You think our bureaucrats are bad?

[KBCraig]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2458696,00.html

Sausages affected by draconian trade laws
By Simon de Bruxelles
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.?

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 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.?

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I suggested renaming them Welsh Trade Standard Bureaucrat Sausages.

[KurtDaBear]

Any consumer of sausage should know that dragon meat was made illegal for human consumption long before the bureaucrats turned their attention to horsemeat, but I guess that's a thread of a different color.

[Pat K]

Well ya know that saying laws and sausage, you don't want to see either being made.

[Pat McCotter]

Hot dogs, here! Get yer red-hot hot dogs here!

[burnthebeautiful]

I'm clearly missing something here. Is dragon a type of lizard? Because when I hear dragon I think of a beast that breaths fire and can fly.

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The red dragon has been the national symbol of Wales for centuries.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Consequently, they are protected