The European Union bureaucrats have nuked some of their own rules and regulations describing the shape and size of fruits and vegetables sold in the EU countries.
Until today, a cucumber sold in EU had to be "well developed, correctly shaped and practically straight with the maximum height of the arch of 10 mm per each 10 cm of the [cucumber's] length." (No, I'm not making this up...) A maximum allowable bend in the banana was also strictly defined and so was the "roundness" of a radish
The "standards" (note the quotes...) will still apply to 10 fruits and veggies: table grapes, strawberries, kiwi fruit, tomatoes, et cetera. I can only imagine the effort and money spent on the definition of a "EU strawberry."
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