Catching The Rain » Plant portraits http://www.catchingtherain.com Mainly just a place to test things out Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:41:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Shock report from the BBC: New exotic fruit to hit UK shops http://www.catchingtherain.com/2008/07/bbc-news-uk-new-exotic-fruit-to-hit-uk-shops/ http://www.catchingtherain.com/2008/07/bbc-news-uk-new-exotic-fruit-to-hit-uk-shops/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:28:22 +0000 James http://www.catchingtherain.com/archives/2008/07/113 Continue reading →]]> Baobab and sisal, near Mombassa, Kenya, 1995The BBC is reporting that a New exotic fruit [is] to hit UK shops. New? What’s new about the baobab? Africa’s ‘upside down tree’. Well it’s certainly not a new species. It’s certainly not a new use. What appears to define this as ‘new’ is that the EU has just approved it.

What a sad world it is that something that has been used in it’s native countries for centuries can only be sold when it has been approved by bureaucrats sitting in an office in Brussels (or wherever they are – I can only assume it’s not even Nairobi, let alone out in Kenya’s beautiful countryside where these majestic trees can be found).

]]> http://www.catchingtherain.com/2008/07/bbc-news-uk-new-exotic-fruit-to-hit-uk-shops/feed/ 0