National Emergency, shortage of pigs in blankets at Christmas.

[papasmurf]

I can't remember ever having pigs in blankets for Christmas dinner. Sometimes my wife and I buy them when they are a yellow ticket item.

[johnofgwent]

How pathetic is that? Pigs in blankets are done each year by hand - in my kitchen.

Well, does that include making the sausages



I confess having done the maths and knowing the materials used the butcher from whom I will be buying the pig's in blankets as I have done many times before and not just for Christmas,  charges me a premium of about 3 to 5 pence on a packet of 10 for a "paper / card" tray of ready made by him pig's in blankets over the price of the sausages and bacon to do it myself.



If I had a compelling reason to take time to do it myself I would. But I don't.

[patman post]

What posters here aren't recognising is that the poorest among us are the ones who buy processed food. Actually buying sausages and bacon and rolling their own would require them to put down their cigarettes, move away from Sky, and fabricating and cooking the PIBs. It's going to be a bleak Christmas for some...

[Churchill]

My cook has just run off with my Valet :cry:

[Sampanviking]

Speechless ........ just speechless.....



For those traumatised by the prospect of having to roll their own chipolatas in bacon, may I suggest simply delegate to their cook or valet.

[Churchill]

More nonsense , is there no end to it whinge whine and panic the worlds going to end , simple either do without or make them yourself

[Barry]

We've got a box full in the cupboard, the grandkids love a good table top game.

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[T00ts]

How pathetic is that? Pigs in blankets are done each year by hand - in my kitchen.

[papasmurf]

National Emergency, shortage of pigs in blankets at Christmas, woe. woe, thrice woe:-

More at link:-



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50205951">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50205951



Pigs in blankets and other festive meal treats might be in short supply this Christmas, the British Meat Processors Association has warned.

It says 60% of the labour force in UK meat plants comes from other countries and the industry is not attracting enough seasonal EU workers.

Its chief executive, Nick Allen, told the BBC that wrapping cocktail sausages in bacon was done by hand.

He said the job was "fiddly and hard to mechanise".

At the same time, the British Poultry Council warned that "finding sufficient labour is becoming a massive challenge for the poultry meat sector as the uncertainty around Brexit is prompting many of our workers to seek jobs in other countries".

It said that if the shortage of workers continued post-Brexit, it would "pose a risk to the affordability of British food".