Oh dear. More embarrassment for Birmingham deputy council leader Paul Tilsley, who is the city's sustainability champion, or some such over-inflated title.
Tilsley chaired an Evaluation of Sustainability breakfast, at which you might have expected good old Brummie fare would have been served, wheeled in hand carts to the Council House by grateful market gardeners.
What a triumph that would have been, offsetting enough carbon to heat a committee room for all of ten minutes.
But no. Someone at the Tilsley breakfast spotted strawberries being served which, in March, were highly unlikely to have been sourced locally. And so it turned out. The strawberries were flown in from Spain, presumably by one of the supermarket chains, to meet the culinary desires of Coun Tilsley's guests.
Labour councillor Paulette Hamilton, who exposed the unsustainability of the breakfast, demanded an explanation.
This is what Tilsley said: "There is some limited availability of forced English strawberries, but these would be approximately double the price of the imported product. In terms of sustainability, such strawberries are grown in artificial light and heating conditions, meaning the environmental impact of home grown versus imported produce needs to be evaluated closely to understand any net variation in the carbon footprint."
And, here's the best bit: "The provision of strawberries at this event is (sic) in line with health advice that five portions of fruit/vegetables should be consumed daily."
It seems to me that the council hasn't quite got the hang of this sustainability lark.
In England, we eat strawberries in the summer. That's why they have them at Wimbledon.
Why couldn't Tilsley have popped down to the farmers' market, purchased a few English apples, peeled them, chopped them up and served them for breakfast? It's not that difficult.
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It is now a little over five weeks since the local government ethics watchdog received a formal complaint about the conduct of Birmingham City Council leader Mike Whitby.
The Standards Board for England, which has the power to suspend or sack councillors, has been invited to decide whether Coun Whitby broke the code of conduct by describing Labour councillor Marj Bridle as schizophrenic and suggesting that she might be suffering from dementia. He is also accused of damaging the reputation of his office.
The board says it aims to decide within ten working days whether to proceed with investigating a complaint. Twenty-seven working days have passed, with no decision.
A Standards Board spokeswoman says that, in certain complex cases, it may take a little longer to reach a decision, before adding "we're moving office at the moment so things are a bit hectic".
Perhaps they've lost the correspondence?
The person who levelled the complaint, John Pearson, a former programme director for mental health services in Birmingham, has heard nothing from the board other than a standard text confirming receipt of his letter.
Very suspicious people might suggest that a decision is being delayed to save embarrassing publicity in the run-up to the local elections on May 3.
No, surely not?