30% of fruit and veg thrown away because its mishappen

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

juno wrote: »

In my experience of working in a shop, we don't get that much wonky veg come in - but that we do get isnt bought. I might be that people don't want it because they aren't used to it, but with a choice the non-wonky sells first.

Perhaps if it were cheaper, it would sell more easily?


If I'm looking at a bag of what are essentially horse carrots, I don't expect a grudging reduction of roughly 17p compared to lovingly hand selected, washed by the tears of a thousand fairies, special edition natural sculptures like wot the supermarket reckons I want to buy as part of some sort of aspirational keepy-uppy with the other people in the supermarket queue.

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Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Perhaps if it were cheaper, it would sell more easily?


If I'm looking at a bag of what are essentially horse carrots, I don't expect a grudging reduction of roughly 17p compared to lovingly hand selected, washed by the tears of a thousand fairies, special edition natural sculptures like wot the supermarket reckons I want to buy as part of some sort of aspirational keepy-uppy with the other people in the supermarket queue.

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Thanks for that my coffee has just spluttered over the keyboard:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

craftynutters

I live in Deal in kent and the fruit and veg shop in town have cauliflowers at 2 for £1 they are very large the supermarket wouldnt have them off the grower because they where too big.

lollipopsarah

Beggars belief doesn't it, no one has ever asked me if I would buy odd shaped food!
Of course I would, it all gets chopped up/chucked in a pot or whatever.
It's criminal what supermarkets throw out, they can't give it away bacause of the fear of litigation.
A while ago my son tried to find a home for a hellova lot of bread, and even the local zoo wouldn't take it - mad!
xx

juno

But why should it be discounted? If it's all the same like people here are trying to say it should all be the same. You expecting a discount is agreeing that wonky veg is inferior.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

juno wrote: »

But why should it be discounted? If it's all the same like people here are trying to say it should all be the same. You expecting a discount is agreeing that wonky veg is inferior.

It is in some ways. It's harder to peel, won't cook evenly, harder to portion up, can be a bit woody, have carrot fly holes in it, broccoli could have resident caterpillars in it, onions could have dry bits inside where they were deprived of water during the growing season - if it's asparagus, it could be far woodier, for example (so you have to discard more of it) you get more wastage from it, it holds more dirt, it doesn't keep as well.....

It is poorer quality a lot of the time. It can be got around - but if there is going to be so much charged for an artificial idea of perfection, they they can bloody well charge a more appropriate price for something that isn't.


Choosing to throw it away rather than let it go to people who are prepared to take the risk on the wastage, and are prepared to put the extra time and effort into making something edible out of it for a greater reduction in price, is unfair to consumer, farmer and the environment.




Using the same argument you do, then there should be absolutely no difference in price per pound between a perfect tiny Jersey first crop spud and a slightly spongy old King Edward.

If that's going to happen, I'll have the squishy veg price, if you please.

JIL

If it tastes the same then why isnt it snapped up to go in ready meals? What a waste! Theres no way it should be left to rot when people are going hungry.

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craftynutters wrote: »

I live in Deal in kent and the fruit and veg shop in town have cauliflowers at 2 for £1 they are very large the supermarket wouldnt have them off the grower because they where too big.

That's terrific I would snap them up in a minute .My brother lives in rural France around 400 miles away from Deal and locally he says that a decent cauli can cost towards a fiver each Needless to say cauli isn't often on their menu:eek:

jenster

craftynutters wrote: »

I live in Deal in kent and the fruit and veg shop in town have cauliflowers at 2 for £1 they are very large the supermarket wouldnt have them off the grower because they where too big.

isn't that just ridiculous :mad: rejected because there too BIG
its got to come a time where all the nonsense goes out the window
we have to get a grip and supermarkets cant waste food and keep putting the farmers down for it

id defiantly buy them

bearcub

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

If I'm looking at a bag of what are essentially horse carrots, I don't expect a grudging reduction of roughly 17p compared to lovingly hand selected, washed by the tears of a thousand fairies, special edition natural sculptures like wot the supermarket reckons I want to buy as part of some sort of aspirational keepy-uppy with the other people in the supermarket queue.

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We buy a huge bag of carrots, which we share with our horses - we're not proud! Another lady at the livery yard recently bought a bag of 'horse carrots' that she'd got for a ridiculously low price, and offered us some. I think out of the whole sack, we found a dozen that weren't turning black.

As for the huge cauliflowers, we'd buy huge caulis immediately - the florets freeze so well, and we love the stuff.