08-01-2004, 12:35 AM
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Got me seeds today
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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
The tale I heard was - jam is made from fruit, the Portuguese make
carrot jam, therefore carrot is a fruit.
That is what I heard, whether or not it is true.
What is not said by the people who quote it is that, until we joined
the EU, it was perfectly legal (in the UK) to describe a conserve made
out of turnips and woodchips and describe it as "100% natural raspberry
jam". It may even have been legal to describe it as "100% pure fruit
raspberry jam".
I think that practice was knocked on the head in the '50s. I bought a
table-top plate warmer with two nightlights under a pressed plate. The
box said it had a nickel plate. After a while, some steel crept in under
the nickel and began to rust.......
Around the early 'fifties, my mother, a physioterrorist, had a new
patient on an industrial injury scheme. She asked him the usual
questions: name, address, name of doctor, firm etc. Occupation?
"Pipper."
"What's a pipper?"
"Oh, I make the pips we put in raspberry jam."
He worked a machine which made pips out of wood. The rest of the jam was
mangolds, sugar, flavouring and colour.
The nasty-minded EU infringed the liberty of people to do that. Quite
disgraceful.
ICBA to google for it, but I'd guess that the Trades Descriptons Act
probably predated any Common market rule to that effect, and it predated
the EU by a very long time.
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Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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