Banned by the Eurocrats . . . kiwi fruit just 1mm too small
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Brussels bureaucrats have stopped a grocer from selling a batch of kiwi fruits – because EU rules say they are a millimetre too small.
Market trader Tim Down must now pay £100 to dump the 5,000 perfectly edible fruits which have failed size and weight standards brought in under European regulations.
Government inspectors also warned Mr Down, 53, from Bristol, that he faces a £5,000 fine if he tries to give them away.
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UKIP’s Nigel Farage said: “This is the sort of insane regulation that does the EU immense harm.”
No shit, sherlock. How about we take a cucumber, and shove it up these eurocrats’ ass?
But we’ll have to make sure it’s a proper cucumber first, right?
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EU regulations just for cucumbers are bizarrely complete. They can be studied on the EU’s website which warns, “This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.”
Class I fruit must be nigh on perfect, but the good news about Class II is that “straight and slightly crooked cucumbers” may have minor blemishes (as listed), but the bad news is that “crooked cucumbers are allowed only if they have no more than slight defects in colouring and have no defects or deformation other than crookedness. Slightly crooked cucumbers may have a maximum height of the arc of 20 mm per 10 cm of length of the cucumber. Crooked cucumbers may have a greater arc and must be packed separately.”
So the next time you see a cucumber that is both crooked AND has an unsightly blemish, you may want to call the police, or as I suspect, you will decide for yourself whether or not to buy it.
And the politicians wonder why we’re skeptical about the so-called European Constitution….
This kind of stupidity is nothing new with EU regulations. I remember arguments over the exact curvature required before bananas can be called that, an attempt to re-define chocolate so that certain brands that were selling well would be forced to drop that word from their product names, and a case where a candy store set up in a historically accurate recreation in the UK was forced to use metric units, even though that was not accurate for the period being recreated. The EU needs to be put back in its place: a trading agreement, not a federal government. They’re just a bunch of power crazed politicians trying to take more and more control.
The same arguments between federal and state governments happens here in the US all the time too; that should be enough of a warning about how bad an idea it is to even have a European parliament and government. Unless of course you’re a politician
I wonder what is the use of the EU? Honestly…