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  • Went shopping yesterday with the missus, never seen such meagre sized carrots, celery stalks, and similar veg.

    (Teaspoon for comparison)

  • Stuff I grow on the allotment without the industrial benefit(?) of chemical inputs / artifical light / controlled temps tends to be smaller but tastier than owt from the supermarket. Ditto for the organic veg box from a local market gardener.

  • smaller but tastier than owt from the supermarket.

    Partially due to being literally fresh out of the ground than several days in a big HGV travelling hundreds if not thousands of miles.

  • Stuff I grow on the allotment without the industrial benefit(?) of chemical inputs / artifical light / controlled temps tends to be smaller but tastier than owt from the supermarket.

    Yes, however these were your ordinary everyday bag of industrial British carrots, which we’ve very often bought before, and from the size and heft of them they could be used to fend off a mugger. It was just odd that nearly all of the produce aisle was noticeably smaller produce.

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