Who knew the world of tinned food could be so topical?

While it might have been a better article if produced by the likes of Private Eye or The Onion, I was quite amused by the following spoof article, which featured in the Sunday Sport yesterday (or so Twitter informs me; I certainly don't read the paper myself!):

The type is probably too small to read from the picture above, so here is the article in full:

 

Fed-up Scotsman Graeme Blair can’t get away from the independence vote – it’s even turned up in his LUNCH!

For when he opened a tin of salmon to make a sandwich the face of rebel leader ALEX SALMOND stared out at him.

Graeme, from Perth, is voting “No” in Thursday’s election, so the appearance of secessionist Scot Salmond in his canned fish was particularly galling.

The 65-year-old – who is “fed up tae the back teeth” with the debate – said: “The last thing I wanted tae see in me dinner was the face of that bampot Salmond. He’s all over the telly as it is."

“I cannae even watch the telly just now because of his blether and there is, in the tinned fish!”

The “face” of Salmond is, in fact created by a coincidental pattern of darker coloured salmon and skin.

The phenomenon is known to scientists as a simulacrum.

Salmond is not the first Scots politician to appear as a food-related simulacrum

In 1997, the face of the late Donald Dewar – who was Scotland’s inaugural post-devolution First Minister – appeared in a meat pie in Cambuslang.

And in 1925 there was a near riot in Kirkcaldy when the face of Britain’s first Labour PM, Ramsay MacDonald, was spotted in an oatcake.

As I say, not exactly ground-breaking satire, but I quite enjoyed it nonetheless. And given that the referendum is likely to be a major news story for a while yet, stay tuned for more posts featuring Scottish tinned items...