EU Bans Restaurants From Serving Olive Oil

[RonPaulFanInGA]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/468712/20130518/olive-oil-banned-eu-serving-bowls-dipping.htm


The EU has banned restaurants from serving olive oil in traditional glass jugs or in glazed dipping bowls.

[talkingpointes]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/468712/20130518/olive-oil-banned-eu-serving-bowls-dipping.htm

Then why not correct the title?

[WM_in_MO]

Get the fuck off our planet EU

[compromise]

They repealed the ban.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22644280

[Dr.3D]

They repealed the ban.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22644280
Popeye and Sweet pea will be relieved now.

[Icymudpuppy]

Yeah, the greeks and italians would never stand for restriction on Olive oil. It's like butter to them.

[Debbie Downer]

Yeah, the greeks and italians would never stand for restriction on Olive oil. It's like butter to them.

Or the Spanish who produce 45% of the world's olive oil and consume almost 30 lbs of it per capita.

[Cleaner44]

This type of action should demonstrate to humans why local government is better than global government. It should be common knowledge that governing at the lowest level is the most desirable for freedom.

[ClydeCoulter]

This type of action should demonstrate to humans why local government is better than global government. It should be common knowledge that governing at the lowest level is the most desirable for freedom.

Perhaps we should have a discussion topic for that. I have seen some pretty horrific tyrannical HOA's. I think there still needs to be a limited constitutional republic type thing even at the lowest levels.

[compromise]

Yeah, the greeks and italians would never stand for restriction on Olive oil. It's like butter to them.


Or the Spanish who produce 45% of the world's olive oil and consume almost 30 lbs of it per capita.

Remind me the last time the EU actually cared about what Greeks, Italians and Spaniards thought about their policies? They don't, hence why they turned each of those 3 countries into hellholes on the edge of civil war.

[Debbie Downer]

Remind me the last time the EU actually cared about what Greeks, Italians and Spaniards thought about their policies? They don't, hence why they turned each of those 3 countries into hellholes on the edge of civil war.

To be fair, they were all hellholes on the edge of civil war way before the EC/EU came into existence.

[kahless]

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/468712/20130518/olive-oil-banned-eu-serving-bowls-dipping.htm

Your title is misleading. They did not ban restaurants from serving Olive oil. They ridiculously banned them from serving it in glass jugs or in glazed dipping bowels to "improve hygiene" and a futile attempt to stop restaurants from passing off inferior oil as "Extra Virgin Olive Oil".

[compromise]

To be fair, they were all hellholes on the edge of civil war way before the EC/EU came into existence.

Italy:
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/2010_3_12_16/y12_26285689.jpg

Spain:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02249/20120615-rocket_2249613k.jpg

Greece:
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/athens_12_15/a08_17324009.jpg

It hasn't been this bad for decades.

[Debbie Downer]

Compromise, the pictures that you've posted are nothing new in these three countries. Mass protests are a way of life in Southern Europe, especially in countries with such strong union presence such as Spain and Italy. Violence, however, is quite rare so the pictures you've posted are not the norm, even in large demonstrations.

All three countries are hellholes, but they've been this way for decades. Italy has always been politically unstable and is one of the only western countries were the Communist party was actually relatively powerful. In Italy the Communist party won 35% of the vote in 1976, for example, and continues to be a major party although now renamed and more democratic socialist than strictly communist. They're currently in power as we speak.

Greece and Spain both were under dictatorships for decades and have never truly developed like Northern Europe. In Spain, unions have an unbelievable amount of power and communism/anarchism are very strong.