausage
  • 1 rasher
  • 1 fried egg
  • 1 hash brown
  • an unspecified amount of toast

Where’s my other sausage, my other 2 rashers, my other egg? Where’s the tomato, beans and black pudding? I’m sorry but a hash brown and some toast doesn’t make up for this!

This reminds me of a Judge Judy case about an eBay scammer that advertised some mobile phones for sale, sold them and sent the buyers pictures of the phones (trying to argue that the buyers got what they paid for):

I know that it’s caveat emptor, but both eBay scammer and breakfast at the Sports Bar in Cork Airport are taking this a bit far!