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Thread to note supply shortages in the shops

Just been in the local Tesco Extra, surprised to see plenty of tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers.
 
I just booked another Tesco delivery. Virtually no fruit and veg again. No tomatoes, mushrooms, cabbage, spring onions, spinach, bananas.
 
There's no rationing going in on in here Poland even tho Russia's imperialistic invastion of Ukraine proper fucked up some of our supplies.
Everything is proper expensive at the moment.
 
On the bright side, this national panic over a lack of veg does at least seem to imply everyone is generally eating quite healthy and all that “obesity time bomb” gibbering was overstated nonsense that we can stop worrying about. :)
 
8ball said:
On the bright side, this national panic over a lack of veg does at least seem to imply everyone is generally eating quite healthy and all that “obesity time bomb” gibbering was overstated nonsense that we can stop worrying about. :)
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Another project fear myth.....
 
AnnO'Neemus said:
'Urban food deserts' are an actual thing.

Not sure whether you're in more of a rural area or in the suburbs, or in part of a city that's an 'urban food deserts', but you can get pockets of cities where access to fresh fruit and veg is surprisingly not easily available on people's doorstep.

When politicians rant and rave about how poor people should just make good from scratch as that's cheaper and healthier, they don't take into account how relatively difficult/expensive it is for people living in deprived areas to do so.

Years ago, when areas of terraced housing often had quite a few corner shops and a local high street, or when housing estates were built, they often included a 'parade' of shops, and there would be a local greengrocer, butcher, baker, etc.

But now those shops have closed, many corner shops turned into houses.

And that parade of shops might have an offie, maybe a separate newsagent/post office, a takeaway, maybe a bookies.

So there are whole neighborhoods where the only food available might be chippy/kebab shop/Chinese takeaway, or mostly tinned stuff, crisps and sweets, cheap processed bread, and maybe if you're really lucky they might sell bare minimum basics like potatoes and onions, tomatoes, apples and bananas, milk, spread and cheese.

And if people don't have a car to go to the supermarket, because they're living in a deprived area where car ownership rates are low, and maybe they're disabled with mobility issues (again, higher incidence in deprived areas), or maybe they're a single mother with a few kids, and the logistics and expense of getting to the nearest supermarket on the bus is a nightmare for disabled people/mums on tight budgets, then they'll buy boxes of cereal and bottles of milk and loaves of bread and tins of baked beans from their corner shop, etc.

So as a result, many people who live in cities and who, theoretically, have access to cheap fresh produce in supermarkets, don't in practice, they have poor diets, because they live in an urban food desert, a known phenomenon identified by researchers, whereby their local shops don't sell a wide range of affordable fresh produce and they can't get to the shops that do sell them, because of mobility/logistics/expense.
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This.

The place I live is a food desert. Used to have a butcher, post office, greengrocer, newsagent, 2 dentists. All that's left now are the betting shop, beauty salons, barbers, sooo many takeaways, and the Nisa, which sells the shittest food, mostly jars and mostly sugar. You have to get a bus to the nearest supermarket, and some of them are just not practical without a car. It is depressing as fuck. The people are literally grey, physical ailments are noticeably common, and 99% are seriously overweight. We had the highest death rate from Covid for the whole of our borough.
 
TopCat said:
It reminds me of cheap cocoa made with dried milk. Seventies tastes.
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Because "nothing pleases like"
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STUPID QUESTION ALERT!
I managed to get tomatoes from morrisons yesterday and they are like i remember them from me grandads allotment. proper taste and not all mushy like the usual shite they churn out.
How do i harvest the seeds :confused: wash them and then plant them? or do they have to be dried or something before i can plant them in pots and will they come up this year 😵‍💫
I'm new to all this sorry but i'm sick of the hold shops have on us and i need to break free of it.
 
spellbinder said:
STUPID QUESTION ALERT!
I managed to get tomatoes from morrisons yesterday and they are like i remember them from me grandads allotment. proper taste and not all mushy like the usual shite they churn out.
How do i harvest the seeds :confused: wash them and then plant them? or do they have to be dried or something before i can plant them in pots and will they come up this year 😵‍💫
I'm new to all this sorry but i'm sick of the hold shops have on us and i need to break free of it.
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As far as I know, you just slice the tomatoes thinly, then layer them in compost with a light layer over the top. Water. Bingo!
 
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