I [b]LOVE[/b] the Fairtrade Chocolate Tart thing. Heated up then served with vanilla ice cream *makes orgasm noise*. Unfortunately I don't think they sell it anymore as I hunted for one a few months back and even rang all the Co-ops in my area 😳 If you can ask them to produce them again - I'll happily send them my address for delivery purposes 😉
Starbucks chocolate cheesecake was like that... they stopped doing it 🙁
Why!? WHY? Same thing happen to Ben & Jerry's Bohemian Raspberry Molgrips...
non of the fairtrade bananas have been particularly great
😕 I thought that all the bananas in the world were clones ? .......ie all genetically identical.
.....quality assured, I would have thought 8)
Sad to think that banana plants never have sex though 🙁
Ernie, there are many different varieties of banana I'm told by my Indian friends. For some reason there's only one available here... However I do agree, pretty much every single banana I've had here have been the same, at an appropriate stage of ripeness naturally.
This is really great - thanks for the thoughts.
Any of you live in a Fairtrade town? Understand a number of councils have thrown their support behind the cause??
Seems it's just another brand. It has some ethical standards that offer a guaranteed minimum price for the goods. I buy Fairtrade if I like the goods and the price is OK. I don't buy fairtrade coffee, preferring to buy coffee that's more direct-traded.
there are many different varieties of banana
There are many plants in the genus Musa, but all the bananas in all the supermarkets in the UK are clones.
Which iirc, all this "inbreeding" is causing potential problems.........they need some fresh blood !
The vast majority of the bananas we have are the Cavendish variety, and yes, they are genetically identical.
However, there will still be massive variance in the quality of the fruit due to all the usual factors that affect plant growth. That can be down to either the quality of the raw materials (ie, land, hours of sunshine) or the quality of the grower.
iirc correctly didnt sainsburys get into trouble for adding their own extra big mark-up onto fair trade goods, chocolate in particular because they knew people would still pay it
damn cant find an article
but after this.........
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/8562434.stm
now realising that the free range eggs ive been paying 3 times the price of the sainsburys value range were infact all from the same battery farms im rather sceptical of the supermarkets
maybe i should go to sainsburys and demand my money back?
Seems it's just another brand.
No, it isn't another brand, it isn't a brand at all.
i live in a fairtrade town, and (as far as i can tell) it means **** all.
i guess a few well meaning citizens get together now and again to decide things, and the odd shop add a fairtrade good to their shelves... but really? nah.
same with the transition towns network 🙄
It's pretty easy to tell free range eggs from battery eggs just by cracking them and looking at them. Shells are paper thin on battery eggs and the yolks are very pale.
