Re: Food excess in Britain

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:20:26 +0100, "Norman Wells" <norman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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

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.

'Until the public realised that shopping once a week in one location with a
dedicated car park was much cheaper, quicker and more convenient', surely.

You wouldn't have heard of it, but it's called progress.

So why have M&S food sales fallen off a cliff? Progress is fine -
until it starts hitting the budget. Some days I go into Tesco and can
take my pick from half a dozen tills, since there are so few
customers. Where are they? Down at the market or shopping at the
discounters.

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?

Because having one means you don't have to live off turnips for 6 months of
the year, which is how we all lived since records began.

We all lived off turnips, did we?

Don't you think you may have been at those 24...23...22 cans of beer
for a bit too long now?


It's called progress.

Ah, more progress!


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...

If you have a freezer, you can freeze some of it. It's what a freezer does,
you see. Then, when the produce is out of season, you can eat it just as if
it was in season.

A freezer could also be used to store roadkill, so that you can cook
it later. Yep. freezers ARE useful, after all! Trouble is, I only have
a small one in the top of my fridge, so if I happen to run over an
elephant, I'm f***ed.

Marvellous! It's called progress.

Oh, no! Not MORE of the stuff! Is it on Special Offer this week?


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...)

Yes. Do try to keep up.

No, I'm backing still further away. Keeping up is the last thing on my
mind.


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!

I think there's one in Ipswich already.

Chilling stuff, eh, even if you don't have a freezer.

I DO have a freezer, but only for peas. It's no good for blackberries
anyway. You can't freeze them successfully, tomatoes, neither. Nor
bananas.

MM
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