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20 May 2023

9:00 AM

20 May 2023

9:00 AM

Pig out

Marks & Spencer wrote to an ice cream parlour in Hertfordshire demanding that it stop calling one of its products ‘Perky Pig’ on the grounds that it infringed the chain’s copyright of Percy Pigs, which it has been selling since 1992. Some more onomatopoeic porcines:

Pierre Pig: collectible plastic figurines introduced by Fabuland in 1984.

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