Not Just a Granny

sourced from The Dailt Telegraph 02.02.09 by Harry Wallop – Consumer Affairs Editor:

Those who do not enjoy Christmas pudding can now decline the stodgy dish smug in the knowledge that they are helping the planet!

The festive dessert is not just bad for your waistline, it is contributing to global warming, according to a government-funded report by Natural England that is intended to educate consumers about where their food comes from.

While pudding’s key ingredients, egga and flour, usually come from Britain, the spices; sultanas, raisins, candied peel and brown sugar will all be imported.

As alternatives, the booklet suggests finishing off Christmas lunch with home-made vanilla ice-cream to cut down on food miles, or Kentish cobnuts, a type of home-grown hazelnut! – end of article

What a load of codswallop! Firstly, this gives a pretty good idea of why our taxes are so high – funding this type of research.  Secondly, these puddings are eaten once a year, and what about the money spent on all the resources to create the report.  Thirdly, why not just ban the import of these spices for once and for all and get it over with, in fact – ban anything that comes from overseas!  Fourthly, did they miss that vanilla is also a spice? and they recommend vanilla ice-cream for dessert! And finally, the best way to cut down on Co2 emissions and carbon-footprinting is to send all the eejits who waste time, money and our precious air into space as crash-test dummies for another planet.

It’s CHRISTMAS pudding!!!! duh, it comes around once a year and millions of people use spices in their cooking everyday.  I could probably  say a lot more on this idiot subject, except my blood-pressure is going up as I write and that won’t be good for my planet! 🙂

and a final comment! Does anybody actually read these gazillion reports that the government are so fond of producing?   Evidently they have too many people who have nothing much to do!