"Wetherspoons hit by 'temporary' pigs in blankets shortage" because......

Only if the fish were caught by UK fishermen in non EU waters

Fish and chips?

Missadvetnture, agreed that the carvery roast is the only fresh food there, so my choice.

What's my Line?

'A pig blanketer'

Nearly as good as a saggar maker's bottom knocker

Who invented pigs in blankets anyway?

EMMF1948 I'm going to get mine decorating the Christmas cakes (I hope)!

Otherwise they will be just fruit cakes.

That sounds like a fab job - tucking smiley, sleepy piggies into bed with nice cosy blankets

...rather than the other thing

A pig blanketer.

Why doesn't the man invest in a machine that would blanket the pigs? That is one of our biggest issues. These people take the money but do not invest.

No.
It certainly wasn't a boil in the bag roast though.

Did you visit the kitchen ?

I enjoyed the meal I had there.

Two of my students worked at the Weatherspoon next door. They said they would never ever consider eating there- all food was boil in the bag re-heated and plonked on a plate.

Yesterday we were passing in front of the Weatherspoon next door to where we used to live- a beautiful historical building- and OH said we could go in and have something to eat - he lost his appetite when I reminded him of the above, and who the owner is and what he stands for. Drove down to an independent pub with great, home cooked food- for the same price ;)

They were probably cheap and nasty ones anyway. Mass produced for all his outlets obnoxious man !
Morrison's and M&S are the same.

Let's not forget those on zero hours contracts who have jobs (so they don't show in the unemployment figures) but don't know from one week to the next how much money they actually have.

Whereas others would be bothered. If your wages are topped up and you’re then told that they won’t be because we don’t have enough cheap manual labour coming in there will be a massive backlash.

I have news.
Benefits are still stopped if people refuse to take jobs.

More news. I have my meagre wages topped up by benefits, and it wouldn't bother me at all to wrap pigs in blankets or any other menial job.

Thankfully we’ve moved on since then - but if he tried it then the people on low incomes who rely on benefits to top up their meagre wages (and who boosted the Tory vote) will not take kindly to having to work in the fields.

Remember when out of work people were sent for jobs by the Job Center and if they refused to do the jobs, their dole was stopped!

If anyone thinks that Brexit will stop immigrants coming in to do these kinds of manual jobs at £cheap/hr they are deluded. Unless of course he’s going to make it a condition of receiving your tax credits or other benefits

Surely pigs in blankets are just about the first contribution that young children can make to the Christmas meal, my grandchildren were doing them at 3 or 4, they loved it.

British people need to do the work!

Why, when it's made so easy not to? I don't know who'll be out in the fields at all hours picking cabbages etc..

It stopped selling champagne because it was hardly selling any Moet (the only one it stocked) but has ‘plans’ to replace Prosecco with new world fizz. Liqueurs and other spirits are imported from the EU. He’s not that daft - the customers would vote with their feet if they couldn’t get the drinks they like and he knows it. He’ll wave the Union Jack- but only to a point.

I stand corrected re the beer but he had removed all EU wines and fizz.

Hetty58 I absolutely agree with you regarding pigs and intelligence.
There is an old country saying
“Dogs look up to you
Horses look down on you
But pigs is equal”
Flattering to some humans I suspect