“The EU wants to limit how much of a toxic chemical coumarin, found in small amounts in the most commonly used type of cinnamon is heavily restricted in use. This means an effective ban on the consumption of Danish pastries as they are currently made today.”
I wonder how long before they get around to banning that black tar they call Coffee in France. Even drinkable Coffee has about 22 known carcinogens in it but it’s the dose that is important as virtually everything will kill you at the right/wrong dose. As for the EU, UKIP has the right idea.
Relax. As usual, you’ve been taken in by one of those “AHHH! EU NANNY STATE!!!” freak outs that has little to no basis in reality.
They are not banning cinnamon. Just coumarin, one of the more toxic versions found in cheap cinnamon substitutes, which was banned in the US over 50 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coumarin
Coumarin is found naturally in many edible plants such as strawberries, black currants, apricots, and cherries.
From the same WIKI page
Hey John – better talk to your nanny……
You know john, if you’re going to mock Kate you should read the link you posted first. From the Wiki article: “European health agencies have warned against consuming high amounts of cassia bark, one of the four main species of cinnamon, because of its coumarin content.”
According to Nigel Farage, the EU has decided a mere warning is not enough and is moving to ban cassia bark. Not coumarin as an additive, which is already illegal.
Which you would have figured out if you weren’t bent on snark all the time.
Just waiting for Europe to go full prohibition on alcohol, because it might offend Muslims.
Than comes the slaughtering of the pigs into extinction across Europe.
Give it 5 more years & stoning will be back.
oxygen is corrosive. we should ban that. mix it with hydrogen, and it becomes a colorless odorless substance that causes suffocation when inhaled.
Paztries? You vill not eet paztries. Ve vill dezide vat iz good vor you, and you vill like eet. Eez zis klear?
Yeah, I hope those Europeans don’t start emigrating here, damned Europeans. Hate those idiots. And they are always jabbering away in European with their European this and European that, oh they don’t make tea here like at home, and …
The EU is “out-of-control bureaucracy” personified.
Check out the link on the same site to the EU new Cornish pastry laws….bizarre!
Because if they just fix this, then everyone in Europe will live forever!!!11!!
Thank god … At last a reason to stop gorging on European cinnamon buns. I always wondered how that would end.
They should have warning labels that take up 2/3 of the cinnamon bun packaging.. Fat dead people and their sad testimonials..
“Look at the power of the cinnamon bun… Remember this face and that eating pastry killed me”
Porko von Popbutton died at 42 from eating cinnamon buns..
E.U. to ban Danish pastry?
THOR is not pleased.
History repeats itself, …now emerging reports of Vikings invading Brussels and razing it to the ground.
Europeans rise in ovation and promise them much danegeld if continue on and turn back the Saracen invasion.
And it all started with a cinnamon bun.
I’ve got a container of “cumarin” in my spice rack; it was inherited from my Grandmother perhaps 20 years ago. I can also recall seeing it amongst the displays of spices for sale on the bakery aisle when I was much younger.
I think that coumarin shouldn’t be made illegal; if it is, only criminals will have it! Imagine the huge black market/illicit trade that will arise from people trying to get their cinnamon fixes, since they can’t have their customary bakery goods. Oh, the tragedy, the tragedy!!!!!!
My point remains. The US banned this substance over 50 years ago. Has not affected Cinnabon’s growth because cinnamon remains legal in the US and will remain legal in the EU. It will simply require a bit of adjustment.
Remember a few years back how you guys of pants-pooping brigade lost your minds when trans-fats were banned? How this would result in the end of junk food as we know it? I’m still happy to report that I’m eating more than my share of chips and Cheetos.
I bet your ancestors argued for the continued right to sh!t where they ate, calling sanitation rules “nanny-statist”.
Once again… delicious cinnamon buns will still continue to make us fat. Don’t panic.
The edicts from your domineering authority doesn’t have to make sense, actually its better if the edict is obviously farcical – what matters is that you obey and subordinate yourself to authority regardless how inane the order – this is social conditioning of the first order, conditioning reflexive obedience in the livestock the ruling order preys upon.
John
Chips and Cheetos in mom’s basement? That and some unsavoury videos on xtube
Remember to relay that to your doctor to help with the diagnosis for orange dic k syndrome
Your point remains on top of your head Johnny baby. Coumarin is already illegal in Europe as a food additive and has been since they banned it in the USA. Coumarin is a FOOD ADDITIVE, John.
Cassia bark is not a food additive, John. It is a -SPICE-. It is cassia bark being made illegal because they say it contains too high a level of naturally occurring coumarin. This despite it being a common ingredient in use since forever in, among other things, Danish pastry.
Work on your reading comprehension John. It isn’t good.
And there are still other types of cinnamon that do not contain high levels of coumarin, which means people will still get to enjoy gooey, cinnamon treats. As I say… you guys are once again pooping your pants over a sensationalized article written specifically to knot your panties and think the EU has nothing better to do with it’s time but destroy dessert.
Cal2, if it turns your crank to think about me watching porn and eating Cheetos, that’s your journey man, but I’d rather not know about it.