Some British retailers and wholesalers have been forced to switch to sourcing oranges from South Africa and South America early after last month’s “catastrophic” floods in eastern Spain left farmers struggling to harvest and ship their crops.
You mean trading with many people, not just the EU, is a good idea?
Diversification of supply? The Grauniad’s never heard of it.
Lucky you lot invented the steam ship a couple of hundred years ago.
What about the Jaffa – aka the Palestinian orange? You could buy or avoid depending on your political view.
It’s springtime in the southern hemisphere. I doubt the oranges are ripe.
This is N Hemipshere:
“Navel oranges are ready for harvest from November to June. Valencia oranges are ready in March into October. Cara Cara oranges ripen from December through May.”
I’m not up to date. Is it true that a disease has felled the Florida orange orchards?
I avoid buying Spanish fruit these days. Almost universally tasteless.
Springtime
For Citrus
And Oranges….
I avoid buying Spanish fruit these days. Almost universally tasteless.
But less so than Dutch produce.
Back in the early 80s, we had a couple of old Scottish commies as near neighbours in Nottingham. We used to do their weekly shopping and she always told us off if we bought Outspan or Jaffa oranges.
They insisted on voting communist rather than Labour. I teased them mercifully when, in 1983, North Nottingham, one big council estate, elected a Conservative MP for the first time ever. The winning margin was less than the communist vote. I’d point out to them that if they and their commie mates had voted Labour, they’d have a Labour MP, but as it was, they had helped Maggie’s landslide.