OT(totally): Talk about stating the bleedin' obvious!

Having just opened a pack of fresh sausages, I cast a quick eye over
the blurb on the reverse of the packaging ...

'Caution - this product contains raw meat'.

WTF else is going to contain?

This ranks alongside the allergy advice that some eggs I bought a
while back contained, wait for it, egg.

This nanny state thing really is getting too much.

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I agree, and I wonder what they're going to tell us to do about it.

 

I just hope they tell us soon.

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Elly wrote

You kids dunno how lucky you are to have a nanny state, back when I were
a lad we could only dream of stuff like that.

I think you might be a little too young, you certainly look it, to
remember the enormous battle which was funded by British Sausage
Manufacturers to save "British Banger" from the Eurocrats.

Poisonally I am kin glad we lost that one I am. Sausages improved
immeasurably in this country once the manufacturers were *forced* to put
meat in them. There are still plenty of those around who yearn for a
return to The Good Old Days though and the likes of you lot just give
them all the ammunition they need.

A bit like ukrm really, "may contain occasional reference to
motorcycles"

 

<light dawns>

It's not a nanny warning at all, is it? It's a boast, a bit like those
bloody "baby on board" signs.

 

In communiqué <>, Pip Luscher

Your mention of signs reminded me of a few rare victories for common
sense against the nanny state mentality:

"You do not have to warn of dangers when it is
reasonable to assume that they are obvious to the
visitor:
• A woman was injured falling on slippery rocks at
Brimham Rocks, Yorkshire. The judge ruled that the
danger was obvious, and therefore there was no
duty to warn.
• A man injured falling from a cliff at High Tor,
Matlock failed to prove that the landowner was
negligent in failing to erect notices warning of the
danger.
• The risk of slipping on wet algae was clear to
someone walking on a harbour wall, (the Cobb at
Lyme Regis). A warning sign was not therefore
necessary."


From "Managing Inland Waterway Safety Risks".

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I'd happily roll you over in the knowledge that you contained raw meat

 

Waiter! This has got Pip's in it.

 

<sniggers>

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Curses!

 

Ah, but in the wild it doesn't have parabens (or something) leaching
into it from the plastic. Strictly it's not the water that has a best
before, but the bottle...

 

Count yourself lucky to get any raw meat in snassengers these days.
Mostly lips, cheeks and arseholes with a great handful of rusk in most
bangers.

 

Are you suggesting that they used to be made with prime cuts? The
sausage seems perfect for tying up all the loose ends, and with the
"waste not, want not" mentality of yesteryear I can't see how they'd
ever be made with the best bits of the beast.

 

Peanut Butter.

Caution this product contains peanuts.

 

I once convinced a workmate that the reason they say "do not refill" on
water bottles is that because once exposed to air the plastic becomes toxic.
The think **** actually called Evian to check. Apparently the real reason is
that people use water bottles to put white spirits etc in ...

 

Oh no, bangers were never made with the good stuff, but a decent butcher
wouldn't just shove any old shite in them. Wartime was different of
course - prime sawdust and chalk in them days.

 

elyob skrev:

Seeing as who buys Evian, that is no surprise.

 

Grimly Curmudgeon () gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

A decent butcher still won't.

 

ITYF It's "Caution, this product contains nuts."

 

Why would it say that?


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