I’m enjoying the multiple claims in multiple posts made on a thread about Brexit that veg shortages are the fault of everything but Brexit. This is surely ironic. If veg shortages were nothing to do with Brexit then where is the separate thread, not even mentioning Brexit?
In the meantime, veg rich France and Ireland are enjoying a real Brexit benefit. Direct ferry sailings between the two countries has increased with more free flowing trade (no doubt veg involved) between the two.
What a disaster .
I don’t either I only usually have them in the summer anyway. It’s just people like a good old whinge.
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Despite France boasting the largest agricultural sector in Europe, the French have long paid a higher average price for their food than their counterparts across the Channel.
According to cost-of-living database Numbeo’s latest figures, the cost of a month’s worth of food for one person in France is €337.99 (£297.81). The same basket in the UK costs just £188.18 – over a third less.
In January 2023, the average price of a kilo of tomatoes in France was €3.89 (£3.43), according to the French statistics bureau, INSEE. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) puts the [comparable retail price in the UK at £2.96.]**(RPI: Ave price - Tomatoes, per Kg - Office for National Statistics)
As of February, leading French supermarket chain Carrefour sells cucumbers at €1.89 (£1.67) a piece. Brits can pick one up in Tesco for just £0.75.
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It would be fair to say that we have not covered ourselves in glory.
Not everything can be blamed on Brexit however, they are just the results of general incompetence by our Politicians for decades.
In my view we have some of the most useless politicians in the developed world.
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The simple answer is - don’t shop at the supermarket for veg. There’s a weekly market in pretty much every French town and that’s where most locals do their veg, meat and cheese shopping. The larger markets also have farms selling directly. Much cheaper and better quality than the supermarkets. So thanks for this meaningless comparison from the Express. Usual Express twaddle that effectively says “we went to the wrong places and found the wrong info just so we can claim that you pay less for the items you are not able to buy”. Very helpful.
Or grow your own.
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I’m enjoying the multiple claims in multiple posts made on a thread about Brexit that veg shortages are the fault of everything but Brexit.
The simple answer is - don’t shop at the supermarket for veg.
And I’ve already posted this article twice, so you’re trying to teach Granny to suck eggs:
This is where I shop the majority of times:
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Funnily enough that was not my point. My point was that in many countries it is a mistake to try to make a cost of living comparison (which the Express article was doing) by assuming everyone behaves the same. French supermarket veg is known for being expensive and often of dubious quality. So the Express article was correct about the comparison of supermarket prices but wrong to imply that all veg is more expensive in France. The article was a typical Express distraction piece to move the thinking away from veg shortages.
But good for you in supporting local businesses.
Omg it’s you and others that are making misleading comparisons. Our supermarket shelves are empty of fruit and veg because they are unwilling to pay the prices the suppliers are asking for. If here in the UK customers want to purchase fruit and veg they can still get it from the green grocers in the same way that you say you do in France, but it’s sometimes more expensive, but it’s better quality just the same as you’ve just said and from the Express articles that you dissed it did make a comparison between supermarkets, and you say in your post that your supermarket is of dubious quality so it is like for like although I do buy carrots from M&S for 40p a bag and they’re definitely not of dubious quality, I buy them from there because I think their carrots are the best.
From the Express article:
As of February, leading French supermarket chain Carrefour sells cucumbers at €1.89 (£1.67) a piece. Brits can pick one up in Tesco for just £0.75.
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Much as I dislike Strathmore’s views on Brexit, he does make some very valid points.
Brexit has not resulted in what people were promised.
We need to hold our Politicians to account for that.
Boris loudly stated that he had an Oven Ready Deal, he is now moaning about the deal he signed.
He signed it, a disastrous deal, and he should be held to account for it.
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Swim that’s where we differ. You obviously expected things to change over night. I’m giving it ten years.
For anybody struggling and I’d get in there quick if I was you, coz when the councils find out, they’ll probably start charging for them:
Tomatoes do grow where sewage goes on land as the seed not to put too fine a point on it goes through our system unscathed .
The only problem is frost will kill them
Yup I have heard about tomatoes growing in sewage systems before , but this article gave me a laugh because the heading which hasn’t shown up fully in my post was as below and I had visions of loads of people heading to the beach with their buckets and spades to collect tomatoes lol:
Struggling to buy tomatoes? You can find them growing in SEWAGE on the beach
that is by far the most expensive way to acquire tomatoes.
It certainly but they taste nice
great ugandan tomatoes. So much better than ones from Spain…
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How do you know Strathmore is a He, that ability was taken away in the transition.
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