While the EU is discussing banning terms like "veggie burger" or "soy sausage", new data from Appinio provides a surprising insight: It's not the name that
Which was, at least in the EU, an initiative coming from the industry and not from crazy bureaucrats. Makes packaging food much more efficient if a cucumber can only be curved so much.
No. I don’t know if this is where you heard the story from specifically, but certainly here in the UK it was basically a lie spread by pro-Brexit figures. There is an EU regulation on the shape of fruits, but it’s only for classifying them; you can absolutely buy and sell funny-shaped fruit all you want. It’s just an easy way for buyers that do actually care about perfectly-shaped fruit to find that, such as wholesalers
There you go, EU, again treating your citizens as total retards on a non issue. What’s next, forcing standard shapes in vegetables and fruits?
Hey look the right-wing anger diversion tactics worked again
How did it work?
That is not an idea from the EU commission. The right wing parties in the EU parliament had that idea.
I only eat triangular pears and it’s time you lot get on board with this!
Enough with politics they should be rectangular for easier stacking
Let’s agree to disagree
This has already been the case for many decades, and not just in the EU.
Which was, at least in the EU, an initiative coming from the industry and not from crazy bureaucrats. Makes packaging food much more efficient if a cucumber can only be curved so much.
didnt we already do that?
No. I don’t know if this is where you heard the story from specifically, but certainly here in the UK it was basically a lie spread by pro-Brexit figures. There is an EU regulation on the shape of fruits, but it’s only for classifying them; you can absolutely buy and sell funny-shaped fruit all you want. It’s just an easy way for buyers that do actually care about perfectly-shaped fruit to find that, such as wholesalers
As far as I know the classification initiative also came from the food industry. It makes packaging much more efficient.