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That’s a joke, right?
dentalque on July 7, 2008 at 9:06 PM
Yuk on British CPS.
Food fight!
maverick muse on July 7, 2008 at 9:06 PM
It takes a lot of hard work to make the perfect citizen, especially when you are attempting to re-educate the broccoli haters.
Limerick on July 7, 2008 at 9:06 PM
So, if I don’t like the smell of cabbage, just who am I racist against?
Buford Gooch on July 7, 2008 at 9:07 PM
If a Caucasian kid says “Yuk!” to British food is he still a racist?
whitetop on July 7, 2008 at 9:07 PM
Public choice theory as applied to 3-year olds.
SteveMG on July 7, 2008 at 9:08 PM
Hating arugula is racist
William Amos on July 7, 2008 at 9:09 PM
The UK has gone completely mad.
The British people better rise up before they are completely enslaved.
TheBigOldDog on July 7, 2008 at 9:09 PM
Koreans, duh. What do you think that kim-chi is made out of?
Blarg the Destroyer on July 7, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Just in time, we don’t want to teach our children to “hate” or anything………
Seven Percent Solution on July 7, 2008 at 9:12 PM
Call me what you may, 40 years later and I still turn my nose up at lima beans and say yuck to corn chowder.
Alden Pyle on July 7, 2008 at 9:13 PM
That’s just stupid!
MrFreeman07 on July 7, 2008 at 9:14 PM
So I take it the International House of Pancakes is above suspicion?
Limerick on July 7, 2008 at 9:14 PM
Calling someone “Waffles” might just be racist
William Amos on July 7, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Depends, if the child is English and turns his nose up at food that is traditionally considered Welsh, Scottish, or Irish, it could be. For some reason those toths have gone all sack of hammers and think that if you tell jokes about people not of your same country, or ethnic background is racist; even if they belong to the same race as you.
Thankfully, things here are all still moonbeams and pennywhistles in that regard. Imagine if we weren’t allowed to make fun of canucks or those dirty, scandanavian icebacks.
The horror. The Horror.
Blarg the Destroyer on July 7, 2008 at 9:16 PM
I can’t stand onions. I must be racist against the whole world.
NotCoach on July 7, 2008 at 9:17 PM
Racist.
Hollowpoint on July 7, 2008 at 9:17 PM
CCCP???
Committee for Children’s Culinary Planning.
Just a little too Big Brothery for my ..er.. taste. Are we going to have to discredit Communist theory again?
hillbillyjim on July 7, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Only in the sense that all Caucasians are by definition racists.
Want proof? No one likes British food. Minorities can’t be racist. QED.
Hollowpoint on July 7, 2008 at 9:20 PM
You know what they’re setting this up for, right? Right now, it would be too crazy to start arresting people for simply having racist attitudes (well maybe it wouldn’t, because it has happened), but if they can claim that the authoritarian nanny-state system has been heading off these root causes from birth, then no-one is to blame for a racist attitude but the person himself. Once they know that no citizen has been ignored by this system and that everyone should have been taught that racism is wrong, they can start rounding people up for being racist.
jimmy the notable on July 7, 2008 at 9:22 PM
That is racist.
Blarg the Destroyer on July 7, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Wow
Just
Wow
Markvike on July 7, 2008 at 9:27 PM
Next on the hit parade:
If you are not Green, you are obviously raaaaacist.
Disagree with your socialist overlords? Racist.
Have a mind of your own? Yep. Racist.
Drive a SUV? Raaaaacist.
Fried foods? Fuggittaboudit. Racist.
hillbillyjim on July 7, 2008 at 9:28 PM
american public schools like to have kids identified as learning disabled, speech impaired or whatever so they get the additional govt subsidy revenue. looks like follow the money, works in the UK, too.
these proggs are just so much more enlightened
billypaintbrush on July 7, 2008 at 9:30 PM
Dear Brits,
If you might indulge me, I suggest you pay more attention to what the smelly black Pakis are up to in your country and less attention to pre-schoolers who call someone a pee-pee head or a booger face.
Why the hell is your once great nation acquiescing to the very people who are out to destroy your way of life?
Sincerely,
…… a concerned earthling.
fogw on July 7, 2008 at 9:30 PM
Nurseries are encouraged to report as many incidents as possible to their local council.
Cuz we all know the government will know how to make ‘em all better.
Tuning Spork on July 7, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Why are the over educated so completely stupid?
I have a garden 10 feet from my back yard and my son says “yuck” to some items and “yum” to others — all from his own homestead.
EJDolbow on July 7, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Liberal fascism in the velvet glove of Multiculturalism strikes another blow for stupidity.
‘Me not want stink food. Taste like caca!’
‘Citizen! You have just committed a Thought-Crime. Remain perfectly still. A representative of the People’s Progressive Party will arrive promptly to take you to the Ministry of Multiculturalism for Re-education.’
CultureWar on July 7, 2008 at 9:38 PM
“It tastes good!! I swear it tastes good! No, I’m not making a face! That’s just the face I make when I think something tastes really, really, very good! Stop calling me a racist!!”
jimmy the notable on July 7, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Don’t whine kid; eat it up!
We must brand whiners as RACIST
Beto Ochoa on July 7, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Therefore, by this logic, going to a restaurant and ordering anything but every item on the menu is racist.
Meric1837 on July 7, 2008 at 9:39 PM
It wasn’t coincidence that Orwell was English and thought what he did. I hope there are saner minds there…somewhere.
Dr. Manhattan on July 7, 2008 at 9:39 PM
It’s only a matter of time before any opinion is racist.
lorien1973 on July 7, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Wow, when I read it earlier today, I missed the implication they’re yanking pages from an old Soviet manual now.
Next step, Body Snatchers like public screaming.
Dusty on July 7, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Correct me if I’m wrong (or racist for saying this), but I’m pretty sure this ‘guidance’ would only apply to toddlers of a certain colorless ethnic group, no?
AUINSC on July 7, 2008 at 9:41 PM
No, the government has ways of knowing if you really really really don’t like it or you are just a racist.
Limerick on July 7, 2008 at 9:41 PM
This PC is becoming an uncontrollable plague,in
Britain,for the love that is all good and pure,
were talking about little children, at a start
of their little precious lives,are being brain
washed and programmed!
Now,people are offended over food,and the British
want to set it right from the word go,starting with
the the future——————their children!
Somewhere along the line,liberals also have noble
PC projects for IT Takes a Village,its always about
the children!
And I don’t know whats more dizzying,Obama’s flip/
flops,or trying to keep up with Britian’s daily
political correctness adventures!
canopfor on July 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Winston Smith, call your office.
HerrMorgenholz on July 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
This is literally beyond reason.
Spirit of 1776 on July 7, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Nurseries are encouraged to report as many incidents as possible to their local council.
And all children will be assigned nicely starched brown shirts.
Buy Danish on July 7, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Yuk!
Limerick on July 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM
I can see a scene,where in England,say a restaurant,
your young children are not taking to a certain food,
idiot on the part of the parent to bring the kid their
in the first place!
As your youngin is spittin up said food,the herr
Food Nazi’s are makin their way to your table,(soup
Nazi’s are a different group,jus sayin)anyway,like
a Rush Limbaugh segment,a la Paul Shaklin parody!:)haha.
canopfor on July 7, 2008 at 9:51 PM
Or Germans. Mmmmmm, sour kraut.
FloatingRock on July 7, 2008 at 9:51 PM
So does this mean that Muslim kids turning their noses up to pork should be dealt with as racist?
CultureWar on July 7, 2008 at 9:52 PM
WAY too much time on someone’s hands.
SouthernGent on July 7, 2008 at 9:52 PM
I should have just said: Krauts.
FloatingRock on July 7, 2008 at 9:53 PM
They must be among the worst offenders.
FloatingRock on July 7, 2008 at 9:54 PM
This is what happens when the government exerts too much control over the population. Democracy or not, it doesn’t matter how tyrants get power, a tyrant is a tyrant that takes freedom from the voting people.
It is truly sad that children are not allowed to form an opinion. Isn’t it important for children to recognize strangers and stay away from them? Would it be racist if a stranger (who might happen to be Pakistani) approached a youngster in a car and they ran away? Isn’t that what they are supposed to do? Aren’t they supposed to make judgments?
What does freedom mean anymore anyway? You are free to do and say what you like as long as the government lets you?
As I said, democratically elected or not, tyranny is tyranny.
ThackerAgency on July 7, 2008 at 9:54 PM
They already are completely enslaved. What it will take to end that enslavement I dare not speculate…
aengus on July 7, 2008 at 9:54 PM
R-R-R-RAAACIST!!
jimmy the notable on July 7, 2008 at 9:54 PM
And this is a fabulous point. It’s all about appeasing the muslims now. The government will force it’s citizens to be dhimmis by the law. It might be a good idea to stand up to government at some point. I’m not saying when, but it has happened before, and it might need to happen again at some point if we want to stay free.
ThackerAgency on July 7, 2008 at 9:56 PM
This is going to sink Prince Charles’ wino-diesel. All bottles opened will have to be finished. No more vino for the bio-industry!
Limerick on July 7, 2008 at 9:57 PM
And all children will be assigned nicely starched brown
shirts.
Buy Danish on July 7,2008 at 9:49PM.
Buy Danish:After posting,I seen your comments,and while
responding,I’m listening to the Bear FM rock
station,and Pink Floyds,another brick in the
wall is playing,now that spooky!
canopfor on July 7, 2008 at 9:58 PM
I agree except that the children are not forming an opinion.
They dislike the food for whatever reason but they are not even thinking about it.
Labour wants to control not only “racist” opinions but unthinking responses that they define as “racism”. They just want to control every facet of personal existence. They are anti-human.
aengus on July 7, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Um, this may be obvious, but, why the crap would you serve 3 year olds “unfamiliar, foreign food” and then be surprised when they don’t like it? ??
4shoes on July 7, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Labour will not win the next General Election. In a recent by-election in Henley (a “safe” Labour seat) they came fifth after the Conservatives, Liberals Democrats, Greens and BNP. I didn’t even know Britain had a Green Party but that didn’t stop them getting more votes than Labour.
Labour have solved this problem by handing Britain over to the EU and who knows maybe Tony Blair will be the next EU President.
aengus on July 7, 2008 at 10:03 PM
I always wanted to try Kuckalish on a stick,
like Homer had in one of the Simpson episodes
and chase it down with a nice tasty cold bottle
of crab juice,oh nummy!haha.
canopfor on July 7, 2008 at 10:04 PM
And I thought no one could waste money as creatively as our United States Congress!
ctmom on July 7, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Forget the English food and the Pakistani goo.
Let’s feed the kids nothing but big steaming patties of corn pone! That’ll teach ‘em for being born racist.
forest on July 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM
So my dream of forcing toddlers to eat bowls of picante sauce only requires a trip to GB?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!BWAHAHAHAHAHA!BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Ahem…
Beto Ochoa on July 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM
That’s malarky, now back to my bush meat.
TheSitRep on July 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Or he’ an Irish hating bastard. Call the hate crime police, I want to make a complaint.
peacenprosperity on July 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Western Civilization has a cancer.
TheBigOldDog on July 7, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Mandated multiculturalism. It wasn’t enough to start the indoctrination process at 1st grade; they’ve got to condition these children’s reflex actions in their formative years now. Wow.
Not to worry. Your local thoughtcrime council has got your back.
hillbillyjim on July 7, 2008 at 10:18 PM
That’s a mighty racist opinion. I recommend you not travel to the UK until you’ve been through thought rehab otherwise you risk incarceration.
TheBigOldDog on July 7, 2008 at 10:21 PM
aengus on July 7, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Well, I say good luck to ya, but I don’t believe it’s a political problem now, but a bureaucratic problem. Politicians like Thatcher aren’t a dime a dozen and you’ll need as tough as that to go up against career employees of the state.
Dusty on July 7, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Yes, a very bad case. May God help us!
Zorro on July 7, 2008 at 10:24 PM
It’s an alternative universe, where brainstorming is a nasty offense to be eradicated in favor of thought showers.
Heck, my all-American kid hated mashed potatoes. Clearly he hates the Irish but is unaware of his racism. It’s nothing a little re-education camp can’t fix, and the best part about it is – it’s free!
Buy Danish on July 7, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Orwell…
patrick neid on July 7, 2008 at 10:25 PM
It’s up to the people. Not the politicians.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.
–Thomas Jefferson, 1787
TheBigOldDog on July 7, 2008 at 10:26 PM
I don’t know how you resisted this awesome line:
apollyonbob on July 7, 2008 at 10:29 PM
I hope I never have to go over there on business. For whatever reason, seafood induces involuntary vomiting sensations for me.
I would hate to be in a pub and be served fish and chips only to throw up on me new mates and get hauled off by a Bobby to the Tower of London. Bad cricket their friends, definitely not the dog’s bollocks.
Blarg the Destroyer on July 7, 2008 at 10:31 PM
I don’t place any faith in UK politicians at all as my earlier comment hinted. The Tories will win and do nothing and the downward spiral will likely continue.
If anything I think the most likely possibility of a any kind of pushback will come after Britain is placed under sharia rule.
Its always assumed that once the UK goes Islamic its never going back but they are plenty of historical examples – Ethiophia, Spain, Southern Italy, Serbia, parts of Greece – that it is only when the scheming Muslims reveal their true nature that total opposition of them is automatic.
aengus on July 7, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Sooo…when the libs finally have us all eating soylent green, will I be attacked as a racist if I refuse to eat soylent yellow?
Someone call Charleton Heston, there is a soylent race-riot in the east sector.
Bishop on July 7, 2008 at 10:39 PM
So what does it mean if I don’t like watermelon but do like fried chicken?
/stirring up trouble
baldilocks on July 7, 2008 at 10:40 PM
that it is only when the scheming Muslims reveal their true nature that total opposition of them is automatic
That chance will never come because the muslims learned their lesson the first time around. Their next shot will be to get rid of everyone ‘else’ rather than forced servitude as they did 500 years ago.
Bishop on July 7, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Oh no you di’int. :snaps fingers:
Blarg the Destroyer on July 7, 2008 at 10:45 PM
.
After pork in forbidden in the country, this problem will be averted.
News2Use on July 7, 2008 at 10:46 PM
You’re a minority, you are allowed to hate and blame everything on whitey. Not that you do, but you get a free pass just because liberty is all about identity politics, right?
And I dislike watermelon and like fried chicken as well. You are a freedom fighter while I am a half racist apparently.
NotCoach on July 7, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Dang, if Obama had just had a chance to sit down and talk to your kid, all of that could have just been avoided!
Spirit of 1776 on July 7, 2008 at 10:47 PM
I knew I liked something about you aengus! Yes, the Tories became “me too” labour sometime after Tony Blair was elected. As so with the current RNC…I’ve actually met several ‘Anti-American’ Tories…and they are indistiguishable from ‘foaming at the mouth’ leftists in their conviction that the US is the root of all evil in the world…that the Jihadists really are just “Jolly good chaps, who, if treated fairly (and given every thing they want), will produce a good game of cricket…”
AUINSC on July 7, 2008 at 10:48 PM
From a related Telegraph article:
He is leaving the public school system to work in the private sector. I can understand why.
hillbillyjim on July 7, 2008 at 10:49 PM
A small nightcap………
Bye Bye from an A10
Limerick on July 7, 2008 at 10:50 PM
A British toddler can’t say “yuck” but a British muslim is allowed to say “Behead those who insult Islam”?
I will sorely miss Boddingtons, perhaps we could ship the brewery over here during the evacuation of London. A few Galaxy’s could probably get most of the equipment and the brewmasters to boot.
Bishop on July 7, 2008 at 10:51 PM
No Comment!
OldEnglish on July 7, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Wonder if Pat Condell will have anything to say about this.
surrounded on July 7, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Just when we think the world can’t get crazier.
baldilocks on July 7, 2008 at 11:12 PM
I have spent many more hours thinking about this than is perhaps healthy.
Osama bin Laden, echoing Bin Youseff (a Muslim Berber would-be re-conquerer of Spain from the 11th century), argues in favour of the jihadist you are describing.
However I believe the Muslims will slip up. The restraint they are showing now – comparable to the sly, underhanded way they conquered the Persian Empire – is very sneaky but their religion demands violent conquest which they cannot suppress.
So I think they will slip up.
Also, I think (anyone who is an atheist please ignore this) that the role of Providence has a part to play in this.
aengus on July 7, 2008 at 11:12 PM
What Hitler couldn’t do with bombers and V-2 rockets, is being done quite well with a bunch of un-elected bureaucrats.
I pray that the Brits find another Churchill in the near future because if such a person has not yet been born, the idiots currently in charge will ensure he never lives to see the light of day.
c3ichief on July 7, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Wow. England is really actually turning into Orwell’s 1984. I used to think so highly of England, but what with the people getting prosecuted for protecting themselves and their property from criminals who get injured in the process and all the cameras everywhere and the Dhimmitude supplication to Islam and now this too… gah! I think my attitude about England is becoming disagreeable.
I wonder when the books with “disagreeable attitude” start getting burned. Probably after the infants are all rounded up and incarcerated for disliking certain foods.
SilverStar830 on July 7, 2008 at 11:21 PM
I worry about the British people everyday…
d1carter on July 7, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Ancient black stereotypes are not relevant so it makes no difference.
Modern black stereotypes on the other hand are another story and so if you don’t embrace Communism or liberalism you’ll be rejected quicker than a four-year old English boy pukes up chili con carne.
aengus on July 7, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Doubleplusungood.
CurtZHP on July 7, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Well, now that this post has caused me to eat myself halfway through the frig … I still wish I had the makings for some chili, now. Thanks aengus.
Dusty on July 7, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Huh? Oh, you were talking to someone else, nevermind.
doubleplusundead on July 7, 2008 at 11:30 PM
I am growing very tired of the constant reporting of Judeo-Christian suicide occurring in Europe, this has been going on for years, the Euro fools continue to prostate themselves before the globalist-moral/cultural/political relativist crowd, meanwhile their culture is disappearing faster than the Greenland icepack and their much heralded visions for the Sudan, Zimbabwe and Palestine continue to corkscrew into the toilet! Let the EU choke on their PC turds, the sooner Eurostain happens, the sooner we can confront it. The ex-soviet block folks truly love America and afford us a much better opportunity to destroy the blight known as Islam.
dmann on July 7, 2008 at 11:39 PM
Have had english food? Boiled peas. Yikes. No wonder their teeth suck.
Didn’t have the stomach to read the story to be truthful. {pun intended}
Branch Rickey on July 7, 2008 at 11:39 PM
If Obama doesn’t like Spotted Dick, is he a racist?
profitsbeard on July 7, 2008 at 11:42 PM
That would be the ex-Soviet bloc that now has EU membership?
As the PM of Slovakia put it “Its much more interesting running Europe than it is running Slovakia.”
Your idea to let Muslims conquer, rape and murder millions of Western Europeans and only then attempt to deal with jihad – after the Muslims have attained the weapons and power base from which they might destroy the US – is not rational but rooted in wrath and sadism.
aengus on July 7, 2008 at 11:50 PM
Actually watermelon comes from southern Africa so why shouldn’t black people like it?
And I suspect that whirled peas will be formulated at a KFC or a Popeyes. Just a guess.
baldilocks on July 7, 2008 at 11:54 PM
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