UK Cauliflower shortages

I have not seen that word "twaddle" for eons.

Local cauliflower grower wins export contract to China with his product, I suppose this would be twaddle to some...

 

And in Chinese
废话

 

I was in Llangollen today, big display of cauliflowers in the greengrocers, so the shortage isn't everywhere.

 

Got an extra large one at Morrison’s and there were plenty of normal priced ones still at same price.

 

I will have look tomorrow, Morrison's is just minutes away from my home.

 

Plenty of them here, and cheap as well...

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/135552/fresh-whole-cauliflower

 

Oh bother, there goes my get rich quick plan of stockpiling Cauliflower, now what am I to do with my warehouse Mountain of Cauliflower?

 

You are now obliged to eat at least one whole cauliflower with every meal.
Robbity

 

Eat it!!!

 

To late I found a Chinese buyer. What a load of 废话 (Twaddle) what a lovely word I wonder what it sounds like in Chinese?

 

It does make one wonder how our ancestors survived when vegetables were out of season

Just saying...

 

They did what I am planning to do - bought their vegetables frozen from Iceland:

https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland--4-multi-greens-rice-steam-bags-600g/68854.html

 

A lot of them didn't. early death among the poor, who could not afford expensive imported food, was the usual pattern. (We've been importing food for thousands of years but cheap veg out of season is comparatively new.)

 

Most people / tribes were nomadic so they shifted where there was sustainable food to hunt gather, then rinsed and repeated...

 

Most of my veg comes via my local veg box delivery, we receive what's in season, grown locally. This week they put the price of cauliflower up and warned they were in short supply because of the weather, so I had a lovely pointy cabbage instead, it won't make mash or rice but stir fried finely sliced will go with practically everything. There will always be something in season when you buy local. Looking forward to sprouts and sprout tops coming.

 

This has nothung to do with Brexit. Just the weather.

 

Thousands? I mean the Romans brought in some fermented fish oil and luxury grave goods have been found at Hengistbury Head but I seriously doubt that Bronze Age man was shipping in avocados from southern Spain..they would have been well mouldy by the time they got here...

 

But, in the absence of their five-a-day, how else would mankind have prospered?

 

We actually managed very nicely without thank you until around the beginning of this century.

Robbity

 

I noticed that my local Aldi no longer had cauliflower rice on the shelves...maybe this is why??? Must admit, its a staple for me as takes the place of rice in Chinese, Indian and Mexican dishes which constitutes most of my diet. Makes a reasonable pizza crust too.