So. I heard today on NPR that the European Union has a law (which all member countries must incorporate into their own laws...) that a cucumber must be minimum of 12 inches long. You Europeans are fucking weird. What other crazy ass laws are part of the mandatory EU regime? Note: I'm not saying that the US doesn't have its fair share of crazy laws, but most of these weird laws are holdovers from more quaint times. The EU laws are all recently assembled. They don't have that defense.
Yup. Search for "European Union" and cucumbers and see for yourself. Apparently they've also legislated the curvature of bananas. Here's a pdf file with the full text of the law. http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~ukip/EU-myths-and-realities.pdf
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Well of course there is - it's called Brussels. The EU itself isn't about ideologies, it's about nationalism, one-up-manship and preventing fair and open trade for ones fellow competitors.
The concept behind this absurd law is all to do with uniformity and ensuring that the consumer is not ripped off by being sold undersized cues. It's because most cucumbers sold in the EU are the long straight but tasteless variety. In Cyprus, we simply don't have those at all, our cues are small, up to 6", straight, bent, curly and double and taste delicious. The people won't like it if and when this law is forced upon us here.
Its more about forcin gthe EU into a certain striaghtjacket of trade. There was a bit of hoo-haa a while ago about lawnmowers- the EU was legislating on aspects of lawnmowers to be sold across the EU. As far a I undersatnd it, some lawnmower manufacturers wanted EU legislation on the matter, so that they could prise open restricted markets, and also it would make selling their lawnmowers in other countries a lot easier. BAsically, the EU is aboutmaking trade easier by homogenising and standardising everything. To go on another example- if you have an EU wide school leaving qualification, instead of each countries individual qualifications, that means that you can judge people from across the EU by their qualifications. Or if you have precisely standard weights and measures, and liquids are only permitted to be sold in these packages of specific sizes, it is a lot more efficient for cross border trade, say if you can only buy milk in 0.5, 1 and 2 litre packages. Of course, the downside of this is that it encourages homogeneity and insures that large corporations take over as much as possible, and the bureacratic apparatus necesary to police this at European level grows ever larger. This is why I am not for the current form of European Union.
12" isn't that large for a cucumber Probably you can get around this by calling them Cyprus cucumbers, or cucumberinos or whatever. And cucumbers aren't necessarily tasteless anyway - as a salad vegetable they're don't have the most striking taste, but frying cucumber gently brings out the flavour a lot more.
no, all of the undersized cucumbers will be made into pickles. so they will soon drive down pickle prices world wide because they have nothing else to do with the small cucumbers. its probably a conspiracy to send pickle producers around the world out of business, then they will prop up the European economy with their pickle sales.
A bit off topic, but I believe that here in the US you cannot call a bottle of ketchup by its name if it does not have salt in it. Though, there are a lot of strict guildelines just to be able to call it ketchup.
Hi Nexus, Well, I can sort of understand the cucumberlaw - it classifies the quality standard for cucumbers in: extra good class, class 1, class2 and class 3 .... But you are right, there are some bizar laws in EU , this one : In the beginning of the history of EU - the countries could not agree where the parliament should be situated - either in Brussels or in Strasbourg - so trying not to hurt any feelings between the two countries , the parliament decided to travel to Brussels for one moth then move to Strasbourg for one month , then back to Brussels for one mont - strassbourg one month and so on ... the parliament is still moving every month between the 2 cities : Yearly moving cost : 200 million Euro´s out of the taxpayers pocket - EVERY year .........Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=806
You know women use cucumbers to masturbate with right? lol, honestly this girl did it in front of me.
Kids stuff. Once, my friend was making love with his wife and he asked her to stick a cucumber up his ass, so she did. The next day they had people over for lunch and had to make salad; they only had one, used, cucumber, which they washed peeled and used for it.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
That's where you're wrong, because you are obviously used to the tasteless variety. Cyprus cues, especially the field variety, as opposed to the ones grown in a hothouse, have a very distinctive, fresh and delicious flavour.
