On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:44:36 +0000, Les Invalides
wrote:
>judith posted
>>None of this says that cucumbers or bananas must be straight.
>
>Of course not. But neither did the newspapers claim that it did
Oh really:
GOODBYE bendy bananas. Farewell curved cucumbers. So long chunky
carrots. The European Union has finally triumphed in its quest to tame
nature and keep unusually shaped fruit and vegetables off our shop
shelves. The Times December 19 2003
Cucumbers have to be straight and must not arch more than 10mm for
every 10mm of their length so people can tell how many are in a box.
The Sun, 4 March 1998
Traditional white British ambulances are to be repainted yellow to
bring them into line with Europe. The new colour
will be adopted across the continent to make the emergency vehicles
uniformly recognisable in every country. … The
ambulance repainting is the latest European attempt to change elements
of the traditional British way of life to fall in
line with the rest of Europe. In the past, European Commissioners
famously infuriated fruiterers and grocers when they
deemed that our cucumbers were to (sic) curvy and our bananas too
bendy.
Daily Mail, 6 March 2002, page 30 |