OT: bananas

[harry]

I grow my own. (DIY)

[RJH]

I recently watched 'Full Bins, Empty Bellies, Lonely Lives: The Story of Food Poverty and Social Isolation in a Land of Plenty' by Daniel Vallin. At least according to his research and findings, food is still getting dumped, but an increasing amount is hoovered up by the foodbanks.

The main cause was overproduction/market conditions, not 'wonky bananas'.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Of course. If you get an unusually good crop, the price to the farmer can go below the transport etc costs. Absolutely nothing new about that.

[RobertL]

Surely what they pointed out was that some cholcalate sold in the UK did not have 'enough' chocolate, not that it did not have any.

Robert

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Yup. Something like that. The chocolate being the expensive part of the bar.

[Andrew]

A journalist took some British chocolate bars over to Brussels and asked people on the street which they preferred. Most said they preferred the taste of UK chocolate.

[Andrew]

Odd that after we joined the common market in 1971, food prices, notably meat and dairy, rose dramatically. Anything in a tin went up about 3 or 4 times between 1971 and 1977. Odd that.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Watch Brxit the movie. The EU is not about freed trade. It is about erecting de facto and de jure trade barriers around Europe to protect EU industry against more efficient producers in the far east etc .

Fortress Europe and 'little European' mentality go hand in hand.

Leave the EU! Join the Real World!

[Dave Plowman (News)]

And in perfect English too.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

What are your views on China dumping steel on the world market?

[whisky-dave]

yes and according to teh paxman program it took the EU 4 years to decide what chocolate is and how to grade it, so how much did that little venture cost.

If it takes 4 years to sort chocolate out .........

[RayL12]

'Decay' often determines, 'Soup of the Day'.