Fun fact! These cases, like the bananas, snails, or carrots being classified as fruit, were all being used as examples of "lol, dumb EU bureaucracy", but were actually examples of brilliant lawmaking.

The curvature of bananas was specifically aimed at making it harder for China to flood the EU market with their bananas, thus saving local production from going bust.

The snails were a similar case to the carrots. The EU has subsidies for jam makers, to make them more competitive with non-EU jam makers. As it turned out, in one region in France, people made jam from carrots, but "jam" was defined in legislature as "a product made from fruits". Which meant that the EU could spend a lot of time and money on re-writing the original law allowing the subsidies... or just redefine carrots as "fruits" for the specific purpose of that one law. As in: nobody in the EU considers carrots as fruits, it was only and specifically done to allow those French farmers to get subsidies for their jam making.

It's brilliant and efficient.

It was probably organized by corporations to slow down EU

Cries in red white and blue American tears

The owner class, their paid shills, and their useful idiots had half the population convinced decades ago that all regulation is bad and that government entities literally cannot do anything correctly.

I started believing some of that stuff when I was young and thought that people in the media argued in good faith. Plus I was more accepting of the cornerstone conservative axiom that money and "progress" are the marks of good people and good societies rather than silly nebulous concepts like "being alive is a positive experience for as many people as possible."