Ok. Panic over. Turns out the only babies ever served up by the King Herod were jelly babies.

However, The Pinnochio Arms, which is just across the way, lost its licence some years ago for indulging in white slavery. Something to do with sending the kids on a trip to Pleasure Island, where they ended up having to work on zero hours contracts with no employment rights, for cruel and tyrannical overseers. Sounds a bit like Britain under the Lib-Dem coalition in fact.