the urban75 food shortage thread

[Pickman's model]

i'll start you off with news of a shortage of cauliflowers due to the summer's extreme weather:

Britain is experiencing a cauliflower shortage after extreme weather killed off much of this year's crops.

Heavy rainfall in June destroyed crops in Lincolnshire, and alternative European supplies wilted in last month's heatwave.

Cauliflower prices have soared and some farmers have suffered financial losses after the destruction of their crops.

The shortages were described as "very concerning" by a spokesman for the Brassica Growers Association.

Other brassica - including cabbage, broccoli and Brussels sprouts - are also in short supply.

"Crops can withstand a reasonable amount of variation in weather but the conditions in June were too much and as a result crops have suffered, and this is leading to a shortage of supply," the British Growers Association (BGA) said.

Cauliflower crisis as extreme weather kills crops

 

[cupid_stunt]

I hope we will be alright for hobnobs.

 

[Pickman's model]

I hope we will be alright for hobnobs.

i hear that supplies of chocolate could be affected by our departure from the european union

 

[Lazy Llama]

This thread could get busy around early November.....

 

[kalidarkone]

This is not food......but anyway ......HRT patches.....there is a national issue with supply and demand and for the third time in a year I have had to have it re prescribed. It's also a similar story with medical/surgical equipment -the brand keeps changing. ....or there is none.....
Sorry for the none food derail.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is not food......but anyway ......HRT patches.....there is a national issue with supply and demand and for the third time in a year I have had to have it re prescribed. It's also a similar story with medical/surgical equipment -the brand keeps changing. ....or there is none.....
Sorry for the none food derail.

no, that's fine

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Time to start stockpiling tins and dried goods.

 

[kalidarkone]

I'll need a new freezer.

 

[The39thStep]

Potato shortage last year and the year before lettuces and brocolli

 

[Yossarian]

Apparently the government has plans to protect Britons from shocks like the failure of the cauliflower crop by negotiating deals with the vast cauliflower-producing nations in the New World to import them in exchange for manufactured goods like buttons and snuff boxes.

 

[The39thStep]

on the other hand( two years ago)
Cauliflower prices slashed as UK's warm weather leads to glut

 

[maomao]

Fuck cauliflowers. Anaemic brocoli.

 

[danny la rouge]

Fuck cauliflowers. Anaemic brocoli.

Great bands. I love that 80s thrashcore scene.

 

[existentialist]

Time to start stockpiling tins and dried goods.

I bought 2kg of chick peas the other day. And, just casually, checked out prices of 25kg sacks. It's a significant discount...but I am not sure that I really want piles of 25kg sacks of legumes around the flat. Although they'd make quite good furniture. Hmm...

 

[Sasaferrato]

i'll start you off with news of a shortage of cauliflowers due to the summer's extreme weather:

Cauliflower crisis as extreme weather kills crops

I can face the shortage of cauliflowers with complete equanimity. Horrible fucking things that they are.

 

[existentialist]

I can face the shortage of cauliflowers with complete equanimity. Horrible fucking things that they are.

What will all those people who proudly boast of carb-free pizza bases made with cauliflower do, though? Won't someone think of the carb-free pizzas?

 

[Sasaferrato]

This is not food......but anyway ......HRT patches.....there is a national issue with supply and demand and for the third time in a year I have had to have it re prescribed. It's also a similar story with medical/surgical equipment -the brand keeps changing. ....or there is none.....
Sorry for the none food derail.

There is a temporary supply problem with one of the components of the glue of he patches, normal service should resume shortly.

 

[Pickman's model]

What will all those people who proudly boast of carb-free pizza bases made with cauliflower do, though? Won't someone think of the carb-free pizzas?

not to mention it's cabbages and brussels sprouts affected too

 

[Pickman's model]

There is a temporary supply problem with one of the components of the glue of he patches, normal service should resume shortly.

yeh. but it's still a shortage no matter which way you spin it.

 

[Sasaferrato]

What will all those people who proudly boast of carb-free pizza bases made with cauliflower do, though? Won't someone think of the carb-free pizzas?

Let them eat Hobnobs!.

 

[Sasaferrato]

yeh. but it's still a shortage no matter which way you spin it.

Yes, but a routine 'these things happen' shortage, nothing to do with Brexit.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes, but a routine 'these things happen' shortage, nothing to do with Brexit.

this isn't a brexit thread

 

[Sasaferrato]

not to mention it's cabbages and brussels sprouts affected too

It's the wrong time of the year for sprouts.

 

[Sasaferrato]

this isn't a brexit thread

I direct you to post #4, which clearly indicates that it is. (And the comment is from a Mod).

 

[Pickman's model]

I direct you to post #4, which clearly indicates that it is. (And the comment is from a Mod).

it's quite possible there will be a range of shortages then, some of which may be and other which won't be related to brexit. this is a thread about shortages, not a thread about brexit.

 

[tim]

this isn't a brexit thread

Yes, there is a shortage of BREXIT threads on these boards

 

[Pickman's model]

Yes, there is a shortage of BREXIT threads on these boards

a dearth of departure discussion

 

[andysays]

I just hope there isn't going to be a shortage of buns. Urban just wouldn't be the same if every thread didn't turn into a bun fight on the first page

 

[tim]

a dearth of departure discussion

A surfeit if complacency

 

[Proper Tidy]

I like cauliflower. Only as cauliflower not as rice or whatever but on a Sunday dinner, a bit if cauli with the broccoli and carrots and peas, lovely. I'll cope obviously but cauliflower has its place.