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Pink Sauce provokes social media savaging

Feedback investigates the powerful reach of a proprietary condiment, while also looking into the chess robot that broke its opponent’s finger - and a disturbing update to the latest Sims video game

3 August 2022

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Josie Ford

Dressing down

Time for elevenses – and what could be nicer to go with this cuppa than a cucumber sandwich slathered in Miami chef Carly Pii’s proprietary Pink Sauce?

Pii’s product launch wasn’t the smoothest, according to the Los Angeles Times. A couple of misprints on her labelling left purchasers with a 444-gram bottle that provided “444 servings”. Just how powerful is this condiment? Too powerful for some: the dragon fruit that lend the sauce its tang and lurid colour act rather like beetroot, and this distressed some unsuspecting consumers, come their next bowel movement. Pii duly adjusted her formula,…

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