The Barmy Army are misbehaving in a funny way, i imagine trying to take their mind off recent results

Quote:Barmy Army won't even get to sniff curry
Saturday Dec 9 13:37 AEDT
British Indian takeaways ordered by Barmy Army cricket fans in Australia will be destroyed when the arrive by plane.

Airport quarantine officials will dump delicacies including lamb shanks, lamb dhansak, mushroom pilau and parathas headed for a group of 10 English cricket fans touring the Ashes Test series.

The England fans had placed their order intending to tuck in during the Third Test of the Ashes series, starting in Perth on Thursday.

But they won't even get a sniff of it.




"When it arrives here we will take it away and dispose of it," Australian Quarantine Inspection Services (AQIS) spokesman Carson Creagh told AAP.

"You can't bring food items into Australia unless they're either accompanied by an import permit or they've been commercially produced and packaged."

England's Press Association (PA) had earlier reported that staff at the Bombay Nights Indian restaurant in Bath, in the south-west of England, were shocked when they received the order.

Manager Nasir Abdul, 29, and his business partner, Raj Miah, said they planned to fly out on Sunday or Monday (AEDT) to deliver the order for 10 English cricket fans.

With transport, the order will cost the fans $370 each.

"We will chill the food and pack it in suitcases which we'll check in at the airport," Mr Abdul told PA.

But their efforts will be in vain - 75 sniffer dogs detect a total of 27,000 kilograms of food a year at Australian airports, Mr Creagh said.

He expects the restaurant owners will declare the food.

"Our concerns are that there would be potentially-high-risk products - meat, dairy products, eggs - all of which could introduce exotic diseases," he said.

"And it's not a silly concern.

"(Evidence indicated) the 2001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth in the United Kingdom was introduced through food that was illegally brought into the UK.

"You can have a situation where people will try to bring in entire suitcases full of food. We confiscate that and destroy it."


©AAP 2006

You`d have thought they would have checked all of the relevant laws before sending it over wouldn`t you?