AIBU to be really annoyed at being TOLD to buy local strawberrries???

[LPO]

I have just got back from doing my weekly food shop with DS. And am fuming!

I was unloading my shopping at the check-out and another customer came up behind me. This old man decided that it was his place to tell me that the strawberries that I was buying were the 'wrong ones' and that i should 'go back and change them for the local ones'. I was really taken aback and began to explain that i was buying these as they were that bit cheaper etc. He kept arguing with me that I should be paying more and buying the others etc.

I totally agree that it is better to buy local produce when you can. However as money is a little short at the moment I am trying to spend less. And surely this is totally my choice and no one else has the right to tell me what i should/shouldn't be buying?!

Is it not MY choice what I spend MY money on???

Strawberries are bollocks. Wait til late August and pick blackberries from hedgerows.

OP YANBU. If someone came up to me and srtarted dictating grocery purchases I would have a distinct 'you talkin' to me' Riobert De Niro psycho look on my face.

If I want to buy strawberries from Lithuania I will. Nobody comes up and siezes your bottle of balsamic from Modena and says 'oooh, you don't wanna do that, buy some LOCAL Sarson's vinegar from Norfolk' or some such shit.

I can't be bothered with OAPs in the supermarket since they used to think it was my job to stop them shortsightedly pushing their trolleys into my toddlers. Have to fight off the urge to feel pleased they are now a bit intimidated by my 8 and 10 year old. The store manager also once had to rescue me from an old man who went mental at me because he wanted me to join the massive handbasket only queue rather than be in front of him in the trolley queue. I think we need to find them all something more constructive to do with themselves. You buy whatever strawberries you like! Local might be better but not if more expensive and packaged so badly they are going off before you get them home.

Wow! That's a slight sweeping generalisation of OAPs there howabout and why would they feel intimidated by your 8 and 10yr olds?

For those that have asked, I'm from Belgium.

Thanks for your comments, DH thinks it's hysterical and wishes that he was there to witness the whole thing!

LPO somehow I'm not surprised

I wouldn't let it bother me. Some folk feel it is their place to foist their opinion on others. They have usually not spoken to anyone else all day so I see it as my good deed for the day not to give them a verbal lashing and Rise Above It.

I do the nod and say "oh really? Is that right? Hmmmm" while carrying on exactly as I please.

That is very public spirited of you Katie!

That is what I do Katie!

OP you really should be buying local, don't you know!!

Bemybebe I know that now! ;)

He should be on mumsnet with those judgypants!

Yes I await my MBE for services to the community

i agree with him English srawberries are the best - but it's rude to comment on other customers' food choices. So YANBU.

They weren't English!! I live in Belgium so 'local' is Belgian..

"They weren't English!! I live in Belgium so 'local' is Belgian..."

Haha, in this case YASooooooBU LPO.
Anyway, who wants strawberries right now, they are as crunchy as apples!!! Wait til June.

My DS2 does! He is a bit obsessive and dives out the trolley for them when he sees them in the supermarket! Doesn't pay attention to the biscuit aisle, but strawberries are another story!

Not even sure he is right. Lots of English strawberries are grown in heated tunnels - which is even worse for the environment than flying them in.

arf @ 'foreign speaking country'