what a terrible year.

Sadly its nots just EU rules the "modern shopper" doesn't want soil on her potatoes or odd sizes of tomato also the powers that be dont believe they display properly if they are not all the same size or shape.Things like flavour come way down the list.

A few hundred years ago if they/we had a summer like this would it mean famine and death.

 

During the last recession I worked in a potato packing factory. The spuds were all washed clean as they came in loose. Just before the 25kg sacks were sown up, there was a bloke putting a few handfulls of peat in the bags.

 

You actually ate odd sized grapes ! ( done in "a handbaarg" , or Downton Abbey accent ). Admin can we have this member banned or deported to the Antipodes or something , really the tone of this place recently

 

I'll get me coat, oh, hang on, won't need one in the Antipodes

 

Saw 5 Kg bags of 25mm dia (what looked liked) Desiree spuds in Tescos today, labelled as 'small potatoes', and priced as if they were something worthy of being more expensive than 'normal' size Charlotte new spuds.

That seemed to me like an attempt to cash in on the 'irregular size' market, rather than accept they were runts from a failed harvest, and as if they were trying (and failing) to sell them at a premium rate as if they were something special.

 

I noticed my Sainsbury's "Basics" peanuts that i'm scoffing say "A bit smaller, still nutty" on the front.