You Couldn't Make it Up!

If I had published this story a week ago, you would have thought it was an April Fool - but it isn't. After 60 years, the RAF has rescinded its ban on Tunnocks Teacakes being allowed in the cockpit of planes!
It seems that in 1965, a pilot and  a student took teacakes onto the plane, unwrapped them and left them, on top of the instrument panel. When the plane depressurised suddenly, the cakes exploded, leaving sticky residue over the two men, and the canopy of their cockpit! The RAF banned the treats from flights.

But now, tests at the  RAF Centre of Aerospace Medicine in Henlow have declared the cakes are safe to fly, but pilots are advised to keep them frozen until take off, and to keep the foil wrappings in place until they are about to tuck in!

Although the company has been around since the 1890s, the teacakes did not acquire worldwide recognition until the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014, when a troupe of tartan clad dancers whirled into the arena carrying huge teacakes!

Fergus Loudon, operations director of Tunnock's, admitted they had given permission for the iconic image to be used. ”It was a closely guarded secret -we didn't know to what extent they were being used. We were absolutely bowled over when we saw there were 30 large teacakes in the Ceremony.After that the phones started ringing off the hook."
Following the exposure it received in the Opening Ceremony, sales of Tunnock teacakes soared with Waitrose reporting increased demand of 62 per cent within 24 hours. A year after the event,  Loudon revealed that they had sold an extra 15 million teacakes, meaning the firm's turnover had almost doubled in five years.
And now the RAF can buy lots more too...
Do you like these teatime treats - or do you think "teacake" is a currant bun for toasting?
[I like both types of teacake myself]