We’re in Ayrshire, scotland, uk. Infact North Ayrshire covers a small area and it was the trading standards guy for N Ayrshire that came to us, but he hasn’t been to everyone in our area, and like inspiratacakes says people could go elsewhere (in our case 10 mins away :D). Ideally everyone be stopped or not stopped. Also like you say many of the big cake makers (in uk too) display character cakes really prominently, I don’t know if they have permission- tho I suspect prob not in many cases as the trading standards guy that came here was quite young and I believe was acting on it as a pet personal project, rather than a general investigation across scotland and uk (which I don’t think there is)
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