Bananas

[greenlake]

What about cucumbers?

Prohibited in Thailand....

[original PM]

What about cucumbers?

As big and knobbly as you need.

😜

[SueEllen]

What about cucumbers?

[original PM]

Oh crap.

What is this? This is not true.

Of course it is everything must conform to ze rules even ze banananas

[Bee]

Have you or your accountant read the regulations?

First page of the PDF is below - feel free to download the rest - it's only 7 pages.

..."Whereas account should be taken of the fact that, because climatic
factors make production conditions difficult in the Community regions
of Madeira, the Azores, the Algarve, Crete and Lakonia, bananas there
do not develop to the minimum length laid down; whereas in these cases
such bananas may still be marketed, but only in Class II;
Whereas the Management Committee for Bananas"

Oh crap.

What is this? This is not true.

[ctdctd]

An hour ago bought in Waitrose two packs of 6 bananas in each pack.

Are they legal?

Don't want to eat something that EU does not allow.

Please advise.

tia

Have you or your accountant read the regulations?

First page of the PDF is below - feel free to download the rest - it's only 7 pages.

"COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2257/94
of 16 September 1994
laying down quality standards for bananas
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of 13 February
1993 on the common organization of the market in bananas (1), as
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 3518/93 (2), and in particular
Article 4 thereof,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 makes provision for laying down
common quality standards for bananas intended for consumption fresh,
not including plantains; whereas the purpose of these standards is to
ensure that the market is supplied with products of uniform and satisfactory
quality, in particular in the case of bananas harvested in the
Community, for which efforts to improve quality should be made;
Whereas, given the wide range of varieties marketed in the Community
and of marketing practices, minimum standards should be set for unripened
green bananas, without prejudice to the later introduction of standards
applicable at a different marketing stage; whereas the characteristics
of fig bananas and the way in which they are marketed are such that
they should not be covered by the Community standards;
Whereas the banana-producing Member States already apply national
standards within their territory at different stages in the marketing of
bananas; whereas it seems appropriate, in view of the objectives
pursued, to allow these existing rules to continue to apply to their own
production but only at stages subsequent to unripened green bananas,
provided those rules are not in conflict with the Community standards
and do not impede the free circulation of bananas in the Community;
Whereas account should be taken of the fact that, because climatic
factors make production conditions difficult in the Community regions
of Madeira, the Azores, the Algarve, Crete and Lakonia, bananas there
do not develop to the minimum length laid down; whereas in these cases
such bananas may still be marketed, but only in Class II;
Whereas the Management Committee for Bananas"

[Mordac]

An hour ago bought in Waitrose two packs of 6 bananas in each pack.

Are they legal?

Don't want to eat something that EU does not allow.

Please advise.

tia

You should hand yourself in forthwith, so as not to keep the firing squad waiting...

[RetSet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhbMPw8rHEw

[FatLazyContractor]

An hour ago bought in Waitrose two packs of 6 bananas in each pack.

Are they legal?

Don't want to eat something that EU does not allow.

Please advise.

tia

Key information missing. What did you pay?

[BrilloPad]

It is what you propose to do with them that is illegal.

[AtW]

Look on the bright side. What you have to put up with from the EU does not compare to what will happen when I achieve my dictatorship ambitions. Giant deformed bananas up yer * will be just the beginning.

Your pathetic dictatorship ambitions are second to mine...

[greenlake]

Are they legal?

[xoggoth]

Look on the bright side. What you have to put up with from the EU does not compare to what will happen when I achieve my dictatorship ambitions. Giant deformed bananas up yer * will be just the beginning.

[scooterscot]

Banana!

[AtW]

An hour ago bought in Waitrose two packs of 6 bananas in each pack.

Are they legal?

Don't want to eat something that EU does not allow.

Please advise.

tia