Project FEAR - Food

[meridian]

You best leave and **** off soon them, because according to all your hysteria, there will be no food, and you and your family are all going to suffer and painful death.



Bye!

You on the sauce tonight?

[DimPrawn]

You on the sauce tonight?

yes I am, and it's nearly all gone!

[AtW]

You on the sauce tonight?

He had that US “ketchup”...

[Old Greg]

yes I am, and it's nearly all gone!

The problem with stockpiling is that it can so easily turn into a twice weekly big shop.

[vetran]

You best leave and **** off soon them, because according to all your hysteria, there will be no food, and you and your family are all going to suffer and painful death.



Bye!

if only we could get of our poster Meridian mediocre

[NotAllThere]

There is a lot of project fear around food at the moment. Mostly the EU will starve us to death.

Well I did a bit of label reading in the supermarket.

Here's the shocking fact.

Flour - UK produced from UK wheat
Eggs - UK produced using UK chickens
Milk - UK produced using UK cows
Bread - UK produced using UK Flour
Butter - UK produced from UK Milk
Bacon - UK produced from UK pork
Oil - UK produced from UK rape seed
Tea - Produced in India
Coffee - Produced in South America


There you go, fry ups, bacon sarnies, tea, coffee, all the staples, safe from the EU bastards

You've missed off two important staples. Sugar, and chocolate.

Toblerone. Switzerland.

Does the Tate and Lyle cane sugar refinery still exist, or is it all British Sugar sugar beet?

[Yorkie62]

You've missed off two important staples. Sugar, and chocolate.

Toblerone. Switzerland.

Does the Tate and Lyle cane sugar refinery still exist, or is it all British Sugar sugar beet?

The Tate and Lyle sugar refinery does still exist in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Not sure if it processes cane or beet though.

[meridian]

Project FEAR - Food

The Tate and Lyle sugar refinery does still exist in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Not sure if it processes cane or beet though.

I would suspect that they “refine” the semi-finished cane into the finished good. At least, this article appears to run a “Tate = cane, British Sugar = beet” line.

Sweet Brexit: what sugar tells us about Britain’s future outside the EU | Global | The Guardian

Edit: Tate’s own website only mentions cane, not cane and beet

[NotAllThere]

I worked at their Silvertown site many thousands of years ago. The sugar came in on boats from the Caribbean. Effectively it's the same as Demerra sugar, but a bit dirtier. The "refining" process just washes the sugar and draws off the treacle. Which is then use to make Lyles Golden Syrup and other products. Own brand golden syrup used to made there as well (not Silvertown, but nearby) - but that starts with pure sugar and then adds colouring and stuff.

The amount of cane that could be brought in was limited by the EU, so there wasn't much room to TLS to grow. Maybe now's a good time to buy shares in them?

British Sugar do rather more work in converting beet to sugar.

[Old Greg]

There is a lot of project fear around food at the moment. Mostly the EU will starve us to death.

Well I did a bit of label reading in the supermarket.

Here's the shocking fact.

Flour - UK produced from UK wheat
Eggs - UK produced using UK chickens
Milk - UK produced using UK cows
Bread - UK produced using UK Flour
Butter - UK produced from UK Milk
Bacon - UK produced from UK pork
Oil - UK produced from UK rape seed
Tea - Produced in India
Coffee - Produced in South America


There you go, fry ups, bacon sarnies, tea, coffee, all the staples, safe from the EU bastards

The UK is more than capable of starving itself, without assistance from the EU, which contradictory to your paranoid ramblings, is looking at plans to send emergency food aid.