Proving that stupidity in government sneers at national and geographic bounds

[unixronin]

In a move planned to show its solidarity with other government bodies in findign time to fiddle while Rome burns, the EU has approved new regulations that will prohibit selling eggs by the dozen.

The new rules will mean that instead of packaging telling shoppers a box contains six eggs, it will show the weight in grams of the eggs inside, for example 372g.

[...]  The rules will not allow both the weight and the quantity to be displayed.

So you can't even mark the package "One half dozen large eggs, net weight 372g."  And I suppose the next refinement will require every carton of eggs to be individually weighed and marked with its actual weight, because, you know, you can't put 12.07 eggs in a package to make the weight come out to a nice round consistent number every time.  UK food industry experts described the new EU ruling as "bonkers" and "absolute madness", and it's hard to disagree.  There are products, like eggs, car tires etc, that it simply makes no sense to sell by weight.  Can you imagine walking into your local tire store and asking for 112kg of tires, or going to the bicycle store for 92g of replacement spokes?

Crises come and crises go, the world economy melts down, the Eurozone is facing potential collapse as bankrupt member-nation economies implode, Shari'a law is metastasizing into European nations, but never let it be said that the EU Parliament is too busy to find the time for stupid, pointless crap like saying that you can't sell a dozen eggs as a dozen eggs any more.

Comments

[jilara.livejournal.com]

I can already see the new cookbooks: "add 36 kg of egg..."

Actually, I suspect that it's a start toward making so that eggs have to be sold in shell-less state, perhaps in a sterile carton. That way you just decant out the appropriate amount of gloop. Get them as mixed, all-yolk, or all-white. Who knows, maybe they'll be able to get battery chickens genetically modified to just squirt out shell-less eggs.

[xander-opal.livejournal.com]

First, assume a spherical chicken of uniform density... O:)

[attutle.livejournal.com]

I can already see the new cookbooks: "add 36 kg of egg..."

That's a lot of egg.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I I noticed that later. I was really meaning grams, but what the hey. Maybe it's in industrial quantities.

[docstrange.livejournal.com]

Egg whites are already sold in that manner, so what the heck. Just another step to distance people from [the sources of] food. For their own good.

This is what happens when bureaucrats are put in charge of art.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That, or just replace them with vat-produced synthetic sterile non-fat cholesterol-free egg-like food replacement product...