Pastry shop offers vaccine-themed mousses

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A pastry shop in Hungary has launched a range of Covid-19 vaccine-themed mousses. The Sulyan family’s patisserie in the town of Veresegyhaz, northeast of Budapest, offers a selection of layered mousses with colourful jelly toppings, presented in small glasses, complete with decorative syringes. “Here people have a choice, there is no registration, there are no side-effects,” said one of the patisserie’s team.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.