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  • _V_
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    Indeed there will be plenty of jobs on the fruit farm.

    Hail Brexit.

    Fresh air, and free lunch (if you are a veggie). What's not to like?

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  • greenlake
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    Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View Post
    stick that in your bratwurst
    Jawohl....!

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  • Mordac
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    This is because post Brexit no one in the UK will be able to afford meat.

    Root vegetables - it’s the future...
    Like this, you mean...

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  • NickFitz
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    Looks like a nice boozer!
    It is!

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  • darmstadt
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    But don't worry, Liam fox is currently in the USA working on the trade deal which will see bleached chicken on your table in the not too distant future

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    I've been to Quorn a number of times, and it doesn't look anything like what's in those "sausages"
    Looks like a nice boozer!

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  • Paddy
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    Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View Post
    Yes, Brits to eat more crap

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn

    All Quorn foods contain mycoprotein as an ingredient, which is derived from the Fusarium venenatum fungus and is grown by fermentation
    Quorn's 2002 debut in the US was more problematic than its European introduction. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) expressed multiple concerns over the product.[42] Much of the concern from CSPI and others was over the original labeling of Quorn as a "mushroom based" product, since Fusarium venenatum is not a mushroom (rather, it is a microfungus).[42] The sale of Quorn was contested by The American Mushroom Institute, rival Gardenburger, as well as the CSPI. They filed complaints with advertising and trading-standards watchdogs in Europe and the US, claiming the labelling of Quorn as "mushroom based" was deceptive.[42][43] The CSPI observed that while a mushroom is a fungus, Fusarium is not a mushroom, and stated, "Quorn's fungus is as closely related to mushrooms as humans are to jellyfish

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  • PurpleGorilla
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    This is good news and will be of some comfort to the highly skilled engineers at BAE who are now worried about their jobs as they will not be involved on the new Eurofighter. At least there is hope that they will be able to get new jobs on the assembly line at the new food factory.
    That's Warton, not Teeside.

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    Indeed there will be plenty of jobs on the fruit farm.

    Hail Got any spare Change.

    FTFY
    FTFTFY

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  • NickFitz
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    I've been to Quorn a number of times, and it doesn't look anything like what's in those "sausages"

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    Indeed there will be plenty of jobs on the fruit farm.

    Hail Change.

    FTFY

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  • BlasterBates
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    The wheel was a bit of a blow to those people who had spent their lives pushing blocks of stone around on logs but they coped.

    Point is you cannot expect a job to last forever.
    Indeed there will be plenty of jobs on the fruit farm.

    Hail Brexit.

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    This is good news and will be of some comfort to the highly skilled engineers at BAE who are now worried about their jobs as they will not be involved on the new Eurofighter. At least there is hope that they will be able to get new jobs on the assembly line at the new food factory.
    The wheel was a bit of a blow to those people who had spent their lives pushing blocks of stone around on logs but they coped.

    Point is you cannot expect a job to last forever.

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  • stek
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    This is because post Brexit no one in the UK will be able to afford meat.

    Root vegetables - it’s the future...

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  • BlasterBates
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    This is good news and will be of some comfort to the highly skilled engineers at BAE who are now worried about their jobs as they will not be involved on the new Eurofighter. At least there is hope that they will be able to get new jobs on the assembly line at the new food factory.

    Leave a comment:

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