West End play poster banned by TfL over 'unhealthy' cake

[g3org3y]

BBC said:

A poster for a West End play featuring a wedding cake was banned by Transport for London (TfL) because it was seen to promote "foods high in fat, salt and sugar".

The ad for Tony n' Tina's Wedding, a dinner show at Wonderville, Haymarket, featured a three-tier sponge cake.

BBC said:

TfL said it refused to run 20 adverts displaying foods and non alcoholic drinks that were high in fat, sugar or salt, in the year 2021/22.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66119...

[Dogwatch]

Quite right too. Can’t have people gorging on wedding cake at the prices bakeries charge these days.

[Vanden Saab]

The cake should have identified as a salad.

[Eric Mc]

Those chaps in Northern Ireland were right after all.

[Jasandjules]

Yet I can't move for papers showing pics of Lizzo and other shall we say not low BMI individuals shouting about how beautiful/sexy etc they are and how brave they are for wearing very little....

[Wills2]

Utterly bat st mental, the attempted infantilization of the public continues at pace.

Edited by Wills2 on Saturday 8th July 12:54

[biggbn]

Probably now a much better ad campaign than the show would ever have been able to afford!

[irc]

At least TFL are even handed. They have had to ban several of their own adverts.

"In 2019, I used a Freedom of Information request to ask TfL how many of its own adverts it had to edit to abide by its own daft regulations. The documents I received are mind-boggling"

https://snowdon.substack.com/p/transport-for-londo...

[Jasandjules]

I await the vendors stating that cake identifies as a salad........

[CoolHands]

How do they know what it was made of?

Also, I bet they’re happy to let PepsiCo and coke etc advertise…