When is an onion not an onion? When it's been organically grown, of course, using only the best fertilisers on land where wild boar has no doubt roamed uninterrupted for 400 years - at least you'd think so looking at the prices in some of the organic food stores plaguing London.
It just goes to show how little the recession has hit certain champagne-quaffing sections of society, that on the same day Woolies employees hung up their pick and mix scoops for the last time, I passed a toddler walking with his mum asking if they can 'please go to Planet Organic today instead of Sainsbury's, mummy'. Incidentally, she said: 'Of course darling, but we only need the basics today'.
Clearly not everyone is cutting back if you can still afford to buy organic basics - it seems they were not the only ones the shop was packed.
Perhaps the recession isn't hitting everyone as equally as we are led to believe. Once again, it's the poorer members of society who are struggling, buying 25p packs of pasta, while the well off are swanning around spending over two pounds on a bag of onions.
No doubt the organic brigade are the ones I see sat in coffee houses swilling their lattes discussing how awful it is their £2million penthouse apartment overlooking the river in Fulham is now only worth £1.85million. The heart bleeds.
I'm sick of hearing people who clearly have more money than sense complaining about the economic downturn. If they are in financial problems perhaps they should cut back on their lifestyles, or even better, have saved a bit of money when times were good rather than buying a new Merc.
There's no excuse for people who were once on massive city bonuses now comparing their plight to people being made redundant from everyday jobs.
Without sounding like some sort of crazed class-warrior, I would ask anyone who can still afford to buy only the best pretentious food to stop complaining about everythingm - you're oviously still doing much better than the rest of us.
