A government ban on the sale of beef-on-the-bone, in late 1997, was very unpopular. The worry was “Mad Cow Disease” or variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, although the connection and risks seemed very low to many of us.
I wrote a tongue-in-cheek press release for Z/Yen, which you can read by clicking here…
…or, if by chance the Z/Yen archive goes awry before Ogblog does, I have scraped that piece to here.
In truth, it was written more as a personal rant and internal Z/Yen team joke for Christmas that year than anything that I thought might really generate press, but strangely the Daily Telegraph picked up on it, called me for a chat about it and then published this piece – extracted onto the then nascent Z/Yen web site here...
…or, if by chance the Z/Yen archive goes awry before Ogblog does, I have scraped that piece to here.
The beef-on-the-bone ban was lifted in time for Christmas (1999) – so never let it be said that I have no influence.