The return of the curvy cucumber
Eurosceptics rejoice! Rules governing the size and shape of fruit and vegetables are to be repealed from July of next year.
The curvature of cucumbers and bananas, a subject that has aroused the wrath of retired stockbrokers the length and breadth of middle England, from Bumbledown-on-Sea to Greater Spiffingforth by the Thames, is now to be left to Mother Nature, in a startling admission by the Commission of the limits of its earthly powers.
Economic meltdown and the forthcoming war in the Congo have been put on the political back burner for the moment: “This marks a new dawn for the curvy cucumber and the nobbly carrot,” said Mariann Fischer Boel, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development.
And they wonder why people point at them and laugh…..
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