Just been into my local Supermarket and they had bags of Potatoes and Bananas in the "Reduced" bin which will be thrown away tomorrow as they will exceed their "best before date"
How ridiculous that the EU have decided in their infinate wisdom that a vegetable that is "Bagged" has a sell by date where as if it is sold loose then it doesn't !!
A pototo or a banana isn't unsafe to eat if it's passed it's sell by date in a plastic bag !!.
OK If the spuds are green or the bananas are all brown and rotten then fair enough but to put a short time limit on selling a bag of spuds that will have been stored for the best part of 6 months quite harmlessley beforehand by the farmer is utterly preposterous.
The bananas I saw were still green but due to EU laws had passed their sell by date and would be disposed of the next day.
Needless to say I bought all the spuds at 49p per 5lb bag and the bananas at 24p for a bunch.
It's about time these Supermarkets took a stance regarding these daft EU laws and stopped throwing away perfectly good food.
Rant over.
How ridiculous that the EU have decided in their infinate wisdom that a vegetable that is "Bagged" has a sell by date where as if it is sold loose then it doesn't !!
A pototo or a banana isn't unsafe to eat if it's passed it's sell by date in a plastic bag !!.
OK If the spuds are green or the bananas are all brown and rotten then fair enough but to put a short time limit on selling a bag of spuds that will have been stored for the best part of 6 months quite harmlessley beforehand by the farmer is utterly preposterous.
The bananas I saw were still green but due to EU laws had passed their sell by date and would be disposed of the next day.
Needless to say I bought all the spuds at 49p per 5lb bag and the bananas at 24p for a bunch.
It's about time these Supermarkets took a stance regarding these daft EU laws and stopped throwing away perfectly good food.
Rant over.
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