How is it "culturally insensitive"?


I had assumed Mizter T suggested "jellied eels" as rhyming slang for
"wheels". I'd understood that rhyming slang was not inclusive language
and hence was deprecated.

There's also the point that jellied eels are almost unknown outside
London (and mainly working class East London at that) and so do not
resonate with London's multiracial, multicultural selling points.
Oysters are much more a worldwide, up-market product. That said, when
the Oystercard was launched ISTR a Chelsea Blue of my acquaintance
remarking with a laugh that they may have overlooked the fact that "the
only Kosher oyster is a prairie oyster"


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