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No Brussels Sprouts

  • 24-12-2013 10:09am
    #1
    magicmushroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭


    I went to Tesco last night to get dinner for tomorrow and there were no brussels sprouts :( not a single one in the place!

    I don't know what to do...Christmas dinner is not Christmas dinner without a few sprouts, do I risk battling through the crowds in Lidl or Aldi just for sprouts or will I have the dinner without them?


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  • #2
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    Why didn't you grow your own?


  • #3
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    They might be back in Tesco today

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #4
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,896 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Go spend forty euro on the exact same thing from M&S.


  • #5
    magicmushroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭magicmushroom


    Kettleson wrote: »
    Why didn't you grow your own?

    Maybe I should next year...and then when Tesco are sold out, I could sell them out the back of my car for extortionate prices, Delboy style.

    I like your thinking Kettleson.


  • #6
    Slattsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Buy a small cabbage and remove all the outer leaves until you have a big sprout (or an even smaller cababge)


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  • #7
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Why stop at tesco, couldn't go to another shop no?


  • #8
    Spring Onion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Spring Onion


    magicmushroom wrote: »
    I went to Tesco last night to get dinner for tomorrow and there were no brussels sprouts :( not a single one in the place!

    Please tell me they have some horse left!


  • #9
    magicmushroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭magicmushroom


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Why stop at tesco, couldn't go to another shop no?

    I didn't get in there until late as I'd been working.
    I was too stressed and tired to go elsewhere.


  • #10
    Kettleson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    magicmushroom wrote: »
    Maybe I should next year...and then when Tesco are sold out, I could sell them out the back of my car for extortionate prices, Delboy style.

    I like your thinking Kettleson.

    You should also consider growing candles during the summer for sale next Christmas? They are very easy to cultivate and burn very brightly at Christmas time.

    Why not make some curried holly soup and have it for sale when the pubs throw out the revellers? If you buy 100 sandwich bags from Tesco you could change the packing to "Santa's Xmas Balloons". People will buy any old sh1t at the most wonderful time of the year.

    A merry Christmas one and all.


  • #11
    djPSB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,299 ✭✭✭djPSB


    Buy a few cabbages and chop them up.


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  • #12
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,296 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Borrow some from a friend/neighbour?


  • #13
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    My mum could probably sell you some, she bought about 20 bags of them over the last two weeks.


  • #14
    nikpmup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭nikpmup


    Aldi, lidl, dunnes all have bajillions of them.


  • #15
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    magicmushroom wrote: »
    I went to Tesco last night to get dinner for tomorrow and there were no brussels sprouts :( not a single one in the place!

    I don't know what to do...Christmas dinner is not Christmas dinner without a few sprouts, do I risk battling through the crowds in Lidl or Aldi just for sprouts or will I have the dinner without them?

    Oh my god, you ruined Christmas dinner! :(:mad:


  • #16
    camel jockey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭camel jockey


    djPSB wrote: »
    Buy a few cabbages and chop them up.

    Or use a melon baller on the cabbages to get a more authentic look.


  • #17
    mondeoman2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭mondeoman2


    nikpmup wrote: »
    Aldi, lidl, dunnes all have bajillions of them.

    5c per bag in Aldi last night(Gorey):)


  • #18
    camel jockey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭camel jockey


    mondeoman2 wrote: »
    5c per bag in Aldi last night(Gorey):)

    I'm holding out until they pay me to take them. :)


  • #19
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    buy magic mushrooms.magicmushroom


  • #20
    Gmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    On the plus side you will fart less and ergo a more fragrant Christmas.


  • #21
    magicmushroom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭magicmushroom


    Gmol wrote: »
    On the plus side you will fart less and ergo a more fragrant Christmas.

    Girls don't fart Gmol!


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  • #22
    Gmol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Gmol


    magicmushroom wrote: »
    Girls don't fart Gmol!

    Who can possibly make such a bold statement in these topsey turvy times recession Imf, bailout, etc


  • #23
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Brussels sprouts & guinness in the same day!

    gastastic :D


  • #24
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    magicmushroom wrote: »
    Girls don't fart Gmol!

    No, they just cough in their knickers :D


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