From Wales:
A spicy sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards’ officers warned the manufacturers that they could face prosecution because it does not contain dragon.The sausages will now have to be labelled Welsh Dragon Pork Sausages to avoid any confusion among customers.
Jon Carthew, 45, who makes the sausages, said yesterday that he had not received any complaints about the absence of real dragon meat.
(Simon de Bruxelles, “Sausages affected by draconian trade laws”, Times Online, Nov. 18).
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“It says ‘Crunchy Frog’ quite clearly on the label.”
Is this the end of Welsh Rabbit too?
(And yes, I know that technically the real name is “Welsh rarebit.”)
Endless possibilities for idiocy come to mind.
Chicken fried steak: Will they have to explain that it was NOT fried with a live chicken hopping around the pan?
“Chicken Of The Sea”: A note on the inability of chickens to actually swim? With, maybe a picture of a chicken in water wings?
French bread: With a note revealing the actual ethnicity of the baker as Polish with some distant Italian.
Bear Claws: This product contains real apples, but, sadly, no actual bears.
Change the name to Dragin, and drag the cases across the floor.
What of shepherds pie? Am I not getting my daily dose of ground shepherd?
I just checked out my ‘hot dog’ contains a poor little doggy running high temperature. could’nt eat that and puked . Now I am suing with animal rights activists for causing gross bodily and mental harm to the doggy and me . if i get millions I will share with you all.
Buffalo wings! I want REAL Buffalo wings!!!
Actually, I was quite pleased that the can labeled “Spotted Dick” actually contained raisin pudding.