Tales may have reached th UK's distant shores of new rules from Brussels concerning olive oil (Popeye's turn next month). The latest edict is that olive oil may no longer be served in restaurants etc in open bottles or dishes thus banning a centuries old tradition of dipping things into it nor drizzling over your salad, pizza etc.
What you may wonder is going on? It's the elf and safetree freaks at it again as they believe that the entire population of the EU is about to be poisoned.
Not only olive oil, oh no. Bread is also in their sights. It will no longer be possible to have delicious chinks of local baked bread alongside your meal when eating out. Instead said bread must be wrapped in individual, sealed packets so that by the time it is unwrapped it has become soft and squashy.
Is that it? No. Water. In French restaurants it is customary to serve bottles or pitchers of chilled tap water at every meal, in fact it is enshrined in law that if fresh water is demanded it must be provided. Sorry, but from now on that tradition is being done away with as all water served at tables must be in sealed, labelled containers.
Thankfully it was made known that these proposals will not be implemented - yet - but are being reconsidered as to how they may be best implemented.
What's next? Will all meals have to be served in individually sealed portions? I would like a bag of bouillabaisse please waiter, followed by a pot of cuisse de grenuoilles and a box of your best creme brulée.
Jesus H on a bicycle in the park on a Siunday morning, has the EU machine nowt better to do I wonder?
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