Too many freshly ground minorities could sully the delicate aroma.
April 19, 2010 7:40 AM   Subscribe

An Australian publisher will have to reprint 7k copies of the Pasta Bible. The spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto recipe accidentally calls for "salt and freshly ground black people". (SLAP)
posted by tybeet (17 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Copyediting-of-the-weird is pretty thin stuff. -- cortex



 
Is spelt tagliatelle what you put in upmarket alphabet soup?
posted by Phanx at 7:43 AM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]


"We're mortified..." understandably...

"... that this has become an issue of any kind and why anyone would be offended, we don't know."

Is this where you type "*headdesk*"?
posted by wreckingball at 7:44 AM on April 19, 2010


So it is a misspelt tagliatelle recipe?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 7:45 AM on April 19, 2010 [3 favorites]


Horrible advice. Black people are much too aromatic and would throw off the flavor of the entire dish. Eesh. Amateurs.
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 7:46 AM on April 19, 2010


That's actually the recipe for misspelt tagliatelle.
posted by anshuman at 7:46 AM on April 19, 2010


Why don't they just put a sticker over the typo? It would be a lot cheaper for the publisher, and honestly, embarrassing as this mistake is, I can't imagine anyone really being offended by it.
posted by orange swan at 7:46 AM on April 19, 2010


Darn.
posted by anshuman at 7:47 AM on April 19, 2010


obv a spellchecker gone awry.
posted by empath at 7:47 AM on April 19, 2010


I looked all over town and couldn't even find any dried persons, so we had soup instead.
posted by Abiezer at 7:47 AM on April 19, 2010


I prefer new born Cristian babies.
posted by Dick Laurent is Dead at 7:47 AM on April 19, 2010


In a way, I can kind of see his point. I mean, would they have pulped the book if it had just asked for "salt and freshly ground people"?

We'd have laughed at it, and ignored it.

Which feels like a very sad racism of its own...
posted by sodium lights the horizon at 7:48 AM on April 19, 2010


The conspiracy widens.
posted by mazola at 7:49 AM on April 19, 2010


See? The iPad is just not ready to be a content creation device.

Salt and freshly ground black people is the "Eat up Martha" of the teens.
posted by condour75 at 7:49 AM on April 19, 2010


IT'S A COOKBOOK!
posted by The Whelk at 7:50 AM on April 19, 2010 [3 favorites]


Soylent Black.
posted by Quietgal at 7:50 AM on April 19, 2010


We've got to stop them somehow!
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 7:51 AM on April 19, 2010


Reminds me of this horrible blunder from several years ago. Ugh, Georgetown.
posted by kmz at 7:53 AM on April 19, 2010


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