arista
07-05-2018, 04:24 PM
["I used to pay £65 or £75 for 1kg of vanilla pods. Now the supplier wants £580, so vanilla has just had to go."]
[Around 85 per cent of the world's supply of vanilla pods comes from Madagascar, an island off eastern Africa.
But natural disasters including last year's Cyclone Enawo have wiped out a third of the annual crop, sending prices soaring.
This high demand and low production is expected to spell disaster for ice cream lovers in the UK as summer approaches.]
Its all because of the Extreme weather
last year in Madagascar
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/952535/ice-cream-vanilla-shortage-crop-pods-prices-Madagascar-summer-weather
I bet all the frozen stuff
in Supermarkets
was well before the Price increase.
[Around 85 per cent of the world's supply of vanilla pods comes from Madagascar, an island off eastern Africa.
But natural disasters including last year's Cyclone Enawo have wiped out a third of the annual crop, sending prices soaring.
This high demand and low production is expected to spell disaster for ice cream lovers in the UK as summer approaches.]
Its all because of the Extreme weather
last year in Madagascar
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/952535/ice-cream-vanilla-shortage-crop-pods-prices-Madagascar-summer-weather
I bet all the frozen stuff
in Supermarkets
was well before the Price increase.