Pork Pies

If I said Pork Pie to you, what would you picture in your head?

A meaty pastry product?

 

Or maybe a hat? 

Or maybe a character from a popular 1980s sitcom set in a barber's?

Who I've just realised was called "Porkpie" because he wore a pork pie hat.

 

But probably not the newly opened 4.4 mile Melton Mowbray Bypass.

 

Which is now to be called Pork Pie Way.  Which explains the photo above that I nicked from that BBC News article.

 

The local people had a vote.  Which can be dangerous.  But they mitigated the danger by limiting the options to a select list.

 

So no chance of Bypassy McBypassface.

 

But PETA weren't happy.  The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals thought Pork Pie Way was "pig-demeaning", and urged the Reform UK-run council to choose Vegan Pie Way instead.

 

Oh dear.  I can be as Commie-left woke as the next person but that is ridiculous.  And imagine a Reform council going with that!

And remember, this isn't the first case of apt road naming.