There is always plenty of work for undertakers, as Under The Counter likes to remind his colleagues, who like to remind him that he is long overdue to be fitted for a wooden overcoat.
There is also, it’s fair to say, plenty of work for Aldi’s copyright infringement lawyers.
For the discounter is back in court after brewer Thatchers accused it of ripping off its Cloudy Lemon Cider when Aldi launched a Taurus ‘Cloudy Cider Lemon’ variant.
Surely not? The company that brought us Nutoka chocolate hazelnut spread and Nordpak butter has been accused of gaining an unfair advantage by copying Thatchers’ brew “in both taste and appearance”.
We’ll let readers decide if the two products look the same, but we can’t – despite our best efforts – invite you try a taste test.
Unlike Thatchers’ lawyer, who asked the judge to do just that.
Two things immediately came to the Auld Boy’s mind. Firstly, that his careers officer back in the day never told him that a job in the legal profession could involve getting paid to drink cider. And that this is a high-risk strategy on the part of the Somerset brewer.
For what if the beak, rather than decide that both taste the same, concludes – with the weight of hundreds of years of Britain’s proud judicial heritage at their back – that Taurus tastes better?
