With the global food crisis and everything, it’s good to know that we can stop worrying about misshapen fruit:

A majority of EU member states, including Britain and Ireland, have voted to reform rules like EC Commission Regulation No 2257/94, which caused international ridicule by stating that all bananas must be “free of abnormal curvature” and at least 14 cm in length.

Imperfectly-shaped fruit and vegetables may now be back on supermarket shelves by 2009.

Well thank God for that.  I only have three questions.

1. Are we to understand that the EU has been throwing perfectly good food away just because it was funny looking?
2. Did the EU actually have people whose full-time job was to pick out and destroy oddly shaped fruit?  That’s a position description I’d like to see.
3. Why is it going to take another six months to get oddly-shaped fruit back on the market?  You would think that they could do it as soon as they can fire the funny-fruit-inspectors.

All this reminds me of one of my all time favorite comedy bits:

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