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Castle View School in Canvey Island, Essex, England, briefly banned triangular flapjacks (not pancakes; the English call granola-bar-like food "flapjacks" after a student sustained an injury when another student threw a cornersome flapjack at him. The school authorities required that all flapjacks must be served in rectangular portions, to increase the safety of food-fights.
The ban did not stand very long. Public mockery seems to have killed it.
According to one report, in 2011 British MP and Education Secretary Michael Gove was prevented from taking flapjacks into a cabinet meeting, after officials cited similar safety concerns. That is the only report of that alleged incident, howeveralthough Gove was (and is) the Education Secretary, there does not appear to be any other evidence that he was ever frisked for flapjacks or that even the British government has actually classified them as a security risk.
http://boingboing.net/2013/03/27/english-school-briefly-bans.html
pscot
(21,024 posts)Very creative in an anti-social sort of way.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)didn't they realize they were just making it worse.
Squares have four corners instead of the triangular three making it an extra deadly flapjack.
Orrex
(63,263 posts)And it must be eaten whole, to minimize the possibility of dangerous edges when bitten.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)I wonder if they realized that even rectangles have corners.
In all the food fights my sisters and I ever had, we always formed our weapons into the shape of circles or balls.
And really, the fights were way more fun when the food we used was soft and mushy and splattered on contact.
Like mashed potatoes. Or tuna fish with mayonnaise.
Orrex
(63,263 posts)"Shuriken!"
Buns_of_Fire
(17,213 posts)Outside of ten feet, I always rely on a hard-boiled egg. Never failed me yet.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)with a granola bar...or a healthy appetite.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Instead of say increasing the level of supervision in the lunchroom, or cracking down on kids who throw food, he seems to think that cutting flapjacks into squares instead of triangles will somehow improve things.