Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
calm down lads, don't turn this into awillycucumber waving thread.
I don't have a willy
Has anyone ever bought 3 cucumbers at once?
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I don't have a willy
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Cucumber in an omelette*? You are a right wrong un.
*the celery could be questionable too
Celery is always questionable: a salad that costs more calories than it produces and leaves you feeling like you deserve a refund.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
They have a trolley with seven full crates of lettuce, or half filled with nothing but frozen broccoli... they tend to stand out from the normal domestic shopper. Hope that helps
Last Friday in Aldi a customer in front of me had a trolley with only packets of green beans. Checkout operator call a manager who took him aside for a chat as he left checkout.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I made a huge salad for my niece's engagement party. It included celery. A woman came up to me and sighed, saying that it looked lovely, but she couldn't touch it because of the celery in it. I laughed and suggested that if she didn't like celery, just pick out the pieces of celery and eat the rest...
She said that it wasn't a case of not liking, more a case of not getting ill or dying - she had a severe celery allergy. I had never heard of that before. I must have had a WTF!!! look on my face because she then whipped out her epi-pen and waved it at me. I searched for 'celery allergy' afterwards - yes, it is a real problem for some people!
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
People told me not to add hot chillies to my porridge, but what do they know!
The same hidebound fools who advised me against blue cheese and Soreen
- Location
- Glasgow
Yes, celery is one of the 14 allergens that must be declared in UK food standards law.
While I broadly agree with limiting supermarket purchases to business users - I say broadly, because sometimes the business is so small that they can't use up a wholesaler's box of lettuce before it spoils - sometimes groups other than households need to buy cheap.
Homes for the elderly or for young people, soup kitchens, community food groups or similar.
Our local food bank needs to buy supermarket items when there are not enough donations of those items.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I didn't know that mustard and lupin were a problem either. (In fact, I hadn't heard of lupin, except the flower!) I just looked it up - the legume lupin is related to peanuts and soybeans.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
I used to say that too, but it turns out to be a myth.
https://www.inverse.com/science/debunking-the-myth-of-negative-calorie-food
Summary = “There are no negative-calorie foods.”
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I don't have a willy
Were they out of stock at Aldi? I think they had a BOGOFF offer going?
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Humpf. I still feel I'm entitled to compensation after eating celery.
I was going to get some but they only had medium or large....no use to me 🙂
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
And only got the wonky ones?
