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[Tellos Athenaios]

But the joke is on your Cornish pastry makers, because those directives are merely about protectionism for local specialities and they are not drawn up by Brussels on its own: they are submitted/requested by trade organisations. So the purveyors of traditional Cornish pastry have effectively disallowed themselves from marketing their perfectly traditional foods as such ...

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

But the joke is on your Cornish pastry makers, because those directives are merely about protectionism for local specialities and they are not drawn up by Brussels on its own: they are submitted/requested by trade organisations. So the purveyors of traditional Cornish pastry have effectively disallowed themselves from marketing their perfectly traditional foods as such ...

This is not lost on me - but neither is the fact that the EU didn't tell them to take a hike. Someone in Brussels enjoys drawing these things up and enacting them.

[Beskar]

Same category as Spettkaka in Skane (South Sweden)
Or like how Champagne can only come from Champagne.

I prefer Cornish Icecream to pastries anyway, though best Icecream is Bonds which is a locally produced one near here.

[Tellos Athenaios]

This is not lost on me - but neither is the fact that the EU didn't tell them to take a hike. Someone in Brussels enjoys drawing these things up and enacting them.

And if the EU did tell them to take said hike, the Cornish would go all "big bad EU trampling over our precious Cornish pastry, no respect for local traditions or values whatsoever!" If the EU were a proper government with proper power as opposed to a bunch of treaties with lots of hyper sensitive toes sensing being trod on then telling to go take that hike could work. As it is, it would merely result in complaint burried in the annual fodder of complains to bring up when something is up for negotiation: "and the EU doesn't recognise our Cornish pastry traditions neither, for shame!"

You know it would.

Anyway a lot of that stuff is just the various cries of me-too after the big ones (champagne, parma ham) got meaningful protection from (inferior) products out of it.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

And if the EU did tell them to take said hike, the Cornish would go all "big bad EU trampling over our precious Cornish pastry, no respect for local traditions or values whatsoever!" If the EU were a proper government with proper power as opposed to a bunch of treaties with lots of hyper sensitive toes sensing being trod on then telling to go take that hike could work. As it is, it would merely result in complaint burried in the annual fodder of complains to bring up when something is up for negotiation: "and the EU doesn't recognise our Cornish pastry traditions neither, for shame!"

You know it would.

Anyway a lot of that stuff is just the various cries of me-too after the big ones (champagne, parma ham) got meaningful protection from (inferior) products out of it.

The Cornish winged when a Cornishman tried to carry a Cornish flag over the Tamar during the Olympic torch run and a policeman took it off him.

In order for the EU to be a "proper" government it needs popular backing - these medieval ordinances are designed to foster that, but like most else they're counter-productive.

[Furunculus]

the foolishness of a FTT:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance...nsactions-tax/

[SoFarSoGood]

Quite... By their own figures it doesn't work!

[Fragony]

More foolishness, the appointment of a white male in the ECB was blocked by the European Parlement because he is a white male, they absolutely crave a female or an immigrant no matter what, es muss sein after all.

[Idaho]

The Cornish winged when a Cornishman tried to carry a Cornish flag over the Tamar during the Olympic torch run and a policeman took it off him.

Really? What did they do that for? You see loads of Cornish flags here in Devon and I've never seen any bother from it. My guess is that the incident had nothing to do with the flag and everything to do with trying to cause a newsworthy incident.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Really? What did they do that for? You see loads of Cornish flags here in Devon and I've never seen any bother from it. My guess is that the incident had nothing to do with the flag and everything to do with trying to cause a newsworthy incident.

They did it to make a point - by carrying it across the Tamar, obviously. The Police were having none of it. Cue hysterics.

While we're on local news: The rai around here, yech, and is it just me is it suddenly a lot colder tonight.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Does the modern county of Cornwall actually correspond geographically to ancient Cornwall/the Cornwall that the nationalists want to be independent, or is it bigger? Would people in Devon be Cornish nationalists?