European oddities persist

Here about this one on Rush, and had to pass on that the European Union has been trying to regulate the size and shape of fruits and vegetables. However, these EU rules have not enforceable in England!

For 29 years, they have kept Britain's cucumbers and bananas on the straight and narrow. But now two judges have decided that the bêtes noires of Eurosceptics – the EU fruit and vegetable regulations – have no force in law.

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[W]hile officials in Brussels and London insist the rules are designed to protect consumers, the pedantic nature of some of them has provoked widespread derision. Rule 1677/88, for example, stipulates a cucumber can have a premium "Class One" classification only if it curves less than 10mm for every 10cm. Similar rules have applied on the shape of bananas since 1994.

Lovely. And I thought US regs were, er, ridiculous.