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"Once a jolly Swagman sat beside a Billabong,
tending his onions for the export trade ……."

Yes, the four pack of onions I bought last Friday have a label "Produce of Australia"

Are you seriously expecting me to believe that a little man in a beret had bicycled all the way from Adelaide to deliver them to my local Waitrose?

In the old days, we never used to import onions, surely? Didn't we harvest them in the Autumn and then store them over the winter and spring?

The carbon footprint and Airmiles acquired by a single onion now must be ginormous …..

And even the bigger "Spanish" onions on sale seem to be produce of New Zealand. I sense Weka's hand in this ….

Madness, innit?

It makes me wonder what all the kerfuffle about Brexit is about, lol we are already getting anything we need from the rest of the world as it is , ... now reference the EU I think it is the spanish dutch and germans who have the most to lose if we leave without a deal.

My guess is an awful lot of the producers who currently supply us will be either clamouring for us to continue buying from them or.... they will end up going bust, not us.

I saw the interview with Geoff Boycott the other day and as usual he was his blunt straight talking self and said inasmuch we survived the wars and the aftermath so he has no doubt we will come through a no deal brexit stronger than we are now.

Only my opinions here but I have to agree with his sentiments.

manxie xx

Now gentlemen, all Beeword posts to the News Board please! Onion posts are fine though

I believe we had a serious onion shortage during the war, people used to queue for them for hours!

Blimey, that's amazing! I wouldn't have thought it would be worth the Aussie's while to sell onions to us, what with the cost of transporting them and onions not being the most expensive food in the world, but obviously it is.
What next, carrots from the Cook Islands?

I saw a Jamie and Jimmy thing where left over crops were gathered after harvesting - free to the pickers. I think it's called 'gleaming' and age old exercise, and one of the most popular crops was... onions. Free onions! Apparently it is better, more economically efficient, than ploughing them back in and waiting for them to rot down before planting a different crop.

Instead we grow them somewhere else. Transport them 12,000 miles - oil, coal, petrol etc. - and get them for £1 per kilo instead of £0.37 per kilo from home grown.

And people think that I am mad for being totally against this sort of capitalist carp. And if you think it stops with onions... think again.

Workingman wrote: people think that I am mad for being totally against this sort of capitalist carp. And if you think it stops with onions... think again.

Well. I don't, Frank. This is just another example of the way some people run things - for their own gain, of course..