After a quick trip to the supermarket, mostly for other reasons, I can confirm that Tesco using 'chocolaty' instead of 'chocolatey', in the on-line description of 'extra chocolaty' Tim-Tams, is not a Tesco transcription error.

The manufacturer really does use two different spellings of the word on the packaging of its products.

It's only the word 'chocolate' that is a reserved description. 'chocolatey', 'chocolaty', and 'chocolate flavour' have the legal escape that they only describe what the food is *like*, not what it *is*.

https://legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1659/schedule/1

#TimTam #Tesco #chocolate #UKLaw #FoodStandards

@ianbetteridge

Khan will be instituting canon law and ecclesiastical courts next. You mark my words.

https://legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2st1/13/12/contents/enacted

#UKLaw #ChurchOfEngland #history #CanonLaw

@bytebro

#UKLaw and #EULaw have not followed in the footsteps of the U.S.A.. The two legal approaches (3, in fact, as Japan has another one) are divergent, and the U.K. and E.U. are already on another legal path where the fundamentals differ. They already have laws.

In fact, their laws came first. The relevant U.K. law was passed when Rishi Sunak was Prime Minister, for historical context. The E.U.'s was the year before that.

The fundamentals are things like exactly who is being legally required to verify, record, provide, and act upon information about people's ages. U.S.A. laws put these onuses on different classes of people than do U.K. and E.U. laws. Japan is different again.

One 'fun' part is that the U.S.A. laws differ on this from state to state, but #Debian Developers (and their counterparts in other Linux-based operating systems) always match the definitions regardless. Because they are both operating system and app store providers.

#AgeVerification #USLaw

@ianbetteridge

Your childhood, as mine, falls into a rather narrow window, historically speaking.

Children were only banned from the bar areas (specifically) of pubs in 1908. It wasn't until 1872 that people were even prohibited from selling spirits to them.

After two reports in 1972 and 1973 recommended the idea, Children's Certificates were introduced in 1990 (Scotland) and 1995 (England and Wales) letting them back in again if a certificate were applied for and granted.

For a painful historical sense of how long ago this was and how many people have grown up with the expectation that (accompanied) children in pub bars is once again normal: Michael Portillo was still in government at the time. (-:

https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/67/enacted

#ChildrenAct #pubs #UKLaw #ScottishLaw #EnglishLaw #WelshLaw #history