The Queen's Jubilee

[MrGongGong]

I am sure in genuinely free european markets, unencumbered by a banking led E U, run by an army of bureaucrats at our (tax)expense, there would be plenty of business for the scottish smoked fish guys.
Get rid of all the deadweights, (banks, royalty, Euro MPs, etc etc) and I reckon it would be smokies for dinner twice a week for everybody !

Sadly they would go out of business
to be replaced by big factories churning out fake ones

look what happened to cheddar cheese ?

only a few real makers left ............ we are such idiots when it comes to getting on board with PGI status and have missed the boat on so many great regional foods.

At least we are talking about something that REALLY matters and is worth getting excited about ........ unlike the ruddy Jubilympics

[ardcarp]

If anyone wants a slight antidote to Jubilee-ity, have a listen to Will Self's Point of View on Radio 4 this morning:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01hxvnk

[Beef Oven]

I am sure in genuinely free european markets, unencumbered by a banking led E U, run by an army of bureaucrats at our (tax)expense, there would be plenty of business for the scottish smoked fish guys.
Get rid of all the deadweights, ( overpaid bankers, royalty, Euro MPs, etc etc) and I reckon it would be smokies for dinner twice a week for everybody !

[Beef Oven]

Sadly they would go out of business
to be replaced by big factories churning out fake ones

look what happened to cheddar cheese ?

only a few real makers left ............ we are such idiots when it comes to getting on board with PGI status and have missed the boat on so many great regional foods.

At least we are talking about something that REALLY matters and is worth getting excited about ........ unlike the ruddy Jubilympics

PGI is a con!!

As teamsaint infers, left alone, these industries would thrive. They would thrive because they are bloody good and have products that people want, not products that people are told they want. EU policies since the 70s have destroyed many a good product, like cheddar

[MrGongGong]

Delusional fantasy i'm afraid
remember Watneys Red Barrel ?

"left alone" the supermarkets would kill them all i'm afraid
without PGI there would be no Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb
and NO Cantal Cheese

[teamsaint]

If PGI is there, and works, I am sure we should use it.

But the EU is the problem, not the solution. Plenty of room for Premium products, and cheaper alternatives in properly free markets.

The EU is in the business of restriction. (herbal remedies, for instance).

[Flosshilde]

properly free markets.

The EU is in the business of restriction. (herbal remedies, for instance).

Properly free markets would be wonderful - where small producers & sellers & large (giant) manufacturers & retailers work on the same basis. At the moment we have a 'market' skewed towards giant manufacturers.

As for herbal remedies, the new regulations simply say that if they are being sold as a medicine, then they should be tested & trialled in the same way as other medicines. If they don't want to carry out the testing, then don't sell them as medicines (they're mostly a con anyway)

[Beef Oven]

Delusional fantasy i'm afraid
remember Watneys Red Barrel ?

"left alone" the supermarkets would kill them all i'm afraid
without PGI there would be no Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb
and NO Cantal Cheese

Nonsense - plenty of examples excellent products that defy the supermarkets.

Speaking of which, I'm off to Morrisons now, they got Scottish salmon at half price. It's crap. but good enough for fish pie. In the week I will buy some proper Salmon from a non-supermarket vendor that has not, despite delusional thinking by some, been seen off by supermarkets!!!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Speaking of which, I'm off to Morrisons now, they got Scottish salmon at half price. It's crap.

The shop or the salmon? It's a supermarket I avoid as they force you to listen to annoying piped music. Supermarkets without such noise pollution seem to be Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsbury's (with the exception of the last one's Stoke-on-Trent strore)

[MrGongGong]

Nonsense - plenty of examples excellent products that defy the supermarkets.

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That's not what the wonderful Rhubarb queen mrs Oldroyd told me

it's about time Boots were prosecuted for trades description infringement
they sell some things (like Arnica 6c) that have NONE of the substance described on the label in them
that's like selling a pint of beer that contains no beer and being allowed to get away with it

or even selling an ALW album and NOT saying that it's "borrowed" from Puccini (allegedly , he added )

[teamsaint]

Rhubarb is one of my faves. Think I might do a crumble for after the Arbroath smokies at the South Wits republican bash !!

Rhubarb is annoying though. If you want it to grow in a particular place it won't, and then it just appears somewhere else and grows like triffids. Odd.

[Beef Oven]

that's like selling a pint of beer that contains no beer and being allowed to get away with it (allegedly , he added )

That never stopped Fosters

[Beef Oven]

Rhubarb is one of my faves. Think I might do a crumble for after the Arbroath smokies at the South Wits republican bash !!

Rhubarb is annoying though. If you want it to grow in a particular place it won't, and then it just appears somewhere else and grows like triffids. Odd.

Isn't 'odd' a lovely word?

P.S. I adore rhubarb, was brought up on the stuff!

[Beef Oven]

The shop or the salmon? It's a supermarket I avoid as they force you to listen to annoying piped music. Supermarkets without such noise pollution seem to be Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsbury's (with the exception of the last one's Stoke-on-Trent strore)

My local Morrisons has got ENO's Ambient #46, 'Music For Chav Supermarkets' playing through the house system.

.......to answer your question, the salmon.

[MrGongGong]

"We seek an amicable divorce from the European Union and its replacement with a genuine free-trade agreement, which is what we thought we’d signed up for in the first place."

I was always taught to read the question before starting to write the answer
and who are "we" ?????

I'm worried that you are going into an unholy alliance with Simon and Peester