[Jerome Betts]

One of the few things I can remember from school about 18th century Prussian history is that the Prussian and Austrians (or was it the Russians?) once confronted each other with their armies, but the soldiers threw potatoes at each other instead of shooting. I think it was known as the Kartoffelkrieg.

Now it seems the the food wars have broken out again:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...-foie-gras-ban

Time to update some old doggerel perhaps.

Foie gras, tough on ducks and on geese,
You give good old Brigitte the shivers.
How just that the French seldom cease
To complain of the state of their livers.