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Sunday lunch - Gilly (19th Apr 2019  10:25:38) OUTRAGED that there is no British lamb in Sainsburys. If you care, please go to Tesco for your meat. Even there, the whole legs are NZ, but there half legs are British

Re: Sunday lunch - Jane (19th Apr 2019  15:28:48) Try Owtons at Country Market, Bordon

Re: Sunday lunch - John (19th Apr 2019  16:41:39) Other than a reduced carbon footprint why would you want British lamb? It’s terrible compared to New Zealand lamb and it’s massively overpriced, are you a xenophobe maybe ?

Re: Sunday lunch - Ian (19th Apr 2019  17:46:42) Do the taste test, NZ lamb wins every time! As with so many home bred/grown produce, tasteless and overpriced. EU subsidies have made our farmers complacent

Re: Sunday lunch - Mary (19th Apr 2019  18:11:16) Tesco in Petersfield have plenty of English legs of lamb at the butchery counter. What's more it is on the same half price offer as the NZ legs. Pretty good I think.

Re: Sunday lunch - Adrain (19th Apr 2019  18:27:45) I had a Sainsbury’s rump steak and it was tough as old boots. Unlike the Anchor steaks which are mouth watering juicy and tender. Great for my false choppers. Only problem is there’s no bannanna custard for my pud.

Re: Sunday lunch - Richard (19th Apr 2019  21:44:44) Hardly a major problem is it? Middle class first world worries. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Simple as that really isn't it. Be thankful you can afford lamb in the first place. And bear in mind if the supermarkets are selling lamb half price, they're undercutting the producer of the lamb to start with.

Re: Sunday lunch - lee (21st Apr 2019  23:06:33) john-ian you sound like you do not support our uk farmers or maybe you can't cook between you two.as i know that uk lamb is the best in the world.NZ lamb comes to the uk frozen or fresh.frozen is easy to explain to you to but fresh is on the boat for 6-8 weeks deep chilled in a frozen state.you may be lucky to get a few lambs that come over on a aeroplane but still in a deep chill state.our family will be eating english lamb this easter as we always do.i do await the back lash from my reply happy easter to you two. Regards lee

Re: Sunday lunch - Rachael (22nd Apr 2019  12:28:20) @lee, sounds like a typical Brexiteer response, UK best at everything, who needs bloody foreigners!

Re: Sunday lunch - liz (23rd Apr 2019  10:44:59) We had lamb from Kaighin and Daughter in Grayshott - thoroughly recommend!

Re: Sunday lunch - Gordy (23rd Apr 2019  13:03:57) Whereas you - -Rachael - sound like one of those die-hard Remainers who take some weird pleasure in sneering at anything English or anyone expressing any pride in being English. Happy St George's Day to you.

Re: Sunday lunch - Rachael (23rd Apr 2019  14:12:01) Gordy - that's so typical of the Brexit view that some how if you are pro european you are somehow anti british. Nazi's applied the same argument in 1930's Germany. I am extremely proud to be English but have an open enough mind to also see the benefits in being part of the United Kingdom and Europe!

Re: Sunday lunch - Tom (23rd Apr 2019  14:47:47) Rachael - but perhaps not an open enough mind to realise that a) if we don't support our home farmers, they will sell up and their land will be built over and b) the carbon footprint of home produced food is far favourable for the longevity of our planet.

Re: Sunday lunch - Gordy (23rd Apr 2019  16:11:45) Rachael - you do like to talk about "typical brexiteers" and their "typical brexit views" don't you? In what is a thread about someone wanting to buy local for their Sunday lunch. I could almost feel the spit and venom in your response. Typical nasty, racist little Englander brexiteers. Where do we go from here? Shame on you.

Re: Sunday lunch - Yellow Bannanna Adrian (24th Apr 2019  17:14:17) For those remoaners complaining about the proud British Brexiters. When democracy finally succeeds and we leave the EU (the sooner the better). We will have a trade deal with New Zealand and your lamb will be even cheaper. By the way i went to Tesco and got some British Lamb half price and lovely, oh and needless to say i got yellow bannannas.

Re: Sunday lunch - liz (25th Apr 2019  11:37:34) As a non- Brixiteer I wonder in what way cheaper New Zealand lamb would be good for the UK economy?

Re: Sunday lunch - Jack (25th Apr 2019  14:11:50) This thread is hilarious! Get cheap New Zealand lamb because of Brexit. Well, I'm sure British farmers will be delighted. It is also not true. To claim that Remainers are not patriotic is pathetic appropriation of the word by some of the posters here. Remainers want our country to proudly be at the 'top table' in the running of our continent, for Britain to have the benefit of the massive negotiating power of being a member of one the three largest trading blocs in the world and to have real clout in the world by being the English-speaking route into the EU market for the US and others.That is, Remainers want prosperity and the best for the British economy and that is patriotism. The Chancellor, the Governor of the Bank of England and every credible economist has said we will be worse-off after Brexit. Some of my business customers are selling-up, or downsizing because of merely the threat of Brexit. That's jobs lost and GDP down. How is it patriotic to want the country to be worse off? Incidentally, New Zealand are negotiating a free-trade deal with EU members that will reportedly be better than that available to Commonwealth countries. mfat.govt.nz/en/trade/free-trade-agreements/.... That is one heck of a big market for NZ. If you want to isolate our country into irrelevance, continually offend our biggest trading partner and hasten the break-up of the UK (Indyref 2 by 2021 pledged by SNP yesterday and opinions hardening in NI) then keep making the Brexit argument. But don't accuse Remainers of not being patriotic.

Re: Sunday lunch - Peter Fewing (25th Apr 2019  14:28:19) Well said Jack

Re: Sunday lunch - oldie (25th Apr 2019  15:09:06) Someone put it quite well the other day and said 'to remainers we're no longer a country, we're just an economy'. The Brexit voters didn't vote to leave because they didn't like the trading block, it was the other interfering stuff that went with it.

Re: Sunday lunch - Gordy (25th Apr 2019  17:14:30) You might be a patriotic Remainer, Jack, but there are a lot that aren't. I don't think being a patriot and not believing in sovereignty go hand in hand to be honest.

Re: Sunday lunch - Jack (25th Apr 2019  21:48:53) What are you talking about Gordy? What newspapers are you reading? Oh wait, hang on, I think I can guess. Only a sovereign nation could pass the laws that have got us into this hopeless mess. A sovereign nation that can set it's own taxes, pass it's own laws and decide what colour its passports are (which we can and always could). A sovereign nation that can choose to join or leave the EU and can choose to pool its sovereignty over defence with NATO and the UN. But no, let's follow the cult of Farage, sabotage our economy and cut business investment, jobs and tax income. Let's split our country and harm the union of the UK. Ask a Brexiteer to define sovereignty and it all gets a bit vague. I know, I have tried many times on Talkback. But Gordy, to accuse those that want what is best for Britain, whatever side of the argument they are on, of not being patriotic is just trolling.

Re: Sunday lunch - Gordy (26th Apr 2019  07:39:45) Take a deep breath Jack and have a lovely weekend. This is a thread about Sunday lunch.

Re: Sunday lunch - liz (26th Apr 2019  09:04:44) Really Gordy? Never would have guessed from your posts!!

Re: Sunday lunch - Dave (26th Apr 2019  09:13:49) Personally I am OUTRAGED we are still eating animals in the 21st century. There is absolutely no need anymore to butcher poor living creatures just to satisfy our lust for meat as there are many suitable alternatives. Meat production is killing the planet. MEAT IS MURDER!

Re: Sunday lunch - liz (26th Apr 2019  09:48:11) Dave Durleighmarsh Farm will be picking their asparagus soon - if not already. Does anyone know?

Re: Sunday lunch - Jack (26th Apr 2019  10:22:10) You are quite right Gordy, I did get a bit cross! I do get fed-up when people confuse nationalism and patriotism; they are not the same thing at all.

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