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Post by Keith Hewitt »

Have just had M+S smoked mackerel for brekky
Reading the packaging....
Front says in capitals NO BONES
Back says in lower case "Small bones may remain " :head:

Here's what made me laugh ...... it says on the back... Ingredients 98% mackerel, and below
" Contains Fish "

Eer .... well what did I expect it to contain ? :Slap:

60 years ago I was celebrating the Queen's coronation, and Im quite sure back then we all knew fish contained bones, and mackerel was fish. I've survived since then .... so why all this silly mumbo jumbo. Is it really necessary?
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Similar warnings can be found on some bags of nuts: "May contain nuts". Good, I was rather hoping it might.

I've been on a flight where the head trolley dolly made an announcement that there will be no peanuts served on the flight because someone on the plane has an allergy to them. Although I'm not sure if was to avoid potential litigation or out of consideration for the sufferer.

I guess a combination of some members of the public being utterly stupid and lawyers making lots of money by taking litigation cases for people tripping over curbstones etc, companies like M&S feel the need to cover themselves.

Perhaps you to hand your customer's finished frames back with a disclaimer "May contain your picture" just to protect yourself.

And on a Jubilee theme, it's those fools in Whitehall come up with similar health and safety concerns to protect the safety of their staff and to avoid embarrassment, inadvertently creating embarrassing headlines as they do:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... fears.html
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Post by Jonny2morsos »

Thanks for giving us this warning regarding food labelling.

Just dashed off to the kitchen and checked the cupboard and I am pleased to say that the bag of walnuts we have does have the warning "Contains Nuts"

Phew! we are all safe.
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I seen bottles of sleeping pills with the warning: "May Cause Drowsiness". :drunk:
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