Advert featuring cake banned?

[diy_fun_uk]

Surely there has to be more to this story. If not, if the ad was literally banned because it features cake, I find this almost unbelievable. I wonder if future ads featuring cars will be banned due to their impact on the environment? It might seem like a trivial thing but I feel uneasy when reading articles about certain ads being banned.

TfL bosses ban advert for new West End play because it features cake

Producers for the hit Broadway show Tony n' Tina's Wedding created a poster featuring the two main characters standing on top of a two-tier Victoria Sponge wedding cake.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Must be this policy ...

TfL ban on junk food advertising is well-meaning but ultimately flawed

The ban on advertising ‘junk food’ products across Transport for London’s out-of-home estate is well-intentioned but using such a crude mechanism to decide the fate of food and drink products means entire sectors of relatively harmless products are likely being banned.

www.thedrum.com

 

[JohnD]

Surely there has to be more to this story. If not, if the ad was literally banned because it features cake, I find this almost unbelievable. I wonder if future ads featuring cars will be banned due to their impact on the environment? It might seem like a trivial thing but I feel uneasy when reading articles about certain ads being banned.

Best stop reading the Wail.

It is notorious for false and misleading content.

 

[Odds]

Cake...

...just say no.

 

[RandomGrinch]

...Just say no.

I recently tried to rewatch the brilliant "The Day Today", although I found it lost some of its humour - too many of the incredibly silly stories had become true!

 

[motorbiking]

TfL seem to be spending a lot of effort doing things that have nothing to do with transport for London.

 

[Odds]

I recently tried to rewatch the brilliant "The Day Today", although I found it lost some of its humour - too many of the incredibly silly stories had become true!

It has dated in some ways and remained relevant in others...the chap who co-wrote Brass Eye has recently been jailed for corporate espionage, believe it or not. He tried a reverse sting by offering to spy on his own agency for the firm who he was meant to be spying for. The offer was turned down and he was fired! You couldn't make it up.