“The law on the curves of cucumbers”: the extraordinary standards of quality products
How to distinguish right from wrong banana and how many layers should be in a quality bow.
When choosing products we look at their composition. The more chemistry, the lower the desire to buy a particular product. But there are other criteria for assessing the quality of food. For example, their aesthetic appearance. So, in 1988 the European Commission was passed the famous act “On establishing the quality of cucumbers”, which provoked a lot of jokes on the part of consumers. About the unusual regulations that determined the fate of the goods — in our material.
“The law on the curves of cucumbers”
The perfect cucumber was supposed to be straight and have a bend of not more than 1 cm per 10 cm of length. Meanwhile, curves zucchini are rejected and sold at a reduced price. The same applies to bananas: their length had to be at least 14 cm and a width of 27 mm.
Not less curious was the sale of the eggplant. In one package, the difference between the largest and the smallest vegetable is not supposed to exceed 20 mm for elongated aubergines and 25 mm for round.
A carrot in the form of fingers are rejected. Moreover, the smallest were not to weigh less than 8 grams, while the largest is more than 50 g And if the diameter of carrots was 20 mm or less, it had to be called early.