The volunteers who ladled it out to the homeless of Paris called it “pig soup”. Now it has been taken off the menu following accusations that the dominant aroma wafting up from the bowl was xenophobia, not pork.

The Conseil d’Etat, France’s highest authority on administrative law, has banned an organisation called Solidarité des Français from distributing its soup containing pig ears, feet and tails to the capital’s rough sleepers.