One for you Lox, Look like twisted carrots, warped leeks and bent cucumbers may soon appear on EU shop shelves as Europe's farm chief overrides opposition from leading producer countries to her marketing simplification plan.

One of the most popular jibes about EU over-regulation, where zealous Brussels bureaucrats are portrayed as wanting to set permitted sizes, lengths -- and "bendiness" -- for household fruit and vegetables, has come back to haunt the European Union.

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