Saturday, 18 July 2009

Save our Flapjack!


WARNING! .... I'm about to go on my first blog rant.
I really do think that this country has gone mad. I have read in today's newspaper that the Food Standards Agency want to put a stop on flapjack being sold in supermarkets to help combat our countries growing obesity problem! Yes, flapjack is full of sugar. so you eat it as an occasional treat like you ought to with most sweet treats. What's next, shut down sweet shops, clamp ice-cream vans, tax people who take sugar in their tea! To me flapjack is very British and nostalgic. It's fudgy aroma transports me back to my childhood when my mum would bake a tray of it for us to indulge in. I would of course rather bake my own flapjack than buy a mass produced version from the supermarket - it's hardly rocket science to make - but for heavens sake Food Standards Agency, get a grip on reality, let people decide for themselves if they want to buy flapjack!

4 comments:

  1. Lou, got a good recipe for flapjack? we can't get it in the US it just doesn't exist

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  2. Yes, bare with me and I'll get my orange and walnut flapjack recipe over to you - it's devine!

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  3. Might Andy and I also have a copy?

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  4. Of course - will get the cupcake one for you too XxX

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