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The British tabloid Express reported on 7^th March 2016 that flitch products were being served by some specific German cafes and schools. After published headline “Germany Bans Sausages”, most of the readers supposed that German government entirely banned pork products. Point to be noted that less alarming situation due to only one politician said that flitch was slowly disappeared from cafeterias and schools. It was said that this action was taken due to Muslims were supposedly disappointed with its presence. The British newspaper described about a ‘move’ deepens anger regarding immigration in Germany, but didn’t specifically mention that what was originally moving. At the same time, readers raised question about a piece of Daily Mail regarding a similar pork claim.

The Daily Mail indicated the some schools in England were replacing flitch with Halal Meat. We have found that this article was originally two years old as it was posted on 7^th March 2014 and described a specific area in England instead of Germany. A news outlet “Deutsche Welle” covered the matter of pork about Germany on 1^st March 2016. This report indicated that a politician Daniel Gunther made a complaint regarding the anticipation of decreasing number of flitch based items on the menus of a cafeteria. We discovered that it is not true that Germany banned pork in any form or any shape, but only some politicians complained that pork was being served in Germany but only for cultural heritage.