A cafe owner has had a post removed from the internet after it was deemed too offensive.

Jo Evans-Pring, 63, owner of Fanny’s Rest Stop Cafe wanted to promote her faggots so started paying for advertising on Google.

Within a few weeks of launching her initial campaign, faggot sales rose significantly so realising she was onto something Jo decided to put a picture of the food on her website.

But then she got an email from Google saying the faggots with peas and onion gravy had been removed for containing ‘inappropriate and offensive content’.

Faggots is a traditional dish, long popular in the English Midlands and South and Mid Wales, made from minced off-cuts and offal.

But the word ‘faggot’ was misconstrued by Google administrators to refer to the pejorative term of abuse referring to gay men.

Jo said she was startled by what happened and ‘the world’s gone totally mad’.

She said: ‘People need to spend their time dealing with real problems, not things like whether or not the word ‘faggots’ when selling that meal is hateful.

‘There comes a time where businesses need to reinvent themselves, and – after eight years of running the shop – I decided now was one of those times.

‘Fanny’s has been doing really well because of the internet campaign. We’ve noticed a big change in the past couple of weeks.

Source:
courtesy of METRO

by Richard Hartley-Parkinson

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