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[yakalskovich]

nazgulwears  today uttered her suspicion that Lucifer might be exceeding the EU length limit for fully grown housecats*.

I suspect she might be right. I should get a new icon that shows how long he is.-

* For Americans: there are all sorts of silly EU regulations that all EU citizens continuously mock. Most of them are merely notional or anecdotal, though, including the famous regulation about the correct bend in bananas.

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[bitchy-brat.livejournal.com]

wait.. does that mean that you get fined if your banana doesn't bend the right way?

[yakalskovich]

It (notionally) means that growers are not allowed to sell bananas in the EU that are not bent enough, or bent too much. I think that particular one is an urban legend, but there are enough EU regulations in reality that tend to be a) a bit absurd and b) needlessly detailed.

In recent years, the EU managed to confuse its members with ideas about gender mainstreaming that nobody understands, for example. In Vienna, they used EU funds to design street signs where all the little stick figures are female - but they only exchanged HALF the street signs in the city. That's what gender mainstreaming is about, according to Austrian understanding...

[anghara13.livejournal.com]

Then there was the one about Hedgehog flavoured crisps (tasted like chicken) and they were banned because they did not contain real hedgehogs.

Carrots must be straight, not bent. Ditto Cucumbers.

And the Banana rule was real. Honest. I'm sure of it.

[nazgulwears.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I swear the banana regulation is real.
At least there is an official banana colour chart.
Germans are obsessed with bananas.

[yakalskovich]

If you point me to that official banana colour chart online, I'll believe it; else I'll still suspect an urban legend.

The gender mainstreaming in Vienna is real, though.

[nazgulwears.livejournal.com]

I found this:
http://www.ble.de/data/0005B098F9101406AB346521C0A8D816.0.pdf

[yakalskovich]

Ahh, but that regulates the length and thickness of a banana, anddemands they be green, not ripe (which is so silly - I need ripe bananas for banana chili!!). However, it says nothing about the degree in which a banana is supposed to bend, nor is there a colour scale.

[anghara13.livejournal.com]

OK, I give in and admit I googled for Banana Bend EEC directive and I got this link....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6481969.stm

Please to scroll down a little way where the actual EEC Directive number is listed with regard to the 'abnormal curvature' of bananas.

Not to mention, read on for other amusing Euromyths - fact or fiction.