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A Welsh food firm last night hit out at bizarre rules that have forced it to explain that its 'dragon sausages' do not really contain dragons.

The company has been warned it could face legal action for misleading people that it uses dragon meat in its fiery sausages.

Trading standards chiefs are forcing the meat firm, Black Mountains Smokery, to include the word 'pork' on its labels for their Welsh Dragon Sausages, even though pork is already included on the list of ingredients - and dragons are obviously mythical.

Frankly, I don't know how anyone could read the list of ingredients on a Welsh product, unless they are good at reading Welsh - I mean, there's a definite surplus of consonants, and a shortage of vowels.

And who eats dragon meat?

And who eats dragon meat?

The Welsh apparently.

There are many silent consonants in Welsh, and the "y" counts as a vowel in Welsh.

Bristol Zoo has Komodo dragons. Bristol is only just over the river from Wales. Don't say it couldn't happen.

There are many silent consonants in Welsh, and the "y" counts as a vowel in Welsh.

Well, you have an advantage over the Serbs there...

Frankly, I don't know how anyone could read the list of ingredients on a Welsh product, unless they are good at reading Welsh - I mean, there's a definite surplus of consonants, and a shortage of vowels.

And who eats dragon meat?

You do know they speak English....its only the ones that don't want to be understood by visitors that speak in Welsh.

You do know they speak English....its only the ones that don't want to be understood by visitors that speak in Welsh.

Yes, I know that. I'm trying to be funny.

Frankly, I don't know how anyone could read the list of ingredients on a Welsh product, unless they are good at reading Welsh - I mean, there's a definite surplus of consonants, and a shortage of vowels.
Despite the propaganda many Welsh people speak English exclusively, boyo ;)
(*Notices claim of humour in Preview pane, carries on regardless*)

And who eats dragon meat?
You mean you haven't?
You should try it. It's best fresh, so you have to hunt the dragon yourself - and using guns for the task is illegal and, worse, cheating; swords and lances only, or it's the Tower for you!
Dragon meat - the food of heroes!

Edit: Scratch that, actually: Dragon eggs are the food of heroes. It's illegal to kill a brooding mother dragon, and have you ever tried to remove the eggs from a fire-breathing, mardy, maternal lizard's nest?

Is that what's in Canned Heat?

Edit: Scratch that, actually: Dragon eggs are the food of heroes. It's illegal to kill a brooding mother dragon, and have you ever tried to remove the eggs from a fire-breathing, mardy, maternal lizard's nest?

Chinese dragon or European dragon?

Part of it makes sense. Sorta.*

"A Powys County Council spokesman said, 'The product 'Welsh Dragon Sausage' was not sufficiently precise to inform a purchaser of the true nature of the food. I don't think anyone would imagine that dragon meat was being used but we would not want vegetarians to buy the sausages believing they were meat free."

*Sorta: 1., As far as I'm aware, most vegetarians check the label of things they buy to see if it says "suitable for vegetarians" - as obviously there can be hidden ingredients in something that seems suitable for vegetarians but doesn't actually say it's suitable (and I remember I was very upset when, after turning vegetarian and strongly believing that cheese had no parts of animals in it -"why would it? It's just made from milk!"-, I finally discovered that actually a lot of cheese has animal rennet in it (part of an animal - from the stomach I think)... and 2., they wrote "meat free" - I hate it when people do that on something free from meat, if took exactly as written it means that the meat included is free of charge - free meat; for it to mean "free from meat", it needs to have a dash (meat-free instead of meat free).

Chinese dragon or European dragon?

Proper Welsh dragons from Welsh Wales.
I'm unfamiliar with Chinese dragons, they're uncommon over here. Probably endangered and protected or something.

Proper Welsh dragons from Welsh Wales.
I'm unfamiliar with Chinese dragons, they're uncommon over here. Probably endangered and protected or something.

I think the Chinese limit their export. Like the panda.

This most likely has some to do with EU food law.

Cheddar can be called Cheddar no matter where it is made, where as cheeses like Brie, Roquefort and Camembert can only be called by those names if they're made in certain places. Boo.

Damn! I was looking forward to eating dragon- meat sausage. That's false advertising.

Damn! I was looking forward to eating dragon- meat sausage. That's false advertising.

The EU says that eating dragon is bad for you, and not fair to the non-Welsh!

Yes, I know that. I'm trying to be funny.

and displaying your usual rate of success it seems.

and displaying your usual rate of success it seems.

No less funny than Rubiconic... ;)

No less funny than Rubiconic... ;)

At least it went over better than my Nixon joke a few weeks back. That joke worked out only in my head and in noone elses.

I for one, would be bitterly disappointed to find out that my sausages were not ground from the flesh of dragons.

I mean...I'd even accept a Komoto dragon. But NO dragon? Unaccceptable!