Passover: The FSA & The Angel Of Death

The FSA's prized pooch - the Score On Doors scheme - went live yesterday. Apparently - and I take this with a big pinch of koshering salt - over 80% of people they interviewed said that the hygiene standards of a restaurant were more important than price or location. Yeah, right! Who did they question: attendees at an Environmental Health Officers convention or supermarket shoppers wearing Michael Jackson-style face masks, whose trolleys were full of industrial-sized cleaning products?
Morning Advertiser, 30th November 2010

In a fairy story in the bible, my distant ancestors were saved because they slaughtered a lamb and scrawled a bloody cross on their doors; hey, presto, the Angel of Death passed over them.....