Worst Typo Ever In A Cookbook? (POLL)

The BBC reported on Saturday that

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.

The book is being reprinted, but not recalled. Head of the publisher, Penguin Australia is quoted as saying "We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know."

Is this the most offensive cookbook typo you've seen? Vote in the poll below, and if you've seen worse, let us know what that typo is in the comments section below.

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Comments

[socialhub]

06:49 AM on 04/20/2010

Maybe for the fame. Peeper probably but people? That's a bit of a stretch. What methods did
the author use to proof the copy?

[LMPE]

01:48 AM on 04/20/2010

Whoever wrote that must have taken "Fargo" too seriously!

[SneathLane]

11:59 PM on 04/19/2010

The first cookie recipe I tried - I think I was 12 - forgot to say you needed flour, and how much. That whole line was missing. And I had no clue, it was all magic to me.

Unfortunately, the cookie sheet was one of the three-sided ones - the melted goop ended up running all over the oven floor.

So THAT was a bad typo. Even at 12, though, I would have recognized this typo as a bogus instruction. Not such a bad typo.

[archyblue]

09:25 PM on 04/19/2010

So, is salt a slang term for Caucasian?

Mmm, an interracial dish!

[Demster]

06:48 PM on 04/19/2010

I once saw a TV program listed years ago that said "Closed captioned for the dead".

[VirginiaJeff]

09:58 PM on 04/19/2010

LOL.

I'm old enough to say this reminds me of my "Greatest Bloopers" LP.

[Lucifuge]

09:39 AM on 04/21/2010

Zombies are people too.

[hypnotoad72]

06:01 PM on 04/19/2010

In 1987, the novelization of the "Doctor Who" television serial "Delta and the Bannermen" was written. There was a typo, and I quote:

"(the Doctor was)...peeing over a shelf..."

Now, obviously (I hope), the phrase is supposed to read "peering over a shelf".

The point is, "pee*ing" is a typo. Can "people" for "pepper" be a typo? Depends on the mindset of the author at the time. Especially those with short attention spans. I don't think it was intentional, and they have corrected the misprint.

Oh well, at least real life isn't like "Three's Company"...

[LMPE]

01:46 AM on 04/20/2010

It would be kind of neat to experience "Three's Company"

[eRed]

02:44 PM on 04/19/2010

Did anybody try the recipe both ways to see?

Just kidding...really.

[VirginiaJeff]

09:59 PM on 04/19/2010

OMG, that sounds like something Cartman would have said!

[wandercurious]

01:33 PM on 04/19/2010

Sounds like it was produced on an iPhone.

The predictive text turns my 'people' into 'proletarians' often enough.

[jcd8822]

12:55 PM on 04/19/2010

Well, it would have made sense had it been in "The Cannibal's Cookbook."

[Aldyth]

05:22 PM on 04/19/2010

Authored by Hannibal Lecter. Now there's a man who knew what to do with a liver.

[jcd8822]

08:34 PM on 04/19/2010

ROFL, which didn't I think of that.

[VACommonSense]

12:18 PM on 04/19/2010

Just a spell check error. No big deal. Not a news story.

[trjones87]

10:27 AM on 04/19/2010

As a black American I don't find mistakes such as these offensive. All they need to do is correct the mistake...which they have already done. What more do people want?

[zkazan]

01:13 PM on 04/19/2010

Reparations? Just sayin' LOL

[mad world]

01:44 PM on 04/19/2010

I agree.

[raven119]

10:14 AM on 04/19/2010

I owed a cookbook that called for 1/2 cup of black pepper instead a 1/2 TSP.

I figured that one out; I could have figured this one out to, I suspect.

[LMPE]

01:47 AM on 04/20/2010

To whom did you owe the the cookbook?

Just kidding. I know that you meant "owned".

[jl4141]

10:08 AM on 04/19/2010

Soylent black?

[quel sauvage]

03:32 PM on 04/19/2010

Too perfect. Fanned!

[Ninure]

08:43 AM on 04/19/2010

I don't think it's offensive/ Scary, maybe. Creepy certainly.

But not offensive.

But it really is funny.

[LiberalDemIda]

10:35 AM on 04/19/2010

Considering the history of colonial Australia and the total disregard and disrespect by white colonists of the Aboriginals, you'd have a change of mind. Did you know colonial scientists stole Australian Aboriginal skulls and skeletons right out of their graves and displayed them in British, European, and American museums since 1788?

The Aboriginals are still fighting in court to have their ancestors returned and have been doing so since 1980!

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/topnews/reuters/2007/05/11/australian-aboriginal-bones-in-london-to-go-home.html

[bob tomato]

10:49 AM on 04/19/2010

The Australian aboriginals clearly have a grievance regarding the history of mistreatment at the hands of the Australian colonists, yet I think it's a bit of a jump to assume that this typo of "people" for "pepper" was racially motivated or intentionally offensive.

[Ninure]

06:23 PM on 04/19/2010

I'm sorry.

I was reading that as a BLACK North American. And my people have had their own journey of oppression - slavery, Jim Crow, and just every day discrimination, and insults - and yet still I found some humour in it

And there can be no doubt it was a typo, or a very bad spell checker.

Run my name through a spell checker and see what you get!!