Oh yes, we have no tomatoes !

Is it because food is such an emotive subject, particularly with our neighbours across the channel, that the inflated language they are reading like "crise alimentaire", "en danger", "une situation d'urgence" just turns the whole thing into a silly competition? One photo of a few empty crates in Tesco is not the way I am seeing things in South West England and DD in Essex reports no issues either. It's not a nationwide catastrophe, or a disaster.

Jaxjacky

For a price in the Dordogne, cauliflower €4.50, cucumbers €1.59.

Thanks JaxJacky

I think we paid 89p for a cauliflower and the cucumbers (didn't buy one) were 79p
Tomatoes were 86p today.

My husband got tomatoes in Morrisons this morning 👏 I can’t believe we’re still talking about tomatoes twelve pages on

Jaxjacky

For a price in the Dordogne, cauliflower €4.50, cucumbers €1.59.

I've always believed the French will pay whatever it takes for good produce!

Joseanne

Jaxjacky

For a price in the Dordogne, cauliflower €4.50, cucumbers €1.59.

I've always believed the French will pay whatever it takes for good produce!

And to support local growers. In our experience food is overall more expensive here and always has been. Though the price of a baguette is state controlled. 😊

maddyone

My husband got tomatoes in Morrisons this morning 👏 I can’t believe we’re still talking about tomatoes twelve pages on

😁
I'm not even keen unless they're home grown!

Mamie

Joseanne

Jaxjacky

For a price in the Dordogne, cauliflower €4.50, cucumbers €1.59.

I've always believed the French will pay whatever it takes for good produce!

And to support local growers. In our experience food is overall more expensive here and always has been. Though the price of a baguette is state controlled. 😊

I'm sure the cauliflower I bought was grown here as was the cucumber which I didn't buy 🙂
I agree, support home-grown if possible.

Environment Secretary commits to sustainable horticulture growth

Lea Valley Growers Association response 11/10/2022

It sounds as though the Environment Secretary has already given up on Small British Family growing businesses like those in the Lea Valley.

It seems odd that if the Environment Secretary had concerns about Cucumbers, he would have visited the Cucumber Capital of Britain in the Lea Valley.
www.lvga.co.uk/home/

Joseanne

Is it because food is such an emotive subject, particularly with our neighbours across the channel, that the inflated language they are reading like "crise alimentaire", "en danger", "une situation d'urgence" just turns the whole thing into a silly competition? One photo of a few empty crates in Tesco is not the way I am seeing things in South West England and DD in Essex reports no issues either. It's not a nationwide catastrophe, or a disaster.

Maybe too Joseanne it super ‘reassures’ the countries in the EU Just How Darned Lucky They Are! (not to be us)
🤣

Back when I was young, 45 years ago, my Breton fiancé, after his military service where he learnt to drive big vehicles, decided to drive lorries to the UK so he could pop by to see me at uni more often. One evening, silly fool, he turned up en route with a full articulated lorry in our North London residential road - much to the annoyance of the neighbours. A couple of hours later and after several boxes of fresh French produce off the back of the lorry were handed round the street, no one made a complaint!
It wouldn't happen now.

Urmstongran

Joseanne

Is it because food is such an emotive subject, particularly with our neighbours across the channel, that the inflated language they are reading like "crise alimentaire", "en danger", "une situation d'urgence" just turns the whole thing into a silly competition? One photo of a few empty crates in Tesco is not the way I am seeing things in South West England and DD in Essex reports no issues either. It's not a nationwide catastrophe, or a disaster.

Maybe too Joseanne it super ‘reassures’ the countries in the EU Just How Darned Lucky They Are! (not to be us)
🤣

Quite...

That sounds so romantic Joseanne. Did you marry him?

Joseanne

Back when I was young, 45 years ago, my Breton fiancé, after his military service where he learnt to drive big vehicles, decided to drive lorries to the UK so he could pop by to see me at uni more often. One evening, silly fool, he turned up en route with a full articulated lorry in our North London residential road - much to the annoyance of the neighbours. A couple of hours later and after several boxes of fresh French produce off the back of the lorry were handed round the street, no one made a complaint!
It wouldn't happen now.

Isn't the tomato known as the love apple?

That sounds so romantic Joseanne. Did you marry him?
Joseanne didn't say 'Reader, I married him' so perhaps not, Farzanah

My French boyfriend was a two timing raton

Yes, a pomme d'amour is a tomato because the French believed the tomato seeds had aphrodisiac powers! ❤️
Sadly Farzanah and Callistemon the rot set in and the relationship ended on the compost heap. 🍅 🍅

I saw the light of day before it was too late, Joseanne. 😟
I was young but not foolish 😀

There:

Well even Nick Ferrari, and he is hardly a leftie... does understand and agrees with the person who does KNOW

twitter.com/almcf/status/1628830043559395329?s=46&t=kG-Ij8BV6pqEmyAE-9zGYg

Liz Webster, Chair of Save British Food

And she knows too, that it is not just about tomatoes and cucumbers.

That shoehorn you got for Christmas is coming in very handy Fleurpepper.

Well, if food priorities are different in different countries, so be it. (I believe we come far lower down the list than say Spain, France, Germany, Italy for tomato consumption anyway). I've never seen a canteen full of school kids here sitting down to a plate of sliced tomatoes, but it happens abroad. It is rare that in a restaurant here we are served just a tomato starter, but it's a menu staple on the Continent.
Whatever the reason, I'm not sure anyone here is over bovvered. We're certainly not paying 4.85€ for a cauliflower and there'splenty of cheese around for a good sauce.

Urmstongran

That shoehorn you got for Christmas is coming in very handy Fleurpepper.

Urmstongran, I have those very long ones from IKEA, they are so useful at our age. But honestly? Do you think I take joy in this? I have my ACs and GCs in the uk, and so many family and friends, and I find it desperately sad.

But the situation is serious. The UK has not yet dared implement checks in Dover, etc, for imports, which were clearly part of the 'getting back control' campaign. Because they know it would cause futher chaos with other foodstuffs, especially meat, and chemicals, medicines, and so much more.

as I reported on another thread, the Tories are inviting tenders from very close friends to apply for lucrative contracts to grow and sell tomatoes to every retailer except Sainsbury’s. Absolutely no experience a positive advantage.

No questions will be asked if the said tomatoes fail to be delivered.

They’re cheap and in season here just now, thank goodness. I use a lot of them. All the soft fruits have come in now, best time of the year for them. We had a time when a lettuce was $8 a few months back owing to natural events.

Just had my shopping delivery.
All orderd fruit and veg arrived including vine Tomatoes, package reads.. Country of origin The Netherlands.

Some - perhaps many - of us want to and do support local farmers. The very idea of buying an apple from South Africa is ludicrous tomfoolery in a country with the perfect soil and climate for orchard fruits. The supermarkets buy and refrigerate tasteless apples for us!

I really do not need salad veg in mid February, so in that respect I agree with Coffey, but it will take years and a large dose of reality climate wise for this to sink into the head of the average British consumer.