To purchase a small cabbage at the grocers?

[Pancakeflipper]

Went to our grocers today.
I love my grocers. I go twice a week. Usually with DS2.

Saw a small white cabbage. Join your hands together and make a circle - it's just a little bigger than that.

Added this cabbage to my other goods. Thought it would be good for my self catering long weekend away with my 2 children. Thinking salad / stew. Weather dependent.

The lovely shop assistant added weighed it and put it in my bag.

Then a man stood several people behind me said in a loud voice that small cabbages were reserved for old people who live alone and I had to buy a larger cabbage.

So is there a unwritten or written rule I have missed that states what size veg you can buy depending on your position within society?

And if so can you please link me the rules so I don't fuck up in the grocers again cos it was very embarrassing for us all.

Wow amazing . It certainly puts a spin on things.

Getting really excited about my vege and fruit shopping for our sc holiday next week now! Who would have thought?

I hope you pointed out they aren't reserved for the elderly (well only in his mind) hence your ability to purchase it. Perhaps he thinks they should be, but that's entirely different. So what about people living alone of any age? or if only one of you like cabbage? Or if you don't want to be living off cabbage for an entire fucking week?

This has made me laugh. I can imagine my face if someone said it to me

But they still have pea pods in season and they are handy sizes for the elderly aren't they?

Well yes

Carefully cut head, arm and leg holes could see them double up as a onesie for the more vertically challenged.

To keep them warm on a Winter night.

I had a similar situation buying just 4 sausages in Reading once at a "local" butcher.

Told me it wasn't worth his while to pack it up for me. Ah, I see your point I told him and asked him for about £100 worth of stuff, naice stuff too, steak, chops, nice lamb shoulder (dressed), beef joint etc.

Then I told him to stick it up his arse and left.

Mightn't been a joke that fell flat?

I once bought a single banana from the greengrocers.
Greengrocer handed it to me and said 'there you are love you'll have fun with that later'

I am having a stunningly shit day - maybe it is because I've been cursed by the cabbage warden.

Wanted to get a small courgette today - ended up hauling home a 2 stone watermelon. Fecking rules

Am CRYING with laughter at Worra ... "Carefully cut head, arm and leg holes" hahahaha!

This thread is so funny! Beemom being forced to purchase water melon due to the rules!

Why does nothing like this ever happen to me? This is hilarious!!

i feel a help the aged campaign coming on. Sad man on telly...surrounded by enormous cabbages, evil mother cackling as her children throw the last small one to eachother.

Just 10p a month can help loons like this man find a small cabbage. Text now.

What about plums, peaches and nectarines? Are there rules I should know about those?

Yes Tee there are. Nectarines are only for people with an aversion to velvety textures. Everybody else can make do with peaches.

Quite a subtle test, this one ; they display the nectarines in a velvety box - if you haven't had to ask for help to get them then you don't need them.

Bee you missed a trick there ! That watermelon was your ticket to the hot backstage staff-only party !

Pancake , you do realise what a lucky escape you had with just a throat clearance and snarky comment, don't you ?

Cabbage wardens are the highly trained ninjas of the Trading Standards world.

You're lucky he didn't use his martial arts skills to chop the nanna-cabbage out of your hands. He must still be on his provisional cabbage warden licence.

At my greengrocer's there's a poster reminding staff of the Think 71! campaign to make sure they ID anyone trying this sort of thing. Before the crackdown underage shoppers could sometimes blag themselves a small cabbage by donning a head scarf and carrying a copy of The Lady.

::wonders where she can get a fake cabbage ID::

"You're lucky he didn't use his martial arts skills to chop the nanna-cabbage out of your hands. He must still be on his provisional cabbage warden licence."

Inertia priceless

But what is the definition of a small cabbage? Is there a legal standard? Do the greengrocers have a gauge to put the cabbage through to see if it is a small one or not?

Oh gods this is too funny

I am so off to the greengrocers today to see if this is a thing...
dons beige slacks and a plastic rain bonnet, furtively sneaks out house

When I were a lass I worked in a greengrocers on a Saturday. We used to cut cabbages and cucumbers in half. I worked there for 3 years and was never told about the small cabbages for old people rule.

Hmm, so what if an older, single person such as I am wanted to buy a HUGE cabbage? Would I have been told it was for families only?

I feel oddly reassured I am not the only one to experience rules and regs in the grocers whether set by fellow customers or the actual grocer.

Inertia, if he'd gone in with full force with a martial arms attack - he could have made coleslaw.

I have never had a problem buying cherry tomatoes as opposed to the bigger and mighty beef tomato. So at our grocers it seems to just be a cabbage related issue.

Suzieismyname - our grocers cut up cucumbers and I have been known to just buy a half. But some times the whole ones are massive.

Ha ha!! What an idiot.

How did he know you were not buying the cabbage for your nana??

I would have been tempted to say "Oh did I miss the sign. Where is the sign that says this and looked at him expectantly to point me the non existant sign?"

Sometimes people need a wake up nudge to realise they have just said something they should have only thought!!

^I once bought a single banana from the greengrocers.
Greengrocer handed it to me and said 'there you are love you'll have fun with that later' shock^

For realll????? ugh...