{"id":1395,"date":"2012-02-15T18:43:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2012-02-15T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:43:01","slug":"tiger-or-giraffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/15\/tiger-or-giraffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger or giraffe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story\u2019s been around for a few weeks, but it\u2019s worth posting because it\u2019s so darn cute!<\/p>\n<p>A three year old girl called Lily Robinson wrote to Sainsbury\u2019s last year to ask why tiger bread is called tiger bread, and suggested it be renamed giraffe bread. Lily is right \u2013 the bread does look more giraffe-like than tiger-esque!<\/p>\n<p>Sainsbury\u2019s wrote back and have decided to rename the bread:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In response to overwhelming customer feedback that our tiger bread has more resemblance to a giraffe, from today we will be changing our tiger bread to giraffe bread and seeing how that goes,&#8221; the supermarket said.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger bread is typically a bloomer loaf with a pattern baked into the top. Rice paste is brushed on to the surface before baking, forming the pattern as it dries and cracks while it bakes. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-16812545 \">BBC News<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder what else we could get supermarkets to rename?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story\u2019s been around for a few weeks, but it\u2019s worth posting because it\u2019s so darn cute! A three year old girl called Lily Robinson wrote to Sainsbury\u2019s last year to ask why tiger bread is called tiger bread, and suggested it be renamed giraffe bread. Lily is right \u2013 the bread does look more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,44],"tags":[815,685,44],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-words","tag-names","tag-nouns","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}