JAM See
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Tesco and Aldi limit sales of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers
The grocers join Asda and Morrisons in limiting sales due to shortages of certain produce.
www.bbc.co.uk
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skybluetony176
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Idiots.
Otis
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There will be tens of thousands of them. You just watch. All whizzing down the shops to buy stuff they don't even need just in case.
Someone's going to come home from work to find a larder full of asparagus, 20 cartons of long life milk and 50 cans of kidney beans that their partner has bought as a contingency aren't they.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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All massive (salad) tossers.
Alan Dugdales Moustache
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All this hysteria on the news and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy !
skybluetony176
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Don’t want to give the loonies a tip but you could make batches of tomato sauce with the peppers and tomatoes then freeze it. Not sure about the cucumbers though.
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I grew some tomatoes last year and ended up with a bit of a glut so your tip might come into some use later in the year.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Shove them up their arse?
Brighton Sky Blue
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I came here hoping for a toilet paper alternative.
Now it’s too late.
Now it’s too late.
LastGarrison
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I’m still holding out for the long overdue launch of the three seashells…….
shmmeee
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“What shortages? Here’s a picture of a tomato.”
Brighton Sky Blue
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Militant vegetables striking and refusing to grow. Mick Lunch is responsible.
skybluetony176
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It’s BLM’s fault. If the England football team hadn’t taken the knee none of this wouldn’t have happened.
A combination of poor weather conditions in Europe and Africa and, as usual, Brexit.
fernandopartridge
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Any shortages on tomatoes and peppers in Italy?
Astute
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Why is that?
The UK doesn't get big supplies from Italy. France doesn't have shortages either but they don't come from there either. You can't suddenly get tonnes of veg from where you don't have contracts with. Most is spoken for with present contracts. The Netherlands were also big suppliers. But they grew winter foods because energy prices were so high.
Astute
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Britain, Ireland Facing Tomato Shortage After Overseas Harvests Disrupted | ESM Magazine
Shoppers in the UK and Ireland are facing a shortage of tomatoes after supermarket supplies were impacted by disrupted harvests in southern Europe and North Afr...
www.esmmagazine.com
Sorry I meant poor growing conditions and Brexit are the actual reasons, but not necessarily the reasons given
Well not everything, but leaving your nearest and biggest trading partner does have quite the impact.
Just a coincidence that we're the only country in Europe having to ration tomatoes I'm sure.
Wyken Sky Blue
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Thankfully you can still buy lettuce, that would have been the tip of the iceberg otherwise!
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Brighton Sky Blue
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Should’ve voted Romaine
You can throw tomatoes as a weapon so Swiss neutrality means they can't sell them.
No I think whoever made that image just forgot to include them
olderskyblue
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For once, my dislike of tomatoes and cucumber has come in useful...