Tag Archives: Food

Food Regulation

January 14, 2008 – 6:04 am

In the UK there is no law controlling the nutritional information shown of packaged foods. There are guidelines that allow at least +/- 20% leeway for each component (so an item with 10g of fat could actually have 8g or 12g), and being guidelines it doesn’t matter if it’s more. That’s disappointing, of course, but [...]

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Dodgy Headlines

April 24, 2007 – 6:18 pm

Man cuts off penis in restaurant. I bet he took the last After Eight as well. Some people have no class.

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Cake

December 22, 2006 – 10:04 am

We had a cake for my son’s birthday a couple of days ago, and I was reminded of one of the benefits of living in the UK – decent cake. It is, as with so many other things, possible to get good cake in the US, but you have to know where to go as [...]

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More euw than it might first seem

October 13, 2006 – 9:08 am

The BBC tells us that Sainsbury’s has withdrawn some of its own-brand muesli (that’s granola for you colonial types) from the shelves following the discovery of moth parts in the mix. Pretty unpleasant, of course, but presumably one of those things that happen from time to time when you’re selling food that looks like moth [...]

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Limon

August 24, 2006 – 9:35 am

Joy of joys, you can now buy Fanta Limon in the UK. Admittedly it’s called Fanta Lemon, which isn’t so exotic, but now every day can be a holiday!

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