British anti-jargon campaigners were celebrating Monday after forcing a supermarket chain to change the labelling on a sausage snack which had been described as "ambient".
The Plain English Campaign said it had no idea what the "ambient sausage roll" was, adding the snack on sale at Co-operative stores took the linguistic biscuit.
story http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/od_afp/britainfoodlanguageoffbeat_20100201220436
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"Ambient" Sausage
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"Ambient" Sausage
by rebbonk » Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:01 am
Of course it'll fit; you just need a bigger hammer.
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Re: "Ambient" Sausage
by PoundShopPeter » Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:46 pm
Can't think of a witty reply but love the story. Ambient Sausage rolls 
The Coventry Telegraph is the best Newspaper in the world. Honest.
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