No one can actually be thick enough to a) believe the banana thing
Some people are thick enough, if that’s the term you want to use, to believe that the EU didn’t express an opinion that a banana should be of the correct and proper curvature.
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2257/94 of 16 September 1994
Laying down quality standards for bananas.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13 February 1993 on the common organization of the market in bananas (1), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 3518/93 (2), and in particular Article 4 thereof, Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 makes provision for laying down common quality standards for bananas
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1995.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
In all classes, subject to the special provisions for each class and the tolerances allowed, the bananas must be :
— free from malformation or abnormal curvature of the fingers
So there you have it. According to COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2257/94 of 16 September 1994 a banana with an abnormal curvature is not allowed – only bananas with normal curvatures are allowed.
Unfortunately despite obviously spending a lot of time and effort, and presumably also a fair amount of money on the issue, the EU Commission doesn’t actually stipulate what constitutes “normal curvature”.
Which is really rather unhelpful. After all no one wants to fall foul of a binding EU regulation if they can help it.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:1994R2257:20060217:EN:PDF
Now that we are going to leave the EU I don’t know how we are going to manage without their Bendy Banana Law…….how will shoppers manage? Will we be at the mercy of Tory governments? I’m so depressed.