We ate some globe radishes the other day, about the size of the gobstopper of yore. Radishes which had been grown in Senegal, and presumably air-freighted here, or at least most of the way here. A quick search failed to reveal any flights to the UK, but then I did not find the aeroplane sites very easy to use, not being used to them. Perhaps as a former French colony, there is a good service to France, from where the radishes come by road.
Given the concern about global warming, it seems odd to be flying jumbos which are empty enough, often enough for it to be worth someone's while to arrange for them to carry radishes to the UK, a journey roughly the same as flying across the Atlantic.
PS: those without gardens may not know that radishes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow there are. The sort of thing you get infants to do as part of their first gardening project at school.
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