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| Britain |
| EU Regulations Strike Again |
| 2007-04-29 |
| A BAKER has been forced to rename her novelty pig tarts - because they don't contain any pork. Val Temple, who runs Sgt Bun Bakery, Weymouth, says officers from Dorset's trading standards department also told her she must swap the name of robin tarts as they are not made from robins. And she claims she was instructed to rename her paradise slice because ... it's not from paradise. Mrs Temple has made the novelty cakes in the shape of pigs and robins as a treat for her customers for years. She said: "It's a joke. "The officers came in and said they had had a complaint and I must change the names because they didn't contain pork, robin or paradise. "It's an insult to the public. Of course they don't contain pig, robin or paradise. "The trading standards officers have been coming into this shop for 26 years and now the name has been picked up. "It's absolutely ridiculous. Are they going to start banning Christmas cake because it doesn't have Jesus in it? "You could apply it to everything. It's so silly. "And as for the paradise slice, that recipe is 120 years old and it's always been known as Paradise Slice. "They said they were going to come back in and check, so I've changed the names now. "But people are still coming in and calling them by their proper names." Mrs Temple said she had swapped the name of her animal-inspired tarts to novelty tarts with jam and fondant and the paradise slice to almond, fruit and nut slice. Ivan Hancock, the county's trading standards manager, said: "The fact is that piece of food needs to be properly described so that the consumer can tell what it is. "There's nothing wrong with using other names but it must be accompanied by the true name of the food. "Consumers have the right to know what is in food." But Mrs Temple, who runs the bakers with her husband Ian, denied she was told this. She said: "The way they came in and said the names had to be changed didn't give me the impression you could keep the names. "I'm sure other places haven't been told they should list all the ingredients. It's ridiculous having a long list of ingredients - of course customers are not going to think I put robin and pork in a cake." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #16 wxjames: rename? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-04-29 21:19 |
| #15 I think I dated the winner of the megapussi 300. She kept asking if I had spotted dick. I ended the date early and made a doctor's appointment. I don't, I'm fine. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-04-29 21:14 |
#14 Exactly how genuine do you want this to be? Or this:  Sorry for all the photos, Mods, I hope this is worth the larf. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-29 21:07 |
| #13 guess Juden Lampshades are OK, tho? Over in aisle #4, Frank. Right next to the soap. I can't wait to see what they're going to do with:  And is anyone ready for:  |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-29 20:47 |
| #12 Must they rename the Hedgehog ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-04-29 20:35 |
| #11 Jeez. These people just don't want to be free, do they? |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-04-29 19:58 |
| #10 guess Juden Lampshades are OK, tho? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-29 19:11 |
| #9 What about my Belgian waffles? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-04-29 19:09 |
| #8 The U.S. has citizens; EUrope has subjects. 'Nuff said. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-04-29 19:03 |
| #7 "It's absolutely ridiculous. Are they going to start banning Christmas cake because it doesn't have Jesus in it? Gotta like her gumption. What's next? Girl Scout cookies because they aren't made with real Girl Scouts? Here's another example. Denmark is a nation absolutely addicted to licorice. In every town of moderate size there are Lakrids Boutiques, which often sell over 100 different types of licorice. In Copenhagen, these same shops will usually have over 200 types on hand. Scandinavian licorice is a pinnacle of the confectioner's art. Unlike the coarse grainy wheat-starch based "vine" licorice we have here in America, Danish licorice is made with gum arabic, various syrups, highly milled starches and flavored with anise extract, licorice root, menthol, eucalyptol, different sugars and, most of all salmiak, the salt of ammonium chloride which gives it the characteristically salty flavor so adored by all Danes. A few other countries make bulk quantities of salted black licorice. Holland, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Finland produce it, but in nowhere near the same quantities that Denmark does. To give some perspective, here's a statistic: Danes consume more licorice than chocolate. In light of such over-concentrated licorice production, the EU has seen fit to demand that Denmark reproportion its output to match that of other European nations. The insanity of this goes beyond comprehension. No other countries even consume anywhere near the same quantities, nor anywhere near the same variety or quality of manufacture. I'm confident that Denmark might well bolt from the EU were such policies strictly enforced. I've yet to hear of any resolution regarding this inane matter. Let's all remember that it took an EU council years and several million dollars to sort out which countries would produce which crisps (chips). Be it potato, maize (corn), shrimp, vinegar and salt flavour and so forth. This bullshit is a bureaucrat's dream. No heavy lifting all the four star lunches you can eat. The EU is one of the most parasitic entities to arise since Islam itself. That Muslims find themselves so at home in the EU countries should be a surprise to no one. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-29 18:53 |
| #6 There's no Belgians in my Brussels sprouts? I've been had! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-04-29 18:28 |
| #5 "They're bound to think it's some form of mock frog. . . . I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog', if you want to avoid prosecution." |
| Posted by: exJAG 2007-04-29 16:49 |
| #4 Can we bomb Brussels now, before we have to destroy all of Europe to rid it of this infestation? |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-04-29 16:28 |
| #3 yule log? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-29 16:20 |
| #2 baby oil? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-04-29 16:07 |
| #1 I can't wait to see what they do with "Big Mac." |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2007-04-29 16:02 |