Yes we have no tomatoes!

[Heath]

Back of the queue aren’t we?

[Northumbiron]

Nothing to do with Brexit, apparently!

Down to adverse weather conditions. So act of God rather than act of Parliament.

BPG needs to “have a word”!

[Deereyme66]

But plenty of aubergines in Aldi earlier. Leavers don’t want em. More for my curry!

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[Deereyme66]

And surely Leavers can’t complain about no salad produce? They wanted Britain back. Deal with no salad till summer then, like the old days!

[Northumbiron]

As Marie Antoinette would have said, “Let them eat sprouts”!

[Heath]

Aubergines and peppers. Never had any for the first 20 years of my life. I suppose I can survive a few weeks.

Not the point though is it.

[Deereyme66]

No

[Iron-awe]

Plenty of tomatoes and salad in Lidl this morning and if they run out then you just get on with it. It will be annoying to some but it’s hardly a disaster, the missed items will turn up eventually.

[Iron Age]

Northumbiron wrote:

As Marie Antoinette would have said, “Let them eat sprouts”!

Environment Sec Therese Coffey suggests people complaining about the tomato shortage should consider eating turnips instead, saying it’s ‘important we cherish the specialisms we have in this country’

[Deereyme66]

Listening to turnips is bad enough!

[Iron-awe]

You get turnip in a proper Cornish pasty, very nice and the pasties are also very peppery, proper pasty, proper grub.

[Northumbiron]

Does she mean turnip or swede?

The heathens up here don’t know the difference!

[Heath]

All neeps to me.

[Iron-awe]

Swede is a Swedish turnip, a root vegetable just the same as a British turnip. Ours are white and smaller, Swedes are yellowy and a little sweeter but both are from the same root vegetable family. Turnips have dropped out of fashion over the years while Swede remains popular probably due to its slightly sweeter flavour, both are delicious IMO.

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[Siderite]

Who’s the culture secretary now? Sounds like the perfect opportunity for a good old fashioned culture war to get The Gigantic Turnip back onto the school curriculum to promote the use of good old British veg. :-)

[Iron-awe]

Think the government would rather talk about anything Sidey TBH then rather the f*** up they are making of running the country, apart from into the ground of course where it appears to be heading.

[Siderite]

1/n Folks, especially British folks, let's talk #tomatoes, seasons, #autarky (national #selfsufficiency), & the British #CornLaws, 1815 to 1846. As y'all know, I'm a huge #FairTrade fan, and also a huge #selfsufficiency fan — but there are very hard limits.
cc.@Ericka14957869

— Tim Skellett (@Gurdur) February 25, 2023

A thread on this.

[Heath]

He is right. It is Brexit!!

[Siderite]

In part, yes. Jay Rayner has a good article on this:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/25/you-can-blame-the-weather-and-brexit-but-theres-more-to-the-uks-food-supply-crisis

No doubt it will be dismissed by the usual suspects, because any criticism on Brexit or this government is just like blaming Brexit for Scunthorpe Utd’s demise or something.

Food supply issues exacerbating was project fear, they said. They will now say such didn’t matter, because it was all about sovereignty and we can be self-sufficient on food, but it was still project fear. Well, we haven’t been self-sufficient on food for a century and putting fingers in the ears to concerns, calling it project fear, won’t do anything to solve the issue. I also don’t think full self-sufficiency is even possible.

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[Northumbiron]

I usually visit the Metro Centre on the banks of the Tyne at Dunston once every leap year. So when I accompanied Mrs NI there the other week it was my first visit since before Covid.

The first thing I noticed was the number of empty shops since I was last there. I’m not talking single units but the vast Debenhams store that had a footprint the size of our village and other large High Street retailers. The food court and cinema complex were buzzing, but elsewhere the centre had an eerie silence.

It is of course one vast heated greenhouse and you can happily wander around in shorts and a T shirt in January.

Light bulb moment 💡

Not original though. I have since read about redundant shopping malls on the continent being converted into fruit and vegetable growers markets.

As retailers quit the town centres and malls to trade online it’s certainly something to consider.

[Heath]

Drove past a massive greenhouse development near Cambridge. New gas pipeline had yo go in to provide winter heating. Whole site been mothballed.

[Heath]

Long afternoon in a Newcastle pub today. Amazing support in the city during and after the game. Their fans were still happy even though they lost again.

[Northumbiron]

Which pub Heathy?

The Toon are certainly record breakers.

Newcastle have now lost each of their last nine matches at Wembley, a run that began in the 1974 FA Cup final, extending what is the longest ever losing run by any club side at the venue.

68 years of hurt!

[Heath]

The Victoria Comet. It’s some record isn’t it. Took great pleasure winding my Toon friends up that the Iron’s Wembley record is better than their’s.

[Northumbiron]

Bloody Hell!

The Spit & Vomit as we used to call it!

It’s claim to fame is it’s in the opening shots of Get Carter, when he gets off the train and crosses the road into the pub.

Then again, we all know where Get Carter should have been filmed!

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[Heath]

Plenty of vomit spat around yesterday so it lived up to its name. First pub we came to after parking up. Met the criteria, had a telly, didn’t need a ticket to get in, decent choice of real ale and found seats!!

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[Deereyme66]

Lol, anything for TW to drink in there?

[Heath]

I was appalled to see fully grown Geordies drinking lager with their shots. Many of them peaked too soon and completely missed the match.

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