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  • Pork crisis update: relief for Irish indie rock scene as Ham Sandwich cull called off

    December 10, 2008 @ 2:10 pm | by Jim Carroll

    You couldn’t make this up. Per the European Food Safety Authority, “there are no adverse health effects to the consumption of Irish pork contaminated with dioxins”.

    They continue: “if a person ate an average amount of Irish pork daily since September 1st, 10 per cent of which was contaminated with the highest recorded concentration of dioxins, there would be “no concern” for human health.”

    Makes you wonder what all the fuss was about these last few days. Now, anyone for a fry-up?

    • 9 Comments »

    1.
    December 10, 2008
    4:02 pm

    Let’s have an OTR pork party and gorge ourselves sick just to prove it.

    Comment by Lenny
    2.
    December 10, 2008
    4:24 pm

    Husk, who’s been telling porkies?

    Comment by Naomi
    3.
    December 10, 2008
    4:42 pm

    “relief for Irish indie rock scene as Ham Sandwich cull called off”

    Best headline ever :))

    Comment by Enda
    4.
    December 10, 2008
    4:53 pm

    Lenny - just heard on the radio that Hicks will be giving away free sausages on Saturday in Temple Bar so we’re in business

    Naomi - Honk! Sorry, Oink!

    Enda - Thank u. It’s almost as good as the one I wanted to use for a story on the Asian flu when I was subbing years ago - “Hong Kong Fluey” - or the one the Observer used for a book review on China - “That was Zen; this is Mao”

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    5.
    December 10, 2008
    5:22 pm

    Jimbo, I must agree. Classic headline. Olan

    Comment by Olan McGowan
    6.
    December 10, 2008
    5:38 pm

    The pig farmer at the centre of the scare is a Mr Robert Hogg. You couldn’t make that up either. It’s a bit like that Seinfeld episode where Kramer couldn’t get his head around the fact that he met a librarian called Mr.Bookman.

    Great cartoon in the Daily Mail yesterday with a ripe -for- Christmas turkey pretending to be Irish to avoid being killed for Xmas…the caption was ‘Begorrah,,bejaysus…to be sure,,,top o the mornin’ etc all the stage-Irish stuff that no one in Ireland actually says but quite funny all the same. The Irish Indo were fuming about it, describing it as deeply anti-Irish, etc. Lighten up guys, Jesus.

    Comment by Quint
    7.
    December 10, 2008
    11:58 pm

    The good auld Indo is really looking out for us, kudos for that. Now, if they would stop making us look like Z-list celebrity-lovers of a Sunday, that would be just swell…

    This is truly a relief. Spar around the corner from me were selling breakfast rolls with the disclaimer: 100% UK pork. Anyone believe? Complete panic stations, ridiculous PR from the Government - any pork from September 1st? We should all have been dead in that case.

    Comment by Rosemary
    8.
    December 11, 2008
    9:21 am

    Olan - ta

    Quint - I was wondering when the Mail would do that. I suppose they’ll have a few pigs-in-the-parlour comments by their columnists too?

    Rosemary - Very glad now I didnt throw out some lovely Paul Rankin sausages in the mad panic at the weekend

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    9.
    December 11, 2008
    9:29 am

    “‘Begorrah,,bejaysus…to be sure,,,top o the mornin’ etc all the stage-Irish stuff that no one in Ireland actually says”

    Ah, now I know why I can’t quite integrate here - cheers Quint.

    Comment by Johnnie

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