People need to think more outside the box with eating in hot weather

My favourite sandwich is chicken, lettuce, and mayo. I eat salad a lot, even during the cold months. I always have iceberg lettuce with it. It's my fave bit.

I think people are just trying to make small talk in a supermarket.

YABU. Folk can eat what they choose. I'm lazy so I buy bags of leaves or salad. I can't be bothered preparing a whole lettuce. All the outer leaves aren't even edible in a lot of cases..

You do if you know about and use the Salad Matrix.

Samin Nosmat's Salt Fat Acid Heat will take your salads to the next level.

Lucky those who can afford leaves that are not lettuce. It takes probably £5 or more to replace the weight of a double pack of romaine, little gem or iceberg with rocket or watercress etc.

Lettuce is a good base for tastier stuff.

But yes, you can make good salads from finely shredded white cabbage, red cabbage, carrots etc and it doesn’t have to be drenched in mayo as coleslaw.

I bet they do have more on June than February

but one week in June demand might double and you can’t predict or buy your way out of that

Iceberg lettuce is tasteless, a round or butterfield one has a nice flavour.

You don't win friends with salad.

Since weather can’t be accurately predicted months in advance there is only so much shops can do if a sudden good weather spell leads to a run on the lettuces

But it can’t be that great a leap of faith to realise you’ll sell more lettuces in June than in February.

Not accepting abuse is different to campaigning against poor defenceless lettuces.

Abuse is not acceptable. Lettuce is.

Since weather can’t be accurately predicted months in advance there is only so much shops can do if a sudden good weather spell leads to a run on the lettuces

and if people fancy lettuce it’s irrelevant that other options are available

justone of those things that can never be solved

Of course abuse isn’t acceptable. Although I wonder how much of it is genuine abuse, rather than people just complaining because an item is out of stock at a time when a supermarket should be able to anticipate high demand. Your employer’s failure to provide sufficient stock is not the customer’s fault.

I used to work in an office with an in-house cafe. The most popular item was jacket potatoes, but try to get one after 12.30 and you’d almost certainly be out of luck. I asked once, more in hope than anticipation, at 1 and was told “Ooh, no; they always sell out early. They’re really popular”. Apparently it never occurred to anyone to just buy more fucking potatoes.

I know! Imagine only have curry in 3 months of the year. 😂

If I eat out, I'm not ordering a salad as a main.

Because lettuce is the cheapest part of the meal and if it's a lettuce based salad, most of the bowl are filled lettuce leaves with way less of the exciting ingredients on the top.

Same. We eat what we fancy, when we fancy. We spent years living in a hot country, and still ate things like curry and burgers when we wanted them.

As someone who loves a salad, I find it odd how many people don't seem to understand that a good salad can be many things. I always offer to bring salads to BBQs, mostly because otherwise we'll be eating some iceberg lettuce with chopped tomato and cucumber only! But YABU nonetheless to have a moan about others - people eat what they like, know how to cook etc. Not everyone has learnt the art of a good salad, or appreciates it.

I think many/most people have fixed ideas of what to have in warm/cold weather e.g. salads in summer and casseroles in winter - and it's hard to shake the habit.

I read that places like M&S pay weather consultants so they can place orders with their suppliers for increased prawn sandwiches which are the summer bestseller!

We eat burgers in the summer.
And curry.
And anything else that we fancy.

It's only weird to you.

I hate to break it to you. I live where it's hot 9 months of the year. And we, gasp, can't get lettuce sometimes.

Same with avocado's. They are seasonal though, so what do people do? Pay ridiculous amounts for an out of season one, or have something else.

And in those 9 months we just eat normal food. The options are limitless for what else can be eaten apart from salad

I think you've misunderstood the relationship between shop and customer.

The shop offers goods. The customer chooses what s/he wants to buy or buys nothing if the shop doesn't offer what s/he wants. It's a good idea for the shop to offer goods the customer is likely to want, bearing in mind the season. Eg. in December getting in lots of Christmas stuff would be a good idea, in June the weather is likely to be warm so people will want to buy what they fancy in warm weather, eg salad, including lettuce. So, again, the shop would be wise to offer such things.

It's probably not hugely reasonable for customers to grumble rather than simply taking their custom elsewhere, but you could be grateful to them for letting you know what your customers want to buy if you want to keep their custom.

The idea is not that the shop stocks what it feels like and then decrees that customers should buy what the shop chooses to stock and complains when they don't.

😂

Don't worry, the internet has done a number on us all If we can't laugh we will cry

what about Liz Truss?

I suggest we all go out and panic buy lettuce!

I noticed only 1 pack of romaine left in stock at Ocado this week

Lettuce pray we are not too late..

i did take woke olives seriously
and ignored the bougie candles comment