You know that I've been drunk a thousand times

[venta]

Yesterday, ChrisC was reading a news story entitled something like "Iceland meat pies found to contain no meat at all". The story basically ran that the beef pies were being checked for horse meat content, and were discovered to be entirely free of meat from any kind of animal at all.

At this point, I can't see the URL the story is coming from, but I feel I know where I am. This is a satirical story about the frozen food emporium, Iceland, and their low-quality meat pies.

Except it's being touted as an actual, genuine news story about the large, bankrupt, volcanic island, Iceland, and their mysteriously vegetabley meat pies.

I'm pretty sure that not being able to distinguish between actual news and satire is a sign of the end times.

Comments

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

There's a Buffy episode where this is the plot... She goes to work in a fast food restaurant, there are mysterious disappearances, she's convinced the bodies are being turned into burgers. She gets Willow to test them, and it turns out the burgers actually contain no meat at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublemeat_Palace

[killalla]

I was just going to comment along those lines - hang on, wasn't this an episode of Buffy?