San Marzano Delivery

This morning, there was a knock on the door.  It was a delivery man with a box containing my 12 cans of San Marzano tomatoes.  I unpacked them and found that, instead of the Annalisa brand as shown on the Lupa Foods website, they had sent me 12 cans of La Carmela brand.

I checked the label on the cans and found they were canned in the D'Acunzi factory in the appropriate region of Italy, not far in fact from the Annalisa factory.  Also, they were canned in San Marzano tomato juice and not cooked puree made from any old tomatoes.  So, they seem OK, but just not exactly what I was expecting.  I noticed that on the side of each can, hand written in red marker pen was the words 'campione omaggio'.  This translates as 'free sample'.  Very odd!!

Early in the afternoon, I received an email from Lupa Foods (Donatantonio Ltd) :

Thank you for your order no: 120501-101946-9238 placed on May 01 2012, 10:19 AM

The transaction was successful and we will ship your goods within the next 5 days.

Strange considering I received the order this morning.  I will reply to this email.