Spank that meat

Trevor @ Tuesday November 21st 2006 12:01

Bill Poser picks up the London Times story about the Black Mountains Smokery in Powys being ordered by trading standards to rename its Welsh Dragon sausages “Welsh Dragon Pork Sausages” to avoid disappointing lovers of the hot and spicy. God knows what they’d make of the new delicatessen or restaurant or whatever on Margarit in Barcelona’s Poble Sec district, which goes by the name of Onan.

(Dave suggests problems may arise with cottage pie, scotch eggs, and hamburgers. Brazo de gitano, gypsy’s arm may also be under threat.)


Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois, Provisions and utensils of the household and the fields, Splog

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