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'Dragon' sausages burnt by trade laws
Times Online ^
| November 18, 2006
| Simon de Bruxelles
Posted on 11/22/2006 3:41:51 PM PST by JTN
A SPICY sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards officers warned 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. He said: I dont think any of our customers believe that we use dragon meat in our sausages. We use the word because the dragon is synonymous with Wales.
His company, the Black Mountains Smokery at Crickhowell, in Powys, turns out 200,000 sausages a year, including the Welsh Dragon, which is made with chilli, leek and pork. A Powys County Council spokesman said: The product was not sufficiently precise to inform a purchaser of the true nature of the food.
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To: fat city
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:33:11 PM PST
by
dgallo51
(DEMAND IMMEDIATE, OPEN INVESTIGATIONS OF U.S. COMPLICITY IN RWANDAN GENOCIDE!)
To: JTN
Most unintentionally funny post of the day.
The stupidity of bureaucrats never ceases to amaze me.
No dragons indeed.
The next thing you know, they will be telling you that Social Security is a ponzi scheme or that the Democrats haven't had a new idea in 50 years.
Wait a minute....
Never mind.
Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving,
knewshound
http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:36:29 PM PST
by
knews_hound
(Sarcastically blogging since 2004.)
To: dgallo51
To: JTN
Sorry, but if this is real, the British have become a bunch of flaming f*cking p*ssies who do not deserve our help the next time their little island is threatened.
To: Cobra64
So you are saying I should advertise them on the U.K. Ebay site?
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posted on
11/22/2006 6:01:30 PM PST
by
Lokibob
(Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
To: Polybius
What about rocky road ice cream?
French fries?
Honey dew melon?
Coca Cola?
Pontiac Firebird?
Mars bars?
Three Musketeers bars?
Sugar Babies?
and on and on.
46
posted on
11/22/2006 6:04:19 PM PST
by
smoketree
(the insanity, the lunacy these days)
To: brewer1516
I never would have believed it had I not Consulted the Book of Armaments and read it with mine own eyes. The FORCE be with you!
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posted on
11/22/2006 6:06:44 PM PST
by
dgallo51
(DEMAND IMMEDIATE, OPEN INVESTIGATIONS OF U.S. COMPLICITY IN RWANDAN GENOCIDE!)
To: Old Professer
Wait, you're saying that Jimmy Dean sausages don't have Jimmy Dean in them?!!
48
posted on
11/22/2006 6:07:58 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: JTN
Someone should outlaw the use of the label tofu turkey. It's not turkey, dammit! It's tofu crap!
49
posted on
11/22/2006 6:11:13 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: JTN
And how about "Spotted Dick"?Hmmmmmmmmmm?
50
posted on
11/22/2006 6:13:17 PM PST
by
TexanToTheCore
(This space for hire...)
To: Lokibob
I'm not sure why you'd want to do that.
51
posted on
11/22/2006 6:17:47 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
To: Polybius
Hey, waiter! My Sloppy Joe is not very sloppy. That's fraud in my book.
52
posted on
11/22/2006 6:41:20 PM PST
by
sine_nomine
(No more RINO presidents. We need another Reagan.)
To: sine_nomine
53
posted on
11/22/2006 7:06:17 PM PST
by
Never2baCrat
(I used to be modest, now I'm perfect!)
To: JTN
A SPICY sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards officers warned manufacturers that they could face prosecution because it does not contain dragon.Some jokes just write themselves.
To: TexanToTheCore
![](http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:EIXtKx0BNkfV6M:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Spotted_Dick-640x480.jpg)
Here you go, all the spotted dick you can handle.
Regards.
55
posted on
11/22/2006 8:09:02 PM PST
by
ARE SOLE
To: JTN
Taste like chicken! Blackbird.
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posted on
11/23/2006 4:15:58 AM PST
by
BlackbirdSST
(Stay out of the Bushes, unless you're RINO hunting!)
To: TexanToTheCore
And how about "Spotted Dick"?Hmmmmmmmmmm?
Why bring Michael Jackson into this? Blackbird.
57
posted on
11/23/2006 4:19:34 AM PST
by
BlackbirdSST
(Stay out of the Bushes, unless you're RINO hunting!)
To: JTN; Abram; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; Americanwolf; ...
LOL! Stupid Bureaucrats...
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posted on
11/23/2006 8:45:12 AM PST
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/optimism_nov8th.htm)
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