re: #300 Cato the Elder

Ooh, good, you’re here.

Jimmah, could you please, as a representative of the gude auld UK, tell us whether there is anywhere in the Isles such a thing as a Food Patrol that can demand access to your pantry, ice-box or larder (shudder) and lecture you if the comestibles therein do not meet proper nutritional standards?

Such a claim was made earlier today and I hooted it off the thread. It just sounds so Monty-Pythonesque.

Not that I’d put it past the Nanny State to try such a thing, I just don’t think they’d get past the first door of the first terrace house in the first council tract without getting covered in derision and bacon drippings.

It occurred to me just now to search Samizdata, the British libertarian blog, and I got nothing.