Get your tomatoes 'ere!

[saundra]

For an asda delivery yesterday got bananas and
Apple that I ordered don't buy salad much in the winter
And the tomato have no taste to me until I can get English ones

[Workingman]

And the tomato have no taste....

Ain't that the truth!

I get loads from the farmer's market and turn them into passata or chopped tomatoes and freeze them. They work ever so well in curries, chilies, Bognaise and stews.

[Osc]

Nice one, Osc, and as an ardent "remainer" I would love to blame it on the "leavers" but it's not true - it's the weather; and neither side controls that. Mind you, if anyone could screw up the weather it would be the Berx......

But I still think there is a connection, did I see a story about growers unable to afford heating the plants or something? Also, if Ireland, cold and wet, can have full shelves, where do you think we are getting them……let me think….

[Kaz]

My friend in Italy, Mick's friend in Spain - no shortages. I'm with Osc.

[miasmum]

Well there's a surprise

I buy loads of salad for the guineas, as long as I can have one cucumber, one bag of leaves, one bag of mixed peppers, I'm happy I fail to understand why anyone needs more than that.

No doubt the media whipping everyone up into panic buying will cause a bigger shortage

[cromwell]

No doubt the media whipping everyone up into panic buying will cause a bigger shortage

They do it on purpose. Anything for a story.

[Suff]

Plenty of veg here in France too. Counters are full.

But it does depend on who your supplier is. The UK is also, now, in competition with the EU for goods from countries like Morocco. So that will also weigh on where surplus goods go. These are things which our own supply chain managers have to deal with. This is the first bad weather of the kind since Brexit. Lessons will be learned and supplies will be guaranteed elsewhere the next time this happens. That, also, may lead to a better experience the next time Southern Europe has truly catastrophic weather. We'll be at the front of the other queues.

However, that being said, Tomatoes are a summer veg really. We grow them in the garden. This year round thing is a globalisation fad.

[TheOstrich]

Tiz a fact that the wholesale price of the relevant fruit and veg in the EU area far exceeds the price in the UK. Today on the radio, it has been quoted that the price of a kilo of red peppers at a wholesalers in the UK is at £3.30, whilst in a wholesale market Paris the price was the equivalent of £5.30 - over 60% higher.

So firstly, If you were growing peppers, where would you rather sell your produce?
Secondly, if you're a Brit, would you really want to pay inflated EU prices for your food?

[Suff]

So firstly, If you were growing peppers, where would you rather sell your produce?

Certainly it's €8 a kilo in the shop here. €1.6 per pepper at 200g.

In Tesco and Asda it is £0.55 per pepper. Although the weight is not given nor the price per kg. Waitrose gives 160g for a 49p pepper. That works out at £3 a kilo. So retail it is also over 60% higher.

Which explains very well why French and Spanish shelves have veg and British shelves do not.

[cruiser2]

Went to the only veg stall in the local market this morning. Had two boxes of tomatoes. So I got three. He didn't seem short of any vegatables.
In the supermarkets, people are panic buying making the shortage.