Buying A Knife

-SharonA- | 14:43 Wed 16th Oct 2019 | ChatterBank

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I have just returned home after spending a good part of the morning trying to buy a kitchen vegetable knife!!
And no I did not manage to buy one. Many shops have stopped selling them, unless you buy a knife block.
I tried all the supermarkets and a couple of independent shops.
The shops all give the same reason, knife crime. Most suggested using a peeler, but I like the feel of a knife in my hand.

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marval

I got mine from Wilko, the lady serving said she thought I wouldn't use it for anything else.

margarettom

Just a blunt ended, serrated edged, Kitchen Devil vegetable knife, blade length about 10cm TonyV!

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Marvel, I went to Wilkos and it is a no go. They had big carving knives which is just as lethal imo!

naomi24

My local Tesco sells all sorts of kitchen knives, as does Sainsbury's and Waitrose. Could it depend on area?

Theland

And a fork?

woofgang

I really like a nice knife. When I was about 4, the only thing I really wanted that my parents wouldn't let me have was a penknife. Anyway when I was about 7, I saved and saved. We used to go on holiday to Littlehampton by train and when we got there, Mum and my older sister used to go and do a huge shop because we used to get a taxi from Littlehampton to the caravan site and then it was all walking or busses until the taxi back to the train station at the end of the holidays. My Dad and I used to go and buy sweets and a bucket and spade and he would buy himself a little tin of cafe creme cigars...anyway as was often the case in those days, the tobacconist sold penknives and I always could twist my Dad around my finger.......My mother had a total fit when she got back and saw my brand new knife and all my dad would say was that at least he had only let me buy a small knife and not the one I really wanted! I wish I still had the knife but I lost it :( I now have a rather fine collection of Swiss Army knives as well as my kitchen knives.

TonyV

Yes Shoota, don't want to be disparaging towards you, but I have lot longer and more lethal weapons locked away from sight, my penknife is normally locked in glove draw. No Policeman that has ever stopped me has never complained, but complimented me on how safe my tools are stored.

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Naomi, you could be right as I was looking in Stratford and local areas where there's been a few stabbings recently.

douglas9401

I think Naomi's right, just back from Morrisons and there are knives aplenty, all shapes and sizes.

david small

My Mom would only use a knife for peeling potatoes and other veg that required peeling, sprouts etc. She could never get on with specific potato peelers. I’m the opposite peelers of a certain type only.

douglas9401

Titan!

rowanwitch

Def TK maxx got two lovely Sabatiers for 5.99 each
I have always got a folding garden multitool with me... Not sure about the main knife, the saw blade is just over 4" and the secondary blade is about 3"