Lobster (and chips) dividend!

[Old Greg]

Also the "gallon of milk per person per week" isn't exactly the full fact.
The UK may produce that much milk ( How much milk is produced in Britain? ), but some gets converted to butter, some to cream, some to cheese.

1 gallon of milk would make less than 1/4lb of butter. (for those born after WWII, about 5l of Friesian milk is required for 250g of butter)
Cheese has a better return - around 10% - so 5l of milk for 500g of cheese.

Remember the good old days before the EU?

[Eirikur]

Small beer (!) though as a part of the overall cost.

How is toast and chips a meal?

Cod and chips will be back on once we stop all those foreigners ravaging our ocean floor.

Sea potatoes are the best when caught in British waters

[DaveB]

(not quite sure why gammon is not on the menu)



*We will thrive on toast and chips also.
**WOOOAOAHHHH Tea might be delayed. WTF? I thought we had tulip loads and had innovative strategies for it.
*** Home grown beer is on the menu!

Beer is still going to be an issue. We brew loads of it in the UK but the vast majority of the hops used are imported, particularly for lagers. Some UK brewers do use UK grown hops, especially in the real ale market, but they don't produce enough to meet demand and the ranges available would be severely reduced.

[_V_]

Beer is still going to be an issue. We brew loads of it in the UK but the vast majority of the hops used are imported, particularly for lagers. Some UK brewers do use UK grown hops, especially in the real ale market, but they don't produce enough to meet demand and the ranges available would be severely reduced.

How about increasing the amount of hops grown locally?

No doubt that is impossible, insurmountable, unsolvable problem and there's no way that could ever be achieved, unless beer costs £100000000000000000000000 per fluid ounce and we waited 1000000000000000000000000000000 years.

[d000hg]

We simply have too many people to grow all our food generally don't we? Or is that a myth?

[_V_]

Do you realise how pathetic these insurmountable issues sound coming from so called educated professionals?

I wonder if big companies are switching to overseas IT staff after visiting UK IT forums such as this, and realising that there is no creativity, adaptability or resilience with UK IT people?

[darmstadt]

Do you realise how pathetic these insurmountable issues sound coming from so called educated professionals?

I wonder if big companies are switching to overseas IT staff after visiting UK IT forums such as this, and realising that there is no creativity, adaptability or resilience with UK IT people?

Yes. HTH.

[DaveB]

How about increasing the amount of hops grown locally?

No doubt that is impossible, insurmountable, unsolvable problem and there's no way that could ever be achieved, unless beer costs £100000000000000000000000 per fluid ounce and we waited 1000000000000000000000000000000 years.

Absolutely doable, but not overnight. They take a year to mature and be ready to produce a decent harvest. Plant spring 2021, assuming land is available to the growers, and first harvest will be ready in September 2022. They should be available for brewing by October once they have been dried and processed so with a bit of luck you'll have beer produced using the new hops ready for Xmas after next.

[WTFH]

We simply have too many people to grow all our food generally don't we? Or is that a myth?

Not a myth. Best thing to do would be to give all the old, unproductive people a "vaccine"...

[darmstadt]

Looks like no Cod and Chips either:

Norway may stop British and EU vessels fishing in its waters from 1 January, its fisheries minister said today, as talks on the management of common North Sea stocks have been held up by London’s protracted Brexit standoff with Brussels, Reuters reports.

Norway, which is not part of the EU but is part of the European single market, had previously negotiated annually with the bloc about the management of common fish stocks, access to each other’s waters and exchange of fish quotas. That has had to change following Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. Britain completes its departure from the EU’s orbit on 31 December.

In September, Norway and Britain agreed a so-called “framework” agreement on which to base their future relations on fisheries, Reuters reports. But on one specific issue - the management of North Sea fish that swim between waters belonging to the EU, Norway and Britain

- Oslo wants a trilateral deal in place. And these negotiations have not yet started. Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen, the fisheries minister, told parliament:

If we do not get a deal by 1 January, we will not open Norway’s economic fishing zones to vessels from the EU and Britain. Neither can we expect Norwegian vessels to get access to their [the EU’s and Britain’s] zones before a deal is in place.