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Like the UL about Baa Baa Black Sheep (which was dealt with in the FT's Mythconceptions) there have been various stories in the more Europhobic British press which suggest crazy laws being considered by the European parliament like:
1. Bendy bananas being banned.
2. Something about the Great British Sausage.
3. Not being allowed to call our chocolate 'chocolate' but something like 'emulsified milk and choclate-based snack'.
4. Renaming places that were named to commemorate conflicts with other EU states - like Waterloo station in London (and worse my dad was born and brought up in Waterloo in Liverpool which has acres of streets named after various people who fought in the battle - e.g. Bluecher St. after a Prussian General. I think the road he was born and brought up in would have to be changed too).
but:
1. How many of these are 'true' (more realistically closer to the truth on the sliding scale of factualism )?
2. The UK isn't the only place with scepticism about further European union do other countries have similar tales?
Despite the fact that some of these tales have been doing the rounds for decades we still have bendy bananas, etc. - was there ever a grain of truth (like some kind of proposal from a committee) or did the tabloids make them up?
Emps
1. Bendy bananas being banned.
2. Something about the Great British Sausage.
3. Not being allowed to call our chocolate 'chocolate' but something like 'emulsified milk and choclate-based snack'.
4. Renaming places that were named to commemorate conflicts with other EU states - like Waterloo station in London (and worse my dad was born and brought up in Waterloo in Liverpool which has acres of streets named after various people who fought in the battle - e.g. Bluecher St. after a Prussian General. I think the road he was born and brought up in would have to be changed too).
but:
1. How many of these are 'true' (more realistically closer to the truth on the sliding scale of factualism )?
2. The UK isn't the only place with scepticism about further European union do other countries have similar tales?
Despite the fact that some of these tales have been doing the rounds for decades we still have bendy bananas, etc. - was there ever a grain of truth (like some kind of proposal from a committee) or did the tabloids make them up?
Emps