This from the Times: "A spicy sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards’ officers warned manufacturers that they could face prosecution because it does not contain dragon."

Ah, you Brits!

Here is more information about the Welsh Dragon than we ever dreamed was available.

... but there is no link to sausage, so to speak.

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Ah, you Brits!

It is a problem with any legislation that there will be cases where the Law is apparently an ass. It is the Law in England that all packaged foodstuffs must have a full and accurate list of their ingredients, including the proportions thereof. The name given to the item must also be sufficiently accurate that it is not misleading.

Clearly few are going to be under the impression that the sausages contain the flesh of a mythical beast, but, on the other hand, it was not clear from the name on the packaging what they actually did contain.

It is maybe unlikely that Jews and Muslims would inadvertently eat the sausages, not realising that they contained pork - but from a cursory glance at the packaging it was not immediately clear what meat they did contain. It was this lack of clarity that concerned Trading Standards, not that the sausages didn't contain dragon meat.

But it made a good story.

Makes me think of crunchy frogs (scroll down nearly halfway).

If this is the case, what are they going to do about Welsh rabbit?

Enquiring minds want to know

It's actually Welsh Rarebit, although often called Welsh Rabbit.

From World WIde Words

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Use of the word Welsh itself as a phrase former is limited. Welsh rabbit is basically cheese on toast (the word is not “rarebit” by the way, that’s the result of false etymology; “rabbit” is here being used in the same way as “turtle” in “mock-turtle soup”, which has never been near a turtle, or “duck” in “Bombay duck”, which was actually a dried fish called bummalo).

It brings to mind the Monty Python sketch about Crunchy Frog candy.
Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.

Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.

Milton: What else?

Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?

Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?

Praline: Superintendent Parrot ate one of those.

Parrot: Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly)

Milton: It says 'crunchy frog' quite clearly.

Praline: Well, the superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some form of mock frog.

Milton: (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!

Praline: Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog', if you want to avoid prosecution.

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