Bring Your Own Lettuces.

[JennyMorgan]

Don't be caught out, bring your own.

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/iceberg_lettuce_on_sale_for_20_in_norwich_as_salad_shortage_continues_1_4876635

Personally I don't enjoy the acidic taste of an iceberg lettuce. Still, a dydle round a marsh dyke should find some water cress or something equally tasty.

[SwanR]

I saw this story doing the rounds and the restrictions on the number of lettuces each customer can buy. Seriously ... who needs to buy more than two or three lettuces and the same of heads of broccoli at a time. And as for the reported price hikes on lettuce and courgettes ... just natural economics of supply and demand?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4189266/Pictured-freak-Spanish-weather-devastated-crops.html

[MauriceMynah]

Some restaurants have been buying up stock as they can't get the stuff from their normal suppliers. That's why some supermarkets are rationing customers to an amount that would be thought normal for domestic use. 

[SwanR]

That makes sense Maurice. I heard that these items had also been removed from online shopping.

[Hylander]

I have an iceberg lettuce in the fridge ,  what fool is going to pay £20 for a ruddy tasteless lettuce.  

[JennyMorgan]

We are talking Norfolk here.

[ranworthbreeze]

We often have a lettuce in the fridge, after a while it goes into the compost. to be honest the best place for one. 

Always bought with the best intentions of having a salad, then the draw of real food takes over.

Regards

Alan 

[MauriceMynah]

26 minutes ago, Hylander said:

I have an iceberg lettuce in the fridge ,  what fool is going to pay £20 for a ruddy tasteless lettuce.  

Someone who can sell it on for £25

[Timbo]

"The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen..."

Take this morning for example. I woke up and Britain was alone, facing an imminent disaster evacuating Europe, our Prime Minister begging for aid from an uncaring USA, while back at home they've introduced food rationing. 

I check the chronometer on the Tardis...04/02/2017. How odd, feels like 1940! Jelly baby anyone?

[Hylander]

Many a true word spoken in jest. I wasn't born until 1945.  They ended the war when I arrived.

 

 

[thingamybob]

This is serious!

Was it not an iceberg that sunk the Titanic?

Lettuce growers have a lot to answer for. Personally I prefer Little Gems or Romaine lettuces.

Please! do not allow icebergs whatever you pay for them on the Broads.  

[Arthur]

The media just love to stir up the public with these stories of impending shortages.

Back in the 1970's we had a period where sugar and bread were in limited supply for various reasons.

Shops were rationing or only selling to regular customers.

Then somewhere in the media there came the story that there would be  a shortage of toilet rolls.

Within 24 hours there was hardly a bog roll to be found.

 

[thingamybob]

Just now, Arthur said:

The media just love to stir up the public with these stories of impending shortages.

Back in the 1970's we had a period where sugar and bread were in limited supply for various reasons.

Shops were rationing or only selling to regular customers.

Then somewhere in the media there came the story that there would be  a shortage of toilet rolls.

Within 24 hours there was hardly a bog roll to be found.

 

No worries! That is what the red top newspapers are for. Anybody who was born just after the (don't mention the war) as I was it was not a problem.

 

[JennyMorgan]

1 hour ago, Arthur said:

The media just love to stir up the public with these stories of impending shortages.

Back in the 1970's we had a period where sugar and bread were in limited supply for various reasons.

Shops were rationing or only selling to regular customers.

Then somewhere in the media there came the story that there would be  a shortage of toilet rolls.

Within 24 hours there was hardly a bog roll to be found.

 

One old fool that I knew thought that he could be a hero, not only for his family but also for friends and neighbours, plus he's could make a bob or two. Great, in theory, but it was a short lived shortage and my friend took several plus years to use up the vast stock that he'd stashed away in his garage. Good job that it wasn't that awful Izal stuff!

[grendel]

I still remember the toilet at my Grans, it was approached with a big torch down the garden, and you had a choice that shiney stuff, or the newspaper squares on a string. newspaper always won, though you could leave an imprint of last weeks news in your underwear.

[Arthur]

3 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:

Good job that it wasn't that awful Izal stuff!

What a terrible thought Peter.

 

I remember when I first started school that that stuff was used as tracing paper.

Also when I worked for a Government Establishment in the Early 1970's all of the toilet rolls were that type  plus each individual sheet was stamped   "Government Property"

 

 

 

 

[JennyMorgan]

They were good old days, the younger generation have it far too soft!

[grendel]

and not shiney

[Vaughan]

Anyone from the Services may remember the Izal bog rolls, where each individual leaf was stamped "Government Property". You had a ration (according to the R.S.M.) of 3 per visit, on the basis of "one up, one down and one shine".

[JennyMorgan]

6 minutes ago, Vaughan said:

Anyone from the Services may remember the Izal bog rolls, where each individual leaf was stamped "Government Property". You had a ration (according to the R.S.M.) of 3 per visit, on the basis of "one up, one down and one shine".

In those far off days a nail scrub was standard issue 

[Timbo]

One thing is perfectly clear from this discussion...you all came from 'posh households' and never had to use the Zan Izal in anger. It comes to something when a young whippersnapper like me has to explain how to use this 'old stuff'. So brace yourselves ladies and gentlewotsits as I demonstrate the correct application of Zan Izal until I get modded!

Step One
Take your sheet of Zan Izal.

Step Two
Fold your Zan Izal in half, and then in half again.

Step Three
Select the corner with no open ends.

Step Four
Tear out a triangular section and put this to one side for later.

Step Five
Unfold your sheet to reveal a hole in the center.

Step Six
Insert middle finger into hole and then...wipe.

Step Seven
Wash your hands and use triangle for manicure purposes! 

[JanetAnne]

Timbo!

Not sure whether Old Pesky would have awarded you a or a for that one. Either way, I bet he is right now laughing away with the rest of us.

[deebee29]

6 hours ago, Timbo said:

I check the chronometer on the Tardis...04/02/2017. How odd, feels like 1940! Jelly baby anyone?

Think there'll be a vacancy  in the TARDIS for you soon Tim 

[ScrumpyCheddar]

At school the teacher would send us in the toilet to get some Izal toilet paper and use it as tracing paper..... 

[addicted]

Only here could a post about lettuce lead to an in depth discussion about toilet paper Priceless!

 

 

Carole