Mike Ruddock
2019-06-22 07:39:23 UTC
For several years branches of our family have met on Thursday evenings
for a joint meal at a local supermarket. Attendance was varied:
sometimes all those family members who live in the town turned up (10,
requiring additional chairs at the table we usually occupied) at other
times there might be as few as four. The staff grew to know us and
seemed concerned on those odd occasions when there were only two (rare,
that)
This week there was a very odd development: as we arrived one of the
serving staff came over and said, very apologetically "I'm afraid there
is no food left to serve."
She modified this by saying that there was actually some food, but not
enough for all of us.
Amazed, I turned and pointed out into the main part of the shop.
"There's literally tons of food out there."
"Oh, we can't use any of that, our food has to come from a guaranteed
source."
Which left us wondering about how safe the food we bought from that shop
was.
Sorry if this has been a bore, but it strikes me as very odd that the
shop sells food that it's cafe won't use.
Mike Ruddock
for a joint meal at a local supermarket. Attendance was varied:
sometimes all those family members who live in the town turned up (10,
requiring additional chairs at the table we usually occupied) at other
times there might be as few as four. The staff grew to know us and
seemed concerned on those odd occasions when there were only two (rare,
that)
This week there was a very odd development: as we arrived one of the
serving staff came over and said, very apologetically "I'm afraid there
is no food left to serve."
She modified this by saying that there was actually some food, but not
enough for all of us.
Amazed, I turned and pointed out into the main part of the shop.
"There's literally tons of food out there."
"Oh, we can't use any of that, our food has to come from a guaranteed
source."
Which left us wondering about how safe the food we bought from that shop
was.
Sorry if this has been a bore, but it strikes me as very odd that the
shop sells food that it's cafe won't use.
Mike Ruddock