THE other day, as I approached the little Tesco in the High Street, I found two men with open boxes of bananas - ripe, but firm and good looking (the bananas), about to cast them into a smallish rubbish lorry.
"You're not going to put those in, are you?" said I.
"Indeed we are" they said with a smirk and declined my offer to give them a home: and in they went.
Obviously Tesco thinks that it pays them to offer the public only unripe bananas, but that perfectly good food from far away should be totally wasted is reprehensible and hardly to be tolerated by a thoughtful green town.
Perhaps Tesco was going to compost them, but I still think it is a shame.
Hermione Skrine
The Old Smithy
Westwood
Crediton