Salt and freshly ground black people taste delicious...

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BBC News - Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cookbook after one recipe listed \"salt and freshly ground black people\" instead of black pepper.

Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.
The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is \"extremely hard\" to do so, Penguin said.
The recipe was for tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.
\"We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know,\" head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.
Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page.
\"When it comes to the proof-reader, of course they should have picked it up, but proof-reading a cookbook is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable,\" Mr Sessions said.
If anyone complains about the \"silly mistake\", they will be given the new version, Penguin said.
 

Dave

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I know a couple of girls who like to eat black people, but that's because they are filling. I think that's a different thing, though.


Seriously, who gets bent out of shape over an obvious typo? That looks to me like spell checker fixed a typo wrong.
 
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I must be racist because I read it without realizing there was a typo. My brain automatically filled in "pepper".
 
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