Plymouth shopper David Allwright was left flabbergasted after returning home from Bookers Wholesalers to find that the label on his rump steak declared it had originated from the tiny pacific islands of Kiribati.
For readers needing a geography refresher, Kiribati is a group of 30 islands situated halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii.
The 1,000ha of tropical islands have no soil, no grass and not a single cow, so how they have a thriving beef exporting business beats me.
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But the Kiribati conundrum has a solution much closer to home. When Allwright returned to the store, the shop manager admitted the labelling machine had muddled up Kiribati with Ireland’s own Kildare.
Looks like there will be no tropical trade mission to investigate the beef exporting country with no cattle.
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Plymouth shopper David Allwright was left flabbergasted after returning home from Bookers Wholesalers to find that the label on his rump steak declared it had originated from the tiny pacific islands of Kiribati.
For readers needing a geography refresher, Kiribati is a group of 30 islands situated halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii.
The 1,000ha of tropical islands have no soil, no grass and not a single cow, so how they have a thriving beef exporting business beats me.
But the Kiribati conundrum has a solution much closer to home. When Allwright returned to the store, the shop manager admitted the labelling machine had muddled up Kiribati with Ireland’s own Kildare.
Looks like there will be no tropical trade mission to investigate the beef exporting country with no cattle.
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