Where are all our English apples?

this story might interest you about innocent smoothies and their decision to choose strawberries
from elsewhere in europe rather than from the UK

http://brightonthemoney.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/innocent-of-what/

I absolutely agree with you.

I noticed Tesco had apples from Chile New Zealand and Argentinia, but none from England apart from Bramley cooking apples which are all very fine but not much use if you want to eat an apple raw.

Similarly no English pears.

I asked in the store why no English Apples.
(1) I don't know
(2) It is an EEC regulation they can't pick the English apples until 21st August
(Surely not: Isn't that about shooting grouse...?)

Save C02 and support British apples. There are loads on my tree!

get a life and spend your time sorting out your rubish problems rather than complaining about them!! looosers

This is because people expect fresh fruit all the year round. I grow my own Cox's but they are not ready until October.

think someone should redesign the trolley to attract young people like me, as a brilliant thing to carry home shopping without having to break your arms dragging home if you don’t have a car.

maybe people should start looking at the local market stall traders again to get the food grown in britain rmember only 10 years ago my mum mostly bought food from local market traders and not much from supermarkets, with her using her 4 wheeled shopping trolley and not using carrier bags.

saw an ad for tesco now selling variety packs of english apples have never heard of before, so you could try looking out for these.

Most go into making cider.

Growers, like me,get MORE money from sending our crops to brewers. Selling to supermarkets just isn't worth it.

MInd you, the cider they make is CRAP as well.

Granny Smiths rock!

I love they way they crunch and have loads of juice. English apples tend to be very soft and with little taste which is probably why no one wants to buy them!

I prefer english apples to the foreign tasteless mass produced rubbish but companies like Tesco want to purchase thousands of tons at a time. The british farmers cant get their act together and collaborate to supply the large quantities as has been said above. I worked as a buyer not with apples but other fresh produce and I was buying in excess of 10,000 tons of it every week. Nobody in this country could cope with the order so we had to buy from abroad to fill our demand quotas.

Anyone wanting to support UK producers should consider signing up to a box delivery scheme, especially as these help to cut pollution (food miles).

It's all because our hopeless growers are unable to collaborate in collectives large enough to supply the likes of Tescos, M&S, Sainsburys and so on. Our growers are nothing but a bunch of hick farmers.