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Off Topic => The Pub => Food & Drink => Topic started by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 July, 2008, 03:11:48 am

Title: Get your bent cucumbers here!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 July, 2008, 03:11:48 am: The EU are to allow bent cucumbers, small carrots, etc.

Bent cucumbers? With prices up, EU won't bin them - Yahoo! News UK (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080723/tod-uk-eu-fruit-size-063ac92.html)

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.
Title: Re: Get your bent cucumbers here!
Post by: Valiant on 24 July, 2008, 03:14:31 am: It's appalling isn't it that they were banned in the first place?
Title: Re: Get your bent cucumbers here!
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 25 July, 2008, 12:31:35 pm: I thought the 'bent cucumber' sort of thing was an urban myth.
Title: Re: Get your bent cucumbers here!
Post by: little miss mac on 25 July, 2008, 12:48:49 pm: Why on earth should a misshapen veg not be eaten raw? Am I missing something?
Title: Re: Get your bent cucumbers here!
Post by: rafletcher on 25 July, 2008, 02:22:35 pm: Quote from: little miss mac on 25 July, 2008, 12:48:49 pm
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.
Title: Re: Get your bent cucumbers here!
Post by: nutkin on 25 July, 2008, 02:25:34 pm: Is the carrot still classified as a fruit though?
Title: Re: Get your bent cucumbers here!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 July, 2008, 09:40:34 am: 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.