Cookbook calls for 'freshly ground black people'

[Rev. Powell]

"A recipe for tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto has proved a little too spicy for Penguin Australia, after a misprint suggesting that the dish required 'salt and freshly ground black people' has left the publisher reaching for the pulping machine, rather than the pepper grinder."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/19/penguin-cook-book

[Flick James]

That's funny. It reminds me of this bit from Curb Your Enthusiasm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpDiZLrTHX4

[Flangepart]

When Robert Kline interviewed the remaining Monty Pythons, the guys brought along an urn with Graham Chapman's ash's
Yes, it was knocked over, and yes, Terry Jones broke out the vacuum cleaner.
Graham, of course, would have approved.

[AndyC]

Spell check is a wonderful thing. Pity it can't tell when the word is wrong.

My question is whether this is an error or somebody's joke that slipped past the proofreaders. I've seen it happen in newspapers. It happened to me many years ago. Nothing serious, just a headline that suggested (if you have a dirty mind) that you could call a certain local businesswoman for a blowjob. Thankfully, it passed for a typo, and it had gone past many other people after me who failed to notice anything.