Anyone stocking up on canned food etc.. Brexit?

RoboCod · 2 Sep 2019 at 11:20

LeeUK said:
Not many good old time butchers left. All the butcher shops in my town that are left all use the "Take any 10 trays for a fiver" model. No actual meat counter where you can buy the amount you want.

Where do you live? Our town has four Butchers. I buy all my meat from one in particular. Perhaps with less access to cheap meat through supermarkets, we might see a resurgence in better quality meats and local Butchers?

LeeUK · 2 Sep 2019 at 11:37

RoboCod said:
Where do you live? Our town has four Butchers. I buy all my meat from one in particular. Perhaps with less access to cheap meat through supermarkets, we might see a resurgence in better quality meats and local Butchers?

A land where time forgot where people won't pay for quality meat. They are happy to pay £5 for 3KG of pumped up chicken breasts from a suspect origin. USA chicken will be no problem to these folk.

NoobCannon · 2 Sep 2019 at 11:39

keep seeing everyone moan about usa chicken. Whats the actual problem with it, i hope its not because its washed in chlorine because that would be a pretty silly thing to get upset about

RoboCod · 2 Sep 2019 at 11:48

NoobCannon said:
keep seeing everyone moan about usa chicken. Whats the actual problem with it, i hope its not because its washed in chlorine because that would be a pretty silly thing to get upset about

It's typical fear mongering and as said, if it's genuinely a concern, rather than having meat every day, they could maybe have it a couple times a week and afford the better quality stuff instead. Some people need a reality check don't they.

200sols · 2 Sep 2019 at 11:53

NoobCannon said:
keep seeing everyone moan about usa chicken. Whats the actual problem with it, i hope its not because its washed in chlorine because that would be a pretty silly thing to get upset about

Its not the chlorination, its why they need to use it that is the problem.

NoobCannon · 2 Sep 2019 at 11:55

200sols said:
Its not the chlorination, its why they need to use it that is the problem.

Do you know that pre packaged salads in the uk are chlorine washed?

Havent seen anyone moaning about those?

Diddums · 2 Sep 2019 at 11:56

V F said:
The question I'd like to know is what the hell are people doing taking phones into the toilet...

Where do you think most of the drivel in GD comes from?

200sols · 2 Sep 2019 at 12:39

NoobCannon said:
Do you know that pre packaged salads in the uk are chlorine washed?

Havent seen anyone moaning about those?

Did you read what I said? Stop your silly crusade and research it.

ron3003 · 2 Sep 2019 at 12:49

200sols said:
Did you read what I said? Stop your silly crusade and research it.

Where do you think those veg pickers take a dump whilst they're out in the fields?

godinman · 2 Sep 2019 at 13:19

ron3003 said:
Where do you think those veg pickers take a dump whilst they're out in the fields?

They have portaloos provided as per employment regulations.

Martynt74 · 2 Sep 2019 at 13:34

Doggie2k said:
I'm kind of wondering what Waitrose is planning? Considering most of its produce comes from Europe it's shelves are going to be empty.

I wonder if this is behind Ocados decision to move to M&S?

GizF1 · 2 Sep 2019 at 16:01

RoboCod said:
Well of course that would be a completely different situation and it's a strawman point. Mind you, if that was the case, we'd do the same thing and look to more sustainable diets. Are you old enough to remember when we didn't or couldn't eat mangos, avacodo and such everyday?

I have no idea i don't and wouldn't eat them everyday. Aren't they generally cultivated outside the EU anyway?

Greebo · 2 Sep 2019 at 16:49

RoboCod said:
Where do you live? Our town has four Butchers. I buy all my meat from one in particular. Perhaps with less access to cheap meat through supermarkets, we might see a resurgence in better quality meats and local Butchers?

Not everybody can afford quality meat from the local butcher though.......

Greebo · 2 Sep 2019 at 16:53

NoobCannon said:
keep seeing everyone moan about usa chicken. Whats the actual problem with it, i hope its not because its washed in chlorine because that would be a pretty silly thing to get upset about

Stop posting the all high and mighty position. We all know the issue that in general US meat is likely to be just as safe as UK chicken, the difference being is in the UK we have much higher standards of welfare and keep the chicken disease and bug free whereas the US approach is just to ignore it and then blitz the meat at the end to kill all the bugs, Personally I am a great believer in prevention over cure plus I dont want our animal welfare standards dropping (which would be the only way UK farmers could compete on price with the US)

And I don't want to eat their hormone and antibiotic pumped beef either.

Martynt74 · 2 Sep 2019 at 16:54

So they don't eat it/eat it less, just like other luxuries.

I can't afford to eat fresh lobster every day either.

Greebo · 2 Sep 2019 at 17:00

Doggie2k said:
I'm kind of wondering what Waitrose is planning? Considering most of its produce comes from Europe it's shelves are going to be empty.

Nah, it will just be more expensive (which wont bother Waitrose since its the most expensive place anyway)

Greebo · 2 Sep 2019 at 17:02

deuse said:
This reminds me of the 2K thing.

Nothing happened then. And nothing will happen now.

Why or why do people keep reposting this stupid myth as some kind of evidence to back up a no deal brexit? It just makes you look stupid tbh

Greebo · 2 Sep 2019 at 17:07

RoboCod said:
Guess we'll have to eat less exotic imported food.

Just as @FoxEye said, we've been spoilt for years with cheap meat and cheap exotic food. It's all unsustainable and we'll do well to have a reality check. Maybe treat meat more like a treat like it should. Stick to a more healthy forager style diet perhaps?

so tomatoes and lettuce are now "cheap exotic food"? Yes we could go back to the 50s and just eat whats in season and grown in the UK but some of us don't want that and why as the 5th largest economy in the world, would we want to?

NoobCannon · 2 Sep 2019 at 17:26

Greebo said:
Stop posting the all high and mighty position. We all know the issue that in general US meat is likely to be just as safe as UK chicken, the difference being is in the UK we have much higher standards of welfare and keep the chicken disease and bug free whereas the US approach is just to ignore it and then blitz the meat at the end to kill all the bugs, Personally I am a great believer in prevention over cure plus I dont want our animal welfare standards dropping (which would be the only way UK farmers could compete on price with the US)

And I don't want to eat their hormone and antibiotic pumped beef either.

Dont eat it then. Stop frothing over anything and everything, its the remainers taking the high and mighty position over everything.

Greebo · 2 Sep 2019 at 17:29

NoobCannon said:
Dont eat it then. Stop frothing over anything and everything, its the remainers taking the high and mighty position over everything.

Which is easy to say but hard to do if country of origin is removed and I don't want to be forced to be a vegetarian thank you!

Plus I care for the UK farming industry and I don;t want to see half of them bankrupt replaced by factory farms with hormone fed beef and chlorine washed chicken thanks.

This may not bother you as you can clearly live of sovereignty and unicorn tears or you just eat crap already