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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on February 21, 2023, 06:04:57 PM

Title: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 21, 2023, 06:04:57 PM: What fun!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64718823
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: Dicky Underpants on February 21, 2023, 06:09:33 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 21, 2023, 06:04:57 PM
What fun!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64718823

Very few fresh tomatoes available here in any supermarket or greengrocer, whether cherry size or large. The few that appear get snapped up in minutes.
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 23, 2023, 04:31:31 PM: Let them eat turnip

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/twitter-turns-to-blackadder-as-coffey-tells-brits-to-substitute-tomatoes-with-turnips-344089/
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 24, 2023, 01:32:42 PM: .
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: SqueakyVoice on February 24, 2023, 06:25:25 PM: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/feb/23/ben-jennings-on-unappealing-tory-vegetables-cartoon
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: Udayana on February 24, 2023, 08:16:43 PM: Quote from: SqueakyVoice on February 24, 2023, 06:25:25 PM
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You mean:

(https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0f9fb4ccee119adc7615f608a8e627339a176355/15_8_3003_1803/master/3003.jpg?width=940&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ba6aba4444cddac7801b6b031b05f4ad)
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 25, 2023, 09:41:41 AM: “You say tomato, I say turnip, let’s call the whole thing…” (C)off(ey)
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: SqueakyVoice on February 25, 2023, 10:07:02 AM: Quote from: Udayana on February 24, 2023, 08:16:43 PM
You mean:
Thanks, I might get it right one day... 🤔
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 25, 2023, 10:26:47 AM: .
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: jeremyp on February 25, 2023, 12:33:50 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 23, 2023, 04:31:31 PM
Let them eat turnip

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/twitter-turns-to-blackadder-as-coffey-tells-brits-to-substitute-tomatoes-with-turnips-344089/

There would probably be a shortage of turnips if we all did that. Apart from the fact that farmers probably didn't plant enough of them to satisfy a spike in demand, digging turnips out of bitterly cold windswept mega fields in East Anglia is exactly the kind of back breaking work that we used to employ Eastern Europeans to do.
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 25, 2023, 01:37:44 PM: .
Title: Re: Asda and Morrisons limit sales of some fruit and vegetables
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 25, 2023, 04:11:38 PM: .