Bad weather and flooding in Italy and Spain is pinching the supply of olive oil. | Fethi Belaid/AFP via Getty Images Olive oil prices spike, deepening ‘courgette crisis’ Bad weather in the Mediterranean and weak pound hit UK salad lovers hardest.

Tough times for salad lovers.

After poor weather in the Mediterranean led to shortages of lettuce and courgettes this winter, it's now also driving up the price of olive oil.

In Spain, the price of extra virgin oil rose 10 percent, while in Italy it soared by almost 33 percent since October to €5.75 a kilogram, according to the International Olive Council in Madrid, Bloomberg reports.

The outlook is bad. Production in Italy might be cut in half in the coming season by erratic weather, the report adds.

Hardest hit seems to be the U.K. Olive oil is the most expensive it's been in at least seven years, due to the shrinking supply and the Brexit-induced drop in the value of the pound, according to Bloomberg.

Last week British supermarket chains Tesco and Morrisons rationed broccoli and lettuce, citing shortages. The British media called it the “courgette crisis,” as the supply of aubergines, salad, celery and of course courgette is pinched by snow and floods in Spain’s vegetable-growing regions.

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