OT: Politically Correct

Had to share this one which my wife just quoted from the wly
International Express. Now I know the whole Western world has gone nuts
on PC, but..........

There's this lady in Dorsetshire has a small business making
breads/cakes. She has Pig Tarts - just sweet with a marzipan or pastry
figure of a pig.

"No can do", say the austere authorities, no doubt quoting EU
regulations. "You can't call them pig tarts. There's no pork in them".
As she said, "I also make Robin Tarts. I wonder what's next, Shepherd's
Pie ?"

Jimmy

In article <ph83i.192471$6m4.112824@pd7urf1no>,
James J. Gavan <jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote:

[snip]

>There's this lady in Dorsetshire has a small business making
>breads/cakes. She has Pig Tarts - just sweet with a marzipan or pastry
>figure of a pig.
>
>"No can do", say the austere authorities, no doubt quoting EU
>regulations. "You can't call them pig tarts. There's no pork in them".
>As she said, "I also make Robin Tarts. I wonder what's next, Shepherd's
>Pie ?"

Wait until they hear about baby oil.

DD

On Fri, 18 May 2007 02:35:01 GMT, "James J. Gavan"
<jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote:

>There's this lady in Dorsetshire has a small business making
>breads/cakes. She has Pig Tarts - just sweet with a marzipan or pastry
>figure of a pig.
>
>"No can do", say the austere authorities, no doubt quoting EU
>regulations. "You can't call them pig tarts. There's no pork in them".
>As she said, "I also make Robin Tarts. I wonder what's next, Shepherd's
>Pie ?"

Is a Robin Tart one shaped like Batman's sidekick?

When the US passed laws that the predominant ingredient was listed
first, they left an opening for traditional names, such as "ham and
beans".    And there's some room for common sense - the bun might be
bigger than the meat, but the predominate ingredient in a burger is
the meat.

I've enjoyed making fun of the statement that a burger "contains 100%
beef".     Since I can see the bun, I know it contains cereal, and I
guess the beef could be mixed with cereal, tofu, and dog meat.

There's a word for words that come into being because of a mistake.
The whole concept of "tofu-burger" & "fish-burger" implies that a
hamburger has ham in it.    So what do you call a burger made of ham?

A local radio restaurant reviewer has an annual review book, with
pictures of pigs eating at fine restaurants.
http://www.gabbygourmet.com/     Pat Miller is a Jew, and other Jews
objected to her having pigs as her symbols - but she said she wasn't
*eating* them.

Howard Brazee wrote:
> I've enjoyed making fun of the statement that a burger "contains 100%
> beef".     Since I can see the bun, I know it contains cereal, and I
> guess the beef could be mixed with cereal, tofu, and dog meat.
>
I like "100% beef and beef by-products".  After all Cowshit is a beef
by-product.

Donald

Alistair wrote:
> On 18 May, 03:35, "James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletet...@shaw.ca> wrote: 
>
> A brief browse of the internet shows photographs of the lady with
> Muppet Cakes (contain no real muppets but do have miniature miss
> piggies and kermits). Clearly a copyright infringement.
>
> Reading the articles shows that she had the option of listing the
> ingredients but chose instead to rename her tarts.
>
> Chocolate, in the UK, which contains less than 60% cocoa solids is
> threatened with being renamed under EU legislation. Jam, which has to
> be made with fruit, does not encompass the Carrot Jam that the
> Portuguese make; so the carrot has been redefined as a fruit to allow
> the Portuguese to continue making it.

Does none of this strike you as absolutely ridiculous?

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"LX-i" <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Alistair wrote: 
>
> Does none of this strike you as absolutely ridiculous?
>

Ah, Daniel, you've maybe never been to Bruxelles? This is normal European
behaviour for the European Unionists.

Imagine the very worst of every Bureaucracy you have ever experienced, the
total lack of imagination or humour, the famous "Jobsworth" attitude...
("Sorry, more 'n' my job's worth to fast track the process..."), then people
it with little piggies from all over Europe, all pushing to get their snouts
in the trough and gobble some of the billions it raises by taxes on all its
members, foster a culture of backhanders, expense accounts that nobody sane
would ever authorise, and let the bloody French manipulate it from behind
the scenes for their own agenda (just as they ALWAYS do...), and you will
get a glimmer as to how the insanity outlined above can be made flesh. :-)

It is the most terminally boring town in the World, so much so, that they
had to build a huge ring road around it so that normal people can get across
Belgium without haviung to be exposed to it. It is Vogon "gnaw your leg off"
boring; I spent three years there one w... :-)

What staggers me is that it is perceived amongst the less affluent nations
as an exclusive club that they're all queuing up to get into. (This probably
has something to do with the Common Agricultural Policy which (among many
other travesties) pays growers in Italy to dump tons of tomatoes, farmers in
England to grow rape that nobody wants, pays for storage of the wine lake
surpluses produced mainly by France and Germany,  storage for the butter
mountain, and encourages thousands of citizens in the Netherlands to keep a
cow in the back yard because doing so qualifies them for "small holding
assistance" and that in turn means they have plenty of time to sit in the
cafes and smoke pot...).

But then of course, the bureaucrats in the emerging nations see the EU and a
secondment to Bruxelles as the "big Rock Candy Mountain" of administrative
endeavour and they all want a chance to get their own little snouts in the
trough. (The daily expense allowance for a Euro MP (many of whom never won
an election but are there thanks to Proportional Representation...) is
equivalent to three months salary for a low level official in some emerging
nations.

Actually, writing that has made me feel a whole lot better about our own
Civil Service, which, though generally pathetic like most Civil Services,
isn't even in the same league as Bruxelles...

Pete.

In article <5bce12F2rvojqU1@mid.individual.net>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:

[snip]

>Actually, writing that has made me feel a whole lot better about our own
>Civil Service, which, though generally pathetic like most Civil Services,
>isn't even in the same league as Bruxelles...

It might be, Mr Dashwood, that 'your own Civil Service' has a bit less to
deal with than, say, maintaining a lack of warfare that is completely
anomalous... there hasn't been a major war in Europe in over sixty years,
such an unheard-of circumstance might have a few... unusual results.

DD

underprocessable

In article <5bd8ucF2s9q9iU1@mid.individual.net>,
Pete Dashwood <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote:
>
><docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:f2rnk2$dfi$1@reader2.panix.com..
. 
>
>The administration in Bruxelles can take no credit for keeping peace in
>Europe.

No, Mr Dashwood... but the governments which resulted from that lack of
warfare did.

[snip]

>My piece was not entirely serious... :-)
>
>European Union, for the most part, is a Good Thing. The administration of i
t
>from Bruxelles, is not.

I can't think of very many countries where the Civil Service is lauded as
a haven for paragons of decency, thrift and efficiency - except when
lauded as such by the Civil Service - and 'at home' like that the Service
is staffed by those 'Just Like Us'... imagine the delight in being able to
excoriate a Civil Service staffed, at least in part, by Those Horrid
Foreigners.

DD

<docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:f2s23q$bd5$1@reader2.panix.com...
> In article <5bd8ucF2s9q9iU1@mid.individual.net>,
> Pete Dashwood <dashwood@removethis.enternet.co.nz> wrote: 
>
> No, Mr Dashwood... but the governments which resulted from that lack of
> warfare did.
>
> [snip]
> 
>
> I can't think of very many countries where the Civil Service is lauded as
> a haven for paragons of decency, thrift and efficiency - except when
> lauded as such by the Civil Service - and 'at home' like that the Service
> is staffed by those 'Just Like Us'... imagine the delight in being able to
> excoriate a Civil Service staffed, at least in part, by Those Horrid
> Foreigners.
>
> DD
>
I take no delight in excoriating anyone. As I said, my piece was not
entirely serious.

Having said that, the EU administration in Bruxelles is something else
again, and that was my point.

Pete.