After reading about the school in Canvey island banning lethal triangular flapjacks I thought I should carry out some research myself.
Using the recipe found on the BBC web site
175g/6oz butter
175g/6oz golden syrup
175g/6oz muscovado sugar
350g/12oz porridge oats
½ lemon, finely grated zest
pinch ground ginger
Preparation method
Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/Gas 2 and line a 20cm/8in square baking tin with baking paper.
Melt the butter in a medium pan over a low heat. Dip a brush in the butter and brush the baking tin with a little bit of it. Add the golden syrup and sugar to the butter and heat gently. Once the sugar is dissolved and the butter is melted, remove the pan from the heat and stir in the porridge oats, lemon zest and ginger.
Pack the mixture into the baking tin and squash down. Bake in the oven for 40 minutes.
Once cooked, remove from the oven, leave to cool for 15 minutes.
Now to the extremely serious nature of my investigation, I noted that staff at the school, I would hesitate to say teachers, banned triangles due to having 3 dangerous corners.
Now I was completely blown away after discovering that squares and rectangles had 4 corners! That’s considerably more dangerous than the 3 quoted previously having closely inspected the triangle.
However, to save resources so sparse within our school system I discovered this amazing shape which didn’t have any corners! Can I suggest that from this point on schools save time, and the embarrassment of making such foolish decisions and use what I would like to call a round flapjack and just hope that the kitchen staff are better than the ones I used to have, the sheer weight and dense nature of their flapjacks would cause a concussion!!!
Surprisingly, no animals were harmed in this post, however tomorrow we will be practicing different techniques to kill using school toast and hard boiled eggs so watch this space!