Snowflakes are in a right pickle

A DEVON pub has been slammed after taking ploughman’s lunch off the menu and rebranding it as a “ploughperson’s”.

The Tors in Belstone offers the dish, inset right, for £12.50 and it contains all the ingredients from the classic dish – cheese, ham, pickled onions, chutney and sourdough bread – but the “manly” side of it has been neutralised.

Yes, I agree with you – the whole world’s gone mad. Maybe this publican should take a sleeping pill and grab a good long kip to awake less woke?

At this rate, shampoo will probably soon be cancelled so that bald people don’t take offence.

I’m kind of bored with tiptoeing through the tulips of life just in case someone is offended by the slightest little thing, which only a few years ago would never have been upsetting in any shape or form.

You can liken this to some of the games me and my pals played when we were kids.

They’d be toe-curling no-no’s to most parents today.

Take tag, British bulldog and conkers to name but three – all have been banned from playgrounds for many years.

Kids are missing out on being kids. The odd scraped knee and a bit of blood from falling over on the asphalt just toughened us up at our school when we were nippers.

And although I genuinely appreciate heath and safety – especially for little ones, as we have grandchildren now – there’s got to be some give and take.

Our future footballers certainly need less mollycoddling, both the men and the women. We’ve all seen players holding their faces after a rough tackle, hoping they’ll have some blood on their hands to fool the ref. Thankfully, there rarely is any so they don’t get the free-kick. Cheating in football? Kick it out.