Quote of the day

Thursday 6th November, 2008

“Next Wednesday is a new dawn for the bendy cucumber and the amusingly shaped carrot”

- European Commission Agriculture spokesman Michael Mann, as the EU is set to agree next Wednesday to scrap minimum size and shape standards for fruit and vegetables, meaning that bent cucumbers and undersized melons may make a comeback on our supermarket shelves



5 Comments

  1. Ross November 6th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    This of course is after years of insisting that it is all a tabloid myth.

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  2. Letters From A Tory November 6th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    No kidding. This one story has invoked more hatred of EU regulation that anything else I can think of.

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  3. Shaun Pilkington November 6th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    And another futile, Canute-like attempt to legislate biology fails…

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  4. Ross November 6th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    “Canute-like attempt to legislate biology “

    It was eugenics, except with carrots rather than people.

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  5. Shaun Pilkington November 6th, 2008 at 7:27 pm

    I was thinking more of ‘homo-sovieticus’…

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