Waitrose selling blemished fruit

[yummersetter]

Well, its a step in the right direction towards reality but these are fruits with a bit of russetting on the skin as a result of the weather, they're selling them as 'ugly' apples and plums.

I don't even notice that kind of effect on my home-grown fruit, a 'blemish' to me is a hole with antennae sticking out of it.

Should we take a lesson from the Olympics and stop calling these perfectly healthy fruits nasty names and call them Special instead?

[Alison]

Or just call them "fruit". They've been doing this for a while, remember a couple of years ago they were selling mis shapen strawberries for making jam etc - if I shoppped in supermarkets I'd buy them for normal use seeing as they taste exactly the same.............. Grrrrrrrr and all that!

[veggiechicken]

Ugly - No - that's insulting!
Its time that we Boycotted "Perfect" Fruit and veg and sought out "Veg with Character".

[Nicos]

Good for them!
About time these perfectly normal fruits are being sold again.
Many peeps peel their fruit anyway to get rid of any residue of pesticides etc.

[veggiechicken]

Will they sell their "Perfect" fruit at a premium, rather than offering a reduction for "ugly" fruit?
Cynical, Moi?. Or. heaven forbid, will it all be sold at the same price?

[veggiechicken]

Looks like Waitrose are offering more than just salad too
Hampshire family find frog in Waitrose salad - Yahoo! Lifestyle UK

[yummersetter]

Oh, I'd have been thrilled to get a free happy ( but chilled) frog with my salad. I reckon the problem is with the daughter, not the amphibian or the salad sellers - she needs to know more about the real world . . .

"After I'd eaten lunch at work, I received a phone call from my hysterical daughter, screaming 'there's a frog in the salad bag in the fridge'.”

[veggiechicken]

....And then Mother decides she can get some publicity and maybe blackmail Waitrose into giving her a bit more than a replacement bag of salad!

[Dusty Rhodes]

Looks like Waitrose are offering more than just salad too
Hampshire family find frog in Waitrose salad - Yahoo! Lifestyle UK

I thought all those capers in the frog salad looked a bit off...

[Newton]

I'd have packaged the frog with garlic and herbs. Ready meal! Ribbit!