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Yes, well sort of. Bird flu has certainly reduced the availability of organic eggs.My local Tesco seems to be constantly running out of eggs lately. Is there a national shortage of hens now?
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Doppelgänger
There's only one of me!
And free range, as they are couped up in a hen house and not allowed to "roam free"
AnnaKarpik
Queen of all she surveys
Hazelnuts! Haven't seen any for months 
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Is it because they are all covered in chocolate.Hazelnuts! Haven't seen any for months
AnnaKarpik
Queen of all she surveys
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Hazelnuts! Haven't seen any for months
I only see those at Xmas anyway
savoloysam
Ready to move into the light
Yup. Ye old "free range" scam. What is the law, must be allowed access outside for one hour a day or some bollocks? Meanwhile people see the word free range and assume that the hens live solely in a field.
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In fairness, they do need somewhere safe, cosy, warm and comfortable at night and a certain amount of space.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
From the RSPCA:
Free-range eggs have come from birds that, during the daytime, enjoy unlimited access to outdoor pastures.
At night, free-range hens are housed in barns which keep them safe. This also allows them to express normal behaviour with perches for roosting and a maximum of nine hens per square meter of usable inside space. For free-range hens, the maximum flock size on an RSPCA Assured farm is 16,000 birds.
Free-range hens must be provided with litter to allow the hens to perform natural behaviours, and which covers at least one-third of the floor surface.
savoloysam
Ready to move into the light
Not as bad as I thought then (((hens))))
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
I have a particular fondness for a specific non-mcvities brand of ginger biscuits.
Just managed to stock up again, after a severe drought of my favourites.
[had been reduced to mcvities, which I don't like as much, as the recipe is different]
Shades of the disaster when the Carrs plant in Carlisle was flooded ... it took some six months or more before the ginger biscuit oven was rebuilt ...
Just managed to stock up again, after a severe drought of my favourites.
[had been reduced to mcvities, which I don't like as much, as the recipe is different]
Shades of the disaster when the Carrs plant in Carlisle was flooded ... it took some six months or more before the ginger biscuit oven was rebuilt ...
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Poor things have been indoors for months now, though.
I wanted some ASDA ginger biscuits the other day- the stock on the shelves for cheaper biscuits was seriously depleted. Think there were plenty of Borders etc.....
Bingoman
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My local sainsburys has the same problem tooMy local Tesco seems to be constantly running out of eggs lately. Is there a national shortage of hens now?
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
I have no idea what those biscuits are but that usage of the blue badge IS against rhe rules of usage.
e2a: having thought better about it, I was probably wrong above as this seem to be a conversation about supermarket parking where actual blue badge usage rules are not relevant but only observed as a courtesy rule.
apologies for this.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
It was the 'fondness for a specific biscuit' that brought this to mind not the blue badge bit but you are right.
Not the orange ones though just the minty ones.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Feels like a lot of places don't sell own brand these days. Find it hard to find generic head and shoulders at the various big name pharmacies and my local Tesco has a tiny cereal aisle mostly with brand names only
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I do wonder if some suppliers bribe retailers not to supply own brand equivalents of their products, whether it forms part of price negotiations. Happened for quite a while with the big old school supermarkets and now the newer discount places like Aldi seem to be playing along (e.g. nowhere does Dairylea knock-offs anymore, used to get tubs of own brand stuff for less than half the cost). Don’t know if that’s a monopoly abuse somehow? All hits you in the pocket.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Think that this, at least partially, depends on how the manufacturer allocates production time.
If the big brands pay more, then theycould will get precedence for production.
[and some brand manufacturers make a big song & dance about not doing own-label production]
If the big brands pay more, then they
[and some brand manufacturers make a big song & dance about not doing own-label production]
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
Was at the big Tescos in Hackney the other day and the only eggs eggs left were the luxury ones. Honestly I didn't think about the slow collapse of food security starting with a situation where I can still merrily buy chocolate and coffee from around the world while being unable to source a boiled egg, but the logic's all there I guess.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
that's because you own harrods
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
further to previous replies, Why are eggs so expensive? Because an avian flu killed 43 million hens | Gene BaurMy local Tesco seems to be constantly running out of eggs lately. Is there a national shortage of hens now?
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
Anyone else noticed supermarket meat appears to have become insanely watery? I have started going to my local " high class" butcher on the basis that a non sopping wet hunk of meat is probably better value than a bag of blood and water even if it costs a couple of quid more a kilo..
That Tesco (assume you mean the one in Morning Lane) is always rubbish. I gave up going there years ago when I lived nearby after the time I went in and they had no onions, no potatoes, no milk and pretty much no bread which was just about my entire shopping list.
And they'd always have about one person on the checkouts and huge, huge queues too.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
How would we know?
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
According to the bloke in the small local electricals shop there's a minor shortage of monoxide and smoke alarms
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