http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56309 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 19:05:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56309#post-162750 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:21:23 +0000 writinginbsl 162750@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>nicely done</p> <p>congrats </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56309#post-162653 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:29:48 +0000 AReader 162653@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I laughed just at the headline. Well done on the FP </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56309#post-162622 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:52:38 +0000 rickwestwell 162622@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great to get a bit of custard on the Front Page. Now I reckon we just need an FP about Romanian orphans being eaten, and we'll have exhausted this topic. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56309#post-162607 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:32:59 +0000 Tripod 162607@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>a totally exhausted theme</blockquote></p> <p>Yes, it's just flogging a dead horse now... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56309#post-162604 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:28:09 +0000 Sinnick 162604@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent twist on a totally exhausted theme. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56309#post-162592 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:18:39 +0000 Alan Sundry 162592@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like it - glad this got on the fp. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56309#post-162576 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:07:02 +0000 Squudge 162576@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bloody hell Des - I only just finished whipping up a similar confection</p> <p>...never mind, posting anyway - have some competitive stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=56309#post-162572 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:02:38 +0000 Des Custard 162572@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tests carried out by reading the label on a packet of Waitrose luxury muesli have revealed that it contains a large percentage of horse food. As a result, all supermarkets are removing muesli products from their shelves ‘as a precautionary measure’.</p> <p>‘This is not seen as an issue of public health or even fraud,’ said Environment Secretary Owen Paterson. ‘It’s more an apology for the way the British public have been duped into buying, and in certain parts of the Home Counties, actually eating rubbish that’s only fit for animals. We have discovered in recent days that horse meat is tasty and healthy, and we should be shovelling all this crap into horses so we can eat them instead.’</p> <p>An official said the main offending substance is oats, but muesli also contains other grains fed to horses. In fact, many well-off horses are fed special horse muesli that looks and tastes very similar to the human version, the main difference being that these products are labelled horse feed instead of horse food. </p> <p>Muesli entered the human food chain in Britain as part of a little-known scam towards the end of the 20th century when Swiss and other unscrupulous foreigners needed to dump large horse feed surpluses, and the product arrived complete with a manufactured myth about its history, its delicious taste and its supposed health benefits. </p> <p>Prior to the introduction of muesli, oats were only eaten by poor people in workhouses and Scotland, their sole other purpose being as a source of wisecracks about getting enough sex. </p>