Barbecue pub slams ‘nanny state’ after zero food hygiene rating
A Surrey pub hit back against the “modern nanny state” after receiving a zero food hygiene rating.
The White Hart in Witley, had made all the changes necessary after the Food Standards Agency’s last inspection, according the pub’s director, Sam Daffin.
He told Get Surrey: “We cook on custom-built, fire pit smokers and following the true traditions of low and slow barbecue, we smoke our meats for up to 15 hours.
“As any barbecue expert will tell you, truly great smoked meats are ‘only done when they’re done’.”
He explained that 400 years of tradition and his own 10 years spent studying, learning and practising the art of real smoked barbecue food doesn’t always comply with “our modern nanny state’s requirements for sterile and salubrious certification”.
