OT: Onions from Australia! WTF!

mailbin · 2017-10-01T13:28:59+00:00

I try to resist OT topics but had to vent after spotting that the onion I just chopped had been grown in Australia! It's hard to comprehend how it can make economic sense to ship an onion from Oz to UK, but it must do or it wouldn't happen. What's upsetting is that the environmental cost cannot have been taken into account. I suspect historians will look back with incredulity on this period (hard to define the start date) - unless we destroy ourselves first. I feel much better now ;-) A timely spur to get the veg plot into action.

Oct 01, 2017 62 Replies

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whisky-dave 9 years ago

Why didn;t he use the same spelling as on the road sign I assume there was one otherwise how do people know what road they are on. But maybe in the 50s people were born there didn't need to have a road sign telling them the name of their street.

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Mike Clarke 9 years ago

And in Sunderland it was Athenaeum St and John St.

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bert 9 years ago

I once saw a headline in a trade magazine which read "Why sell meat when you can sell water?" It was making sausages from mechanically recovered meat.

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