Agricultural and food lobbyists have fought long and hard over the tedious (but enormously consequential) fine print on food labelling. In a more recent skirmish, the Irish Supreme Court ruled that fast food outlet Subway’s bread was in fact not bread, due to its high sugar content.
In fact, in October the top judges compared the nutritional content of the main element of the chain’s famous sandwiches to confectionery product Jaffa Cakes, a biscuit-cake. ‘To summarize, Subway “bread” is actually cake,’ said one Twitter user of the debacle.
