Food shortages etc.
Discussion
If you are looking to have a few barbies please be aware that due to the war you will not find any cooking oil, olive oil, nor mustard in any shop - not one. A friend paid £5 for a tiddly bottle of olive oil yesterday and you'll have a job to find restaurants serving chips because cooking oil has been out of stock for over a month. Thieves have been breaking into restaurants to steal the stock!
Again, remember that meat products such as sausages and milk products such as cheese are also banned since Brexs
t, so devise a cunning place to hide such stuff if you can.
The weather forecast (is the cat still around?) seems set very fair from Tuesday on with 27C and not a drop of rain. The usual show at Mulsanne is still on since the ACO have decided to open the route for the afternoon, and the even starts at 1330 with cars parked opposite the golf club.
We'll be there with the XKSS and E-type.
Again, remember that meat products such as sausages and milk products such as cheese are also banned since Brexs
t, so devise a cunning place to hide such stuff if you can.The weather forecast (is the cat still around?) seems set very fair from Tuesday on with 27C and not a drop of rain. The usual show at Mulsanne is still on since the ACO have decided to open the route for the afternoon, and the even starts at 1330 with cars parked opposite the golf club.
We'll be there with the XKSS and E-type.
Any evidence at all of anyone ever getting food confiscated? They really aren't going to search every car and truck for a few sausages.
Yeah, truck driver gets his ham sandwich confiscated arriving in Holland just after Brexit for a bit of headline clickbait, but I've seen nothing in the crossings since.
Yeah, truck driver gets his ham sandwich confiscated arriving in Holland just after Brexit for a bit of headline clickbait, but I've seen nothing in the crossings since.
Try and take a truck full of sausages and you might have issues, but you'd have to have REALLY upset a French customs official to get done for a dozen sausages amd a couple of packs of bacon.
Also so long as it's 'personal use' quantities you'd only be looking at the offending items being confiscated and binned. Anything else would be unnecessary paperwork only for someone else to decide it isn't worth the cost of prosecuting.
Also so long as it's 'personal use' quantities you'd only be looking at the offending items being confiscated and binned. Anything else would be unnecessary paperwork only for someone else to decide it isn't worth the cost of prosecuting.
Yes, I was being serious. There was an article in the local paper as to how restaurants are offering mash instead of chips, and how the used oil, recycled for diesels, was being stolen. Yesterday SWMBO had a call from her daughter who lives the other side of France at Nancy and she can't buy mustard, then a call from a friend in Switzerland was also moaning about the lack of cooking oil. Looking at the UK supermarkets it seems you are alone in Europe in having stocks of most things. Panic buying I guess.
lowdrag said:
Yes, I was being serious. There was an article in the local paper as to how restaurants are offering mash instead of chips, and how the used oil, recycled for diesels, was being stolen. Yesterday SWMBO had a call from her daughter who lives the other side of France at Nancy and she can't buy mustard, then a call from a friend in Switzerland was also moaning about the lack of cooking oil. Looking at the UK supermarkets it seems you are alone in Europe in having stocks of most things. Panic buying I guess.
A few months ago it was a different story. Not sure how we aren’t being affected by this too. I’ll be bringing a small bottle of oil when I come down for the Classic. Hopefully things resolve themselves soon. 
lowdrag said:
Yes, I was being serious. There was an article in the local paper as to how restaurants are offering mash instead of chips, and how the used oil, recycled for diesels, was being stolen. Yesterday SWMBO had a call from her daughter who lives the other side of France at Nancy and she can't buy mustard, then a call from a friend in Switzerland was also moaning about the lack of cooking oil. Looking at the UK supermarkets it seems you are alone in Europe in having stocks of most things. Panic buying I guess.
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