PaulB, surprisingly, the EU did introduce a ban on bananas some years ago, it was on German TV when I watched it, and the Germans strongly critisised the ban.
It did not allow the import of bananas that were too bent and too small, namely bananas corresponding to a certain type.
According to the EU, the bananas had to be less bent!
Bonkers, I know, but that's how it actually was!
The EU recently tried to ban the selling of eggs by the dozen and half-dozen. In fact, in Europe, they are sold in some countries in tens, even where old linguisitc forms of expression still exist with the words: a dozen eggs.
Of-course it sounds bananas, but then the EU commissars count with ten fingers an ten toes, which is why we are now all bankrupt.
So in that respect, it's probably pardonable!
