Cookbook pulped over 'ground black people' typo

SYDNEY – An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with "salt and freshly ground black people."
Penguin Group Australia's head of publishing, Bob Sessions, acknowledged the proofreader for the Pasta Bible should have picked up the error, but called it nothing more than a "silly mistake."
The "Pasta Bible" recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto was supposed to call for black pepper.
"We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," he told The Sydney Morning Herald for a story printed Saturday.
"We've said to bookstores that if anyone is small-minded enough to complain about this ... silly mistake, we will happily replace (the book) for them."
The reprint will cost Penguin 20,000 Australian dollars ($18,500), but books already in stores will not be recalled because doing so would be "extremely hard," Sessions said.
There was no answer at Penguin's offices Sunday.

Read this article this morning over Yahoo news and some heads must be rolling by now over this typo error. Thankfully nobody was making a big fuss about it. The person who made the mistake must have been thinking hard of a black person while typing that. It happens to us, doesn't it? Or at least to me it does. Sometimes when i think of something trivial in my head, i end up typing or texting it out of the blue. The opposite could also happen, we think of something so hard that we need to remember to do and eventually we do forget to do what we're supposed to do. weird ha.