OK so what the fu*k happened there then?
This time of year I do like to prepare a nice season meal. To this end today I prepared Locally produced organic herby Lamb chops nestled cosily up to fresh English new season asparagus and the most attractive pile of Jeresy Royal potatoes all buttery and glistening flecked with fresh mint. Gorgeous or what.
Well it was the 'or what' im afraid to say. The asparagus though looking great and being very tender was as bitter as I've ever experienced/ Add this too the potato which for a Jersey royal was white flesh and bland to almost tasteless. Not really not as it should be. The lamb chop to be fair was lovely but overall what should of been great was to say the least a disappointment. f*cking expensive one at that too
I like to buy from farm shops and we have one very local to us, but I worry about just how much of what they sell is from the farm or any farm for that matter and how much is bought wholesale from "anywhere"
The prices are far from cheap.
The eggs are supposed to be laid that morning but recently they have been far from fresh, perhaps at least a week old and one weekend older than that.
How do you check just were things are coming from apart from taking the word of the proprietors.
They sell pineapples and lots of other imported stuff, how do we know where that is from and if it is organic or not ?
They sell home made preserves in very dainty "home made sytle" jars but what if they just buy bulk stuff and sell it in fancy jars with fancy labels ? (saw that scam exposed on the TV once)
They sell so much that couldn't come from a local source and it does worry me.
There are problems buying from supermarkets but just how trustworthy are local butchers, greengrocers and the like when there are such huge profits to be made with scams ?
