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[Pigmy Pony]

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According to Kyushi at our local Japanese takeaway, you just said "My television is gay".

[Barry]

According to Kyushi at our local Japanese takeaway, you just said "My television is gay".

Wagamama ?

[Oddball]

I havent visited this forum for a couple of months - Have I missed anything ??

[Barry]

Only you can answer that question. Just click on any 'New Posts' and have a look.

[Pigmy Pony]

I havent visited this forum for a couple of months - Have I missed anything ??

I haven't visited Salop for a couple of years - have I missed anything?

Only kidding Anto, welcome back. How's the cows?

[struth]

Plenty Coffey; not much of what you want, tho you can have turnip salad..

The UK environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has caused a furore after she suggested people should “cherish” seasonal foods such as turnips as bad weather cleared supermarket shelves of tomatoes and other fresh produce.
“It’s important to make sure that we cherish the specialisms that we have in this country,” Coffey told parliament. “A lot of people would be eating turnips right now rather than thinking necessarily about aspects of lettuce and tomatoes and similar.”

With a love of turnips more commonly associated with the long-suffering manservant Baldrick in Blackadder, Coffey handed her critics the kind of material they could normally only dream of.

“Let them eat turnips!” suggested the Labour MP Ben Bradshaw, using the hashtag #TomatoShortages, as “turnips” started to trend on Twitter timelines for possibly the first time.
Coffey made her comments after being called to the Commons to answer an urgent question about supermarket rationing of salad ingredients, owing to shortages caused by bad weather in Spain and north Africa. She had been trying to make a point about eating seasonally.
“I’m conscious that consumers want a year-round choice and that is what our supermarkets, food producers and growers around the world try to satisfy,” she added.
Was a bounty of this unloved root vegetable part of the promised Brexit dividend? people asked, as they shared doctored images of campaign buses emblazoned with “forget tomatoes, let’s eat turnips instead”.

The rest of Europe including Ukraine have plenty tho..???? i wonder why

[Barry]

It's true that as from about the '80s we have become used to enjoying 'non-seasonal' vegetables and fruits here in the UK - to the point that when there is a shortage we get upset.

The current shortage is due to what was traditionally known as "the Gap": the time gap between when locally-produced veg was unobtaiable due to winter weather, and the Spring growing season. The Gap is now filled by importing veg and fruit from Europe and Africa. North Africa has suffered from very cold weather, snow and hail; hence low yield. Europe is enjoying what it has produced, and sees no real reason to share it with the UK. In the UK, local farmers are unable to sell to supermarkets because the supermarkets won't pay the prices asked (the 'Contract problem'), and we can't import from the EU for reasons mentioned and also because of Brexit we have made it more difficult to do so.

[Macca]

In the UK, local farmers are unable to sell to supermarkets because the supermarkets won't pay the prices asked

They would if they thought customers would pay the price they had to ask.

Shortage is due to bad weather in Morocco and Spain, not sure what the gov is supposed to do about that. Waste of Parliamentary time to even raise it but I suppose it will play well in the sticks.

[Macca]

Interestingly I bought a punnet of strawberries last weekend, they are from Morocco too, I suppose they are less vulnerable to stormy weather even though they are very close to tomatoes genetically.

[Barry]

Apart from apricots, there isn't any fruit or vegatables that we cannot get locally: if the local supermarket doesn't have it, the greengrocer does. Maybe a little more expensive, but I don't pay too much attention to prices - unless they are obvious and outrageous: such as the price of milk and of certain breads.

Tonight for dessert, we had fresh mango, and for breakfast this morning I had fresh raspberries on my (alarmingly expensive) museli.