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Le Chuck:
Devra, pastry arrived today.  I could smell it through the box.  My delightful mail handler left it leaning against the front door on its side.  Pastry is a little slumped from the hard handling but none the worse for wear.  I took pics as I deboxed and will post after tonight's tasting.  We are having several friends couples over this evening and it was serendipitous that your package arrived when it did.  I just used serendipitous in a post.  More to follow.   

Dervacumen:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on May 11, 2012, 03:07:08 pm ---Your website ain't working right with Firefox or IE.



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I know it's not fantastic, but aren't you at least seeing a home splash page with functional email links?
I've tried on three computers using IE and Firefox and with the exception of some text in the top red box being cut off everything else works.  I'm not at all surprised if it doesn't work tho.

Dervacumen:

--- Quote from: Nephasth on May 11, 2012, 03:00:55 pm ---If you can have Blueberry ready before mid-June, I'd like to order one for my Father's birthday / Father's Day.

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I will have it ready, I just want to work on the flavor combo a bit more.  Send me a PM with the date you need it by and I'll make arrangements.
I'll do some more trials next week.  I'm actually really excited about this one because blueberries are my favorite fruit.

crashwg:
Mmmmmm mmmm mmmm, this thing smells good.

It finally came.  I had a little bit better luck with my postal worker as it was put down flat when it reached my home.   Unfortunately upon opening it it was evident that it had been on it's side at some point in time as it was "D" shaped.  I've barely been able to restrain myself from eating it up until now but I'm waiting for a time when more people can participate in the taste testing so my review at this time is purely on the aesthetics and packaging.

I'll start with the bad.
Pastry had obviously slid to one side in transit.  Never having shipped something like this I can offer no suggestions on fixes, sorry.
The "scotch" tape holding the waxed paper closed didn't scream upper crust sort of pastry.  I'm wondering if you could find large enough waxed paper bags for your pastries then you'd only have to have your sticker hold it shut.
Priority mail flat rate packaging.  I'm assuming you won't be shipping to paying customers this way but just in case, it would be nice to be able to identify the box from a few feet away with a fancy logo of some sort.  I completely missed the "Perishable" stamps on the box so I had no clue what was in there until I opened it.


The good.
It friken smells delicious.
The waxed paper holder offer doodad worked as intended.  No smearing of the toppings.
My mouth is watering.
The lovely tissue paper looks nice when you open the box.  Emphasis on the looks due to pastry sliding in transit.
The cinnamon sugar is not a gooey mess like it would be in a plastic bag.
It was really easy to put it back in the round which would be better for presentation yet it would be better still if it came round.  (I guess that one could go either way, good or bad.)
I imagine the "good" list will get much longer if it tastes as good as it smells and looks.

I don't know if you're looking for input on the note you've included and I'm certainly no English major but if the note you send with paid for orders is going to be based on this one I'd like to make some suggestions.  Perhaps you'll post the note looking for feedback other than my own.

"Place ring" sounds better (to me) than "Put ring."  I would remove the "about" in the heating instructions and again with the "abouts" but this time where you say "shelf life of about a week" I think "about one week" is less offensive to my ears.  Then again it could just be one of those things like when you say a word so many times it sounds weird but "about a" just sounds wrong.  One more thing and this one I hope you will not take offense to as it's a little more personal and kind of odd for someone to critique something as simple as but when I think of fancy pastry and the people making them, I tend to think of them as artists and your signature doesn't coincide with that image.

Dervacumen:

--- Quote from: crashwg on May 11, 2012, 10:52:47 pm ---Mmmmmm mmmm mmmm, this thing smells good.

It finally came.  I had a little bit better luck with my postal worker as it was put down flat when it reached my home.   Unfortunately upon opening it it was evident that it had been on it's side at some point in time as it was "D" shaped.  I've barely been able to restrain myself from eating it up until now but I'm waiting for a time when more people can participate in the taste testing so my review at this time is purely on the aesthetics and packaging.

I'll start with the bad.
Pastry had obviously slid to one side in transit.  Never having shipped something like this I can offer no suggestions on fixes, sorry.
The "scotch" tape holding the waxed paper closed didn't scream upper crust sort of pastry.  I'm wondering if you could find large enough waxed paper bags for your pastries then you'd only have to have your sticker hold it shut.
Priority mail flat rate packaging.  I'm assuming you won't be shipping to paying customers this way but just in case, it would be nice to be able to identify the box from a few feet away with a fancy logo of some sort.  I completely missed the "Perishable" stamps on the box so I had no clue what was in there until I opened it.


The good.
It friken smells delicious.
The waxed paper holder offer doodad worked as intended.  No smearing of the toppings.
My mouth is watering.
The lovely tissue paper looks nice when you open the box.  Emphasis on the looks due to pastry sliding in transit.
The cinnamon sugar is not a gooey mess like it would be in a plastic bag.
It was really easy to put it back in the round which would be better for presentation yet it would be better still if it came round.  (I guess that one could go either way, good or bad.)
I imagine the "good" list will get much longer if it tastes as good as it smells and looks.

I don't know if you're looking for input on the note you've included and I'm certainly no English major but if the note you send with paid for orders is going to be based on this one I'd like to make some suggestions.  Perhaps you'll post the note looking for feedback other than my own.

"Place ring" sounds better (to me) than "Put ring."  I would remove the "about" in the heating instructions and again with the "abouts" but this time where you say "shelf life of about a week" I think "about one week" is less offensive to my ears.  Then again it could just be one of those things like when you say a word so many times it sounds weird but "about a" just sounds wrong.  One more thing and this one I hope you will not take offense to as it's a little more personal and kind of odd for someone to critique something as simple as but when I think of fancy pastry and the people making them, I tend to think of them as artists and your signature doesn't coincide with that image.


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I take no offense to anyone in this trial.

I love the feedback, keep it coming.  I'm busy all weekend so I'll be weak to post but often to read since I'll be with the impetus for this project for the next few days. :)
More feedback early next week crashwg.  Thank you.

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