Brexit really is the “gift that keeps on giving”.
Yesterday I bought a packet of Danish bacon in our local corner shop in Surrey.
It was marked “not for EU”.
So bacon from Denmark is imported to the UK, sliced up and packaged over here, but has this damn silly label on it so it then can’t be exported back again, but can be sent to Northern Ireland without customs checks…
It’s to prevent it being sent into Ireland from NI. It’s doubtful the UK exported Danish bacon to Ireland, or elsewhere in the EU, before brexit.
And all those caravanners, soon to depart for Europe, that can’t take their bacon (and bangers) with them.
Yes I understand what the “reason” for the labelling is - to satisfy the cravings of the NI Unionists to feel part of the UK but still have their cake and eat it where trade with the Republic is concerned.
But it’s still a complete absurdity as with most things Brexit-related, when the pigs were no doubt checked in Denmark before they came here, so there would be no health and safety reason why the processed bacon could not be sold back to the EU - as would have been perfectly possible before the UK left the Single Market / Customs Union. Whether that specific movement of goods would actually occur is not the issue here.
It falls under the heading of “nothing will change when we leave” (David Davis) and " The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history" (Liam Fox).
All Danish (and Dutch) factory farmed pork products should be banned outright rather 80% of them being exported to unsuspecting foreigners!
Free range Gloucester Old Spot pork is delicious. Intensively farmed pigs 
- think we owe the poor buggers a decent if short life.
NB this post is in the “comedy” section. 