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Traditional British food, it seems, is the latest battleground in the culture wars.
Parkin, a delicious if rather high calorie Yorkshire cake, is to be investigated by Leeds City Council for possible links to slavery and colonialism.
This traditional delicacy if that’s the right word for parkin dates back to the 18th century, and the problem is it’s made with ginger, treacle and sugar. 
These products, so it has been suggested, were only made available to the county’s bakers as a by-product of British colonial expansion.
You can look at this in two ways. It has already been reported as yet another example of the rise of woke, on which Boris Johnson has declared war. But the Prime Minister has also declared war on obesity. ....

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