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What to stock up on.. Brexit

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  • #152
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Seriously though, could we have issues with supplies of medication? I take daily meds but don't know where they are produced.


  • #153
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,557 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I have been thinking that panic buying certain foodstuffs in anticipation to Brexit was OTT but now I myself am beginning to wonder...

    I think I'll stock up on a couple of things - pasta, rice (long shelf life for both), pickles, English mustard and sundried tomatoes.

    Everything else is too perishable.

    But my biggest concern is Twiglets. Seriously considering driving up to Belfast to do a raid on those addictive crunchy peppery snacks!


  • #154
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Seriously though, could we have issues with supplies of medication? I take daily meds but don't know where they are produced.
    I have about 1 months meds stocked up atm, if there's no problems, I can run them down but I'd be hoping for 2 months just to cater for any delays in restocking supplies. It'll all work out over the next 6 months or so, once they can work around new supply timing.


  • #155
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I have been thinking that panic buying certain foodstuffs in anticipation to Brexit was OTT but now I myself am beginning to wonder...

    I think I'll stock up on a couple of things - pasta, rice (long shelf life for both), pickles, English mustard and sundried tomatoes.

    Everything else is too perishable.

    But my biggest concern is Twiglets. Seriously considering driving up to Belfast to do a raid on those addictive crunchy peppery snacks!

    Just make sure you get your insurance green card first.


  • #156
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,658 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I have been thinking that panic buying certain foodstuffs in anticipation to Brexit was OTT but now I myself am beginning to wonder...

    I think I'll stock up on a couple of things - pasta, rice (long shelf life for both), pickles, English mustard and sundried tomatoes.

    Everything else is too perishable.

    But my biggest concern is Twiglets. Seriously considering driving up to Belfast to do a raid on those addictive crunchy peppery snacks!
    If it's not Italian it's not real pasta.

    Culinary-map-Europe-Italy.jpg

    If you want big bags of rice go to an Asian store.

    Sundried tomatoes - because their summers are so much better than ours ?


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  • #157
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    sophiexyz wrote: »
    AFAIK all the pet food is made in the UK, should get a bit in just incase things go bad, other wise will be feeding the cats/dogs expensive human grade meat, you pet owners know this will happen, those who don't have pets won't understand.

    Didn't Albert Reynolds have a pet food factory?


  • #158
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,557 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    JupiterKid wrote: »
    I have been thinking that panic buying certain foodstuffs in anticipation to Brexit was OTT but now I myself am beginning to wonder...

    I think I'll stock up on a couple of things - pasta, rice (long shelf life for both), pickles, English mustard and sundried tomatoes.

    Everything else is too perishable.

    But my biggest concern is Twiglets. Seriously considering driving up to Belfast to do a raid on those addictive crunchy peppery snacks!
    If it's not Italian it's not real pasta.

    Culinary-map-Europe-Italy.jpg

    If you want big bags of rice go to an Asian store.

    Sundried tomatoes - because their summers are so much better than ours ?


    These foodstuffs don't originate un the UK, but do pass through the country in transit to us.

    I mentioned the pasta. Because Tesco sell pretty good pasta at very cheap prices and no way will I go back to consuming that overpriced Roma rubbish.


  • #159
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Twenty Grand wrote: »
    Also, if anyone is interested, herea a link to a FB page recording the number of jobs lost asa
    direct result of Brexit
    It's over 200k so far and they haven't even left yet. Bear in mind this is only job losses that are reported in the media.

    www.facebook.com/BrexitWrecksIt/

    Their unemployment is still a record low though.

    FB isn't ever a 'news source', it's a gossip column smattered with fakeness and agenda angles. The uk has just broken employment records: https://www.ft.com/content/3d88919e-1e29-11e9-b2f7-97e4dbd3580d

    Most of the losses are simply re-distribution. I.e. The retail sector is on it's knees (while Amazon still pays little tax), one street has about 20 charity shops - perhaps as these get a 90% discount on shop rates, which strangle the ordinary shops.

    You have to credit the enterprise however of some of the 'brexit boxes' folks - which are just a load of tins in a box, selling for three fiddy £/€ notes.


  • #160
    Twenty Grand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Twenty Grand


    Beatrice Sour Queue wrote: »
    FB isn't ever a 'news source', it's a gossip column smattered with fakeness and agenda angles. The uk has just broken employment records: https://www.ft.com/content/3d88919e-1e29-11e9-b2f7-97e4dbd3580d

    Most of the losses are simply re-distribution. I.e. The retail sector is on it's knees (while Amazon still pays little tax), one street has about 20 charity shops - perhaps as these get a 90% discount on shop rates, which strangle the ordinary shops.

    You have to credit the enterprise however of some of the 'brexit boxes' folks - which are just a load of tins in a box, selling for three fiddy £/€ notes.

    Never said it was a news source, just said it was a Facebook page.
    I also said that it had record unemployment.

    Ireland also has the lowest unemployment in a decade despite Brexit uncertainty.


  • #161
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Twenty Grand wrote: »
    Never said it was a news source, just said it was a Facebook page.
    I also said that it had record unemployment.

    Ireland also has the lowest unemployment in a decade despite Brexit uncertainty.

    Facepuke is a bit like refering to a random conversation I over heard down at the car park, wholly irrelevant in the larger scale of things.

    Brexit hasn't happened (as yet, may not ever happen), so worth waiting a year to two, post-exit to get a proper idea of the actual effects.

    In Ireland stocking up on food isn't as good of an idea as it is in the uk, with it's 66m mouths to feed.

    Instead mechanical/electroinc/technical serviceable spare parts made there might be a better idea. That could be random things such as having spare brake pads for the car (if due to expire), to a replacement washing machine door (if nearing end of life).


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  • #162
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users Posts: 4,994 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Seriously though, could we have issues with supplies of medication? I take daily meds but don't know where they are produced.

    United drug hare stockpiling additional amounts. They were on prime time last week discussing it


  • #163
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Twenty Grand wrote: »
    Never said it was a news source, just said it was a Facebook page.
    I also said that it had record unemployment.

    Ireland also has the lowest unemployment in a decade despite Brexit uncertainty.


    Record unemployment...


    The number of people in employment in the UK is measured by the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and consists of people aged 16 and over who did one hour or more of paid work per week (as an employee or self-employed), those who had a job that they were temporarily away from, those on government-supported training and employment programmes, and those doing unpaid family work.

    Source:
    https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/methodologies/aguidetolabourmarketstatistics

    One hour a week
    A job you're temporarily away from
    Govt programmes
    And worst of all...
    UNPAID family work.

    Lies, damned lies and statistics indeed.


  • #164
    jmayo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,078 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    sophiexyz wrote: »
    AFAIK all the pet food is made in the UK, should get a bit in just incase things go bad, other wise will be feeding the cats/dogs expensive human grade meat, you pet owners know this will happen, those who don't have pets won't understand.

    C&D Longford in Edgeworthstown makes pet food.

    Business could be booming for them in the home market but not sure how their exports would go.
    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    May is not going anywhere soon. She has survived a no confidence vote, as has her party, more so down to the leader of the oposition being a worse opition.

    She will only go if she steps down or calls a general election. Only problem with that is, those lined up to take her place ARE pro leave, May isn't, she is only following the will of the people, as per the referendum.

    As for stocking up on stuff, if I was, it would be on UK/GB produced items, which is probably half the stuff I use.

    :(

    May is a lifelong Tory so would rather dump the country in the shyte than split the conservative party and that is the real stumbling block.
    She will put party politics ahead of the country.
    Twenty Grand wrote: »
    Never said it was a news source, just said it was a Facebook page.
    I also said that it had record unemployment.

    Ireland also has the lowest unemployment in a decade despite Brexit uncertainty.

    If there is hard Brexit then SMEs will be the ones most affected.
    It won't matter to the Googles, Facefooks, Mickiesofts, but the small SMEs that depend on Britain for export market and often import of raw materials will be greatly affected.
    Even companies whose markets are in mainland Europe will often be affected by inconveniences and cost of extra delays in the UK land bridge.

    And once life is difficult for SMEs employment suffers.

    And I didn't even mention how dependent our biggest indigenous employer, the Agri business, is on the UK and how bad the effects could be.

    Another import that will be probably affected will be flowers.
    All those truck loads coming in from Netherlands come across UK land bridge as quickest route.

    If only Brexit came before Valentines Day. ;)


  • #165
    [Deleted User]
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    sophiexyz wrote: »
    Food and health wise brexit could be great for Ireland, less junk food, ready meals imported from UK, so we will be forced to go back to making our own dinners, good simple meat and 2 veg, health benefits and weight loss will be seen within weeks

    The largest ready meal factory in Europe is in Monaghan I believe.


  • #166
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Guns, in case things get out of hand


  • #167
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,947 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    It just struck me that we may well need to stock up on Brits (for blame purposes). After brexit they'll be more than likely hunting each other as a food source, so there will be a sudden large population drop.


  • #168
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,149 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I did a survey and it asked me would I miss any of these products.
    Walkers Crisps.
    Lyons Tea.
    HP Sauce.
    M&S ready meals.
    Mcvities biscuits.
    Weetabix.


  • #169
    mikeecho
    Registered Users Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    While we might have the largest ready meal factory in Monaghan, and a large pet food factory and lots of other industries.

    Some of the ingredients may be imported via the UK, likewise with packaging etc.

    If you're missing one ingredient for a certain product.. then you can't manufacturer that item .


    Interesting times are ahead.


  • #170
    fxotoole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    mikeecho wrote: »
    While we might have the largest ready meal factory in Monaghan, and a large pet food factory and lots of other industries.

    Some of the ingredients may be imported via the UK, likewise with packaging etc.

    If you're missing one ingredient for a certain product.. then you can't manufacturer that item .


    Interesting times are ahead.

    If you’re missing one ingredient for a certain product, you source it elsewhere


  • #171
    mikeecho
    Registered Users Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    fxotoole wrote: »
    If you’re missing one ingredient for a certain product, you source it elsewhere

    That mightn't be as simple to do overnight .


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  • #172
    Lefty Bicek
    Registered Users Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Lefty Bicek


    Twenty Grand wrote: »
    People were told it was going to be bad. Expert after expert told them it was a stupid idea but Nigel "people are sick of listening to experts" Farage told them a pack of lies.

    They chose to believe him.
    They voted leave.

    We're all going to suffer for it now.

    Why ?


  • #173
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    mikeecho wrote: »
    That mightn't be as simple to do overnight .

    Yep. And how do you get it? If it's coming over the land bridge you're fecked. It's not just finding a new product but also a new supply line and hoping it has the capacity to carry it.


  • #174
    timthumbni
    Registered Users Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    A lot of bed wetters and newly qualified economic experts on show in this thread.

    Armchair economists. It makes a change from armchair republicans I suppose.


  • #175
    Twenty Grand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Twenty Grand


    Lefty Bicek wrote: »
    Why ?

    Because his "truth" sounded better than the real truth.

    Same reason the same idiots get elected every year.
    They lie.


  • #176
    Lefty Bicek
    Registered Users Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Lefty Bicek


    Twenty Grand wrote: »
    Because his "truth" sounded better than the real truth.

    Same reason the same idiots get elected every year.

    Nah, that's superficial guff. And very condescending. It's careless to think that people voted NO simply for the reasons that the 'NO' campaign told them to.

    Apart from the way the immigration issue fed into the result, it is very silly to adopt the Irish mindset to British voters' intentions. They simply don't feel the same, don't have the inferiority complex of being cap in hand to the overlords who dish out sweeties to us.

    The 'real truth', despite what you think it to be, is that the British were only ever semi-detached members in the first place.

    There is a very long tradition of Euroscepticism in Britain. It would be weird if there weren't, in a way. People like to caricature that as odd-ball conservatism eg Bill Cash, but that isn't accurate.
    Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation

    Tony Benn, Letter to Bristol constituents, December, 1974

    Tony Benn's speech to the Commons on November 21st, 1991 is really worth reading. Norman Tebbit (!) said it was the best speech he had ever heard in the House.

    Your 'same idiots get elected every year' analysis is odd in a way, since the thing that has been thrown at Farage time and again is that he has failed to be elected to the Commons.

    I have no idea how this will play out, but I hope to Christ they prosper on the back of all this. Anything else would be very petty.


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