What do the humble pork pie and the noble beverage Champagne have in common? If you guessed that both can be picked up at Blighty's Tuck Store you are optimistic, but mistaken. Yes, we have pork pies in stock again but, alas, not Champagne. The correct answer is: "not very much at all just yet". However, on October 4th English pork pies and Champagne will share a privileged status.
Under new European rules, pork pies made in the vicinity of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire will join sparkling white wine made in the Champagne region of France as a protected brand. Pork pies made anywhere else will be no longer be entitled to use the name "Melton Mowbray".
This breaking news poured into Blighty's newsroom just a couple of hours after I had printed a new batch of labels reading .... "Melton Mowbray". OK folks, I need your help now. I need to use up all those labels before the men in suits from Brussels arrive to haul me off to the big house for improperly labelling my pies. Please rush into Blighty's and buy up all my "Melton Mowbray" pork pies to keep me out of trouble. Thanks, I know I can depend on you.
PS: Please don't tell the bureaucrats from Brussels, but my pork pies are made in Ontario by Churchill Pies (you know, the company that used to make them for Marks & Spencer when they were in Canada).
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