On 17/01/2024 02:20 pm, Simon Mason wrote:
On Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 9:09:00 AM UTC, Simon Mason wrote:
On Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 2:30:12 AM UTC, Peter Keller wrote:
The "Theory of Evolution" is still just a theory. :-/
And the price of oysters is still too high.
We can't eat them in the UK due to Brexit allowing water companies the freedom to pump raw sewage into rivers and seas.
Pesky EU laws didn't allow this disgusting act of pollution.
LONDON — A woman picks up a packet of “Ardennes-style pâté” before dropping it in disgust. “I’m throwing it out,” she tweets, adding, “We are now eating any old shit.”
Is the pâté past its sell-by date? In fact, the answer lies in a small, post-Brexit detail on the packaging.
New rules requiring foods to carry “not for EU” labels are already sparking confusion — and, in some cases, outright disgust — from U.K. shoppers, as experts warn the new policy risks leaving Brits in the dark and wrongly suggesting the items
are produced to lower standards.
Since October last year, all meat and some dairy products moving from Great Britain to be sold in Northern Ireland have been required to carry the labels. The move, introduced as part of the Windsor Framework between the U.K. and EU, is meant to ensure
goods aren’t moved onward into the Republic of Ireland, an EU member country.
But the British government is going further.
From October 2024, all meat and dairy products sold across the U.K. will also have to carry the labels, to ensure food sold in Great Britain can also be sold in Northern Ireland. The requirement will be applied to more products from July 2025.
Although the U.K.-wide requirements are not implemented until later this year, some supermarkets in England appear to already be using the labeling system in preparation for the rollout, much to the confusion of shoppers, several of whom have taken to
X, formerly Twitter, to share their consternation.
‘Special’ Brexit milk
One shopper contemplating buying some milk wrote: “My milk now says ‘not for EU’ on it — can you confirm that this is just because of U.K. red tape and that it still complies with EU safety standards? I’d hate to think it’s ‘special’
Brexit milk that’s not safe for Europeans.”
Another posted a picture of some ham in Sainsbury’s, moaning: “We presume not meeting EU food safety standards. Good enough for little Englanders who thrive on second-rate everything though.”
IT'S WHAT YOU VOTED FOR, BREXTARD.
Odd... he was replying to HIMSELF with that last remark.
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