Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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12 November 2008
09:199030For years the EU, that august body of fine taste, has insisted that our carrots be straight and our cucumbers be..well..even straighter. Eschewed and cast adrift were all things knobbly! No knobbly carbuncled spuds, no lumpy bumpy apples, no...etc etc. Ah yes all must be round, neat and shiney. This might come as a shock to some but they dont come off the tree that way, nor up from the ground! Heavens no!
The grow at their own whim and come to life in all manners of shapes and sizes. A bit like us humans. We're all lumpy bumpy and carbuncled..yes check that mirror ! But whereas in the case of humans we are allowed to live, flourish and thrive (although in some cases that might be a mistake!) the poor humble veg of unholy shape, never makes it to the supermarket shelf. Its life is cut short, cut to the quick, unloved, unwanted. The big bad EU didnt want us to have nasty looking carrots or 'orrible looking auburgines. No way! So up to 20% of all veg was chucked or sold on cheaply for animal feed.
Now all has changed. A new policy of relaxation has seen the light of day at EU headquarters. Now instead of chucking all those horrible henrys away you will be able to buy allsorts of mis-shapes and sizes, and who knows there is a good chance the price will come down. So you will still be able to give the kids their carrots but at a cheaper rate. Means more carrots for you kids (kids everywhere leaping for joy!
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Sanity rules!
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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12 November 2008
09:229031Read about mis-shape fruit and veg being welcomed back with open arms by the EU.About time too..in todays climate its close to sinful to throw away food purely because its not attractive or symetrical.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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12 November 2008
09:519037This just highlights how 'otherworldy' the EU is with its coninious interference in things that should be left alone.
This simply should never have been an issue in the first place. The fact that it was is condemnation enough, but at last common sense even belatedly permeates into the EU on one small matter.
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12 November 2008
09:569041Barry
It looks like you out a step with your party line on the EU.
It was your lot under Edward Teeth that took us there in the first place.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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12 November 2008
10:429053You are correct Marek, except that it was the EEC then, what we was assured was a trading block. It was that trading block that I actually campaigned to remain a member of in the referendum as a memebr of the Britain in Europe committee.
We now have a totally different situation. Its called the EU and is on the way to becoming a superstate and I want no part of that and believe we should get out of it completely.
Incidentally, the vast majority of the Conservative Party are also very euro-sceptic and I suspect that most would also want out of it. At the very least we all want a referendum of the Constitution (now called a Treaty), dont want to join the Euro, ever and want to repatriate powers from Brussels. There are very few fans of the EU in the Conservatives I am glad to say.
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12 November 2008
10:469055Just seen this.... Telegraph today:
""".....But the notorious regulation which dictates that "straight" bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature" will remain in place because "no objections from banana growers, buyers, traders or consumers have been received regarding this requirement"""""
Euro-idiots.
Brian Dixon
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12 November 2008
18:339082i will object to a straight bananas,the slightly curved taste better.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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12 November 2008
20:399089the fact of the matter is, that none of the major parties would stand up to the EU buraeucrats.
just a few words of admonition when it suits them.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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12 November 2008
20:519091And if it's in the Telegraph it must be true?
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
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12 November 2008
21:379093you get more truth from the currant bun than the telegraph.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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12 November 2008
21:409095brian
are you trying to tell us that you are a "sun" reader?
if so, come out with it, confession will make you feel a lot better within yourself.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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12 November 2008
21:449097howard i am a mirror reader,the currant bun is a joke paper.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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12 November 2008
22:509112i apologise profusely brian.
i never knew that you were an egghead.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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12 November 2008
22:549114are they those things full of sam&ella howard.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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12 November 2008
23:579120Chris it is far more likely to be true if in the Telegraph than comics like the Sun and Mirror, neither of which deserves the label if newspaper and need to be classified as fiction along with the Daily Sport.
Incidentally, the Telegraph report was backed up by BBC news today who said that 75% of fruit and veg, including bananas, are still subject to the Euro-idiocy.
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13 November 2008
09:039125Although I heard Sainsbury's welcomed the move to 'ugly' carrots yesterday, the real culprits in our demands for pristine fruit and indeed nice neat carrots and veg generally, are the Supermarkets. For years the Supermarkets have insisted on bog standard designes of fruit and veg. Anything that didnt fit the designer shape was thrown away...causing widesperead waste. Lets face it we all went along with it. In the past 20 years nobody concerned themselves at all with waste. It was what happened in almost every area of life. But now its pinch and crunch time and a new mood has swept in about everything from rubbish recycling to global warming, now this mood is saving the 'ugly' carrot.
13 November 2008
12:199135BarryW - alarmingly I agree with you again about everything! Telegraph - top paper! Into my comfort zone, well and truly!!!! Great editorial. great crossword too, and best Racing Pages. And the EU - although I have to say that, even at the time Ted Teeth was taking us blindfold into the EU many of us were predicting todays situation but The Blues weren't listening. Listening has never been a Tory strength.........
13 November 2008
12:219136Can I just add, for the sake of balance and my tattered reputation, that I also indulge in The Grauniad and love that too. Some of my best jobs have come from there.......!!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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13 November 2008
13:219137Bern - good to see we can agree on some things. Membership of the EU (originally EEC) is a shame that all main political parties need to shoulder. Entry was on the basis of cross Party agreement and indeed there was cross party concensus in the later referendum.
Libdems have always been the greatest EEC/EC/EU enthusiasts while Conservatives and Labour have been through both pro and anti stages since 1976.
The EU though is a step much to far for Conservatives and, if you remember, Major was only able to put Maastricht through against the teeth of mainstream Conservative opinion. That mainstream opinion is now shared by the leadership.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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13 November 2008
16:069139Barry, nice to know that we do at least agree on the value of such publications as the Sun and Mirror (at least the Sport is honest about what it is). Watching a journalist from the Telegraph cover a trial once convinced me never to believe what they printed but I still like the quick crossword in the Guardian as a relax when I get the kids to bed.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour