Warning! Ice Cream Is Hazardous To Your Health!

If ever there was any doubt, this business settles the question once and for all. The Brit Health Nazis have their American brethren beat for outright looniness and draconian zealotry by a country mile — or ten.

FOR 60 years the tinny jingle of Greensleeves that announced the arrival of the ice-cream van has been an indelible memory of childhood, but that sound may soon be removed from suburban streets. Health lobbyists have decided that ice-creams are too much of a danger to children’s health.

MPs and health officials are planning a series of measures across the country that are already forcing Mr. Whippy and his helpers into meltdown.

RTW loony T here.

(Thanks to the always indispensable Arts & Letters Daily for the link.)