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Tuesday, October 21, 2003

it's better over there 

Posted by Nick : 7:22 PM

From The Telegraph:
Farmer in marmalade rebellion against EU
By Michael Leidig and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
(Filed: 21/10/2003)

An Austrian farmer has found himself the unlikely star of "a marmalade rebellion" against Brussels bureaucracy.

Johann Thiery was fined and threatened with jail after trading standards inspectors found him selling apricot marmalade using his grandmother's recipe.

According to a European Union ruling, marmalade can contain only citrus fruits such as lemons, limes and oranges and not apricots or other soft fruits. Such mixtures have to be labelled as jam.

Austria's biggest-selling newspaper, the Kronen Zeitung, has run a front-page campaign to defend the farmer and his marmalade.

Erwin Proell, Lower Austria's governor from the ruling People's Party, criticised EU red tape. "Brussels should keep their grubby fingers off regional traditions carried out for years," he said.

But an EU spokesman said: "The law is the law."
(via The Corner)
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