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  1. RickDeckard

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    The UK’s main container ports are overwhelmed with unclaimed imports and starting to refuse the restitution of empty boxes urgently needed back in Asia.

    And other North European ports are also heavily congested, but the acute HGV driver shortage in the UK has extended container dwell times significantly in past weeks, with the country’s main box hubs now “in danger of grinding to a complete halt”, according to one industry observer.


    https://theloadstar.com/its-all-goi...s-and-despite-what-boris-says-we-cant-fix-it/

    This seems more problematic to me than the LA issue. That's due to a surge in demand and the short term impacts of covid. This is for an island nation with a labor shortage. Best of luck to you folks, I hope this isn't too disruptive.
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    It seems to have ruined donuts.

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    I'll wager 99% of the fat fucks eating them wouldn't notice if they changed to the "shit" British sprinkles.

    It's not exactly staying near the tastebuds long enough.
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    That's less a Brexit thing, and more an American food standards thing.
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    Americans have food standards?
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    Very few, hence the thing.

    The sprinkles use coal tar dye in the red food colouring. It's not counted as fit for consumption in the EU, and Britain retained that standard in the Brexit legislation. So even without Brexit, this guy wouldn't legally be allowed to use them.
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    His daughter won't get to go to Disneyland because daddy can't sell cookies anymore :cry:
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    Daddy sounds like enough of a princess anyway so she's not missing anything.
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    According to this they can be used in cocktails and candied cherries. https://apple.news/AUVZyvaw-TryzsEx9kqwMJg
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    Well, yeah. Brits want cocktail drinking tossers dead.

    As for the cookies, let's be frank - his customers only like them because they think the raspberry jam counts as one of their five fruit/veg a day.
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    Long read.

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    Kroger actually did this with their Smith's division early last year.
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    Lorry queues are now 23 miles long...
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    Also relevant!

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    Are we sure that's not Russian formations outside of Kyiv? ;)
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