Collective Euro silliness, Ugly Zucchini now okay

[amicus]

...but Apples and Tomato's are not!


http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2008111321852


EU eases rules on ugly, odd fruit, vegetables

BRUSSELS -

Welcome back the curvy zucchini, mangled mushroom and other odd and ugly fruit and vegetables.

The EU bid adieu Wednesday to rules that have cemented its image as an ivory tower: starting next summer, it will allow the sale of fruit and vegetables that may be crooked, bent or twisted but are fine for consumption.

“This marks the new dawn for the curvy cucumber and the nobbly carrot,” EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said.

“We simply don’t need to regulate this. In these days of high food prices and general economic difficulties, consumers should be able to choose from the widest range of products possible.” There have been riots over rising food prices in impoverished countries like Haiti and Senegal earlier this year as world food prices peaked.

The ban, imposed more than 20 years ago, spared consumers having to buy scary looking food which ended up in food processing machines or was discarded.

Over the years, that ban on ugly has triggered much ridicule. Europe’s tabloid media have long used it to highlight bureaucrats’ desire to regulate every nook and cranny of Europeans’ lives."

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Take this as a small and humorous indictment of European Socialists who are hell bound to duplicate such idiocy in America.

Tell 'em, "Nuts!" (From the Bastards of Bastogne)

Amicus

 

[Boxlicker101]

...but Apples and Tomato's are not!


http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2008111321852


EU eases rules on ugly, odd fruit, vegetables

BRUSSELS -

~~~

Take this as a small and humorous indictment of European Socialists who are hell bound to duplicate such idiocy in America.

Tell 'em, "Nuts!" (From the Bastards of Bastogne)

Amicus

This was a prime example of bureaucrats trying to solve nonexistent problems.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://criticalmiami.com/2007/07/17/ugly-tomato

WE HAVE A SIMILAR PROBLEM IN FLORIDA. UNTIL RECENT TIMES IT WAS ILLEGAL TO SHIP 'UGLY TOMATOES' OUT OF STATE.

 

[TE999]

This was a prime example of bureaucrats trying to solve nonexistent problems.

Thereby justifying their elevated positions, large salaries, larger staffs and balooning budget...not to the average citizen...but to their more exalted superiors.

 

[Liar]

It's a stupid and counterproductive standard that like so many others got lobbied into place by big players in the argiculture and food industry to stifle cross-border competition. Good riddance.

Another similar legislation that was suggested a few years ago, but was struck down, was a rule that said that all food must come with a declaration of ingredients and nuttritional value. Makes sense for processed foods, so that people can avoid things they're allergic to and stuff like that. But this proposal said that the same should be mandatory on all food. Including fresh fruit and veggies. So if a cucumber didn't come shrinkwrapped with the label "Ingredients: cucumber. Nutritional value: None, it's a fucking cucumber." on it, you wouldn't be able to sell it in a grocery store. The idea is said to have been lobbied to EU delegates by people with ties to Kraft Foods.

 

[Weird Harold]

Tell 'em, "Nuts!" (From the Bastards of Bastogne)

Amicus

But only pretty nuts. Wouldn't want to offend anyone by inflicting ugly or scary nuts on them.

 

[oggbashan]

I'm celebrating a rare outbreak of common sense in our European legislators.

We've been buying "ugly" vegetables and fruit at our local farm shops and markets for years - they either weren't covered by the legislation or just ignored it. Now "buying local" is seen as a practice to be supported because it saves carbon emissions (not that it necessarily does - it depends on the means of transport).

Og

 

[Liar]

But only pretty nuts. Wouldn't want to offend anyone by inflicting ugly or scary nuts on them.

Should I zip up then?