£10 for Lavazza Rossa? What The Actual Fuh?

 

£10 for a twin-pack of Lavazza Rossa? It was £6 (on a Nectar offer, I grant) in the summer. A couple of years ago, it was less than that.

Has there been a coffee drought? 

Google says so. Brazil was hit by a drought this summer and production was down. Since coffee is the second-most important substance in the world (after lithium for all those iPhone batteries) for the media classes, you'd think this would have been on the front pages of every UK newspaper. Woe is us, for our Starbucks will cost far, far more. But no, because the UK media are obsessed with Westminster gossip. 

Never mind. The rumour is that the olive harvest was good this year, so we may not be paying £12+ for ordinary virgin oil, like we are at the moment.

None of this would have happened if we were still in the EU. We would have had a sunny summer as well. In fact, it would have been like this...

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(Richard Burton was the original and greatest. I saw him in it when I was a nipper, and it deserved every day of its long run.)