Ugly Veg

[Aberdeenplotter]

Article in one of the Sunday Newspapers today saying supermarkets cannot get a supply of perfect looking veg and instead will be stocking ugly veg leading up to Christmas. I personally think there is no such thing as an ugly vegetable but maybe I'm like a parent with an ugly baby and am blinded from the imperfections of the productions from my own seed.

[veggiechicken]

At our little market yesterday, the local CSA organic veg growers had a box of ugly/funny carrots! Most of them were stumpy little things with legs in all directions. I spent a lot of time playing with them, choosing the funniest ones and turning them into little characters I couldn't have had that much pleasure from "pretty" carrots.

[Feral007]

LOL at you both! VC leave the carrots alone!

Actually I'm a sucker for home grown ugly veg too. I'm happy to put up with quite a lot from home grown veg....but if it's chock full of chemicals I'd like it to at least look pretty.

[Hans Mum]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!! Its got the same nutritional value as its 'beautiful' cousins. Just another example of madness and obviously increases the price as the ugly stuff has to be sorted out and presumably destroyed or sent for animal feed.

[Bren In Pots]

My carrots failed this year so at the greengrocers I'll be picking the odd looking ones because that's what I'm used to eating.

[Thelma Sanders]

just a thought.....

if we're eating what the animals usually eat this year - what will the animals be eating

[Poolcue]

I feel this is a new marketing ploy by the supermarkets to increase their profits.

[Bigmallly]

Article in one of the Sunday Newspapers today saying supermarkets cannot get a supply of perfect looking veg and instead will be stocking ugly veg leading up to Christmas.

I bet it'll be an ugly price as well.............

[veggiechicken]

And it was "Ugly" apples back in the Autumn http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...uit_67922.html
I think they're going for the sympathy vote Equality for all fruit and veg - I'm going to start a protest - Anyone got a Sandwich board (ugly of course).

[Aberdeenplotter]

nah, it's just that they can't get a supply of what they have over a number of years persuaded the consumer is what they want to buy and they now need to reverse that thinking so that the consumer will buy the "ugly" produce so that they will continue to earn profits.

I saw rooster spuds recently with words on the packaging along the lines of "smaller this year but equally as tasty". Albert Bartlett the producer, at least being honest with the customer

[veggiechicken]

In 2009 the EU decreed that 26 sorts of "wonky veg" could now be sold
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | 'Ugly' fruit back on sale in EU
However "The rules will remain unchanged for 10 types of produce, which account for 75% of EU fruit and vegetable trade: apples, citrus fruit, kiwi fruit, lettuces, peaches and nectarines, pears, strawberries, sweet peppers, table grapes and tomatoes.
But an apple which does not meet the standard could still be sold, as long as it were labelled "product intended for processing" or equivalent wording, the commission says."
So who are we subsidising - the EU producer? The Supermarkets? the EU?.......
Give me Wonky, Ugly, veg any day

[VirginVegGrower]

Personally I think the EU directives should be thrown into a big pot and boiled up to mush. One vote here for proper veg without seed selection or spraying. The world isn't perfect and it's pointless expecting our veg to be. Once it's peeled and chopped it looks like any other.

[cptncrackoff]

just a thought.....

If we're eating what the animals usually eat this year - what will the animals be eating

... Each other!!!!

[veggiechicken]

...then they start on the EU

[Aberdeenplotter]

the season of wishful thinking eh