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Until a few years ago, EU had a regulation that stated "all bananas and cucumbers must be free of abnormal curvature and at least 14 cm in length. " Not sure i

• IanCal 11y ago
  That's not true, they define the "class" of banana/similar. It's there so that when one supplier in a country says "we'll deliver X tons of Class 1 bananas" there's some definition around what they're actually delivering. This gets more important as you start dealing with different items that have the same name in different countries.
  • tdsamardzhiev 11y ago
    Ok, they didn't ban them, they just put them together in a class with crappy, chemistry-grown fruits/veggies, so that nobody would buy them. I don't remember the exact text, so I probably shouldn't have put quotes, but still, what I said is true in practice. Anyway, it was an absolutely terrible idea that has been left in the past.
    • pjc50 11y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_%28EC%29_No._2257/94 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_%28EC%29... It's just overly-pedantic input validation in the legal system; if you're going to have rules that mention bananas, you have to define what is and what is not a banana. Especially if different fruits have different tax treatments.