so, when will you be starting stockpiling I wonder?

jura2
i for one will not be stockpiling
That's because you don't live in this country

# Spam! Spam! Spam!
Spam! Lovely Spam! Lovely Spam!

jalima
8 countries grow rice.
How about this. In 2015 the eu stopped what they called 'export subsidies'
In the late 1980s, early 1990s the eu was spending €10 billion a year, a third of the CAP budget in order to allow traders to get rid of the eu's growing export surpluses.

Chewbacca - that is exactly what happens - rumours and bulk panic buying creating shortages for others.

Exactly Chewbacca.
Talking the problem up can exacerbate a problem or even create one.
Insidious.

On the way to Tuscany, we drive through miles and miles of paddy fields in the central north.

Lost your SOH Maw - sounds better with spam. Now, I have to admit, 39 years in UK and I have refused to taste Spam - so there you go.

Chewbacca, I for one will not be stockpiling - one less to worry about.

Does anyone remember the 'stacking' system on the M20 in 2015?
In June/July of that year the Dover bound carriage was shut for 24 days out of 40.
I don't remember any shortages. Only a few days ago grandad1943 was telling us how time critical these deliveries are.

Isn't this type of scaremongering a self fulfilling prophecy? So long as the tin foil hat brigade don't start rushing out to Tesco at 3 o'clock in the morning to stockpile, and empty the shelves, there shouldn't be any shortages of anything. But I suppose there will always be those who are already constructing an underground cache of turnips, candles and blotting paper, "just in case".

Ah - in Greece?

I don't mind if the Greeks grow rice, they have been very hard done by.

jalima
Tonnes of rice grown in the eu at the detriment to poorer countries who are just trying to make a living.

Calm good sense from the Guardian as you might expect.
Scaremongering is in my opinion, one of the lowest form of propaganda.

Ration Books with a Blue Cover of course.

MaizieD
Captains tickets are internationally recognised.
While we were in Paris we had our barge refuelled. These are all internationally recognised components i.e. your re fuelling nozzle. These are all internationally recognised components.

No.
The song (from Oliver!) is “Food, glorious food”

Remember the 1970 well - we froze in London, as they were changing to North Sea gas, and the strikes. We had to move into a 5' by 10' portacabin at the hospital- a 4'6 bed, a chair, a small desk and a sink. But at least it was warm.

and pepper is from the Far East surely?

Thanks janea - this part is interesting:
you’ll want a stash of your high-quality EU goods, too. Start with olive oil, pepper, pasta and rice. For flavour, you’ll want spices, chilli and herbs, anchovies and tomato (paste, tinned and passata).

DH told me that there would be a shortage of olive oil as the harvest had been poor so I have several bottles in the cupboard.
Does rice come from the EU or from the States and India? Is the American rice bleached by any chance ?
And my spices and herbs are probably already past their sell-by date (naughty)

Some things can get lost in translation.......??

spam glo - ri - ous spam ... now that is funny, no?

Wonder when it will be picked up by the Sun and the DM- won't be long.

Thank you Maizie for pointing to the obvious- I just did not have the strengh and will anymore.

Yes, it was a joke - funny ahaha how we don't find each other's jokes funny- there must be something in that.

And I'll be in Tuscany, sorry. Those who will be welcome know who they are.

This is the most ridiculous premise imaginable!

here is the Guardian’s advice
I’m sure we’ll all be fine ?

was not were

The 1970s were a very difficult decade in a lot of ways - shortages, strikes - including a bakers' strike so we had to bake our own bread.

My apologies!
39 years in the U.K. and you till don’t quite “get” the British SOH