You guys need a silly thread today!

Bretrick said:
27 July 1981, a food inspector in San Diego, California, became suspicious of three blocks of frozen Australian boneless beef that were "darker and stringier" than beef should be.
Tests revealed that they were horse meat, not beef, and further testing elsewhere in the United States revealed that some Australian "beef" contained kangaroo meat.
Some of the meat had found its way into burgers at the Jack in the Box chain, leading to jokes about "Skippy burgers".
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I think I remember that. People didn't want to eat at Jack in the Box for a while. It was a big scandal.
 

caramel said:
I think I remember that. People didn't want to eat at Jack in the Box for a while. It was a big scandal.
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Bigger scandal here in Australia.
Ten companies referenced had their food export licenses revoked, nine of them shutting down because of it.
Penalties for breaching export license conditions were also increased from $2,000 to $100,000.
At the time the penalty for the perpetrators themselves was only $100.
Richard V. Hammon, a principal at Profreeze, was convicted of "forging documents issued by or deliverable to Commonwealth authorities" and sentenced to four years in prison.
Investigations subsequently implicated some 70 meat inspectors around Australia with having received bribes or secret commissions.
 
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