January 23, 2008

Brits Dump Three Little Pigs for Fear of Offending "Asians"

That's funny I thought "Asians" had like 10,000 delicious ways to cook pork?

Via BBC: : The CD-Rom digital version of the traditional story of the three little pigs, called Three Little Cowboy Builders, is aimed at primary school children. But judges at this year’s Bett Award said that they had “concerns about the Asian community and the use of pigs raises cultural issues”.

The Three Little Cowboy Builders has already been a prize winner at the recent Education Resource Award - but its Newcastle-based publishers, Shoo-fly were turned down by the Bett Award panel, run the government’s technology agency. The feedback from the judges explaining why they had rejected the CD-Rom highlighted that they “could not recommend this product to the Muslim community”.

Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs.

By Howie at 05:21 PM | |