Snowygerry
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Nice - a sausage with a literary pedigree 
EnglishEdward
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IIRC the only sausage that is 100% meat is the sausage dog:
You know, when people still go on about Remainers as if that's a worthwhile categorisation these days, I just wonder why they still haven't got over winning yet.
I got some Austrian sausage here that would be 167% meat by that measure.
innonimatu
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Do you even understand what you write? Ireland is in the EU. If you mean NI:
Always the joker.
Sausages: the one-size fits all regulations are obviously a bad thing. Even culinary diversity suffers under bureaucratic empires...
And let's be clear: these rules were not needed just because "safety". The standardization is necessary because not having it would cause friction in trade, which would be against the "big single market" goal.
Complex regulations favor big business, in fact are necessary for big business to thrive. It's what enables trade across long distances to de done smoothly and cheaply. Otherwise local competitors have an advantage. Therefore regulators are prime targets for regulatory capture by the larger corporate entities: they have to manage the process of creating regulations, bring those forth.
My father bought a packet of sausages yesterday. The ingredients listed are beef, pork, chicken, bacon, water, wheat starch, ‘mechanically separated chicken meat’, salt, soy protein isolate, powdered milk, plus various chemicals.
As he says, at least they aren't calling it a low-cholesterol product. I should like to add that it is probably asbestos-free.
As he says, at least they aren't calling it a low-cholesterol product. I should like to add that it is probably asbestos-free.
Sofista
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True enough... and... Bismarck – but he was originally speaking about how laws get made.
So, kind of back to the divide between the UK political culture and style of political fudges vs. the EU being a legislative frame-work.
GinandTonic
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88% outdoor bred pork, water, rice flour, gram flour, onion, parsley, black pepper, stabiliser, nutmeg, maize, coriander, marjoram etc.
IIRC European Guinness has to be pasteurised, while Irish and UK Guinness does not. This doesn't seem to have caused the collapse of the single market.
Verbose
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Hm... UK isn't part of the single market. It could be, if it wanted to, but it doesn't, so...
88% outdoor bred pork, water, rice flour, gram flour, onion, parsley, black pepper, stabiliser, nutmeg, maize, coriander, marjoram etc.
IIRC European Guinness has to be pasteurised, while Irish and UK Guinness does not. This doesn't seem to have caused the collapse of the single market.
All Guinness is pasteurised these days - it was for practical reasons. A keg in a pub in Ireland or the UK would be expected to be drank before going off.
A keg in France might be sitting there for ages.
Falling consumption and changing tastes means it is all pasteurised now.
It's also vegan now since it doesn't use fish guts anymore.
There are plenty of unpasteurised beers about, they just don't have the same shelf life.
GinandTonic
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Ok, cool. So that was way back when. I guess there are just a lot of other decent ales competing for the same market now.
What relevance does this have? You persist in this assuming I'm in some way supportive of Brexit. For the nth time - I voted against it.
To be honest I'ld still vote to re-join. Your posts being the most persuasive argument against such an action.
Is it not possible to have a sensible conversation without the trolling nonsense? It's just tedious.
Oerdin
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You are completely wrong, not surprisingly. By its very definition the term United Kingdom is the union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In short the whole reason it is called UK is because of Northern Ireland. Please, for the love of God, bother to educate yourself before you start pontificating upon issues you clearly know nothing about.
The Union only covers 220 out of the 850 years England has been involved in Ireland. The Lord Lieutenant was appointed by the monarch and existed both before and after Union.
For most of its history (except 1801-1922) there has been a parliament in Dublin. Takhisis is quite correct in saying it is not the same as the rest of the UK. The Union has never treated its various parts identically as you would realise if you knew anything about British history.
As British as Finchley surely.
There was a clip of Sammy Wilson complaining in Parliament during the week of NI being treated as a colony. It's funny, because of Brexit, a committed and usually bombastic unionist is using language you might normally expect from Sinn Féin complaining about the UK.
https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...o-sinn-fein-over-irish-language-40569621.html
There was a clip of Sammy Wilson complaining in Parliament during the week of NI being treated as a colony. It's funny, because of Brexit, a committed and usually bombastic unionist is using language you might normally expect from Sinn Féin complaining about the UK.
https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...o-sinn-fein-over-irish-language-40569621.html
Technically the Acts of Union joined the previous Kingdoms of England and Scotland into the (united) Kingdom of Great Britain, variously referred to at the time as ‘Great Britain’, ‘Kingdom of’ and ‘United Kingdom of’.
Ireland was still in a personal union under the Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, generally known as ‘viceroys’. Since the 19th century it was called the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
And still it is called of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to this day, which, for a start, according to your ersatz logic, would still mean that Northern Ireland is not Britain.
A few bits today.
The EU has granted the UK'S application to extend the implementation period for chilled meats.
The High Court in Belfast has dismissed the challenge by Trimble, Hoey et al. that the withdrawal agreement breaches the Act of Union, saying that the withdrawal agreement act supercedes it, and that there has been plenty of constitutional change since 1800 anyways.
Parliamentary sovereignty has been confirmed it seems.
The EU has granted the UK'S application to extend the implementation period for chilled meats.
The High Court in Belfast has dismissed the challenge by Trimble, Hoey et al. that the withdrawal agreement breaches the Act of Union, saying that the withdrawal agreement act supercedes it, and that there has been plenty of constitutional change since 1800 anyways.
Parliamentary sovereignty has been confirmed it seems.
