{"id":9192,"date":"2023-08-01T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2023-08-01T21:50:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:50:56","slug":"frozen-peas-in-bedford-supermarket-is-no-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/frozen-peas-in-bedford-supermarket-is-no-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Peas in Bedford Supermarket is No Woke"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I don’t see it like that!”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

All it took was a bag of frozen peas left on the end of the checkout conveyor belt, my public spiritedness and up went the balloon. And it was high drama at the local supermarket.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1 August 2023 ~ Frozen Peas in Bedford Supermarket is No Woke<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had just arrived at the local supermarket checkout with my week\u2019s shopping ~ six bottles of beer, a can of cheap beans and a pound of liver, which I will need to replace mine if I carry on drinking like this ~ when I espied a lonely bag of frozen peas beached on the metallic rim at the end of the conveyor belt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was only one person in the queue in front of me, an elderly black lady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAre these yours?\u201d I politely asked her, nodding towards the peas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo,\u201d she replied, in a strong Jamaican accent, then, whistling through her teeth, asked \u201cWhy do people do such things?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA sign of the times,\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I began to unload my purchases from the basket to the conveyor belt, when I felt a tap on my shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lady, unusually large for the time of year, one of those scarred for life by the coronavirus Plandemic who cannot escape from her facemask, was asking me: \u201cAre these your frozen peas?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo,\u201d I answered. \u201cI asked the lady in front of me the same question.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A public-spirited person, ie me, then sought to bring the lonesome bag of peas to the attention of the foreign gentleman manning the checkout (\u2018manning\u2019, we are not supposed to say that, are we?\u2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s OK,\u201d he said, in a strong foreign accent, \u201cLady has gone to get something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That told me. But hardly had he finished speaking than he began to take a peculiar interest in something at the checkout opposite. He continued to look in that direction, calling as he did so, \u201cLady, lady, your things here!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked where he was looking. The \u2018lady\u2019 to whom his comments were addressed, presumably she who had left the frozen peas, was standing in the opposite queue. She was big and black with a face resembling something that Buffalo Bill Cody would have been familiar with. Just then we, the elderly black lady who had spoken to me earlier and who was in the process of paying for her goods, glanced at each other. A second earlier she had turned her head to look at the culprit who had abandonned her frozen peas. The elderly lady seemed embarrassed. Hurriedly stuffing her last purchase into her bag, she scurried off, leaving me to mull over her question, \u201cWhy do they do it?\u201d Why, indeed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foreign white gentleman manning the checkout was still appealing to the foreign black lady\u2019s responsibilities, trying to get her to take the frozen peas back to the refrigerator, but whilst the peas were rapidly thawing, she was frozen within her ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey [the peas] will defrozen,\u201d called the checkout man, \u201cdefrozen, and then we will have to throw them in the bin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At long last, the \u2018lady found her voice: \u201cI don\u2019t see it like that,\u201d she retorted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now there\u2019s an answer for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frozen Peas in Bedford Supermarket is No Woke<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It was evident by now that the checkout man was flogging a dead horse, buffalo or something. He got up, strode down to the end of his conveyor belt, grabbed the peas and headed towards the fridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all happening at Fiddles today,\u201d said I. \u201cSuch drama!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mask-wearing woman looked the other way, just in case her mask was not as foolproof as they had made her believe. The little middle-class lady standing behind her ~ and you don\u2019t get a lot of them in Fiddles, come to think of it, you don’t see many of them in Bedford town centre ~ sniggered but did not utter a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The white checkout man from who knows what country strode back, resumed his seat and staring into the middle distance said, with an expression of incredulity, \u201cLady got same products but leave these, why?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCuh,\u201d I chimed, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t bear thinking about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it didn\u2019t, particularly as he was white and the frozen-pea leaver was black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I half expected her to suddenly burst into a tirade of, \u201cYu wacist! Yu wacist, yu are!\u201d and dash from the shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She would then complain online to her friends, who would then alert the authorities, who would then contact Fiddles\u2019 management and demand an apology. The Guardinistan<\/em> and the BBC would get wind of the situation and commence a campaign on the black woman\u2019s behalf, reporting that she had been so terribly traumatised by the outrageous request to return the peas to the fridge that it had caused her to lose her self-esteem, not to mention her self-respect, and that, as a result, she could no longer go to the supermarket unless she was accompanied either by her grandparents, aunts, uncles, nephews or nieces, preferably all of them together, which is why they are currently bobbing about in an inflatable dinghy on the English Channel, soon to dock at Dover from whence they will be V.I.P. driven to a nice five-star hotel, providing there are any left that are not already full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frozen Peas in Bedford <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Shortly, a solicitor, one of those who specialises in just these sorts of cases, would volunteer to represent her. Her case would go to court. Naturally, the LLJUK (Liberal Left Judiciary UK) would award her compensation ~ a frozen packet of Fiddles’ peas for life to be delivered every week by hand by Fiddles’ CEO and in addition, and just for good measure, a handout of two million quid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the white foreign gentleman, who had been totally out of order for calling the woman\u2019s attention to the bag of peas she had ditched, he would be sacked forthwith, and his bank, The Cashless Globalist Inc., would immediately close his account Nigel Farrage-style, and wouldn\u2019t that serve him white! What would he do? Where would he go? No lifetime\u2019s guarantee of frozen peas for him. How would he survive in an overpriced country dominated by profiteering supermarkets, greedy utility companies, extorting financial institutions and totally in-the-pocket-of-George-Sorryarse MPs? There would be nothing for it but to turn gay, join the British Army, sue them for being beastly to him, or perhaps not beastly enough (pass the mascot, \u2018Woof!\u2019), and leave the service with his own compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not what you do; it\u2019s the way that you do it<\/a> \u2026 and in the UK that’s a fact!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pass the peas, please!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Frozen<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Links to ….<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Three Kaliningrad babushkas in a bread shop<\/a>
Secret Weapon in Kaliningrad<\/a>
Russia’s love of cakes differs from the UKs<\/a>‘
It’s that man in the Russian hat in Bedford!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2023 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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