Royal Hashtags

#banquetinabottle
our jars of pesto sauce turn boring into banquet

#crazyroyalfamily
well that’s just who we are

#fitforroyalty
if we say it is, then it is.

#loyalroyal
a person who will walk out of a store if they do not stock Pesto Princess, hurling insults.

#palacepandemonium
you know those days: everything that can possibly go wrong goes wrong!

#palaceportal
it’s not just any old front door.

#palacepotty
the loo, where some people go to think and tweet

#pestofix
some of our #loyalroyals are actually addicts. They start shaking if they have to go too long without some pesto.

#prolificprincess
any female staff member that has suddenly experienced a rush of creative output, usually resulting in a lot of facebook posts or shower of tweets

#proudpalace
when we achieve something as a team/royal family, and it completely goes to our heads

#proudprincesses
those are the people inside the palace that make pesto happen on a daily basis

#royalchariot
any set of wheels used by a member of the crazy royal family to get from A to B

#royallyreluctant
when a staff member at the palace does not feel like doing what they’ve been asked to do.

#royalreminder
to jog those royal memories

#royalrenovations
we don’t just fix stuff. We renovate in style.

#royalrestraint
what I have to exercise when I am in Merrypack and Print: I just want to buy EVERYTHING I see

#royalrevolution
a hashtag created with Cape to Cuba, only they call it ‘revolucion’

#royalspoil
we shower gifts/attention on people that have been good to us.

#royalwave
all royals do this when they appear in public

#ruderoyals
when we don’t answer our emails, and they fall through cracks in the palace walls

Palace PhraseBook

Banquet-in-a-Box – a lavish prize consisting of pesto, pasta, crystal glasses, Cap Classique, parmesan cheese, olive oil, balsamic vinegar all packaged exquisitely in a box, tied with a #royalribbon and delivered to your door by a handsome prince.

Coronation – we don’t do staff inductions, we do coronations.

Does the slipper fit? – we are recruiting at the palace

Noblesse oblige – the idea that people who have high social rank or wealth should be helpful and generous to people of lower rank or to people who are poor…

*noisy trumpet fanfare* – we need you to pay attention to what we are about to say.

Palace PhraseBook – essential reading for the visitor who wants to speak ‘royal’ to grab our attention and win our affection

Pay us a royal visit – you are royal too, not just us.

Peek over the palace walls – we won’t mind if you do that. Please explore our website and social pages.

Pop into the palace – we are warm and welcoming.

Royal brainstorm – the recession saw us doing a lot of this

Royal Recipe – that’s our monthly mailer showing you another simple, healthy way to use pesto in your kitchen

Royal regards – the way HRH Kathleen signs off all her official correspondence

RoyalSpeke – the language we all speak, and the game we play where we pretend that we are a big royal family, and that you are instantly a member of it once you’ve bought a jar of our pesto sauce and enjoyed it.

Send out the Royal Navy – well if you are trying to find our palace-by-the-sea and your GPS fails and you get horribly lost, then this is the least we can do.

Sparkle – our corporate colour

The Palace – this is where we work. Our factory in Capricorn Business Park

The royal thumb is up! – *phew* that means it has Kathleen’s stamp of approval.

The tiara is slipping – our usual high standards have been disappointing in some way

The virtual palace – our online playground

Treat them like royalty – that’s how we always treat people. All people.