{"id":877,"date":"2009-07-01T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=877"},"modified":"2009-07-01T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T13:36:42","slug":"at-last-real-veg-allowed-back-in-to-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/at-last-real-veg-allowed-back-in-to-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"At last, real veg allowed back in to the EU."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballintemple.com\/gallery\/20050905veggies\/images.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ballintemple.com\/gallery\/20050905veggies\/thumbs\/dvc00101.jpg?resize=140%2C105\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"105\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The EU bureaucrats have finally wised up to the waste and frustration of regulating the shape and look of fruit and vegetables.  We know from our garden how weird they can be, naturally.  Like this one &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was a ludicrous regulation when it was brought in and it&#8217;s sad that it&#8217;s taken 20 years for it to be removed.\u00a0 A step in the right direction though.<\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8127461.stm\">&#8216;Ugly&#8217; fruit back on sale in EU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/7725149.stm\">Your pictures: Wonky fruit and veg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU bureaucrats have finally wised up to the waste and frustration of regulating the shape and look of fruit and vegetables. We know from our garden how weird they can be, naturally. Like this one &#8230; It was a ludicrous regulation when it was brought in and it&#8217;s sad that it&#8217;s taken 20 years &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/at-last-real-veg-allowed-back-in-to-the-eu\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At last, real veg allowed back in to the EU.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-trade-and-fdi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-e9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}