If you tuned into Question Time last night you might have been surprised to hear one audience member give her reason for voting to leave the EU last June as... bananas. The fact supermarket bananas were straight.
She didn't base her entire vote around the fruit but no-one really cared about the other points she began to make 'cause everyone was still trying to work out the whole banana/Brexit correlation.
"It was more than bananas. It's the fact there's opportunities out there we need to seize as a country," she said, at the Wallasey taping.
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She said: "I was voting remain and at the very last minute I changed my decision and I went to leave.
"The reason because of that is because of... I go to a supermarket and a banana is straight. I'm just sick of the silly rules that come out of Europe."
"Have the bananas changed?" presenter David Dimbleby chimed in.
"If you go to Aldi they're a bit err, bent," she replied.
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Twitter went off, naturally.
Labour shadow minister Liz McInnes quipped: "At least now Article 50 has been invoked those repressed straight bananas can now be free to express their sexuality."
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Another Twitter user joked: "Voting leave because of bananas is nothing - the USA made a satsuma President because of a few emails."
The age-old myth about the EU banning "bent bananas" stems from an EU Commission rule made in 1994.
So what's all this banana shit about anyway? Is she bananas or legitimately concerned for the welfare of bent ones?
It is likely the woman was referring to the urban legend that the EU banned "bent bananas" back in 1994.
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More crucially, it was actually a regulation (2257/94) which stopped the selling of bruised and battered bananas. According to the Commission rule, they shouldn't have "abnormal curvature". It also said cheaper Class II bananas can be prone to "defects of shape".
The more you know!
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