Sausages affected by draconian trade laws
A SPICY sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards’ officers warned the 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 don’t 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.â€Â
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 chili, leak [sic, I hope] 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.â€Â
I think that The Times ought to be very careful about characterizing the law as Draconian, when the Draconians had no similar law. The law is also liable to affect the availability of Unicorn Burgers and St. Pauli Girl beer.
The Ascent of the Retarded continues apace.
…and what about Chicken Fried Rice?
Sure it’s an incredible feat of animal training but but…
In fact, in book 7 of the Dragonlance trilogy, Dragons of Summer Sausage, the whole plot revolves around an attempt by the Draconian forces of Takhisis to establish a fraudulent dragon sausage enterprise using ground up kender flesh and certain spices harvested from the Abyss. So, yeah, the Draconians were completely down with the whole faux dragon sausage thing, and would never have had laws forbidding it. The Times needs to do better research on these things.
No Bears or Cats whatever in the Stutz Bearcat.
i don’t even want to think about Katzen Pfotchen.
Indeed. Time to elevate Cyril Kornbluth and Frederick Pohl to the status of Major Prophet(s).
Regards,
Ric
Caterpillar bulldozers, Nike footwear, Girl Scout cookies, Church of England, Jimmy Dean sausage, none of which have any content relating to their names – I see this as a real problem if the Dragon sausage ruling is upheld. May I suggest that a tacit assumption might smooth over the whole mess? And that would be that the ingredients are listed in the ingredient section of the label, while we all agree that the name is made up by marketing and is meaningless except as a measure of brand identification. As John Derbyshire writes in the Corner of National Review today, the haeceity involved is quite daunting.