Pigs In Blankets!

[Wolds Beef]

They are worried about producing enough of the above for Christmas because of the lack of foreign labour. Two things spring to mind! is this another project fear and why do our young people not have a go at some of these jobs. How could we pursued people that the jobs are there, all they need to do is get there coats off.
WB

 

[Homesy]

They are worried about producing enough of the above for Christmas because of the lack of foreign labour. Two things spring to mind! is this another project fear and why do our young people not have a go at some of these jobs. How could we pursued people that the jobs are there, all they need to do is get there coats off.
WB

Benefits or they can't be arsed. That sort of job is below the millennials.

 

[melted welly]

saw that and thought that its a big national crisis like this that’ll bring the importance of food/farming industries to the fore around the dining tables of the affluent middle class!

i realise it’s part of a far bigger subject, but goodness sake, if they’re focusing on whether folk might not be able to wrap a bit of bacon round a sausage themselves then it’s a sad state of affairs in the UK.

 

[Bogweevil]

How about some nice spicy lentil samosas instead?

 

[Wooly]

Why do you need foreign labour to make pigs in blankets..................unless your housekeeper is foreign !?!

Surely most housewifes.......... or house husbands to be politically correct.......... can wrap a bit of bacon around a sausage.

 

[Ukjay]

How about just having chipolata Sausages and Streaky Bacon and make our own...
It only takes seconds to wrap a sausage ?

 

[yellowbelly]

Jeeez, whoever knew that sausages with bacon round 'em were bought 'ready to go' I'm sure I've seen Mrs YB 'rolling 'em up' on Christmas Eve

When I saw the thread title, I thought the shortage would be caused by China secretly buying up all our pork (in the same way Russia once did with wheat) to make up their shortfall. But no, it's a real story .....
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/wh...britain-faces-pigs-blankets-shortage-17162918
Must be a slow news day

 

[curlietailz]

But this is the State of the Nation
People buy convenience... and ripping a plastic wrapper off a tray of perfectly wrapped piggies and putting them on a tray and putting them in the oven IS cooking for the majority of people
I recon they don’t even know that chipolatas+streaky bacon = pigs in blankets

let them starve I say

 

[Wolds Beef]

More to the point, how do we get the young generation of there backsides and screens to do some real work? I had 2 young lads wanted a harvest job from our village this year. I took 1 on myself and when I mentioned it to a pal, who is MD of a machinery dealership and also a member of a large family farming group, he said 'send him to me' He took him on at there duck farm. The lad loved it! So did the lad who helped me and he said thanks for teaching him a bit about agriculture. It brings to mind a open evening when my daughter was at school when I was talking to a teacher who did not realise we were using GPS on farms (my daughter is now 25) so it was in the early days of GPS.
By the way, I am very willing to wrap LINCOLNSHIRE Sausage with LINCOLNSHIRE Bacon!!!
WB

 

[borderterribles]

Jeeez, whoever knew that sausages with bacon round 'em were bought 'ready to go' I'm sure I've seen Mrs YB 'rolling 'em up' on Christmas Eve

When I saw the thread title, I thought the shortage would be caused by China secretly buying up all our pork (in the same way Russia once did with wheat) to make up their shortfall. But no, it's a real story .....
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/wh...britain-faces-pigs-blankets-shortage-17162918
Must be a slow news day

Think the last few words of the article in the link says it all " could pose a risk to the affordability of British food"
Just because one section of society is unwilling or unable to work for as little reward as another? Don't give me crap about Brexit causing this, and the returning foreign workers being sooo much harder working than our home grown Millennials. The truth is that the value of their wages here are no longer as much as they were worth back home. This was always going to happen. It's one thing being able to work for relatively little over here when your life is basically glorified squatting/camping, but it's another when they've got wives, kids, lives etc here, and need to provide for them within our economy. Why, exactly , should one person do a job for less money than another, just because they don't have English as their first language?

 

[Gapples]

Just another anti Brexit story for the BBC to push.
As others have said, make own, it's not rocket science, besides all the doctors, teachers, engineers & rocket scientists trying their best to sneak into the country won't want to lower themselves to making pigs in blankets, especially as most of them are not all that keen on pork......bloody disgusting animals !

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Think the last few words of the article in the link says it all " could pose a risk to the affordability of British food"
Just because one section of society is unwilling or unable to work for as little reward as another? Don't give me crap about Brexit causing this, and the returning foreign workers being sooo much harder working than our home grown Millennials. The truth is that the value of their wages here are no longer as much as they were worth back home. This was always going to happen. It's one thing being able to work for relatively little over here when your life is basically glorified squatting/camping, but it's another when they've got wives, kids, lives etc here, and need to provide for them within our economy. Why, exactly , should one person do a job for less money than another, just because they don't have English as their first language?

Great post - I have lost count of mates who fled abroad to "earn waaaay more than you do back home" but are comparably worse off because it's swallowed up by living costs.
I'm not quite 40, many of them are now coming back home to start afresh with a family, and finding it's not so easy here anymore either!

 

[Bald Rick]

Surely most housewifes....can wrap a bit of bacon around a sausage.

Dat a euphemism?

 

[Farmer Roy]

what surprises me most out of ALL this is people still eat "pigs in blankets" . . .

sounds sooo retro 1970's & a bit naff if you ask me . . .

I'll be eating prawns & sipping chilled white wine for Christmas myself . . .

 

[Paddington]

It's to do with pay, the blanket wrappers want parity with the turkey stuffers and Yorkshire pudding batter mixers.

 

[Bald Rick]

It's to do with pay, the blanket wrappers want parity with the turkey stuffers and Yorkshire pudding batter mixers.

What about the ones who cut a X in the bottom of the sprouts?

 

[Exfarmer]

But this is the State of the Nation
People buy convenience... and ripping a plastic wrapper off a tray of perfectly wrapped piggies and putting them on a tray and putting them in the oven IS cooking for the majority of people
I recon they don’t even know that chipolatas+streaky bacon = pigs in blankets

let them starve I say

My son works up to 15 hour days and lives on his own ( very well rewarded too, earns more than me!)
My daughter works locally and SIL works half time London both long hours again well rewarded have a son to look after too. None of them expect to get in before 6 in the evening often much later.
My daughter does do cooking at the weekend but has little time for the fiddler things, this is common across households across the country now 75% of mothers work.
Are you surprised that they want to cut out some of the drudgery , yet retain some of the traditional festive trimmings.
My wife is busy making Christmas puddings for all of us and I was making chutneys and pickled onions a couple of weeks ago for the same reason, but we are retired!

 

[Muddyroads]

More project fear. What’s all the fuss is about, this took seconds!

 

[Av Gorritt]

It's to do with pay, the blanket wrappers want parity with the turkey stuffers and Yorkshire pudding batter mixers.

Yes ,and don't forget the fish batterers and all the champion chipsters around !

 

[Ukjay]

Does that mean we won't have devil's on horseback either ?