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The Great Pea Shortage

Posted by SweetViolet • 8/13/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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I cannot find frozen peas!

Now, before you laugh and consider this a tempest in a teapot (or "storm in a teacup" as they say here) consider that not one of the four major supermarket chains here have frozen peas for sale. And I Googled "pea shortage" and discovered that in 2006 and 2008 there were "world wide" pea shortages!! (Seems the pea crops in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand all failed, and the pea crop in China was of poor quality).

Do you have frozen peas in your supermarket? Why do you think we are running out of peas? Is it global warming? Insect or mould infestation? A conspiracy?

Why do you think I can't get my hands on a bag of frozen peas?

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8/13/09

ThriftShopRomantic

I don't know. Perhaps there's none left in the stores because everyone decided to finally give peas a chance.

(Running away now.)

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1. 8/13/09
  
  hatingtherain
  
  lol:)
2. 8/13/09
  
  SweetViolet
  
  HAHAHAHaaaaaa!
  
  Good one!
  
  (But I really can't find any frozen peas! Canned and dried, yes...fresh and frozen? No)
3. 8/13/09
  
  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Heh, sorry SV, I do believe you about the pea shortage. I do.
4. 8/13/09
  
  singaporecaddy
  
  haahhahahaahahh
8/13/09

sinaisix

There is a lot of pea here in Ghana if you can only hop over

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1. 8/13/09
  
  SweetViolet
  
  Frozen peas?
  
  I need frozen peas!
  
  I can't cook without frozen peas!
8/13/09

calais50

I bought a bag of frozen peas last week. How strange that you can't get your hands on them. I'd ship you a bag if I could

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8/13/09

calais50

Last year, there was a food safety issue with tomatoes and no tomatoes were available for sale for at least a week. Tomatoes are one of my favorite food, so that totally sucked. There was also an extreme gas shortage here for a couple of weeks last year. I assumed the whole US was having a shortage, but oddly enough, it was just North Carolina and part of South Carolina. I never did figure out why only we had a shortage. A lot of people couldn't even go to work b/c they couldn't get gas.

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8/13/09

SweetViolet

I found a bag!!!

Woolworth's (not related to the dime store) is one of our premium shops here and they have a food store division. For only twice the cost of a bag of peas at our local Safeway clone, I was able to buy a bag of frozen peas today (they were out of peas two days ago). Imported from New Zealand, no less!

Yay! I got peas!!

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8/13/09

singaporecaddy

I betcha all the frozen peas are sitting in people's freezers waiting to become a bag for bruises and bumps.

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1. 8/13/09
  
  SweetViolet
  
  I don't think that is a common use for frozen peas here in South Africa...at least not as well known as in the US.
8/13/09

Stillthinking

I cannot testify to any pea shortage here. Last time I bought a bag of peas was when I broke my foot.

I do distinctly recall the great tomato famine of last year. It was a sad time. Salads were pallid. Sandwiches were sadly bare.

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8/13/09

sinaisix

I have lots of frozen peas here in Ghana. i just shipped off 20kg to you. cheers

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1. 8/13/09
  
  SweetViolet
  
  Now why would you have an abundance of peas in Ghana and Woolies had to send all the way to New Zealand for some? Doesn't make sense!
  
  But at least I found a bag of peas and now I can cook!
10/23/09

sorcerer

Frozen Pee? You get it when you pee outside in cold winter!

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