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by riffraff 779 days ago
> continued selling bananas in metric measures.

Probably in imperial measures? Unless bananas were somehow sold in metric grams and the EU imposed some weird unit I don't know about.

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Yup, you're right. From the link:

> The prosecution of Sunderland greengrocer Steven Thoburn for selling bananas in imperial measures helped turn public opinion against the EU

Brain fart from me, yep!