Re: Food excess in Britain

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:42:04 +0100, "Norman Wells" <norman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

MM wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:14:07 +0100, "Norman Wells" <norman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
MM wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:21:55 +0100, "Norman Wells"
<norman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
MM wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:34:22 +0100, "Norman Wells"
<norman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The thing about a freezer that you clearly don't understand is that
you can keep food in there for quite a long time and bring it out
when you want. It's how it works, you see. You can have as much
variety as you like.

And so can I by going to the local shop and buying just the food I
need.

Yes, probably 7 times a week. You must really love food shopping and
lugging it all home.

Why do you insist on making shopping sound like an Arctic expedition?
I buy two sausages, a pork chop, some fish in the market, a few
prawns, eggs from the egg man, and carefully plan my week to provide
variety and good nutritional balance. I can buy potatoes at £1 for 5
lbs from any farm around here, and the town market sells cauliflowers,
carrots etc.

So that's what, six or seven different transactions in different locations?

Yes, it's how we shopped since records began - until the greedy
supermarkets came along and decimated the high streets of Britain.

Go to Tesco, and it's only one.

Soon, if we let them get away with it, it will be the ONLY one! Fancy
your chances with competition then?

And I don't need to run a freezer. I actually have only the very
small icebox in the top of the fridge where I do store a 454g bag of
frozen peas. Why frozen peas, especially? Because they taste better
than canned and I can't buy fresh peas all year round.

You
can even eat things like rasperries out of season.

I think it's stupid eating fruit and veg that's out of season, since
it means it's been grown abroad and flown here.

Don't be silly. You buy the raspberries in Tesco when they're in
season, freeze them, then eat them when they're out of season.
They're not foreign, and they're not flown anywhere.

I can assure you that Tesco and other supermarkets fly in a great many
vegetables and fruit. Just read the packaging for country of origin.

So they may, out of season, for those stupid enough not to have a freezer!

Why is it stupid not to have a freezer?

For those who buy when the produce is in season in Britain, it will
generally come from Britain, ie not foreign, and not flown anywhere.

Yes, IN season produce is fine. You buy it, you eat it. That's why
it's called, er, in season...


My goodness, there is
plenty enough variety without contributing to global warming!
Recently the major supermarkets have been selling, would you
believe, blackberries! I ask you, these are available by the ton in
Britain's hedgerows from about August until late September and for
free! Yet some shoppers are too stupid to wait for the proper
season and go out and pick them.

They're not the same. Cultivated blackberries are much larger and
juicier with much smaller pips than the wooden varieties you find in
the hedgerows.

Ah, I see. Culitvated blackberries now, is it! Don't you realise just
how silly your aguments are becoming?

No. Care to explain?

Sorry, but I must first pass the Turing test with you. So far, you
failed.


Last year I picked enough in half an hour to make eight
jars of jam, which, nota bene, doesn't need your beloved freezer!

So what?

So what? So WHAT? Isn't it obvious that I am far more environmentally
aware that you and that you must spend an absolute fortune on your
out-of-season cultivated blackberries?

No. I'm talking about in-season cultivated blackberries.

So there are farmers cultivating blackberries in season when British
hedgerows provide tons of the things for free? (Backs away,
maintaining eye contact...)

You can buy when things
are cheap, and eat when they're expensive. If you're that way
inclined, you could even laugh yourself silly at Tesco's expense
when you do that, thinking of how much the item would be if you
bought it today. Wonderful!

By all means avoid Tesco if you're feeble minded and really can't
resist the siren call of a bin-liner BOGOF when you've gone there
to buy two loose potatoes for your evening feast, but please don't
criticise them when they give us the opportunity to eat what we
like when we like. It's because they do that that we spend one
pound in every seven on food there.

You are going to see big changes in food shopping over the coming
months. M&S food halls have just fallen off a cliff and the other
main supermarkets will surely bear the brunt as consumers choose the
cheapest source, e.g. Aldi etc.

I bet you Tesco will survive. And improve their profits.

And this is a good thing, how exactly?

It means we can all continue to shop at Tesco of course.

And soon that will be the ONLY place where you can shop and Tesco will
be renamed The Orwell Centre!

MM
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