Pickled Onions and Pickled Blatters

Life just gets worse. I was in Carrefour this morning and was suprised to find the shelves empty of Pickled Onions and Pickled Blatters ( not even Haywards silverskin onions or Mrs Miggins Olde English Blatters ) I enquired at Customers services and after 1 hour and 20 minutes - whilst they tried to find someone who could speak English - a strangely French talking person told me that both Pickled onions and Pickled blatters had recently been added to the Banned substances list in Qatar. Por quoi I said, for my French is limited, I was told that because both delicacies contained the halucinatory prservative " merdeaussi " which when taken can cause hallucinations and severe mood swings that often result in the victim thinking, and behaving as though, they are a defrosting Canard du Merde. Christmas will never be the same again unless of course I can get to Europe and bring some in. I have attached a nostalgic photo of a Haywards Pickled Onion jar. Ah, such fond memories.....................