Get your bent cucumbers here!

[Cudzoziemiec]

The EU are to allow bent cucumbers, small carrots, etc.

Bent cucumbers? With prices up, EU won't bin them - Yahoo! News UK

But only, it seems, if they are labelled to the effect of being "not pretty, don't eat raw", and only, of course, if member states enable it nationally.

[Valiant]

It's appalling isn't it that they were banned in the first place?

[Mrs Pingu]

I thought the 'bent cucumber' sort of thing was an urban myth.

[little miss mac]

Why on earth should a misshapen veg not be eaten raw? Am I missing something?

[rafletcher]

Why on earth should a misshapen veg not be eaten raw? Am I missing something?

To appease the French, Italian, Spanish and Greek agribusinesses that supply our perfectly shaped but often tasteless fruit and veg?  I assume this from the facts reported on the BBC News website that said those were the countries apposing the relaxing of the relevant trading standards.

[nutkin]

Is the carrot still classified as a fruit though?

[Cudzoziemiec]

I think rafletcher has it, and also to appease the supermarkets who can find it more convenient or easier to sell food to our eyes than our tongues.