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Anne Jackson 07-01-2004 10:10 PM

Got me seeds today
 
The message
from Jaques d'Alltrades contains
these words:

The message
from Anne Jackson contains these words:


I have a redundant sunbed in the attic. Could the light problem be
overcome,
if I was to rig that up and bypass the automatic time control?


If you substituted daylight bulbs/tubes, I expect so. What are you
thinking of growing? Cacti? Olives? Merulas?


Texas Bluebonnets.

--
AnneJ
ICQ #:- 119531282

Nick Maclaren 07-01-2004 10:10 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from "Martin Sykes" contains
these words:

PS. I always forget, is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit?


You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren 07-01-2004 10:10 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from "Martin Sykes" contains
these words:

PS. I always forget, is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit?


You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren 07-01-2004 10:10 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from "Martin Sykes" contains
these words:

PS. I always forget, is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit?


You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren 07-01-2004 10:10 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from "Martin Sykes" contains
these words:

PS. I always forget, is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit?


You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Stewart Robert Hinsley 07-01-2004 10:11 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


The tale I heard was - jam is made from fruit, the Portuguese make
carrot jam, therefore carrot is a fruit.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

Stewart Robert Hinsley 07-01-2004 10:11 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


The tale I heard was - jam is made from fruit, the Portuguese make
carrot jam, therefore carrot is a fruit.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

Stewart Robert Hinsley 07-01-2004 10:11 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


The tale I heard was - jam is made from fruit, the Portuguese make
carrot jam, therefore carrot is a fruit.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

Stewart Robert Hinsley 07-01-2004 10:11 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


The tale I heard was - jam is made from fruit, the Portuguese make
carrot jam, therefore carrot is a fruit.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

Nick Maclaren 07-01-2004 10:11 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


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".

The nasty-minded EU infringed the liberty of people to do that. Quite
disgraceful.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren 07-01-2004 10:11 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


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".

The nasty-minded EU infringed the liberty of people to do that. Quite
disgraceful.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren 07-01-2004 10:11 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


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".

The nasty-minded EU infringed the liberty of people to do that. Quite
disgraceful.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren 07-01-2004 10:11 PM

Got me seeds today
 
In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....


That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


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".

The nasty-minded EU infringed the liberty of people to do that. Quite
disgraceful.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

martin 07-01-2004 10:11 PM

Got me seeds today
 
On 7 Jan 2004 21:13:39 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....

That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


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".

The nasty-minded EU infringed the liberty of people to do that. Quite
disgraceful.


However thanks to our politicians and vested interests in the brewing
and food industry they still allow
a mixture of brown gunge and sugar to be described as chocolate.
Vegetable fat and sugar as ice cream
lumps of mechanically recovered fat in a plastic condom as a sausage
bottles of fizzy chemical as beer
and so on.
--
Martin

martin 07-01-2004 10:11 PM

Got me seeds today
 
On 7 Jan 2004 21:13:39 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:

In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
You'll have to ask the EC.

Apparently, carrots are now fruit.....

That is only following a UK precedent. The Ministry of Food was
very keen on treating them as fruit in the 1940s.


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".

The nasty-minded EU infringed the liberty of people to do that. Quite
disgraceful.


However thanks to our politicians and vested interests in the brewing
and food industry they still allow
a mixture of brown gunge and sugar to be described as chocolate.
Vegetable fat and sugar as ice cream
lumps of mechanically recovered fat in a plastic condom as a sausage
bottles of fizzy chemical as beer
and so on.
--
Martin


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