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Post by KTJ on Jan 20, 2018 10:48:57 GMT 10
The bakery at one of the supermarkets in my town produces Hot Cross Buns 362 days of the year (363 days during leap years).
The only reason they don't produce Hot Cross Buns 364 (or 365) days of the year is because the law forces them to stay closed on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Guess who owns the supermarket in question? I'll give you a hint....they're an Australian company.
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Post by KTJ on Jan 20, 2018 10:59:07 GMT 10
BTW....we get strawberries in June. Well, usually the first week in June.
They aren't imported strawberries either, nor are they grown indoors.
Wee Red Barn is a specialist berry grower five minutes north up the highway from my town and they are owned and operated by a Scottish berry grower and his Kiwi wife. They start picking strawberries in late September and keep producing and picking them until one week into June, when they rip the last of the plants out and replace them with new season plants.
Their strawberries are simply divine....I've never tasted such luscious, sweet strawberries anywhere else. The owner has a horticultural degree from St Andrews University in Scotland, specialising in berry growing. He has an unusual method of growing strawberries unlike anyone else I have ever seen. He grows his strawberries in bags of mulch. He lies the bags down and cuts six slits across the side of the bag, then plants two strawberry plants in each slit. The bags are then placed on elevated platforms about a metre above the ground and with a weather cloth canopy directly above each row of bags of strawberries. The elevated platforms are assembled like giant Maccano sets and can be put up and taken down very quickly; same with the frames supporting the weather cloths, which protect the strawberries from hailstones and too much sunlight.
They also grow blueberries (harvested for about five months each year), boysenberries (in November and early December), blackberries (from early December until about the end of January) and raspberries (a summer crop which is picked from about the end of November through until early January and an autumn crop which is picked from mid-March through until late-April).
I'm having a rest from their berries at the moment for about a week or so, because I've pigged out on them so much over the past several weeks that I got the shits really bad.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2018 12:47:02 GMT 10
"..Barefoot and saronged, still reeling from Christmas, I stared at the mounded tables of plastic-wrapped heresy."
I rather hope Ms Farrelly was using poetic licence here, but I still couldn't bring myself to read the rest of it after that opener. Little turns my stomach more than the sight of barefoot shoppers in a supermarket. I get my food here, people!! On the subject of HCBs in January...meh! I think they should be sold at Xmas too...Hell, why not all year? Remove the cross* off the top, no one offended. * I remember my bitter disappointment as a youngster having his first HCB in finding that the cross wasn't made from sweet icing!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2018 5:23:31 GMT 10
3 a penny 4 a penny capitalism consumes all that is good.
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Post by KTJ on Jan 21, 2018 10:04:04 GMT 10
I don't know how our local strawberry growers manage it, but they produce berries that seem relatively tasteless. Just like your Queensland tomatoes. Our supermarkets used to be flooded with them and they were cheap, but tasteless crap and very watery. However, the bottom has largely dropped out of that particular market, because Kiwi consumers have woken up to the fact that cheap usually equates to nasty. Kiwi consumers instead spend the money these days to purchase really tasty Kiwi-grown hot-house tomatoes. Field grown tomatoes in NZ are generally only used by mass food producers, such as Heinz-Watties. When I was living in and working out of Gisborne, we used to haul multiple trainloads of tomatoes from the Gisborne area to Watties' huge plant at Hastings. They were largely tasteless crap, but nowhere near as bad as those Queensland tomatoes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2018 15:29:39 GMT 10
As was saying on ya other thread change is inevitable and as inequality rises, as it will, and political dissatisfaction grows even further as in the future the welfare net is pulled from under people, no pensions bugger all dole, the criminal underclass controlling no go areas, then civil unrest will be a problem and opportunity for the radical element to make ground.
Unless Social Democracy governs its bleak future.
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Post by KTJ on Apr 20, 2018 15:49:09 GMT 10
The f#$%#$%#$%cking supermarkets in my town are still knocking out hot cross buns from their bakeries.
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Post by pim on Jan 26, 2019 12:57:23 GMT 10
Here's a thought provoking piece for all the "progressive causes" bandwagon-hoppers who, when the mask is ripped off, are enthusiastic trickle-down philibusters
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 8:21:03 GMT 10
Politicians are not listening to the common people, they just have their own agendas and careers of just winning...at all cost...ethics doesn't enter the equation.
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Post by fat on Feb 24, 2024 23:54:39 GMT 10
Bertolt's comment so relevant today.
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