A Fireworks-Free Society?

"Sometimes it’s the little things that reveal a lot about the times in which we live. Such as, for example, the signs which appear in many British shop windows at this time of year, announcing that, on police advice, they will refuse to sell eggs or flour to anybody aged under 18 until after Halloween on 31 October. Such a regular display of official intolerance for wheat and dairy products looks like a symptom of a dyspeptic society that apparently cannot stomach any youthful outbreak of wind."