Today it has been announced that there is not enough sugar to go around, due to poor weather and low harvests in places like Brazil (it has rained every day in Sao Paolo for 7 weeks, as an example) and prices have risen to 30c a pound - a 30 year high. Orders around the world are now not being met.

Just giving you SOL readers the heads up so you can clear the shelves first !!

Paniiiiiic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have never bought a bag of sugar in my life, so it wont affect me.

Regards to Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.

And the word is wimp, as you should well know....

Fri 5 February 2010 5.51am, Cannydc wrote:

Today it has been announced that there is not enough sugar to go around, due to poor weather and low harvests in places like Brazil (it has rained every day in Sao Paolo for 7 weeks, as an example) and prices have risen to 30c a pound - a 30 year high. Orders around the world are now not being met.

Just giving you SOL readers the heads up so you can clear the shelves first !!

Paniiiiiic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sugar is only for the plebs hun

i only use honey hun

Fri 5 February 2010 11.54am, Cannydc wrote:

Oh, really, Saint ?

Gosh, you have the memory of a goldfish, don't you ?

This was 4 weeks ago.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242099/Supermarket-hit-panic-buying-shelves-stripped-essentials-snow-fears.html

And then there was this - rumours only but hey.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/933685.stm

And a few more examples - oh, and I remember a SUGAR SCARE in 1974...... limited to 1 or 2 bags in most outlets...

The first post-war petrol scare blew up out of the Suez crisis in 1956. As oil supplies dried up, queues at petrol stations grew. Finally, the embattled government of Anthony Eden was forced to impose a limit of 200 miles per month for each motorist.

Ten years later it was the seamen's strike. The threat to food imports led to a round of panic buying, which was to be repeated during the dockers' strike of 1970. The warnings of food manufacturers against hoarding fell on deaf ears.

The years 1972-74 were halcyon ones for candlemakers. Anything that produced even the faintest glimmer of light without recourse to the mains was in demand during the nine-hour blackouts caused by the miners' strikes of those years.

The following year, it was petrol again when Opec raised the price of crude by 70 per cent in response to Israel's victory in the Yom Kippur War. The government of Edward Heath printed 16 million petrol rationing books for distribution from post offices. Special arrangements were made for doctors, nurses and vets.

Britain was to experience petrol shortages on a reduced scale in 1979 when another Opec price rise forced the temporary closure of 200 petrol stations. In 1977 the rush was on for the humble sliced loaf following a strike by workers at major bakeries. In 1995 it was hay. The drought of that year led to a trebling in the price, partly due to panic buying by horse owners.

And then, of course, there is Delia Smith. When the history of panic buying is written, the television cook will require a chapter to herself. The mere mention of a particular product in one of her books or during one of her television programmes is enough to clear shelves from John o' Groats to Land's End.

I don't really give a f*** when it was, obviously you spewing B 0LLOX as per!!