" When someone in the food industry needs cucumbers, he can't use any kind of cucumber, because it will go through machines with a calibre expectation"

We were talking about consumer products.

"Oh, and you can still sell vegetable that are out of spec. "

Now you can. The regulations regarding sizes of cucumbers have been abolished in 2009, even though the whole theather about it was rather populism.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verordnung_(EWG)_Nr._1677/88_(... (german)