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  • Scouts banned from eating burgers and bangers - because of religious beliefs

    08/02/2007 10:07:51 AM PDT · by foolscap · 179 replies · 3,705+ views
    Daily Mail ^ | 2nd August 2007 | staff
    Youngsters celebrating the 100th birthday of the scouting movement have been banned from eating burgers and bangers - because they might offend youngsters of other religions. And the scouts have been banned from having campfires and instead have to sit round a potplant - because of safety fears. The traditional camping food made way way for vegetarian dishes - a hundred years after Scout founder Lord Baden-Powell took his first group of 20 boys to the great outdoors. The 1907 boys caught rabbits and cooked them on an open fire on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, Dorset. But in 2007,...