British Food Journal Volume 63 Issue 12 1961

In this number of the journal we present for our readers' consumption a most varied fare—animal, vegegetable and mineral. We have sand in the parsley, rodent droppings in the stuffing, added water in the milk and vinegar, to say nothing of the malignant prospects of radio iodine in milk and radiostrontium in flour and other commodities. Iron filings in peanut butter, beetles in the bilberries, glass and nails added to the morning rolls for spite, “pinhead” oatmeal with maggots, mites and grubs and serious doubts as to whether it should have found its way to the stomachs of humans or the crops of chickens, settled albeit by a Scot—and who should know better?—that it was used in fact for making porridge! Potted shrimps and meat containing preservatives that they shouldn't; double cream and fruit drinks that are not quite, but tomato piquant that apparently is. At this season of the year we surely have here an excellent feast for the humour of “Punch” and abundant material to stir the imagination of writers of doggerel verse!