Quirky UK Files: The "Robin Tart," the Baker, and Truth in Advertising (But No Sense of Humour!)
What a tale. I really don't like over-enthusiastic bureaucrats! Blurb:
Baker Val Temple was stunned when barmy bureaucrats forced her to rename her novelty Robin Tarts - because they don't contain the red breasted birds. Val was also told her popular Paradise Slice would have to be reclassified as it doesn't come from paradise. And her comical Pig Tarts have also been given the chop by over-zealous Trading Standards officials....they don't contain pork. . . . The 60-year-old, who has run her Sgt Bub Bakery in Weymouth, Dorset, for nearly 30 years, today branded the decision as "ridiculous and insulting." And her bemused customers have suggested she makes a new cake in honour of the petty officials and call it "Nutty as a Fruitcake". |
Clearly the baker and her customers still retain a sense of humour that the officials do not.
As for me, this entire story made me re-read my recent post on "tiger wine" and "baby oil" and wonder, hmmmmmm . . .