'Wonky fruit' back on EU agenda

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• Anne Palmer | 25 February 2010 9:16 am

  No Discrimination for Knobbly Carrots. 1st July 2009.
  
  To bite into a crunchy carrot,
  One with knobs on is what I prefer,
  With one ‘head’ and two legs will do me,
  Not for ME will its ugliness deter.
  
  I have waited so long for this ‘happening’,
  July the first in two thousand and nine.
  As I sink my teeth into a raw carrot,
  The pleasure will all be mine.
  
  When washed and sliced
  And cooked in a pot,
  How would we know
  If it was once ‘perfect’ or not?
  No, don't laugh at me,
  That EU Regulation is gone,
  We can now eat a “wobbly” carrot
  With wonky knobs on!
  
  And now for a curly cucumber,
  Distorted and quite unique,
  Yet removed from sale by The Union,
  Through its ugly sight, in a fit of pique.
  
  The EU has decided to ALLOW us,
  This great Country to its masters obey,
  For years so much has been wasted,
  Now eat all, when THEY say we may!
  
  To eat what nature intended
  To eat instead of to ‘waste’,
  To stop their discrimination,
  For its “looks” didn’t affect the taste.
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  Ooooops! Looks like the thinking cap has to be taken down and dusted again.
  
  I know, Lobby our own MP's to bring in a new law to keep them. If they can't do a little thing like that, why have we still got British MPs?
  
  
  
  

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• Anne Palmer | 25 February 2010 12:01 pm

  Wonky Carrot’s for the “chop”, again, or is it a case for Discrimination? 25.2.2010.
  
  The days of the Knobbly Carrot may be over
  Of their life in the shops to be sold,
  They liked to be seen and gazed at,
  To be laughed at was worth more than gold.
  
  To bring forth a smile from weary shoppers,
  Short lived now, their life in the shops,
  Though with friends, like curvy Cucumbers,
  Folks freedom to ‘choose’ must now stop.
  
  But time may run out for these fruit and veg
  That are different and not quite, “All the same”,
  But then neither are we ‘humans’,
  So WHO in the end is to blame?
  
  Straight Bananas, Wobbly Melons, Curly Cucumbers
  Are once again under threat,
  Spanish MEP’s have ‘tabled an amendment’
  For the selling of ‘odd shaped’ produce to be stopped.
  
  On “Farming Today” MEP Esther Herranz told us,
  To the Consumer ‘benefits were few’
  From these wonkey, wacky veggies,
  And would be better off in a Commercial Stew.
  
  But Alyn Smith from the EU Parliament,
  Said he would “Die in a ditch” to keep them on sale,
  He thought these MEP’s had gone “Bananas”,
  But were they ‘straight’ or beyond the pale?

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