I travelled 300 miles to buy TOMATOES
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
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What food would you travel to get your hands on?
Ketchup..
At least you're not in the middle of "some more panic"(to quote Chris Joel re: butter).
Grow your own...new content?
French roadtrip to Bordeaux is booked for July :)
Cheese
The most middle class thing my sister has ever said "mum we need to go back to France, we're running out of pesto"
The UK middle class must be different because to me that sounds like a high class statement. But then again traveling to France for a day for me just to get pesto would probably cost just over a thousand or more. I guess it pays to be geographically close
@@lilred5515 yeah, the UK middle class is comfortably off, not “barely above subsistence”.
@@lilred5515 Yes. Historically, in the UK it meant "people who weren't rich land owners and who weren't peasants, either". That is, they were doctors, lawyers, that sort of thing.
Outside of the UK it means "people with an income within a broad range around the median income", which is something completely different.
... but why go to France for pesto when you can go to Italy? Bizarre.
@@lilred5515 hm, the UK has no low cost airliners these days? I am sure it used to have a few
I love the idea of a confused border agent going "Does anyone know what the personal limits are for Cherry Tomatoes?"
There are no tomatoes in Dublin either, at least not in my local Tesco. And now it makes sense - Matt took them all!
This has vibes of the Norway butter crisis. Tomato panic!
(Also the Metallica reference was top notch)
But are they panicking because of too few tomatoes, or too many? 🤔
@@sourcererseven3858 or just the right amount- which somehow freaked everybody out?
if they ran out of marshmallows, it'd be s'more panic
@@1224chrisng surely that'd be s'less panic?
@@1224chrisng ooh that's awesome norwegian panic scale
no panic
s'more panic
LOTS OF PANIC
Portmanteau of the day: tomatourism.
An English man stealing food from the Irish. I wonder where I have heard that one before?
To be fair this ia the kind of stealing where you pay the price they put on the goods.
@@leow.2162 So...not stealing at all.
Enjoy a joke, lads
Look. They have plenty of potatoes. What do they need the other foods for, anyway?
Although... he was paying an English company for those Irish goods... which is very familiar.
Travelling to another country for $20 is insane for me as someone from an island country who's closest neighbour is about 2000km away
Flying between any two destinations _within the US_ for less than $100 is unheard of; this is another level. How did they do it? And don't tell me it's because they don't have environmental or labor regulations; I know that isn't true.
@@SamAronow Actually that is part of it. And international flights are exempt from fuel taxes. There a low cost airlines that find creative ways to circumvent labour regulations.
And Ireland itself it kind of well known to be a tax haven for companies in general.
London to Dublin is about a 350 mile drive (with a ferry) - even in a very efficient car you're looking at £50 just in fuel. It boggles the mind that it's economical to offer flights *anywhere* for under £20
@@SamAronow Ways to lower the price of airplane tickets:
Sell seat that you expect to stay empty at ridiculous low prices, try to up sell later with fees for luggage, meals, drinks, correcting typo's, or anything else you can think of.
Charge airports for the privilege of having your planes use the airport. Airports recover that money by charging for parking, food, drink, waiting rooms etc.
Don't pay taxes and try to get money from governments.
"Employ" pilots who needs the flight hours to maintain their license (if they really need the hours, you can even charge them)
whose
I find it kinda upsetting that flying to Dublin is so much cheaper than getting a train just from South Wales to North Wales. Especially when flying is so much worse for the environment.
Some politician (paraphrased): *Let them eat turnips.*
Where have I heard something similar before....
Not from Marie Antoinette, because she actually did not say the famous line.
I can't remember where it actually came from but I do remember it was already cited in a book several decades before the French Revolution, about some other clueless lady of means.
@@beth12svist I *know* it's not actually from her, but it *is* still closely associated with her and the idea of "the upper class having no idea how the common people live".
@@anttibjorklund1869 Well, I brought it up in general. Not necessarily implying you didn't know, but because there probably are people who don't. :-)
@@beth12svist I get that, just wanted to clear up my reasoning 😊
Choosing Ireland means that you could exclude non Brexit related issues (distance from supply, local climate, energy costs etc).
Even to the point of going to Tesco.
Now that you’re clearly the only one in the UK with tomatoes, this obviously means you should grow your own from the seeds and gain a monopoly. Perfect cost-of-living crisis hack.
Yeah he just needs to crank a generator for a while to power all the heat lamps he'd need in order to grow them
The Netherlands has no tomato shortage at the moment, but they are very expensive. I think England is missing out because of the extra costs of importing tomatoes. A veggie farmer can sell their tomatoes to a German or Irish supermarket much easier and for a better price. Normally that's not a problem, but in times of shortages it shows
Cucumbers 2€ currently in Germany.
2€ for a cucumber is still really cheap... if you live in Switzerland that is
@@oggilein1 2€ for ANYTHING is cheap in Switzerland, no? 😂
@@oggilein1 A cucumber in Switzerland is currently 1.6 Euro fyi
@@ThePixel1983 Seems to be about 1.15 EUR for a cucumber in NL at the moment.
Growing up quite rural and being surrounded by farms, I never considered fruit or vegetable to be not seasonal. So far, that I was highly irritated by a biography I read in my early teens and a mom went out to buy strawberries in November (a very unimportant detail in the book) and came back with "fresh" strawberries. I remember sitting there being completely floored where in the hell they came from, and noone was mentioning anything weird about that! They just went on doing whatever they were doing.
That reminds me of a Czech fairy tale wherein an evil stepmother sends her stepdaughter for strawberries in January.
It's a fairy tale, so she manages to obtain them through magic means. But, well, when you grow up with that in your golden fund of national literature, it also kind of gets hardwired. 😜
I love the idea of a tomato smuggling subplot in a heist movie. Everyone else is there to steal the gold or drugs or whatever and Matt has 300 pounds of tomatoes in his bag.
Heists, travel and edutainment, Matt is the new Carmen Sandiego.
Where in the world is Matt Gray
During the lettuce shortage a few years ago Asda was flying them in from America. My colleague honestly thought they were being flown in on a commercial passenger flight with each lettuce having it's own seat.
UK grocers regarding tomatoes: should they have empty shelves or increase the price?
US grocers regarding eggs: why not both?
We used to eat tomatoes at the dinner table here in the US.
Seems to have fallen out of fashion, but “table tomatoes” were always the best ones from the garden, the blemish free ones with the waxiest skins.
We did the same in the uk. If you had a greenhouse and grew tomatoes, you'd choose the best ones and eat them on their own, because it was almost sacrilegious to treat them as an ingredient.
For anyone who's never had a tomato fresh off the vine, please try it if you can. You'll never look at supermarket tomatoes the same way 😂
I had a family friend that did this at their house when I was a little kid. I was running around the house and sneaking down for a cherry tomato every 10 minutes or so. Eventually I hit a sour one and then I hated tomatoes for 15 years! (I've come back around now though)
That's how I'm used to eating them. I graze for most of my veggies, done it so much that they taste weird cooked except for some like potatoes onions and carrots (which are good both ways).
Aside from being ingredients in other dishes.
@@MudakTheMultiplier I could taste that sentence. The small sour ones can be nice, but only if you're expecting them.
If you're going to cook with them you're probably better off buying tinned whole tomatoes anyway. The process of cultivating fresh tomatoes and strawberries to survive the trip to the supermarket has ended up breeding a lot of the flavour out.
Tomatoes on the shelves today in our local supermarket, but, alas, no turnips. Maybe all taken by conservatives MP's?
THE BRITS ARE AT IT AGAIN
Granted I did technically give you my blessing to take them because I don’t like tomatoes but still 😂😂
Such a great video. Can't believe I'd not seen this before now.
British man yoinks nightshades from Ireland, where have I heard that before?
Someone learned from the Norwegian butter crisis episode of Technical Difficulties.
Every week, the UK sends £ 350M worth of tomatoes to the EU, that's what's happening! Tomato back control!
Most greenhouses in Sweden shut down and sent what they had to compost because power got so expensive. This has also put a big strain on what producers are left
I'm absolutely so in awe by the fact that you went to a different country and was allowed to take tomatoes in. We'd have been fined out the bum doing that in Australia!
but you might've ended up on the tellie in one of those border patrol programmes. 😅
Nae florae nor faunae!
In Is you can get fined crossing a state border with fruit..
@@ToolkiT73UK Australia and NZ have managed to keep a lot of diseases out (the UK has too to a lesser extent) by being really strict about what biological material you can bring in. Not just ones like rabies that directly affect humans but ones that kill livestock, bees and crops. I'm sure you can get fined if you violate these laws flagrantly and deliberately enough.
It's a tomato, and a tomato that shares a land boarder with the UK at that.
An Australian analogy would be importing fruit from southern Tasmania, if southern Tasmania had rebelled in the 1920s and formed the state of Huon.
Ecologically it's no different from importing fruit from southern Tasmania in the real world, which (to my understanding) wouldn't trip your import laws.
Living in France with my veg patch, the crop this year was late since the summer drought but that meant I could harvest all the remaining green ones and ripen them inside during winter with the help of some apples for the ethylene.
Just about finishing the 2022 tomato crop in march
Scotland has been in the middle of a salad shortage since about 1972...
The power of hindsight? More like the power of Heinz-sight, amirite
Hey Matt, welcome to Dublin! In the last few weeks, there definitely are fewer tomatoes around, but some supermarket chains seem to fare better than others. I saw emptier shelves in Tesco and Lidl, and fuller ones in Aldi - but it might have only been my luck. Anyway, hope you had a good time in Ireland, and that you'll be back soon :)
I had the same in the North - none in Tesco or Lidl but plenty in Asda
I'm extremely thankful to be in Canada, in the province that produces a huge amount of tomato's and tomato products. We've got lots of hot houses and when they are not in season, we have mexico!
Everything comes back to one thing.... Brexit!
Reminds me a bit of the baby formula shortage in the USA last year. People who lived near the 49th parallel were buying the stuff in Canada and bringing it home.
In my part of the southwestern US (Arizona), we legitimately have no issues getting things like tomatoes, mostly because they are one of the things that actually will grow here in home gardens (I live in a desert) and getting them from Mexico and places further south isn't usually an issue as they come from Latin America originally.
But our grocery stores have no issues pricing produce based on season for all but the most basic of produce.
When we couldn't get grapes this year at one point, they did first try raising the price to get people to not want them and limiting how many bags you could buy, but there are limits to how much they are allowed to raise the price due to issues with price gouging in crises. We ended up being without grapes for a couple weeks I think it was, and the first stocks back in were at high prices with limited quantities.
But basically, here they will try to slow the running out of an item or discourage purchase out of season as much as possible before they have to remove it from shelves due to an issue like this. Living in a desert, we just accept that some times of year certain produce is dirt cheap and other times of year it is really expensive, and since we can't usually grow it ourselves, we just have to eat something else that is in season or get frozen/canned/dried. This notion that I can get tropical or subtropical produce in winter in high latitudes or cold wet climate fall/winter harvest produce in summer in a desert has always felt weird to me.
I love tomatoes too, but I would have just gotten canned or gone without normally. But I also didn't need to investigate the EU holding out on tomatoes ;)
I didn’t realise that this was an actual problem, I just thought I was going mad and that tomatoes had just stopped being a thing
I live in Spain, no shortages here at all and no bad weather either.
That makes me thankful of the tomatoes I had at an Ibis hotel this week
My home grown tomatoes are going to taste even better this year!
I work in a hotel- we have plenty! Like, I think I have 160 in my fridge, at least. We haven’t had any supply issues, either. I’m wondering why we get them.
It's probably going to be a Commercial vs Consumer chain thing.
That's how I eat tomatoes. I don't slice anything. Just wash it and eat it. Like cucumbers have great handles for munching
As an Australian with super strict bio security laws, and in a state with domestic bio security rules to prevent fruit fly and other threats to the local fruit and veg growers, getting on a plane with that amount of raw produce is mind blowing in itself. 🤣
You can make a flight for 20 pounds? That sounds ridiculous! No wonder so many people opt for the plane instead of the train.
Supermarkets in Australia would have no problem charging customers more for fruit and veg. Cyclone Larry in 2006 saw banana prices soar to at least $12 per kilo (that I saw), where the price was normally around $2-$3 per kilo in my area, at that time. Recently, floods have affected fruit and veg prices, with some fast food outlets substituting cabbage for lettuce.
Okay, now this was funny, great one my dude, glad this got on my algorithm.
This is just a Norwegian Buttter Crisis 2: Electric Boogaloo
Do we talk about the whole "tomatoes in february" aspect or the question ? You brits are right this time, there shouldn't be any tomatoes in store at this moment !
Edit : OK, the second part of the vidéo kind of adresses the issue. But yet.
We've had occasional tomato shortages in Ireland, but it's seems to be affecting us much less than the UK. We should have most of the same issues as you regarding supply chains. Except for that one thing...
We'll forgive you for coming here to steal our vegetables because you're lovely.
This is the most hype explanation of tomato politics ever
0:14 yes Brogan, a sign saying "thanks to the DUP we don't have tomatoes" would be much more sensible than a reference to the Morrocan crop.
But we have them here, or at least where I live. (my kid loves them and has them in her lunchbox) Not many shortages at all. If there are, it's of stuff I don't like so I don't notice it. *shrugs* We're in Belfast almost every weekend anyway to go to the big Asian supermarket. No shortages there either.
Potato, tomato, it's all the same.
Love it....
I would possibly travel, as a german in germany, from northern germany to the south for a really good original 'Schweinshaxe' (Aka Eisbein, aka Eisbein (literally: 'ice bone') (a German culinary dish of corned ham hock, usually cured and slightly boiled. )).
Don't ask me why ..... but probably i can actually get everything else very easily in the groceries market. ;)
P&o used to do a deal where you could do a day trip to france for 30 quid for up to 9 people- with 6 free bottles of wine.
I saw your toot a while ago, and was waiting for this video. ;)
There are a couple of veggies I would consider taking with me back to Norway on a next trip visiting my country of origin, the Netherlands, as I just don't see them over here, and that would be 'botersla' (literally 'butter lettuce', but its official name is 'Salanova'), (green) endive (even though growing up I detested it; in later years I found a preparation I actually liked), and flat beans (though I should be able to grow them myself in Summer at least).
I wouldn’t expect airport security to care about your tomatoes. If anything, it’s customs arriving in the UK that would take an interest. It’s not illegal to take them on the plane, and for all Dublin security knows, you could be planning to eat them in-flight, so no problem.
Wrong relative of the nightshade family 😂
This is the best heist film I have ever seen.
this is so in-character for matt love u
Thank you for fully investigating this, the no. 1 issue faced by me personally
The question arises: is anyone going to Britain to smuggle out Marmite?
My vague concern has been Yorkshire Tea. I feel like that one probably has far more fans outside the UK than marmite.
Love the video Matt!!! So funny! Just one thing there is no tonato shortages here in Spain though! Love from Barcelona!
No - it’s just Brexit! Ireland is an island off an island, so why did weather, fuel, isolation etc. not affect your Dublin Tesco Express?
I can report that in Northern Ireland Tesco had no tomatos and peppers, but Asda had plenty
end screen of the century, that is
Do tomatoes not contain enough liquid to be a problem to drag through security
I can't believe you missed out on "This video is brought to you by the power of Heinzsight".
I managed to buy some cherry tomatoes and a cucumber in Lidl earlier, felt like I'd won a prize 🤣
This reminds me of how Russians would travel to Jugoslavia during the 80:s to by jeans and stockings
Going to other countries to get tomatoes is silly, because the cost of the plane ticket and travel to and from the airports already makes it too expensive, BUT if you're going anyway, yeah, BRING tomatoes back.
I think it may balance out for Matt if he gets a RUclips video out of it. Obviously not an option for everyone.
As person who used grow tomatoes every year, I absolutely recommend growing yourself what's great about them is their one fruit/veggie that's a must in my book to grow I have people grow them on their balcony.
I would also look up mushrooms and other non tomatoe plants etc as an alternative to some our tomatoes recipes. They may taste nothing like tomatoes but it's a try.
-cheers from America
Absolute mad lad
I havenot been able to find an eggplant in the local store for a few weeks and it's the first time in years I've really considered that vegetable do have seasons.
the madlad actually did it
@@yb1_ but i saw the tweet a few days ago (:
There are tomatoes in every supermarket where I am, perhaps a more interesting study would have been investigating where there was a actually shortage.
I fully appreciate your decision to call it 'fruit and veg'!
0:28-0:29 I know it’s sped up, but even that Timelapse? Really makes that flight from ??? To Dublin seem like just a “hop across the pond”
Almost as much time taking off and landing as cruising
My local supermarkets have been out of Sriracha hot sauce since their US farms had a crop failure last year. I like it a lot but flights are not as cheap as Europe so I can't say I'd go far to get some
Matt Gray just took a bite out a tomato and that’s the wildest thing I’ve ever seen
Matt either really likes tomatoes or shared them with friends
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Why can you FLY to another country for cheaper than I can visit my family via any method??? (anything from busses/trains, to fuel in a car) 😭
03:35 DAMN at least some brits learn the actual history of their country and this guy really is funny about it 👏😂
Never thought I'd be glad that I don't like tomatoes!
The ASMR at the end....
Now do the same thing but with durian.
spiky
just move to japan, where vegetables and fruits are rare and expensive all the time!
At least you didn’t steal them.
And now the question is, who to throw them at?
3:08 is the most scary statement/minds set I’ve ever seen.
If the world gets to a point where fresh food is something you only remember that’s scary.
Ever human regardless of nationality deserves the right of fresh food
The Metallica Drop… 🤌🤌🤌
Kindly dont take all our food again- Ireland, and france (medieval warfare was wild)
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Eating green tomatoes is a thing. They are most commonly eaten breaded and deep fried.
You can also pickle them.
Well they aren’t back on the shelves when you posted this video. There were 0 today at the supermarket.
Good work, but I'm still disappointed no smuggling happened!
Iceland has a lot of greenhouses...
you should have a kept a couple romas or cherry tomatoes in your pocket to bribe airport security with
Plenty in my local Sainsbury but not the full selection. Clearly the impact is uneven. Or maybe us lot here don’t like tomatoes so much.
At least your eggs aren’t being artificially inflated by big egg conglomerates. $o per dozen is criminal
Funny thing, I have an idea that Dublin Airport recently upgraded their gear to the point where the whole liquids and gels thing wasn't a problem any more. I'm not sure that was the case this time last year.
They were trialling that system at London Standstead when I went through there last month.
Shannon airport is completely upgraded. They are upgrading security at Dublin airport - they started in terminal two, not sure how far they have progressed with the project.