Facebook Fans Are planning to panic-buy carrots
Filed under: News | By: Kerry
Posted on: January 31, 2008 | 5 Comments
It has been reported that tens of thousands of people all over the world are planning to panic-buy carrots as part of a campaign that started as a joke on a social networking site.
It’s said that more than 91,000 Facebook users have signed up to a Facebook group called “On May 15, 2008, everybody needs to go out and panic buy carrots”.
They plan to go out at 2pm on the designated day and buy as many carrots as they can.
David Martin, vice-chairman of the British Carrot Growers’ Association, is excited by the idea. He said that “It’s an extraordinary proposition; purchasers can be assured they’ll have a fine product in the middle of May as long as they buy British carrots. Bring it on! Let’s try and reach a million members!”
There is much debate on the site as to what to do with the spare carrots on the following day. But another Facebook group has sprung up to provide answers.
It proposes a day of “taproot-based generosity and carroty philanthropy” on May 16.
It’s said that the 986 members plan to turn panic-bought carrots into soups and other carrot-related dishes, and deliver their produce to the needy and homeless.
Will you be joining in the panic buy?
What do you make of this whole idea?
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I find it as sad as the spanish “tomatina”, completely insulting to those that struggle to satisfy their alimentary needs. I hope they find a way to use them appropiately but most likely the carrots are going to finish in the trash or as “compost” for flower gardens and… Flowers can’t be eaten!
It sounded like a pointless idea until I read that the carrots would be used to actually help the homeless. That makes me think that perhaps one day, FunAdvice can do something equally as helpful for the community.
In view of what the Beeb’s narcissistic new business editor did to Northern Rock, inviting people to panic buy, even in jest, seems like tempting Murphy’s Law just a bit too far….
Do the British Carrot Growers truly want us to believe that the carrots in the shops in the UK in May are grown in Britain?
Great idea in principle, not sure precisely what it will achieve. If the “millions” taking part all gave £1 to feeding the real starving in Africa, a lot more good could be achieved.
I think a lot of Facebook users are seriously fucked in the head.
I fear that these young people will one day have thier own kids who will probably be taking care of me when I’m old and in a home somewhere. I’m shit scared