Heck did a rapid reverse ferret after their Boris Johnson visit but they’re banger to rights

John Plunkett. Updated July 8th, 2019

You might have seen Boris Johnson’s visit to sausage makers Heck, where the purveyor of pork products even invented the ‘Boris Banger’ in his honour.

Except, unfortunately for Heck, lots of people who don’t like Johnson now don’t like them either and it generated all sorts of negative PR from people like the Observer’s Jay Rayner.

https://twitter.com/jayrayner1/status/1147882481292648448

Now Heck have executed a rapid reverse ferret in a bid to play down any association with the Tory leader wannabe and PM-in-waiting.

We’ve seen a lot of people talking about a visit to our factory last week, and we want to make ourselves completely understood. Team HECK x pic.twitter.com/ILx5iutunv

— HECK! (@HeckFood) July 8, 2019

Except judging by people’s responses it’s very much too little, too late.

So did you make the “Boris Bangers” (made with 50 percent bullish&t and 50 percent gammon) by mistake?

Too late. Your sausages weren’t that great anyway.

— Miff Buckley (@miffythegamer) July 8, 2019

Working with someone doesn’t have to mean kissing their arse and naming products after them. Photo-opportunities like yours make people seem benign, even when their vicious policies will close down businesses like yours and others.

— Oonagh (@Okeating) July 8, 2019

Who you invite through your doors matters.

— Mike Stuchbery💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) July 8, 2019

You invited him/gifted him a specially created version of your product made in his image, consenting to making a photo op of it. That is not ‘dialogue’, it’s endorsement.
Don’t know what’s in your sausages but your message is full of tripe and I’m not swallowing it.#BoycottHeck

— Grant White (@GrantWhiteTZ) July 8, 2019

Now: “We do not specifically endorse any candidate…”

Before: pic.twitter.com/xOWjPvCcxL

— Chris Shaw (@The_ChrisShaw) July 8, 2019

https://twitter.com/jayrayner1/status/1148244861063172096