Well done Gordon
Jul 21st 2011, 4:53 pm
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Re: Well done Gordon
From next year it will be illegal for UK shops to sell eggs in dozens or half dozens.
The same applies to just about everything else from fish fingers to bread rolls.
Just another small example of how Brussels is gradually taking over every single minor detail of our everyday lives.
Probably only a matter of time before we need written permission from Brussels every time we go to the bog.
Also no doubt a fantastic opportunity for supermarkets to sell us ten eggs for the same price as a dozen.
Instead of a bakers dozen we'll have to make do with a Brussels dozen.
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Jul 21st 2011, 5:36 pm
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Re: Well done Gordon
Interesting snippet though not of massive national importance.
From next year it will be illegal for UK shops to sell eggs in dozens or half dozens.
The same applies to just about everything else from fish fingers to bread rolls.
Just another small example of how Brussels is gradually taking over every single minor detail of our everyday lives.
Probably only a matter of time before we need written permission from Brussels every time we go to the bog.
Also no doubt a fantastic opportunity for supermarkets to sell us ten eggs for the same price as a dozen.
Instead of a bakers dozen we'll have to make do with a Brussels dozen.
From next year it will be illegal for UK shops to sell eggs in dozens or half dozens.
The same applies to just about everything else from fish fingers to bread rolls.
Just another small example of how Brussels is gradually taking over every single minor detail of our everyday lives.
Probably only a matter of time before we need written permission from Brussels every time we go to the bog.
Also no doubt a fantastic opportunity for supermarkets to sell us ten eggs for the same price as a dozen.
Instead of a bakers dozen we'll have to make do with a Brussels dozen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10461548
The EU is not preparing to ban the sale of groceries by quantity, such as "a dozen" eggs, the Euro MP steering new food labelling legislation says.
Renate Sommer MEP was responding to suggestions that shoppers might have to change the habits of a lifetime if all food had to be sold by weight.
"There will be no changes to selling foods by number," she said on Tuesday.
"Selling eggs by the dozen... will not be banned," she said. No final agreement is expected before mid-2011.
Renate Sommer MEP was responding to suggestions that shoppers might have to change the habits of a lifetime if all food had to be sold by weight.
"There will be no changes to selling foods by number," she said on Tuesday.
"Selling eggs by the dozen... will not be banned," she said. No final agreement is expected before mid-2011.
Jul 21st 2011, 6:30 pm
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Re: Well done Gordon
Don't believe everything you read in the anti-Euro press!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10461548
If I believed all the euro-eceptics told me, I'd now be unable to buy curved bananas or Blue stilton cheese in the shops!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10461548
If I believed all the euro-eceptics told me, I'd now be unable to buy curved bananas or Blue stilton cheese in the shops!
Cant find the one I read, but it was very recent and stated that the ban would go ahead after all.
Jul 21st 2011, 6:42 pm
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Re: Well done Gordon
Interesting snippet though not of massive national importance.
From next year it will be illegal for UK shops to sell eggs in dozens or half dozens.
The same applies to just about everything else from fish fingers to bread rolls.
Just another small example of how Brussels is gradually taking over every single minor detail of our everyday lives.
Probably only a matter of time before we need written permission from Brussels every time we go to the bog.
Also no doubt a fantastic opportunity for supermarkets to sell us ten eggs for the same price as a dozen.
Instead of a bakers dozen we'll have to make do with a Brussels dozen.
From next year it will be illegal for UK shops to sell eggs in dozens or half dozens.
The same applies to just about everything else from fish fingers to bread rolls.
Just another small example of how Brussels is gradually taking over every single minor detail of our everyday lives.
Probably only a matter of time before we need written permission from Brussels every time we go to the bog.
Also no doubt a fantastic opportunity for supermarkets to sell us ten eggs for the same price as a dozen.
Instead of a bakers dozen we'll have to make do with a Brussels dozen.
my current pack of fishfingers is 15's
my current pack of bread rolls is 6
the pack before that was 8
seems to depend on the packaging....
perhaps not Brussels dozen but dozens of Brussels
Jul 21st 2011, 6:56 pm
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Re: Well done Gordon
Who buys fish fingers anyway, unless you have someone under two
Jul 21st 2011, 7:03 pm
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Jul 21st 2011, 7:13 pm
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Re: Well done Gordon
For decades I have been observing dishonest anti EU propaganda, which only propagates because enough people are desperate to be anti EU and don't mind passing on lies to get there.
Caramel directives, straight cucumbers yada yada yada.
All shite. Who cares if you have to buy eggs in 10s? I mean seriously, who gives a toss?
Will the end of the world come about?
Sheeesh.
Caramel directives, straight cucumbers yada yada yada.
All shite. Who cares if you have to buy eggs in 10s? I mean seriously, who gives a toss?
Will the end of the world come about?
Sheeesh.
Jul 21st 2011, 7:14 pm
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Jul 21st 2011, 9:20 pm
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Re: Well done Gordon
Now it would probably be taken to the sex discrimination court.
Graham
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Jul 21st 2011, 9:21 pm
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Re: Well done Gordon
How have we got from Brown to fish fingers, does he eat them too
Jul 21st 2011, 10:12 pm
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