A thank you to Brexiteers.

[Pickman's model]

Not something many people would have associated la coffey with

 

[bimble]

Apples and pears could be next UK food shortage, farmers warn

Growers say they do not get paid enough by supermarkets, as supply of leeks also comes under threat

www.theguardian.com

" fruit growers’ costs had increased by about 23% as the cost of picking, energy, haulage and packaging had risen but that was being met by a less than 1% increase in returns. The majority of growers are losing money.”
Its not the weather this next one, so its probably covid & the war in ukraine.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Apples and pears could be next UK food shortage, farmers warn

Growers say they do not get paid enough by supermarkets, as supply of leeks also comes under threat

www.theguardian.com

" fruit growers’ costs had increased by about 23% as the cost of picking, energy, haulage and packaging had risen but that was being met by a less than 1% increase in returns. The majority of growers are losing money.”
Its not the weather this next one, so its probably covid & the war in ukraine.

The common denominator here is supermarkets not paying enough for the supply.

 

[bimble]

The common denominator here is supermarkets not paying enough for the supply.

Yep they will need to pay more and to be more flexible in what they pay instead of fixing prices months in advance. It will sort itself out in time (with us paying more for the same stuff obvs) but going to take a while to get back to even the level of self sufficiency we had a couple of years ago isn't it, if all these people have stopped planting because they cant make any money from their produce.

 

[Flavour]

Turnips are great and anti-turnip snobbery is pathetic

 

[Artaxerxes]

Turnips are great and anti-turnip snobbery is pathetic

I don't think anyone is being anti-turnip, turnips are fine, but when the reaction to "where are all the tomatoes Mr Government?" is "go suck a turnip" people start to take the piss.

 

[bimble]

The telegraph today has a thing about how this is a reality check and we should stop expecting tomatoes in February, by someone whose name is Xanthe Clay and who is a graduate of Cheltenham Ladies College, obvs.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I'm a big fan of seasonality in produce until I remember that means living on gruel and root veg for 3 months of the year.


I do think the supermarkets should encourage eating more seasonal home grown veg by putting offers on them in season but the minute anyone from an expensive school tells me to do it I go looking for Durian and bananas.

 

[brogdale]

The telegraph today has a thing about how this is a reality check and we should stop expecting tomatoes in February, by someone whose name is Xanthe Clay and who is a graduate of Cheltenham Ladies College, obvs.

Nudging that Overton window one step closer to rats and rainwater.

 

[bimble]

Turnips are inherently a bit funny but there are going to be a rolling sequence of one food shortage after another for years and years whilst the same thing does not happen in the countries next door.
The immediate and bbc-cited causes will be different every time, when it's apples instead of tomatoes, totally separate issue, but the bottom line is we are now exposed to the vagaries of the weather in morocco and the informed choices of fruit pickers and lorry drivers and the terms of international treaties in a way that we were not before, and the zealots in charge of the country resolutely refused to do anything to mitigate the consequences and it is in fact pretty shit. Sod this but it is normal now and its a pretty concrete downside whilst we wait for our winnings.

 

[krtek a houby]

Ah this is the Spanish turnip

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Looks more like mooli

 

[bimble]

Looks more like mooli

Those are longer and pointier, less girth.

 

[bluescreen]

Turnips are inherently a bit funny but there are going to be a rolling sequence of one food shortage after another for years and years whilst the same thing does not happen in the countries next door.
The immediate and bbc-cited causes will be different every time, when it's apples instead of tomatoes, totally separate issue, but the bottom line is we are now exposed to the vagaries of the weather in morocco and the informed choices of fruit pickers and lorry drivers and the terms of international treaties in a way that we were not before, and the zealots in charge of the country resolutely refused to do anything to mitigate the consequences and it is in fact pretty shit. Sod this but it is normal now and its a pretty concrete downside whilst we wait for our winnings.

But it's what we voted for isn't it, and we all knew what we were voting for.
Juche

 

[krtek a houby]

Those are longer and pointier, less girth.

Still looks more like mooli than turnip which looks like them

 

[teqniq]

those are swedes

 

[two sheds]

I got asked to buy swedes by a friend and bought turnips last year

or got asked to buy turnips and bought swedes i'm not sure any more

 

[Raheem]

If you see yellow, it's a swede. From an English perspective, which is what matters.

 

[teuchter]

I'd just like to warn anyone considering getting involved in a discussion about swedes vs turnips and what the naming conventions are in different parts of the UK and Europe - this whole subject is a nightmare.

 

[krtek a houby]

those are swedes

Turnips

These are swedes

 

[two sheds]

look like turnips to me

 

[Raheem]

I once knew someone who paid a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman with a giant root vegetable.

It was quite a turnip for the books.

 

[Raheem]

Alternatively, I once knew someone who paid three dollars for a root vegetable that could feed a family for a week.

It was quite a turnip for the bucks.

 

[bimble]

All this encouragement to eat more turnip, but the man who used to be the biggest turnip grower in the country completely stopped producing them last year because nobody wanted to come and pick them & he was losing money.

 

[gosub]

Except I was actually mocking the gammon tendency to do a rose-tinted glasses number on World War II there, not saying we're on the way back to spam and wartime rationing. And while in the end I voted Remain on the grounds I could very easily see the Tories fucking us over using it as an excuse (which I don't think even the most ardent Brexit loyalist could strongly disagree with at this point), I actually agreed with a fair amount of the Lexiteer argument on what the EU represents.

Fwiw I don't think spaghetti bolognese is woke, either .

If your food is woke when you eat it you are clearly not boiling it for long enough

 

[spitfire]

I fucking hate turnips. And swedes.

Carry on.

 

[gentlegreen]

I would struggle to find turnips in Bristol.
I tried mooli just once - yuck.
And I like everything cruciferous - apart from rocket - and the hairy bitter cress that grows wild everywhere and that Coffey will doubtless reccomend next.

I just remembered the last time I saw turnips - 1978 when I worked for MAFF preparing animal fodder samples ...
I did once grow mangel worzels so I could say I was eating animal fodder - but that's actually a form of beet ...

 

[Dystopiary]

I keep thinking of the song Seven Drunken Nights.

"Who put that turnip on the pizza where topping ought to be?"
"Ah you're drunk, you're drunk, you silly old fool, still you cannot see,
"That's a lovely tomato that me mother sent to me."

 

[savoloysam]

Apparently Coffey has gone viral in Spain cos eating turnips is Spanish slang for a blowjob

 

[Dystopiary]

In French it's "do the pipe."

 

[Karl Masks]

I'd just like to warn anyone considering getting involved in a discussion about swedes vs turnips and what the naming conventions are in different parts of the UK and Europe - this whole subject is a nightmare.

Then it's a bloody good job we left the EU and it's marxist mockery of honest vegetables