Triangular flapjacks

So a school in Essex has banned triangular flapjacks because a child was hurt when the sweetmeat was thrown. They didn't seek to stop children throwing things but instead tried to make the missile safer! It's another of those health and safety stories you couldn't make up. When the mince pie was allowed back into England after the Puritans had banned them, they could no longer be oblong in the shape of a manger but round as they are today. At least those unpleasant Puritans were making a serious, although falacious, point - striking out against the idolatry of the image of the baby Jesus on the pie.