THE UK is demanding farmers detail exactly which foods might run low before panicking, because it might just be healthy stuff. Warnings of food shortages are being investigated by a sceptical public because first, you can’t trust farmers and second, it may well only be beetroot or lettuce or other easily-discarded salad products. Nathan Muir of Colchester said: “They say there’s a shortage of cereal crops. Plus there’s always ketchup. Plus I’d expect the government, post-Covid, to have prioritised rebuilding Britain’s crisp mountain so we’ve got at least two years stockpiled.