
SOME EC DEFINITIONS:
- Carrots are fruit
- English Channel has been re-named The Channel (EU Interreg iiia Project)
- Kid meat is lamb
- Whisky is a hazardous chemical substance
- Soya milk is not milk
- Shetland Wool is not an agricultural product
- Bananas are classified as agriculture, not food
- Bees are a food producing animal
- Horses are for eating
- Farmed park deer is classified as wild life
- Iceland has railways (it doesn't)
- Domesticated quail are not poultry
- British oaks are not true oaks
- Flavour is not a part of EU seed trial criteria
- Bombay Duck is produced in "establishments"
- Pigeons are not pests
- 15-18 year olds are "adolescents" if they have left school or
"children" if they have not
- 999 emergency number to be replaced with different numbers for ambulance,
fire, police and motoring
- Subsidiarity - "..shall relate to areas for which the Community does
not already have exclusive competence."
- Wine is an agricultural product; beer is an industrial product.
- The unemployed are merely unused potential labour stock.
- Rock Salmon must be called Huss.
- Sea Bass (which is a white fish) must be called Red Fish
- Ginger Marmalade must be called Ginger Preserve.
- Scots Pines from Scotland planted in Germany are now classed as German
Pines.
- English apples do not taste better
- Frogs may only be killed in approved establishments
- The absence of a tax is a government subsidy
- Illegal jam flavouring in biscuits is permitted because it is not jam but
biscuit.
- Tax avoidance is a crime
- Honey is produced by bees
- When selecting GM crop trial sites, damage to other farms is not a
permissible criterion.
- A lumpy sauce is a vegetable
- Vegetarian sausages are not "sausages"
- Scottish kilts are women's wear
- MacIntosh red apples are not red
- Isle of Skye is not an island (BBC R5 21/1/03)