Why do people here have a stash for Brexit?

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I can see the point if it's medicines or medical supplies, but I've seen a few threads here where people are stashing tuna, toilet rolls and sweets!?

Are you all fucking mad?

I'm a total remainder but come on, I know it'll be shit but you'll still find asda and tesco will be open

Hurray! One pledge. You can access local butchers. Like everyone else in the UK . So that's fiiiiiiine.

@howwudufeel , that's kind of how butchers work.

One pledge

It's only a meaningful True BeLeaving pledge if there's not even a tin of beans or drop of milk in the house during Brexit week, to reflect 100% confidence that nothing at all will change (except, of course, all the wonderful promised stuff that will change because personally considered desirable).

Guessing @Clavinova isn't on the poverty line if she can walk to award winning farm shops and butchers from her house. So like everyone else in Britain.

And afford to shop there, of course.

Hilarious that people think that because they can walk to a farm shop nobody else will be able to buy that food before they do.

Do people honestly think that way? So if Fred, Bill and Wendy who generally shop in tescos find that they can't get the food they need there, you think they won't also descend on the farm shops, local shops etc?
Heaven help us if people are genuinely that stupid. I saw a similar comment on a thread months ago where the poster said they were not worried if food could not get to the shops since they would just eat out or get takeaway...

bellinisurge
I read that Aldi sources 77% of its food from the UK if that helps.

Cloudtree
Heaven help us if people are genuinely that stupid.
We are not going to run out of food or starve.

As for walking to the farm shop, one of those government reports did point out that people would still be able to buy good quality, locally produced food - if they had access to it/could afford it. I could always drive to Waitrose instead.

Living the BeLeaverish brexit prep advice for people on Universal Credit - buy award winning venison from farm shops.

Loving

“Just Buy British/Local/Farm Shop/Independent Butcher”

Another one of those super-simplistic feel-good empty slogans.

The UK has not been self-sufficient in food for centuries.

And even if you, personally, genuinely hand-on-heart only allow True British-grown crops to enter the unsullied True British temple of your body, shortages in nasty Forrin supplies could potentially affect you.

Consider:

Say, hypothetically, each human on these hallowed isles requires a very simplified diet consisting of 5 vegetables per day. Now imagine that on average (simplified, again) these 5 vegetables consist of 3 True British carrots and 2 Forrin tomatoes; therefore the 60 million UK population needs 180 million carrots and 120 million tomatoes, i.e. 300 million vegetables per day. In our scenario, we are self-sufficient in True British carrots.

Now imagine that we’ve snarled up the 120 million Forrin tomatoes in a many-day customs tailback, where they can gently moulder into rotten mush instead of gracing the supermarket shelves. Shoppers therefore seek out other vegetables/fruit to fulfil their 5-a-day requirement. So, arithmetic fans, are our 180 million True British carrots still self-sufficient to feed the 300-million-vegetable requirement of the population?

Actually, I hate venison myself.

No-one has claimed we'll 'starve', Clavbabs, but even Johnson talks about disruption.

Jeez, do I have to post the Brexit Bingo or the link to the Dictionary again 🙄

Thanks @Clavinova , I buy and dehydrate lots of fresh fruit and veg from Aldi and I use Aldi Turkey mince to make chilli which I pressure can.
Reading your posts reminds me of the joke "how like the life of our own dear Queen ". Although her taste in hats suggests she's not entirely with you.

TheElementsSong
Most people don't eat 5 vegetables a day.They might buy 5 vegetables a day because they think it's healthy - then they chuck half of it in the bin uneaten.

then they chuck half of it in the bin uneaten.

Remoaners wasting food by stockpiling letter BINGO!

Lettuce FFS DYAC

Most people don't eat 5 vegetables a day.They might buy 5 vegetables a day because they think it's healthy - then they chuck half of it in the bin uneaten.

Well that’s ok then.

Remoaners wasting food by stockpiling
You are obviously not stockpiling fresh vegetables - I was referring to everyday shopping habits.

so we should all lower our veg eating expectations?
I hear lichen can be nutritious.

Most people don't eat 5 vegetables a day.

It's a desperate Squirrel post of deliberate point-missing, anyway. Especially as I had written "hypothetically" and "very simplified" and it would have been obvious to anybody except an actual turnip that it was an illustration of the falsity of "buy local for self-sufficiency."

@Clavinova , I am preserving fresh fruit and vegetables with my trusty (and much joked about) dehydrator.
I buy from Aldi if I haven't grown it myself.

Quite a lot of us eat more than 5.
5 was just the number the uk government thought was achievable. A healthy diet has more than 5.

Don't forget insects @flouncyfanny ... wasp stew, maybe 😂