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Nanny state or Elf and safety gone mad???

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felice Thu 24-Jul-14 08:47:17

A friend ended up near London due to work last night, booked into a B&B then went to get something to eat, thought he would be naughty and went to KFC, he was told they were not allowed to sell chicken with bones in it !!!!!!!!!!!
Why not, is the British public now not thought to be capable of eating Chicken.
You can buy a Chicken in a supermarket cook it and eat it, it has bones in it.
He was so surprised he phoned me to tell me.

GrannyTwice Sat 26-Jul-14 11:55:35

I thought smile meant that something was a joke! Got that wrong - and Nonu I think that's a slight exaggeration grin

Nonu Sat 26-Jul-14 11:34:16

Two mind Eh ! ANNA

((hug))

Ana Sat 26-Jul-14 11:15:50

Talk about nit-picking, absent!

Nonu Sat 26-Jul-14 10:37:19

23.26

???

Eloethan Sat 26-Jul-14 00:00:31

absent I don't understand that - is it something to do with the French phrase?

absent Fri 25-Jul-14 23:27:22

Or even an apology.

absent Fri 25-Jul-14 23:26:56

Nonu I think Felice is a woman and deserves a apology. smile

Nonnie Fri 25-Jul-14 19:15:06

jingle must be a record, I agree with you twice in half a day! grin my one and only KFC was so revolting it has never been repeated. They may well be much better these days though.

Ana Fri 25-Jul-14 18:43:05

I love their fillet burgers. Real chicken, not ground up stuff...

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 25-Jul-14 18:05:03

I had it once. Never again!

Penstemmon Fri 25-Jul-14 18:02:39

I have not had KFC for years! I used to love it as a teen/young adult and it was always proper chicken pieces then. Chicken nuggets/dippers etc are often reconstituted chicken so only crushed and pulped bone included grin

Nonnie Fri 25-Jul-14 16:30:40

Pot and kettle comes to mind GT

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 25-Jul-14 15:59:14

Yep! grin

Elegran Fri 25-Jul-14 15:55:54

It's the heat.

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 25-Jul-14 15:47:56

Oh no!!! blush

jbf

I've gone dyslexic! shock

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 25-Jul-14 15:45:36

Jingle

bells

frocks

jfb

Geddit? grin

Elegran Fri 25-Jul-14 15:38:07

Who is jfb, Jings? Have you had another transmogrification?

Elegran Fri 25-Jul-14 15:37:08

Really? That is how it looked to me. We must wear different glasses.

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 25-Jul-14 15:36:42

Not humorous. But not that seriously meant either.

It's the tone of posts than can seem aggressive.

Nothing jfb posts is rubbish. #jacksy

GrannyTwice Fri 25-Jul-14 15:33:40

But Elegan it wasn't posted like that- that's the point.

Elegran Fri 25-Jul-14 15:30:57

Same reason that some posters can't pass an oh-god-this-can't-be-true-can-it?-I-must-post-it-on-the-forum without turning it into an improving treatise, I expect. That is, because different people see things from different angles, and there is, actually, a funny side to a chicken outlet that claims that it can't sell chicken with a bone in it.

GrannyTwice Fri 25-Jul-14 15:21:20

Why do some posters feel it necessary to put down those of us who express strong and serious opinions on topics that the ' put- downers' disagree with?

TriciaF Fri 25-Jul-14 15:18:17

I'm not sure what they sell at KFC, but imagine it's something called chicken nuggets. In which case it's lumps of chicken bits all mushed up with artificial flavourings and some starchy stuff, rolled in crumbs and fried.
So no bones.

GrannyTwice Fri 25-Jul-14 15:17:37

Jingle that is rubbish - there is absolutely no way at all that anyone could have known it was meant to be humorous - in fact, I don't believe it was meant to be and OP used that as a defence once s/ he was disagreed with. Plus, someone could post something meaning it to be humorous which actually upset someone else - we have aright to respond as we wish in either case. The use of nanny state and elf and safety are well known right wing trigger words used negatively to put down anyone who thinks H&S matters. I was listening to You and Your today and there was an interesting -- nanny state/ elf and safety--topic about soldiers losing their hearing as a result of serving in tanks. A serious discussion about the research necessary to protect them followed - laugh, I nearly cried

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 25-Jul-14 14:23:12

It was taken too heavily, IYKWIM. I don't think it was meant to be taken that way. (to pentstemonn)