Food Shortages

[spitfire]

Possibly , the lads in the local shops always had stuff during the last panic buying.

The ones near me use Bestway Cash and Carry for most of their stock, (I use it for work), Bestway had most stuff through the height of panic buying. Even bog roll.

 

[Badgers]

Fuel lines still vulnerable?

 

[WouldBe]

Just been to Morrisons. Cars queuing for petrol.

Shop well stocked, a bit low on some types of cheese and no fruit juice.

 

[hash tag]

Why are the people not washing their cars even more than normal, seeing as they are all at the petrol station anyway? are they all thinking its the end of the world so who cares if the car's not shiny? strange.

They are not driving much or can't drive so it doesn't matter if it's dirty as few people will see it.
Fwiw I washed and polished two of ours yesterday, at home, with a bucket and sponge.

 

[Santino]

Went into Waitrose earlier. Very little pasta and tinned tomatoes, but loads of fucking massive spiders hanging off the trees outside.

 

[MickiQ]

Went into Waitrose earlier. Very little pasta and tinned tomatoes, but loads of fucking massive spiders hanging off the trees outside.

How do you cook a spider ?

 

[Santino]

How do you cook a spider ?

Don't know - why not look it up on the web?

 

[bimble]

I washed and polished two of ours

do you have a car collection?

 

[danny la rouge]

How do you cook a spider ?

Don’t know but more people can have a leg.

 

[andysays]

Don’t know but more people can have a leg.

I was going to report that post, but I suppose it's just a bit of 'armless fun...

 

[hash tag]

do you have a car collection?

I wish

 

[miss direct]

Is this a real thing? Should I just stay in Turkey?

 

[Dogsauce]

Looks as though the TopCat experience of shopping still, just applies to the majority of those asked by the ONS, but I suspect the numbers will worsen markedly if the fuel crisis compromises supply chain movement:

Shops not having the stuff I need occurs most weeks even during normal times, usually go to Aldi and lines can disappear for months at a time, or they do that stupid thing where goods are shipped to the store in mixed packs so you just end up with a shelf full of red fruit tea and no peppermint or camomile as they are more popular and sell out.

 

[Dogsauce]

I dunno, maybe all those deliveries of Christmas crap that clutter up shops from September onwards could be postponed until the beginning of December? Thus freeing up some drivers to deliver actual food and stuff. Just a thought.

 

[Dogsauce]

I‘ve just remembered I have an almost full 5 litre can of petrol in the shed at work for the old leaf blower (recently replaced with an electric one). Time to get it on gumtree…
(my car is a diesel sadly)

 

[Dogsauce]

Nicked off fb:

 

[hash tag]

I dunno, maybe all those deliveries of Christmas crap that clutter up shops from September onwards could be postponed until the beginning of December? Thus freeing up some drivers to deliver actual food and stuff. Just a thought.

Too late for that. From a shortbread shop in Aviemore last week who said Christmas stuff was already flying off the shelves to the small coop today who had at least half a dozen Christmas magazines amongst other things.

 

[UrbaneFox]

I dunno, maybe all those deliveries of Christmas crap that clutter up shops from September onwards could be postponed until the beginning of December? Thus freeing up some drivers to deliver actual food and stuff. Just a thought.

The Xmas crap excess is a major contributor to this crisis - but try telling them that.

 

[Sue]

Is this a real thing? Should I just stay in Turkey?

No. No.

 

[TopCat]

Too late for that. From a shortbread shop in Aviemore last week who said Christmas stuff was already flying off the shelves to the small coop today who had at least half a dozen Christmas magazines amongst other things.

It might be ineffectual but think of how it could bring people together.

 

[TopCat]

I am slightly out of touch with it, but thought the minibus bit was more related to the number of seats, not the weight?

Ah. Make a cup of tea and give me a shout and I will go through it

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

can confirm there is no shortage of idiots at the petrol forecourts, lenghtened my bus journey a fair bit.

 

[Raheem]

Maybe the government could abolish taxation and instead accept sponsorship to say things like "Whatever you do, there is no need to panic buy cheese flavour Doritos. There is a plentiful supply and we're going to use the army to make sure stocks remain high."

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Ah. Make a cup of tea and give me a shout and I will go through it

just consulted latest INF52. looks like we are both right, in that it's seats and weight.

although must admit that the particular set of circumstances where this is relevant isn't one i've ever had cause to think about...

when did they sneak the weight limit in? presume this was to stop people playing silly buggers and removing a few rows of seats from a larger bus to make it a 16 seater.

it's all complicated the number of changes there have been over the last 30 years (people were still getting PSV licences and badges when i started in that line of work) - and what's worse is everyone remembers a different combination of bits of law that may or may not be obsolete, or has an out of date copy of INF52 to hand...

 

[pug]

How do you cook a spider ?

Thread them onto a squewer and barbeque them for a few.seconds.

 

[little_legs]

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I was so disdappointed when reading the book decadesa after seeing the movie.
Not a soylent green in sight...

 

[8ball]

Maybe we could take a break from Christmas this year, a bit like sometimes happens with Glastonbury.
Just chill for a bit and let the land recover, like.

 

[kenny g]

Maybe we could take a break from Christmas this year, a bit like sometimes happens with Glastonbury.
Just chill for a bit and let the land recover, like.

At the very least they should ban advertisement s featuring any Xmas elements so as to reduce demand and protect the NHS and essential workers.

 

[TopCat]

At the very least they should ban advertisement s featuring any Xmas elements so as to reduce demand and protect the NHS and essential workers.

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