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  • Richard Tarleton

    #16
    Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
    Courgettes missing here, some tomato varieties, otherwise OK.....
    I need raw veg nearly every day so buy lots of crunchy salad foods, but lettuce isn't usually one of them - prefer butterhead, rocket, pea shoots or cress along with radishes, cucumber, antipasti, sliced yellow peppers and so on. I'm gluten-free and have salad with almost every meal. If ever the fresh supplies were seriously interrupted I would be in trouble...
    OT, not owning either a deep freeze or a microwave, and cooking everything from scratch fresh, a great aid to healthy eating - like you jayne we consume mounds of veg, salads and pulses...

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    • Lat-Literal
      Guest
      • Aug 2015
      • 6983

      #17
      Maybe we need more hydroponics?



      You've heard of the factory chicken. Now meet the factory vegetable. Grown in their millions in trays of nutrient-enriched water inside a vast greenhouse.
      Last edited by Lat-Literal; 04-02-17, 21:25.

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      • Alain Maréchal
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 1288

        #18
        Colleagues in Canterbury tell me that there are shortages of salads and vegetables, even though this http://www.thanetearth.com/ is a short distance away. Something is wrong about the procurement model.

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        • ahinton
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 16123

          #19
          Originally posted by Alain Maréchal View Post
          Colleagues in Canterbury tell me that there are shortages of salads and vegetables, even though this http://www.thanetearth.com/ is a short distance away. Something is wrong about the procurement model.
          Oh, please don't! The local Tesco here used to stock the wonderfully named Thanet Earth's "Kent Temptation" tomatoes that could be relied upon for good flavour and texture at any time of year, but that stopped some time ago, hence my comment about lack of decently flavoured tomatoes right now.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            #20
            Originally posted by Alain Maréchal View Post
            Colleagues in Canterbury tell me that there are shortages of salads and vegetables, even though this http://www.thanetearth.com/ is a short distance away. Something is wrong about the procurement model.
            It's just the tip of the iceberg.
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              #21
              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              It's just the tip of the iceberg.
              Lettuce pray it gets no worse
              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Eine Alpensinfonie
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 20575

                #22
                Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                Oh, please don't! The local Tesco here used to stock the wonderfully named Thanet Earth's "Kent Temptation" tomatoes that could be relied upon for good flavour and texture at any time of year, but that stopped some time ago, hence my comment about lack of decently flavoured tomatoes right now.
                That's more likely to be the tactics of the Tesco Buyers - a life-form for whom I have little respect.

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                • ahinton
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 16123

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                  That's more likely to be the tactics of the Tesco Buyers - a life-form for whom I have little respect.
                  It's not, actually - or at least it wasn't; they couldn't sell enough of them in my local store so they dropped them but were still selling them in other stores and, having contacted the growers, I learnt that it's a variety grown exclusively for Tesco.

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                  • ahinton
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 16123

                    #24
                    Originally posted by Flay View Post
                    Lettuce pray it gets no worse
                    Oh don't talk such radish, you scallionwag!

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                    • Dave2002
                      Full Member
                      • Dec 2010
                      • 18045

                      #25
                      Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                      Oh don't talk such radish, you scallionwag!
                      Let us romaine aloof from commenting cos such remarks may contain little gems of truth. I'd butterhead off for me coat now.

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                      • Richard Tarleton

                        #26

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                          Let us romaine aloof from commenting cos such remarks may contain little gems of truth. I'd butterhead off for me coat now.
                          - genius!
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • cloughie
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2011
                            • 22205

                            #28
                            Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                            Let us romaine aloof from commenting cos such remarks may contain little gems of truth. I'd butterhead off for me coat now.
                            So what does that leave you?

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                            • ahinton
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 16123

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                              Let us romaine aloof from commenting cos such remarks may contain little gems of truth. I'd butterhead off for me coat now.
                              Brilliant!

                              Leaves on the line and all that (although you can't beet leaves) - and speaking of lines, isn't having to queue cumbersome just because of this shortage? Crisis? What - er -crisis? These pesky growers need a good pepper talk! It's nuts! There must be a simple solution; after all, it's not rocket science...

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