Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear

Ponster

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.


Can anyone explain to me how this dish is ruined to the extent that the publisher had to pulp the cookbooks?

PirateShampoo

Have you ever watched "Wolf Creek" ?

I can hear the defense lawyer now "the cook book told him to do it."

rubadub

Ponster wrote: »

Can anyone explain to me how this dish is ruined to the extent that the publisher had to pulp the cookbooks?

Obviously they fear of being branded racist, more than ruining dishes. I find the waste of trees more upsetting, I bet if it was white pepper there would have been no issue at all...

TanG411

Unfortunately racism will be seen as a main factor with this, and that is obviously a reason why this was made into bigger news than it should have been.

For all we know, the typists mispelled 'pepper' and spellcheck saw the mispelled word as 'people'. It is funny how the proof reader missed it though.