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Having said all that, the point is that despite its obvious short comings the EU did indeed have a policy on banana curvature, don't let some herbert tell you they didn't.
Ah, no. It had a policy on standardising classification of fruit.
That really is a very different aim. You are twisting it to try and bolster a political argument. This is what tabloid papers do. Shame on you.
No need to be, the wise ones will cut a deal on non-eu compliant bananas of which there is a surplus. We'll get them and other produce cheaper than the member states, maybe compensating for the per person loss of £ to the economy. Before you know it we will be well fed on naturally shaped fruits here in the UK, whereby our euro state counterparts will be restricted to the high price or producing such perfectly regulated fodder.
Call it scraps of you will, but you'll all be able to use the extra cash for extras charged on Euro-products.
Now, you think I'm joking but anyone whose been to the Caribbean will see how his works - high priced imported goods mean few luxurious motor vehicles but no one gives a fig how round a coconut is, as long as the Rum remains $15bds a litre.
It's alright, with boris in charge all we have to do is get rid of the royals and we can be a real banana republic.
I can't believe no one else has said it
Can't believe I just have.
It had a policy on standardising classification of fruit.
Which means the same thing as "a policy on banana curvature". Their policy was to, in part, classify bananas based on their curvature, unfortunately the didn't establish clearly defined standards.
Normal curvature, abnormal curvature, and slightly abnormal curvature, were laid down specific requirements to establish classification of bananas, unfortunately someone in Brussels forgot to find what normal curvature actually meant. Which made compliance to this binding regulation rather difficult.
Although to be fair they might have had someone looking into it, work in progress so to speak.
And as for your outrageous claim that I have twisted Commission Regulation (EC) No 2257/94 of 16 September 1994 to try and bolster a political argument, which is what tabloid papers do, I'll remind you that on the previous page I provide a direct link to Commission Regulation No 2257/94, so everyone is free to conclude for themselves what Commission Regulation No 2257/94 says.
Btw I notice that Commission Regulation No 2257/94 stipulates that bananas must be a minimum of 14cm in length but why are retailers allowed to call them "fun size" bananas ? Surely no can have any fun with a banana that size. It's often puzzled me.