One wonders if subby knows the origin of the word, "limey".

High prices? Oh, oh, oh, we want to learn how to defend ourselves against high prices, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? An 11.5% annual increase not good enough for you, eh? Well, I'll tell you something, my lad! When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of great savings, DON'T COME CRYING TO ME!!

Nonsense. The grey stuff are the vegetables.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: High prices? Oh, oh, oh, we want to learn how to defend ourselves against high prices, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? An 11.5% annual increase not good enough for you, eh? Well, I'll tell you something, my lad! When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of great savings, DON'T COME CRYING TO ME!!

+1 for the Python reference. It makes me want to go eat a banana.

Silly submitter, chips* are a vegetable.

*fries, for those who foolishly insist on speaking American

FarkinNortherner: Silly submitter, chips* are a vegetable.

So is the ketchup you put on them.

You cannot have "deflation" whilst your currency is losing 20%-30% of it's value annually.

Am I the only one tired of the Nanny State meme?

Fruits and vegetables? There is a market for Richard Simmons and Terri Schivo over there?

gopher321: One wonders if subby knows the origin of the word, "limey".

Umm..I'll take a swing at this one. Limes were squished and stored in kegs for the long sea voyages to prevent scurvy?

/did I win?
//not submitter

Cake, let them eat it.

Reading this headline with the completely out of place Nanny State reference is the written equivalent of beating a dead horse. WTG subby.

gopher321: One wonders if subby knows the origin of the word, "limey".

Yeah but the only time they used 'em was in their Gin & Tonics.

They woud, woud they?

Bypass the supermarket and buy direct or grow your own. Last year we managed to buy almost zero veggies from the grocery over the summer. If this year is good we will have a stockpile for the winter.

Bohemian: Bypass the supermarket and buy direct or grow your own. Last year we managed to buy almost zero veggies from the grocery over the summer. If this year is good we will have a stockpile for the winter.

Just like man has done for untold centuries, spring and winter gardens.

England has the worst produce I've ever seen in a supposed first-world nation. The first time I had to buy groceries in England, I was nearly brought to tears by the pitiful selection (and size) of the fruits and vegetables.

/two fingers to English fruits and vegetables

FarkinNortherner: Silly submitter, chips* are a vegetable.

*fries, for those who foolishly insist on speaking American

Silly Brits.


Chips:


Fries:

Sure they have fruits and vegetables over in England. Thats the stuff that they boil for half a day to go alongside their shoe-leather steaks.

ThinWhiteDuck: Am I the only one tired of the Nanny State meme?

Yes. Everyone else finds it to be as fresh and funny now as when it was first used.

/Absolutely everyone

KrmtDfrog: Sure they have fruits and vegetables over in England. Thats the stuff that they boil for half a day to go alongside their shoe-leather steaks.

Mmmmm... sounds good.

/ is a fan of overboiled vegetables and well-done steaks.

KrmtDfrog: Sure they have fruits and vegetables over in England. Thats the stuff that they boil for half a day to go alongside their shoe-leather steaks.

BOLLOCKS!

SpaceMoose Sounds like bollocks to me. British produce is some of the best in the world. Hence the Spanish and French try to nick it all.

KrmtDfrog: Sure they have fruits and vegetables over in England. Thats the stuff that they boil for half a day to go alongside their shoe-leather steaks.

I think they even change the water. It's the only way to ensure leaching even more of the vitamins and nutrients out of the vegetables.

/thrice-boiled broccoli anyone?

Seacop That was a whisker away from being Fark's first simul-bollock.

Iron Chef Scottish: Seacop That was a whisker away from being Fark's first simul-bollock.

I'm just happy I spelled it right.

Smeggy Smurf: Fruits and vegetables? There is a market for Richard Simmons and Terri Schivo over there?

bahahaha!
Am I going to hell for laughing at that?

valar_morghulis: On the sixth day, the Lord squatted over the side of Ireland.

What came out was England.

Holy shiat!

people in England don't eat vegetables

Is it too hard to get them out of the wheelchair?

/Tip you waiters
//Try the veal
///Tip the veal
////Try the waitress
//5lashies!

Most fruits and veg in the UK come from outside of the UK. Exceptions: turnips, leeks, and the like.

The pound has depreciated approximately 25% against most world currencies in the last 9 months.

Therefore, the price of fruit and veg has gone up.

In all likelihood, the same people protesting are the ones who had been flying off to majorca and buying up euro 'investment' crapartments there while the pound was overvalued.

Could it possible be because their currency has devalued by 30%+. Just throwing out possibilities, but it would seem to me that might result in higher prices. TFA even mentions importing some stuff from overseas.

Don't know if I'm completely on the mark, but figured I'd throw that out.

Crosshair: Could it possible be because their currency has devalued by 30%+. Just throwing out possibilities, but it would seem to me that might result in higher prices. TFA even mentions importing some stuff from overseas.

I'm no expert, but I think that makes sense. I don't think the climate of the British Isles lends itself toward growing a very wide variety of fruits and vegetables.

The Brits found a way around this back in WW2 when stuff was rationed....



Basically, taking any spare patch of land and growing stuff on it.

The problem these days is that people are too lazy or stupid to do this, the politicians and paper-pushers would layer it in bureaucracy and the greedy land developers who own the vacant plots wouldn't go for it.

This is what happens when honeybees go extinct... protesting isn't going to do a damn thing, and this year's prices are half of what next year's prices will be. Welcome to reality.

gwendolyyyn: Smeggy Smurf: Fruits and vegetables? There is a market for Richard Simmons and Terri Schivo over there?

bahahaha!
Am I going to hell for laughing at that?

Yes you are. Right after me for thinking of it

How exactly do you protest about food prices on the free market? How the hell do they think protesting is going to help?

Ravie: How exactly do you protest about food prices on the free market? How the hell do they think protesting is going to help?

I was wondering the same thing last summer when people were protesting high gas prices.

Meanwhile, I was already hunting for an apartment (new job in a new city), so I aimed for one as close to where I work as I could manage.

/bicycles to and from work on most days
//total round-trip of less than 4 miles
///also planning to grow vegetables in pots this summer

Also, there's the fact that the fields are being paved over to build housing and whatnot for the loads of immigrants that the cultural left, corporatists powers that be insist on importing. Same thing happening here in the US, only it's taking a little longer since our population density was lower to begin with. Obama, Reid, Pelosi all want amnesty, and refuse to consider cutting our ridiculously high legal immigration.

NumbersUSA.com

grotto_man: Also, there's the fact that the fields are being paved over to build housing and whatnot for the loads of immigrants that the cultural left, corporatists powers that be insist on importing.


Ultimately the world need to reduce the human population, but no one is ever even going to bring the subject up and so we will continue to re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic as they say. No matter how much you think science will come up with a way to feed the growing numbers of people there will be a point when there is just not enough planet left to use.

KrmtDfrog
Sure they have fruits and vegetables over in England. Thats the stuff that they boil for half a day to go alongside their shoe-leather steaks

Yeah you're right. I'd much rather eat fast food with my hands, prepared in 0.2 seconds by an acne-ridden otherwise-unemployable teenager who hocks up in every second Big Mac he "prepares".

I had to eat more questionable shiat when I was in America than I did when I worked in India. New York is the worst.

anfrind: I'm no expert, but I think that makes sense. I don't think the climate of the British Isles lends itself toward growing a very wide variety of fruits and vegetables.

You can grow most veg in season, with the exception of things like soya beans and chick peas. However people have come to expect it all year round, which is why so much is imported from the south of Europe and Africa. Fruit is much more limited. It's too cold to grow anything like citrus or tropical fruit.

Fruit and vegetables have always been expensive, look at the historical record:

Blackadder: Right. Now all we have to do is fill in this MP application form. Name: Baldrick. First name...?
Baldrick: Er, I'm not sure.
Blackadder: Well, you must have some idea...
Baldrick: Well, it might be Sod off.
Blackadder: What?
Baldrick: Well, when I used to play in the gutter, I used to say to the other snipes, "Hello, my name's Baldrick," and they'd say, "Yes, we know. Sod off, Baldrick."
Blackadder: All right, right right right right, Mr. S. Baldrick. Now; distinguishing features... None.
Baldrick: Well, I've got this big growth in the middle of my face.
Blackadder: That's your nose, Baldrick. Now; any history of insanity in the family? Tell you what, I'll cross out the in. Any history of *sanity* in the family? None whatsoever. Now then; criminal record...
Baldrick: Absolutely not.
Blackadder: Oh, come on, Baldrick, you're going to be an MP, for God's sake! I'll just put fraud and sexual deviancy. Now; minimum bribe level...
Baldrick: One turnip. Oh, hang on, I don't want to price myself out of the market.
Blackadder: Baldrick, I've always been meaning to ask: Do you have any ambitions in life apart from the acquisition of turnips?
Baldrick: Er, no.
Blackadder: So what would you do if I gave you a thousand pounds?
Baldrick: I'd get a little turnip of my own.
Blackadder: So what would you do if I gave you a million pounds?
Baldrick: Oh, that's different. I'd get a great big turnip in the country.

grotto_man: Obama, Reid, Pelosi all want amnesty, and refuse to consider cutting our ridiculously high legal immigration.

You didn't do too well in history class did you? I mean, it's been what, a couple years maybe since Bush pushed for and got amnesty for them, while Obama, Reid, Pelosi, all opposed it.

Z1P2: grotto_man: Obama, Reid, Pelosi all want amnesty, and refuse to consider cutting our ridiculously high legal immigration.

You didn't do too well in history class did you? I mean, it's been what, a couple years maybe since Bush pushed for and got amnesty for them, while Obama, Reid, Pelosi, all opposed it.

Drinking a lot of party koolaid?

if they read Fark.com they woud know that people in England don't eat vegetables

Uh, the one time I was in a US supermarket I was surprised by the paucity of fresh fruit and veg available. You did, however, have a thousand different brands of sugar masquerading as breakfast cereals. You had whole aisles of the stuff. What's all that about then?

SpaceMoose: England has the worst produce I've ever seen in a supposed first-world nation. The first time I had to buy groceries in England, I was nearly brought to tears by the pitiful selection (and size) of the fruits and vegetables.

/two fingers to English fruits and vegetables

That is why you go to Lidl or Aldi. Lidl was the only supermarket within a mile of where I lived in the UK that had a decent selection. Other than it was a bit of hike to the giant supermarket in the industrial park, which was only accessible during daylight hours because the only way there for pedestrians was a poorly lit path through a park, and the city council didn't allow us a parking permit. I was living pretty near the city centre so you only got the small supermarkets, which seem to be half full of ready meals and frozen stuff. Not too helpful when it is so expensive to live there in the first place, if you don't have the materials to make your own food.

"Silly Nanny Staters - if they read Fark.com they woud know that people in England don't eat vegetables"

and that is why it's safe for americans to visit there...