Iceberg Lettuces Rationed As Vegetable Crisis Hits Supermarkets

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38851097

Since when has a shortage of iceberg lettuces been a problem ?

......ruddy tasteless things !

[1ozzy]

So why would this concern you Mikey.

[ChillDoubt]

Yeah, because I just go through soooooo many salads in the midst of winter! What will I do?

Christ on a cross trainer, this is supposedly the number one story in the video category on the BBC website!

[tamborine]

Brexit will deny us lots of fruit & veg we glean from EU.

[mikey4444]

Iozzy....this was meant somewhat tongue in cheek....perhaps I should have posted this in CB, rather than news !

It isn't just iceberg lettuces though. It was said on the radio a few minutes ago, that Britain imports 50% of its vegetables, and 90% of its fruit, so this could be serious.

[-Talbot-]

Devastating news.
Had to have a bacon sarnie rather than my usual lettuce and cucumber sandwich this morning.

[mikey4444]

Talbot and others....if the supermarkets have to ration fruit and veg, or in some cases, have run out of certain products, it could effect us all.

I hadn't realised that Spain provided so much of our food.

[netibiza]

Spain supplies a lot of cucumbers and Spain had too much flooding this year and so no cucumbers.

[ichkeria]

We buy them all the time and there have been noticeably fewer or one at all recently. And fresh beetroot seem to have disappeared. I had wondered if there was an issue.

[mikey4444]

Well, after all, in Spain, the rain falls mainly on the plain !

[Tilly2]

Limited to three per customer? Who needs three Iceburg lettuces? One lasts weeks.

[aelmpvw]

it would be a crisis if it was carlsberg instead of iceberg ...

[melv16]

It's just another excuse for the salad -dodgers:-)

[douglas9401]

Titanic struggles over supermarket iceberg.

[tamborine]

Salad growers here were price squeezed by EU competition and have developed to garden centres. As most plant stock is imported from Holland & EU, Brexit will knock them out too.

[-Talbot-]

A little gem from Douglas there.

[douglas9401]

Only cos I can.

[alavahalf]

... funnily enough I to have spent most of my life wondering why people eat salad because I, just like Mikey, had yet to be enlightened and thought it was tasteless.
Now I cant wait to get a few more degrees on the thermometer before I plant my first lettuce seed. They will be followed every 4 weeks by more seeds. I will have so much lettuce I will be composting it. The difference between mine and your supermarket lettuce, is mine like so many other AB's who grow there own will know ..
... will have a very nice taste to it.

Anyone interested have a glance at a Google satelite view of southern spain. It isn't all deck chairs and parasols .. it's all greenhouses.

[-Talbot-]

It's a wonder that the Romainers haven't blamed the brexiters

[dannyk13]

Not only lettuce's Tesco have not had any courgettes for weeks due to world wide shortage.

[ummmm]

I love salad.