This packaging takes the piss

[insanitypack]

I tweeted Waitrose and this was their response:

Hi Sam, reducing our impact on the environment is really important to us and we know it is to our customers too. We have committed to making all our own-label packaging widely recyclable, reusable, or home compostable by 2025.

Surely this product shouldn't have made it onto shelves in the first bloody place! Madness.

Suburban, if one actually buys garlic in a giant plastic pot, then perhaps they do need someone to them what they should and shouldn't buy?

All fixed.

Of course it’s everyone's business. No one said it wasn’t.

I’m amazed that someone who shops in Waitrose, known for their excessive packaging, believes they are in any position to criticise anyone else’s choices.

Impending, please read my posts.

It’s the OP who’s shopping in Waitrose, not me.

I make my own black garlic it’s bloody delicious! But does take about 6 weeks.

Op YANBU. I’m sick to death of everything being wrapped in plastic. A cucumber already has a protective layer, it’s doesn't need more. Instead of taxing sugar we should be taxing the fuck out of packaging. What’s going to kill us first? The planet collapsing under a mountain of rubbish or obesity? God knows but we need to do something about it.

I was thoroughly on board with this thread until it started insulting people with the temerity to buy black garlic and implying they’re so dim as to be required to be taught a lesson as to how to buy their food.

Black garlic is very soft compared with regular garlic so needs either to be sold by hand or packaged robustly. If it’s chucked in a hopper, put on display then squeezed to death by every Tom, Dick or Harry then there will be a lot of waste of an entirely different type.

“please don’t @ me - I’m on the thread”

Never heard that one before! Why can’t you @ someone if they’re on the thread?

Because they don’t need an email to remind them they’re on the thread they’re reading.

@SuburbanRhonda
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Yes, it’s fantastically irritating to get umpteen emails about a thread you are actively typing on. This isn’t Twitter; it works differently here.

I bought some from sainsburys ages ago. I think it came in a cardboard box.

While that pot does look superfluous for that product, I do like a pot which can be reused. It's better packaging than some vacuum formed thing which will need to be thrown away after it is cut open.

Apparently it doesn't now, Lost. Something to do with the app. It does mean I've had to turn the feature off entirely because it is, as you put it, fantastically irritating.

It means that if anyone has bothered to "at" me from some other thread I'm not following then I'll be totally oblivious to it but there you go. I'm not really sure what the point of it was to begin with TBH.

Black garlic is very soft compared with regular garlic so needs either to be sold by hand or packaged robustly.

Which can be done with less (or zero( plastic. Waitrose is way behind in its commitment to plastic reduction.

SuburbanRhonda
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Or people can not @ me when I ask them to stop

I'd be more angry at checkouts when staff automatically put items into those smaller see through plastic bags with no discussion. I had to tell one staff member not to as I was happy with my veg being loose. No need to put a few onions and carrots in a bag then into my shopping bag.

I'd like to try black garlic. Sounds interesting.

How do you make black garlic?

Waitrose is one of the worst shops for putting fruit in black polystyrene cradles... terrible wasteful packaging throughout the shop. I assume they think that people who shop there are too posh to GAF.

PS what the hell is black garlic?

Interested in how it becomes black garlic too.

Poor Rhonda - coming on here for a good old grump and everyone lays into her.

I hate all this excess packaging in the Uk.

I bought a bunch of loose herbs from Sainsbury’s yesterday and DD actually said yuck that’s gross they’re not wrapped up and are touching things. Made me so sad that she’s used to seeing herbs in a plastic wrapper and thinks they’re ‘cleaner’.

I have some black garlic (it was a gift) and don't know what to do with it! I'm vegetarian - any ideas it's in a pot just like that one - hangs head in shame

Another here who wants to know more about black garlic

Annoys me too - get the rage seeing golden delicious sold at Asda packaged in a polystyrene tray of 6, covered in a bag - no need!!!

Black garlic is normal garlic which is fermented and less sharp in taste but more goodness /antioxidants less stinky

For black garlic lovers ...

ottolenghi black garlic flatbreads