TOMATO CRIMES
Inspired by my post on yummy grape tomatoes as a sign of progress, Tim Worstall went looking for them in Portugal, where he lives. Turns out they're illegal in the EU, with criminal penalties for selling them.
Why? Not because there's anything wrong with them, even in the imaginations of EU regulators. No, the bureaucrats just didn't know about them when they wrote the laws. Any class of tomatoes that isn't mentioned is forbidden. Tim's post must be read to be believed. Here's just one little snippet:
we are also protected from acquiring undersized tomatoes. And here we have a second reason why grape tomatoes are illegal. They're too small ( freedom from size limits is only for cherry tomatoes or those in trusses ) and they are not sold in trusses.