Are Eccles cakes made from fresh or dried Eccles????

[pondlife]

FFS! See the article on page 7 of todays Daily Mail. Yes, I know I wouldn't get so ratty if I just didn't read the Tory-propaganda rag but....

Trading Standards officials of Dorset County Council have obliged Val Temple, a baker of Weymouth, to re-name her Robin tarts, Miss Piggy tarts (bearing small "Muppet" motifs) and Paradise slices because they didn't contain any Robin (Kermit's nephew) or garden songbird, pork product of any description, or come from paradise. Instead they must be called "Novelty Tarts" and "Almond, fuit and nut Slice".

The aim of this dictat is, apparently, to avoid ANYONE being misled.

I was disappointed to discover that Hedgehog flavour crisps, a popular tea-bar comestible of the '70s, had nothing to do with hedgehogs. I managed to get over the shock without counselling.

[True Blue Jack]

That's funny. I had shepherd's pie for dinner tonight. To the best of my knowledge no shepherds were harmed in making it.

Perhaps instead of changing the names of her cakes she should make the genuine article (with songbirds, pork products, etc.) for the benefit of the Trading Standards biffs.

[Jim_P_Pulfrew]

Does that mean that my mess bar slacks now have to be made out of real Crimples?

What on earth are the anti fur brigade going to say about the mass slaughter of more Crimples every time there is a new promotion board?

[Cake or Death]

WTF is this country coming to. Fcuking euro crap.

although i'd like to find out wot dorset county council would of made of my steak from the mess tonite, old combat boot surprise perhaps!!!

Havent people got any common fcukin sense. AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[grumpyoldb]

..........and Eccles cakes are so named as they were first made in Eccles, Manchester, and not made from Eccles............"Eccles, Eccles.................is that you Eccles???":PDT_Xtremez_30:

[Mug?]

mars bars ? Out of this world?

[monkey1$]

eccles is in salford, not manchester.

[grumpyoldb]

eccles is in salford, not manchester.

OK so it's encompassed by Greater Manchester now, and it's got a Manchester postcode, not a feckin' Salford postcode..:PDT_Xtremez_30:

[Goatherdingsplitter]

This is the thin edge of the wedge, next they will be saying that I can't have Staffy Oatcakes that haven't been made in Staffordshire or at least contain some part of Staffordshire FFS. Thank fcuk we call "french fries" by their proper name or next they might be banning them!

[MattBombHead]

Off Topic Thank fcuk we call "french fries" by their proper name or next they might be banning them!

Or 'Freedom Fries' as our American counterparts started calling them during GWII, something to do with the French not wanting to play....

Made me laugh every meal time, you'd be queing in the mess, get to the menu board, and some 'joker' would, without fail, have crossed out 'French' and replaced it with 'FREEEDOM'

:PDT_Xtremez_42:

[wolfy]

In bedfordshire you can still find a thing called a clanger, basically like a sausage roll with a pasty type mix at one end and some sort of fruit mix at the other end. So would these now need to be labelled that no knitted puppets are in the contents of them!!!

[Disillusioned]

Try not to get too wound up about it it's just some more lazy journalism. Dorset trading standards were on the TV this morning as it seems the lady who owned the bakery had got her wires crossed. She can still call them pig cakes and frog cakes but she has to enhance the description to state there's no frogs in it. Common sense I know but they were extreme examples used by the media to make a point. What trading standards were on about was cakes like the paradise cake. They didn't have to be renamed to almond whatever they just had to have a description saying they had almonds in them so the allergy sufferers would be aware without having to ask the question.

When will the journolists in the country stop being such a lazy, sensationalist bunch of tw@ts?

[True Blue Jack]

Thank fcuk we call "french fries" by their proper name or next they might be banning them!

Actually they are "Belgian Fries", or as I prefer to call them, "Chips":PDT_Xtremez_28:

[mad_mo]

Actually they are "Belgian Fries",


Off Topic Belgium....a country invented by the British to annoy the French! :PDT_Xtremez_30:

[Goatherdingsplitter]

Actually they are "Belgian Fries", or as I prefer to call them, "Chips":PDT_Xtremez_28:

What do you think I was referring to as their proper name then FFS!:PDT_Xtremez_32:

[Canberraman]

My wife lived in South Africa for some years and the world press were shouting "Starvation". Some American journalists came to S Africa (My wife winessed the following occurance) At that time there were no outgoing signs of the coloured population starving, so they gathered fifteen or twenty youngsters, told them to take of their vests. They then turned over some dustbins,and threw a hell of a lot of money in them and photographes the ensuing mad scramble. The news headlines shrieked out :- "Starving black African children raid dustbins". I can remember it and most likely, some of you will remember it but the foregoing was what actually happened.

Canberra man