Thread to note supply shortages in the shops

[bimble]

really thats your reply. disappointing.

 

[SpookyFrank]

But there are freebies to be had

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Dumping all that shit into the sea was part of the government's food security plan all along.

 

[Raheem]

But there are freebies to be had

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2023 in a single headline.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Shortage of Horlicks in Intermarche. "No idea when it will return," said the cashier "But you Johnny English voted for Brexit and this is what you asked for "

I started this thread a long time ago, no one's posted in a while, but I'm happy to send a care package. Horlicks is one of the things I miss when I live overseas, so I understand and am happy to oblige.

I'm an expat and I need...

Following on from the 'what do you miss when you're away from your home country' thread, I thought I'd start this one. The idea is that if you're an expat/traveller and there's something you really miss, then you say what it is here -- e.g. certain type of tea, biscuits, English language...

www.urban75.net

 

[The39thStep]

I started this thread a long time ago, no one's posted in a while, but I'm happy to send a care package. Horlicks is one of the things I miss when I live overseas, so I understand and am happy to oblige.

I'm an expat and I need...

Following on from the 'what do you miss when you're away from your home country' thread, I thought I'd start this one. The idea is that if you're an expat/traveller and there's something you really miss, then you say what it is here -- e.g. certain type of tea, biscuits, English language...

www.urban75.net

Thanks , thats very kind. I can get Horlicks though , just at another shop,

 

[SpookyFrank]

Shortage of Horlicks in Intermarche. "No idea when it will return," said the cashier "But you Johnny English voted for Brexit and this is what you asked for "

If half my country had voted for le Pen I'd be keeping fucking schtum about what other countries vote for but that's just me.

 

[Supine]

Tomatoes in co-op today were a very light yellow/orange colour. They’d never be put on the shelf under normal circumstances. No cucumbers.

 

[hash tag]

The independent shop has plenty becauase they can adjust their prices to the changed wholesale market price, when they go to stock up daily, whilst the supermarkets who locked in their prices with suppliers months ago can't.
Look at the difference:

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Think that's bad? Check this out. Forget Waitrose, forget M&S and even Bayley and Sage, this is dodgy Dave's corner shop

 

[T & P]

But there are freebies to be had

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That has to be a new peak Brexit level of fucking madness and desperation.

Imagine if you could travel back in time to 2016 and tell people that by 2023 the Brextremist press would be so desperate to pretend everything's fine that they were actively encouraging people to harvest wild tomatoes from sewers.

Though sadly I guess it would make no difference, as they would probably just see it as the lastest scaremongering tactic from Project Fear...

 

[TopCat]

That has to be a new peak Brexit level of fucking madness and desperation.

Imagine that they were actively encouraging people to harvest wild tomatoes from sewers.

Who encourages this?

 

[Boudicca]

I am distraught.

Last year I grew about 100 plants from one Waitrose First Choice tomato and they were distributed all over Bournemouth and London. And they were tasty.

People are relying on me, but there are no tomatoes at all in Waitrose, never mind First Choice ones.

All is not lost:

Tagging bimble and spellbinder

 

[bimble]

is it time, will you be growing from those very ones Boudicca ?

 

[tommers]

Shortage of Horlicks in Intermarche. "No idea when it will return," said the cashier "But you Johnny English voted for Brexit and this is what you asked for "

If you want me to send some just let me know. Happy to.

 

[Boudicca]

is it time, will you be growing from those very ones Boudicca ?

I start them indoors, so I think so. I started a bit early last year but it's March tomorrow and I am down south.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

How old? ( its even pre decimals, I think ).

1930s?

I'd agree.

This suggests that ovaltineys was launched in 1935, presume it was suspended during the war.

 

[bimble]

There was a giant orange metal tin at home when i was growing up and it did say Ovomaltine and not Ovaltine, thought that might have been my dodgy memory but its true. My mum probably brought it with her from where it came from. Ovomaltine.

 

[bimble]

Who encourages this?

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[TopCat]

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Was there a Daily Mail quote? Encouraging eating sewer tomatoes?

 

[pesh]

yes.

 

[TopCat]

yes.

Thanks. Any chance of posting it?

 

[pesh]

But there are freebies to be had

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[TopCat]

I would call that more astonishment rather than encouragement. Typical DM really.

 

[TopCat]

I recollect when linking to the DM was frowned upon. Nowadays even the Urban tories are out and proud. DM links and go NATO.

I await the first call to cut benefits in order to lower taxes.

 

[pesh]

thats not a DM link, its a screenshot of a tweet. hth.

 

[TopCat]

thats not a DM link, its a screenshot of a tweet. hth.

Thanks for pointing out the crucial distinction.

 

[pesh]

thats what we're all here for

 

[spellbinder]

I start them indoors, so I think so. I started a bit early last year but it's March tomorrow and I am down south.

Don't mean to be a pain in the arse but is it possible to post pics of the whole process please, I was impressed that you managed to grow 100 plants from one tomato
That's up there with the bread and fishes lark

 

[Yossarian]

I recollect when linking to the DM was frowned upon. Nowadays even the Urban tories are out and proud. DM links and go NATO.

I await the first call to cut benefits in order to lower taxes.

It's not only a screenshot of a tweet, it's a screenshot of a tweet taking the piss out of the DM.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[bimble]

Tescos did have some tomatoes just now, but only the posh little multicoloured "Finest" ones, the expensivest ones they sell.
It seems there's a policy in there now of flipping the empty cardboard boxes over, maybe the idea is that they look a bit less depressing when you cant see the empty insides? Idk not sure it works, just looks weird.