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Why, this is why the march toward 'ever-closer union' was an imperative, and needed to stop these people from going to war against each other (and, at about 65 years of conflicts limited to such matters as the following, I do think we are nearing a record). According to OpenEurope's daily roundup:

The EU granted the Cornish pasty protected status yesterday, meaning only those produced in Cornwall, to a specific recipe, can be described as ‘Cornish'.
Independent Times Guardian

Sleep well tonight, young ones. The European Superstate is on the watch for misshapen fruits labeled as "bananas" -- indeed! -- and Danish cheese makers calling their wares "feta".

But back in the colonies, please also do recall the lesson that when you give government even an enormously oversized pair of paints, soon enough they will fit.

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WL| 2.23.11 @ 8:34AM

Please do not ever write about this sort of useless information again.

Deborah D| 2.23.11 @ 10:40AM

This is such an example of the blooming idiocy of the left. Thanks for showing us our future if we continue to let the Democrats have their way. With all of the important things going on, there's always time to ignore those important things and focus on the irrelevant. Oh, like those Wisconsin Democrats fleeing the state for fear of actually focusing on fixing their fiscal crisis.

JP| 2.23.11 @ 11:11AM

We are already half way there. We have toilets that do not flush more than 3 gallons of water; detergent that won't clean, and light bulbs that do not illuminate. The Dept of AG every year gets to dictate what is a bananna and what isn't; the EPA declared CO2 a pollutant, and the Dept of Interior gets to dictate how much water private property is allowed to use.

Coming soon, the Dept of Funny Walks

bobmontgomery| 2.23.11 @ 2:18PM

Maybe there is hope. Three European leaders have declared that multiculturalism has failed. Soon they might declare that the EU has failed. The harbinger of good things to come will be when Western universities start teaching the concept of enlightened self-interest again.