Subsequently modified to remove standards regarding shape & size
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No._2257/94
Basically: Bollocks mate.
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 wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 16 May 2016, 13:14,
	
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	Why were the standards there to start with?
And why did it take 15 years to remove them?
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 evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 16 May 2016, 13:26,
	
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	Learn to search.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_%28EC%29_No._2257/94
And not to be pedantic, but the reg is far more about not being allowed to sell rotting, pest filled tiny bananas than their shape.
One has to interpret this with a pair of UKIP certified beer bottle bottoms to think that it bans curved bananas.
It took the EU 20 years to get that you lot were not joking about the bent banana ban.
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smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Mon 16 May 2016, 13:28,
	
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	The banana thing is a well-established myth, as it the Prawn Cocktail crisps
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 Varmint, Mon 16 May 2016, 13:43,
	
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	Why are you bringing them up then?
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 wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 16 May 2016, 16:58,
	
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	I thought they were sufficiently well known as euromyths that people may have got the joke.
Obviously I was mistaken.
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 Varmint, Mon 16 May 2016, 17:42,
	
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	You're up against Poe's Law here...
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 wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 16 May 2016, 18:01,
	
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	True. I should have put a smiley face next to it.
:-)
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 Varmint, Mon 16 May 2016, 18:17,
	
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