Its fascinating to see that a chinese state controlled app has the power to potentially destabilize small economies. Also fuck influencers, they are a plague on this world.
SFG’s marketing director said that as things stand farmers in Iceland are not managing to keep up with surging consumer demand, but said she hopes supply will be back to normal “in a week or so”.
Wow, sounds serious.
Ms Sveinsdóttir from the SFG also expressed some scepticism, suggesting other factors were at play. Some cucumber farmers replace their cucumber plants at this time of year, which are not yet producing large amounts, she said.
In addition to this, schools are returning from the summer holidays, which puts additional pressure on supplies.
“Everything is happening at the same time,” Ms Sveinsdóttir observed, but said the social media trend remained one of the main contributing factors.
“This is the first time we have experienced something like this,” Ms Sveinsdóttir said, adding that had the TikTok trend become popular earlier in the summer, “when the [cucumber] production was in full blast” and the shortage would not have been noticeable.
Wow, the Chinese propaganda is so sophisticated! They must have known about all these factors in advance to be able to minorly inconvenience people who want a salad for a whole week. 🙄
fuck influencers, they are a plague on this world.
Given linguists are wont to confirm that English (d)evolves based on what’s popular, essentially vapid influencer famewhores are driving the evolution of English, and no one with a brain cell. So if you wanted to know why ‘emails’ is wrong as a noun, instead of a lesson on uncountable mass nouns we get “lol, 3 trafficks today, smash that ‘like’ button”.
Man, BBC really scraping the bottom of the barrel for content here 😄
In Denmark we call it “cucumber times”, when the news have nothing to report on during summer. BBC seems to have taken that term very literally.
this is less of a too little cucumber and more of a too much tiktok problem
Seems not so much a “tik-tok problem” but example of a 21st century fad.
Fads, crazes, etc. have come and gone. Something able become a nationwide fad overnight is a product of the internet.
Oh no !It’s summer ! People are eating cucumbers (with soy sauce) and (frozen) tomatoes! Something broke the supply chain !
