Crooked cucumbers, knobbly carrots and other strangely shaped fruit and vegetables - the stuff of EU myth, legend and ridicule is set to return to the shelves of European supermarkets. It's been the most popular joke about EU overregulation: desk-bound European Commission bureaucrats sitting in Brussels with nothing better to do than regulating the shapes and sizes of fruit and vegetables. Until now, the EU only granted space on supermarket shelves for norm-fitting vegetables or fruit, but starting July 1, strange shapes and sizes are allowed back.
It's been the most popular joke about EU overregulation: desk-bound European Commission bureaucrats sitting in Brussels with nothing better to do than regulating the shapes and sizes of fruit and vegetables.
Until now, the EU only granted space on supermarket shelves for norm-fitting vegetables or fruit, but starting July 1, strange shapes and sizes are allowed back.
Now my display is all topsy-turvy. The plants seemed to recoil from my every move. The vines rolled over like skeins of yarn in a basket of kittens. I've no idea how to restore its leafy canopy and fear I've introduced unacceptable exposure to our yield. Fungus? Grubs? Deformities? Mutant murrikan cornichon.
Desperation drove me to drink three Tsingtao on the porch, while I pondered, What else could I do? Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
What else could I do?
Gin&tonic? The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
Our cucs no longer have to be straight
Not straight?! Oh noes! Quick, somebody pass a "Defense of Vegetables Act"! The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
In all classes, subject to the special provisions for each class and the tolerances allowed, the bananas must be:
Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Compost, compost, compost.
LOL. Tell me more. I've started two 'informal' heaps and one basket cooking. (Red wigglers are on hold.) None of which simplifies the gravel isssshue or accelerates the time issshue or funds the massive tree pruning issshues.
The photo is dated and doesn't show my lovely improvements to the briar patch. LOL. It's a pity in a way that half the property is shaded.
I'll be pleased with myself if I can extend the growing season into November. I find most "cool season" vegetables quite tasty. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Life, like hope, springs eternal. You can't be me, I'm taken
once you've recovered from your cure that is, lol. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Now, ought I also arrange serenades? Or is that too forward? Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
it's so sweet, how they ask for help. the ties that bind....
if the bamboo still has side branches trail the vine 'fingers' over those and it'll support itself with no need for ties even. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
