Thread to note supply shortages in the shops

[newme]

No peppers, which is somewhat irritating as I put them in the majority of food I make, this is where having frozen bulk stuff comes in handy I guess.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

 

[extra dry]

This reminds her of their Honeymoon.






They ate Turnip then too.

 

[danny la rouge]

"Sorry Therese! There were no tomatoes!"

There are no tomatoes. Sheeple.

 

[weepiper]

I keep thinking the song 'yes, we have no bananas' only with tomatoes instead. Blitz spirit, everyone

 

[Artaxerxes]

Turnip + Beetroot is Tomato Winston because the party say it is, and it will be a tomato until the party says it’s something else

 

[bimble]

any evidence of turnip panic buying ?

No turnips left to cherish.

 

[danny la rouge]

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[Karl Masks]

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"Watercress, finally finding some watercress"

"The winner takes it aldi"

and if that's not her from Abba, the above quotes are still funny

 

[bimble]

Swedes will be safe, I think, they’ve got a foreign sounding name so won’t be bought in bulk by brexiteers who insist they never liked tomatoes anyway.

 

[weepiper]

I can't remember the last time I saw English turnips in a supermarket tbh.

(These ones)

 

[ska invita]

Hysterical etc

 

[NoXion]

Swedes will be safe, I think, they’ve got a foreign sounding name so won’t be bought in bulk by brexiteers who insist they never liked tomatoes anyway.

Are these Brexiteers allergic to visiting their local shops? Plenty of tomatoes to be had there.

 

[bimble]

The local shops thing, every time it’s mentioned it makes me miss my old home when I lived in the big city and plenty of fresh food independent shops & stalls nearby.
It’s a shit thing about where I am now that there really are zero small shops with fresh produce of any kind anywhere around, not in either of my closest towns anyway. Small shops just have shelf food not fruit & veg. Apart from a weekly farmers market which is stupidly overpriced it’s just the supermarkets. I don’t know how much of the country is like this but it’s rubbish.

 

[Artaxerxes]

The local shops thing, every time it’s mentioned it makes me miss my old home when I lived in the big city and plenty of fresh food independent shops & stalls nearby.
It’s a shit thing about where I am now that there really are zero small shops with fresh produce of any kind not anywhere around, apart from weekly farmers market which is stupidly overpriced. I don’t know how much of the country is like this dependant on the few supermarkets but it’s rubbish.

Farmers markets never seem to sell actual produce when I visit them. It’s all artisan honey and cakes and sausages with some artisan takeaway stuff.

There is an actual market nearby on weekends but it’s not billed as a farmers market

 

[hash tag]

"Sorry Therese! There were no tomatoes!"

( Don't remember the song but )We have no tomatoes
NB just seen weepiper's post.

 

[brogdale]

( Don't remember the song but )We have no tomatoes

Yes...

 

[brogdale]

Don't you lot remember the war?

 

[bimble]

turnips selling out is somehow uniquely sad, but its probably just that people were reminded that turnips exist.

 

[danny la rouge]

Don't you lot remember the war?

Between punk and Everything?

 

[bimble]

Will definitely be growing my own tomatoes again this summer, last year was my first go and they were bloody excellent, they even smelled of tomato, unlike the stuff at tescos.

 

[brogdale]

Between punk and Everything?

(semi) seriously...in my 60's childhood I was so immersed in stories of the war from my extended family's older members that it wasn't until i was about 12 that I realised Nov. 5th wasn't called bombfire night.

 

[brogdale]

Will definitely be growing my own tomatoes again this summer, last year was my first go and they were bloody excellent, they even smelled of tomato, unlike the stuff at tescos.

deffo; I've already got tooled up with the little cardboard potting thingies from Wilkos

 

[bimble]

Heads up get your apples in now. This is just shit isn't it, its going to go on for a long time until we sort our own food production out better.

Apples and pears could be next UK food shortage, farmers warn

Growers say they do not get paid enough by supermarkets, as supply of leeks also comes under threat

www.theguardian.com

 

[NoXion]

The local shops thing, every time it’s mentioned it makes me miss my old home when I lived in the big city and plenty of fresh food independent shops & stalls nearby.
It’s a shit thing about where I am now that there really are zero small shops with fresh produce of any kind anywhere around, not in either of my closest towns anyway. Small shops just have shelf food not fruit & veg. Apart from a weekly farmers market which is stupidly overpriced it’s just the supermarkets. I don’t know how much of the country is like this but it’s rubbish.

It's not as if I'm living in a big city or a posh town with a fancy farmer's market. I remember seeing a place in my local shopping centre which sold nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables, I wonder if that place is till there? Worth a look I reckon. Some people might shit on Slough (because they're fucking snobs), but at least it's not a food desert.

That some people can only rely on supermarkets to get fresh produce is a problem that should be addressed.

Heads up get your apples in now. This is just shit isn't it, its going to go on for a long time until we sort our own food production out better.

Apples and pears could be next UK food shortage, farmers warn

Growers say they do not get paid enough by supermarkets, as supply of leeks also comes under threat

www.theguardian.com

They're literally saying that they're not growing more because supermarkets don't pay them enough. More evidence for the "supermarkets are being run by greedy idiots" hypothesis.

 

[brogdale]

Maybe time for a bit of tomato porn?

Here's some of last summer's harvest at Brogdale acres...





Soon time to start some seedlings.

 

[bimble]

More evidence for the "supermarkets are being run by greedy idiots" hypothesis.

But, of course they are though I mean do you think supermarkets in the other countries who have no rationing of tomatoes right now are run by a different sort of idiots the generous ones?
We just needed to adjust a load of stuff to prepare for increased self reliance / resilience as a result of the change in circumstance of leaving the common market & we (the government and the supermarkets) haven't.

 

[ska invita]

The local shops thing, every time it’s mentioned it makes me miss my old home when I lived in the big city and plenty of fresh food independent shops & stalls nearby.
It’s a shit thing about where I am now that there really are zero small shops with fresh produce of any kind anywhere around, not in either of my closest towns anyway. Small shops just have shelf food not fruit & veg. Apart from a weekly farmers market which is stupidly overpriced it’s just the supermarkets. I don’t know how much of the country is like this but it’s rubbish.

i live near a high street with aldi, coop, sainsburys, waitrose and a tesco extra. not one local shop that does veg though

 

[bimble]

i reckon an old fashioned greengrocer with the paper bags and all that would do really well in either of the towns near me, people would love it. The supermarket prices mean that my little fruit and veg shop would be loads more expensive though if i had to drive in and get things from the london wholesale market every morning, idk whole thing is a big mess.

 

[DebaterFan]

Swedes will be safe, I think, they’ve got a foreign sounding name so won’t be bought in bulk by brexiteers who insist they never liked tomatoes anyway.

This UK shortage isn’t related to Brexit actually. But the fact that the UK is primarily reliant on domestic supply that’s currently affected by high energy prices and foreign supply that is faced with bad weather currently.