Forget the Paradise Papers, there’s another issue that has become a real hot potato.

Parents have taken to social media after being informed that jacket potatoes have been taken off the school meals menu.

A letter from Ballacottier’s head Carol Walsh informed parents: ’We have been informed by the Department of Health and Social Care that we can no longer offer jacket potato as a third option for school meals and this will be implemented from next week.

’We are not happy with this decision as a lot of children choose this option and we would urge you to contact the DHSC if you are of the same opinion.’

One parent posted: ’The school menu always had a third option for children to have a jacket potato. This option has now been removed.’

Another wrote: ’Never heard anything as daft.’

A third complained: ’My kid had salad only today as no jacket potato and she doesn’t like lasagne or vegetable lasagne, I’d rather she had a jacket with cheese over just a plate of salad.’

But a Facebook page Primary School Meals Isle of Man posted that nothing has changed.

There are two food choices a day and jacket potato had been listed at the bottom of the menu alongside bread and the salad bar as an ’emergency option’ for children who don’t like either main option.

It added: ’Unfortunately, some schools took it on themselves to add jacket potatoes as a third option.

’This has led to complaints from parents saying that when jackets were added their child was never going to pick anything else, and they didn’t feel this presented value for money.’In a statment, Government Catering Services said: 'Jacket potatoes have not been withdrawn from school meals.'They have always been designed to be a back-up choice rather than a third choice, when a child dislikes the two main meals being offered on a particular day.'Nothing has changed in this regard and jacket potatoes continue to be available alongside two main meals, salad bar, fresh fruit and bread.'