to wonder if cucumbers are an essential purchase?

[MadameMeursault]

Woman walked out of Tesco in front of me carrying 2 cucumbers only! Wtf?

Get a grip and mind your own fecking business!
There is a great number of reasons for why that situation may be reasonable & just a small number unreasonable,
So why not just give the benefit of the doubt

Ffs. Get a life

you buy enough food for a week - or 2, because apparently some people can't even carry a shop for 2 weeks  -

I don't know why you're all at the idea of people being unable to carry 2 weeks worth of food. People with disabilities do exist you know. I'm one of them and I don't have a car and I have nerve damage to both hands and arms, amongst other issues and I can't carry a weeks shop let alone two.

You can argue anything is non-essential. I don't think meat, eggs or dairy are essential, having done without them perfectly well for a few years. But just because they're not essential to my diet and my household doesn't mean they're non essential to everyone's.

baroqueandblue
You are only offending me only as far as stupidity is offensive, I won't lose sleep over something so ridiculous from someone who clearly hasn't got the faintest clue they are talking about.

The slippery slope is accusing people banging on the need to stay home of all sorts of crimes... the loudest ones are NHS workers, you dare telling them they are going too far, do you?

I think the point the OP is making is, can it be classed as an essential shop if only cucumber was needed. I tend to lean to feeling it isn’t. Shop as infrequently as possible was the instruction. One item can be managed without for a few days. Or else buy the big shop a bit early if you must have the cucumber.

you buy enough food for a week - or 2, because apparently some people can't even carry a shop for 2 weeks

There are many people who don't have the space to store more than a couple of days worth of food or who don't have the money to buy a week or two of food at once or enough credit on the key meter to keep the fridge/freezer running to keep it all fresh.

Try think outside your own bubble.

medicinal cucumber? for hayfever or conjunctivitis?

Or its the only veg her DC will eat?

I'm tempted to go out and buy a cucumber or two. Just so I can shove them up the next nosy fucker's backside.

Your pack of milk or your cucumber, yes that can wait.

Not if that cucumber or milk is all your child will eat/drink that day.

I disagree with other posters that we shouldn't judge other people, but in the case YABU.

If, however, I saw her and a dozen other people turning up for a BBQ at a neighbours house I damn well would judge her and report the lot of them.

But unless people are being obviously and deliberately irresponsible, you should mind your own business.

There are many people who don't have the space to store more than a couple of days worth of food

How much food do you need for 2 days?

I love how ridiculous arguments people need to come up to explain unreasonable behaviours
It would be more funny if we didn't all end up paying for that nonsense by having to put up with a stricter lockdown.

I cannot think of any individual food product that would be essential. Maybe she was at the shop, forgot them and went back in. This is getting ridiculous.

Food is essential as is medicine.

As in only shop for essentials like food or medicine. It doesn't matter what food that is.

Of course they are, for putting in gin.

that idiot is not going to survive for 2 weeks on 2 cucumbers, is she?

Luckily she doesn’t have to, as it is permitted to go shopping more often than once a fortnight.

One of the only things DD eats.

Mind your business

I was only saying at lunchtime that I should have bought more cucumber. We have eaten 1 cucumber in less than 2 days (family of 4).
So yes, they are essential.

I have pets that bloody love cucumbers. I would still add in other items if I needed to buy them it!

I'm also someone who couldn't carry a weeks shop, thanks to my bloody three cats. Anyway, i went to lidl for bits, they had nothing i needed, so i came home with tulips and Easter decorations.

I ended up going into £land the week before to see if they had something, again no, so again i bought Easter decorations.

Maybe she went somewhere else and they had none. I went to shop yesterday for many things inc milk and bread and DH said could you get some lager I really fancy a nice cold bottle later.

There was no lager, none at all (village co-op).

Normally I would've then gone to another shop to get it on but you can't really do that now, not for lager anyway, if it had been cucumber (one of the only veg my DD eats also) I might of done though.

(I did get a bottle of Prosecco instead, he coped😂).

How much food do you need for 2 days?

When DH and I first moved in together we had a tiny little flat with an under the counter mini-fridge provided by the landlord. It had three shelves and one of those tiny little freezer shelves that can around three items at most. Above the fridge was a shelf for storing our tins. A hob but no oven, one countertop, and no cupboards other than the one with the boiler in it. It was temporary for us because we were students trying to rent as cheaply as possible, lots of people live like that permanently. There are people who don't have fridges or can't afford to run a fridge/freezer on a daily basis. Who can't afford to fill their cupboards and live day to day.

How hard is it to comprehend, STAY THE FUCK HOME.
You don't pop to the shops for a couple of bits. You shop for whatever you need as seldom as you possibly can. It doesn't matter what you buy, but if you only needed 1 pack of milk or a cucumber, you are taking the piss.
How do you know she hadnt went in for other things that werent there?

If you buy enough food for a week - or 2, because apparently some people can't even carry a shop for 2 weeks hmm - you needed it. If you buy barely enough for a snack, you are a CF who deserves to be fined.
Not everyone lives in a city or a has a car to drive to a supermarket to get 2 weeks shopping at once. I dont get 2 weeks shopping at once, I havent got room in my fridge!

If you go to the shop with a list, go, grab everything you need and go, you are doing it right. If you go for a browse, you are an idiot.
How difficult is that to comprehend?
I spent yesterday taking carboadrd and plastic trays off the shelves in a supermarket because the stock had run out and trying to restock other things. It wasnt even busy but we had run out of loads of stuff by 12md!

You cant always get whats on your damm list, get real!

Cucumbers are a vegetable. How can they not be essential? It is food, a vegetable with a lot of nutrients.

Anyway, what has essential even got to do with food purchases? If you need to go shopping for something, you're already in the store, so what law says you can't buy ice cream, for example? If you did 2 trips, one for ice cream solely, yes, that would be unreasonable. But if you are already there, then does it matter? Why does it matter what one buys? If you're there in the store because you needed food (whether bread, milk, vegetables etc), you're there anyway, so why can't you add what you want to your shopping trolley? I am genuinely confused that people think you can't buy 'non-essentials' when one is already in the store anyway. Coke, ice cream, biscuits, alcohol, who cares? It never was about essential 'food'.

It's about non-essential TRIPS. Not non-essential purchases. Nowhere is food items even mentioned. Where the heck did this come from???