Cooking the Australian way

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Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.

Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is "extremely hard" to do so, Penguin said.

Hilarious

[The Doctor]

you'd've thought they check for mistakes like that before printing and shipping them off to the stores.

[Guest]

you'd've thought they check for mistakes like that before printing and shipping them off to the stores.

The White Book (Evil thing) is littered with typos and mistakes, including repeating the same paragraph of commentary five times! As for my precious Archbold, someone forgot to include a letter "L" in "public interest immunity".

[ozleicester]

Cook-book misprint costs Australian publishers dear

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.

Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is "extremely hard" to do so, Penguin said.

Hilarious

What a load of sh*t, its perfectly easy to do a recall. This just is apparently not offensive enough to justify the recall.

[Jon the Hat]

What a load of sh*t, its perfectly easy to do a recall. This just is apparently not offensive enough to justify the recall.

It isn't offensive at all. You would have to be an idiot to be offended by a typo, albeit one compunded by a spell checker and missed by a proof reader.

[James.]

Are you sure that's a typo? It is Australia after all.

[Unit]

Are you sure that's a typo? It is Australia after all.

True, I heard it was a delicacy in Perth.