Has the World gone mad??

floralies · January 2022

In our supermarket you can buy sliced mushrooms, cucumbers etc etc all wrapped nicely in plastic for those that can't be arsed to find a knife.

Fairygirl · January 2022

BenCotto said:

I’ve given it a good pondering, @biofreak, and, sorry, but I have come to the conclusion I cannot be arsed about it.

I sometimes bought frozen mushrooms which were sliced. The reason being - I liked them in a stir fry, but no one else did. I couldn't buy loose mushrooms [all pre packed] so it was a very good option. I wouldn't have used a whole pack of fresh ones quickly enough either, so they would have been very wasteful.

B3 · January 2022

I have to admit to a bought bag of diced onion carrot and celery in the freezer.

Fairygirl · January 2022

Before anyone says it - the prepacked mushrooms were also dearer than the frozen ones, so it wouldn't even have been worth buying them, and slicing and freezing them myself, or I'd have done that.
Something wrong there...

Posy · January 2022

Why are cherry tomatoes bad for small children? My children and grandchildren loved 'baby tomatoes'. They seem to have been ok.

Lyn · January 2022

Cherry tomatoes are fine for little children providing they’re cut in half. If one slipped down it could choke a child. Same goes for grapes.

BenCotto · January 2022

Wouldn’t half a small tomato or grape also pose a choking risk? A few weeks back I nearly choked on a morsel of bread I was eating. For 20 seconds I could neither breathe nor speak, just make a weak strangulated wheezing sound. “I heard something a bit odd,” said my wife who was upstairs,”I just thought it was one of the cats.”