primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
If you're allowed through NuCustoms with them, I'm sure they'll be a rare treat for the local food larder/bank
Banana shortage
- Thread starter Devil's advocate
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primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
Tins of baked beans are blimmin' expensive! £1.40 each in T*sco!
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
That's not a problem for this household. Doesn't like humus with banana.
- Location
- People's Republic of South Yorkshire
If they are rare, I trade you my 5 bananas for a couple of your common sheep!
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
childish..... is there a "shortage"?i blame governments lack of regard for food security. - we had loads of banana until SFI was dreamt up
BPS kept us in Bananas - now all t he UK's Banana farms are growing dam bird food
@Bossfarmer you were right Dam Brexit dam SFI
on a serious note produce we can grow here is being reduced as the population increases, let this sentence sink in, repeat it to yourself daily
taxpayers are paying farmers.........to increase food inflation
if thats not morally and logically backwards what is
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Despite their size Banana plants are not trees, but a herbaceous shrub. They need massive amounts of water and nutrients that are usually given in a liquid form added to the drip feed irrigation system.
Bananas being grown in Cyprus here:
When eaten they will provide you with a Potassium boost. But might not be a good food if you are a Diabeteic, Pre-diabetic or have Heart issues.
Bananas are often loaded onto ship, whilst still green. They then flood the hold with Imazaquin gas that ripens them and turns them yellow.
If your tomatoes won’t ripen, add them to a bowl of bananas and the Imazaquin gas will come out of the bananas and ripen the tomatoes.
Imazaquin was also added to CCC and sold as Meteor, to enhance its PGR activity. What the Imazaquin did was to stop all plant growth for about a week.
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Good, bring it on, lots of it ! - food has been far to cheap for far to long
value it properly and we don't need subs
Red Fred
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- Location
- Hants/Dorset border
I heard the shortage was cause by a nasty smash in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
ah so ur admitting its not a wise use of taxpayers money now, good we can finally agree, yes my cattle cheque is another record
no - it's a great use of tax payers money, deliver public goods / natural capital whilst increasing food prices
it's utter genius IMO
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
No thats drivel, ask a guy on the street about public goods and natural capital theyll laugh at you, they only care about whats left from their wages at the months end
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
How many turnips
Hmmmm. What's that in turnips?
That's very dear, 6pk of Branston, which are imho the best, is £4.00 in Iceland and Sainsburys.
Trolley App is your friend.
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
Branston and banana isn't a favourite, I'm afraid.
- Location
- DD9.
Thank the lord for small mercies, that’ll put a stop on some of the more exotic recipes coming out of our kitchen.
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
No problem I'll pack them in heroin so the sniffer dogs can't pick them out.If you're allowed through NuCustoms with them, I'm sure they'll be a rare treat for the local food larder/bank
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
I always bring vegetables.Be interesting to see if Customs can muster the enthusiasm to check hand luggage from Africa for food, not been anyone there last twice I've flown into LHR from Canada
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
India ( our largest chickpea market ) still has a 68% import duty on chickpeas, so there are plenty of chickpeas here looking for alternate homes if you're interested
slightly off topic, but that raises an interesting question
I read all the time on TFF about concerns that the UK is “forced” to accept food imports, even if they don’t meet your particular standards ( I don’t understand that at all myself, as a grain producer my produce & production methods HAVE to meet the standards of the importing country, as they simply won’t buy it otherwise ?
), but India has managed to maintain a 68% import duty on chickpeas ( mainly Australia & Canada, being the 2 largest suppliers ) for a number of years, to “protect” its farmers . . .why does India have more control over food imports than the UK ?
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