Posted on 03/15/2020 9:09:55 PM PDT by NoLibZone
This clearly illustrates why our nation faces the challenges we currently do.
Fred Meyers Out side of Portland Or today.
Bread Ilse devastated people milling around eying the last four Jewish Rye loaves:
Two isles away or 40feet:
It can’t be true.
Good thing I know how to make bread. I enjoy making/eating it. My wife does not enjoy the mess I leave behind. :-(
Before the trolls descend.
This is posted in ChitChat.
Do I spot Greta on the right in the second pic?
Bread, a good substitute for toilet paper.
Just don’t let it get stale.
At the Meijer here, the staff was restocking with extra crew as quickly as possible and with a mixture of amusement and annoyance (overtime & extra shifts, from what I overheard).
The customer base was partly worried looking folks but mostly people buying their regular stuff (mostly; couldn’t buy milk at all but a place 5 minutes away had lots) and eye-rolling.
Leaders seem very intent on ensuring that there’s as much disruption as possible.
Not a lot of people think bread is adequate snack food. However, it has a certain consistency that has been popular for a few hundred years. In the same sense, potatoes have not always been popular. But combine them with a little butter and salt.....
Small wonder people are avoiding that part of the store...
I make jalapeno cheese bread. May not be the best substitute.
I was in two stores Friday. There was a big run on toilet paper but not bread. Usually, in advance of a hurricane, bread, milk, and bottled water are the first to go.
Nonsense. I saw no sarcasm tag.
I went to Trader Joe’s 4 days ago and purchased a box of cornbread mix. They were stacked eight feet high...about 200 boxes.
I went back today...four boxes left and the store basically stripped.
I admit their cornbread is good, but come on.
When you have a grain mill and a supply of wheat berries, you can make bread that’s more than a meal. Glad I listened to my grandmother, who survived Spanish Flu, WWI, Depression and WWII.
My son works at a Harris Teeter and he tells me that more shipments of everything are coming in faster than usual. The problem is that as soon as something is put out on the shelf, it’s gone a few minutes later.
The CDC told the country to prepare by stocking up and now Americans see the “lockdowns” spreading from Asia into Europe.
Doesn’t seem to me irrational to put the pieces together and stock up.
Witness! I got an idea off an youtube video. I make bread inside a very large aluminum mixing bowl. Kneading is easy and the flour says inside the bowl (mostly) for easy clean up.
The NappyOne
I work with a very large CPG food company, we have plenty of product and talked to my counterparts who make toilet paper and there is plenty of supply-they are making their sales numbers!-the challenge is shipping from warehouses and getting it on the shelf, we will be shipping 7 days a week now and if you want to stock up with a 4 month supply ,go right ahead. The US grocery industry is the best in the world and this (out of stoks) is nothing but a one or two week allocation problem.
Tortillas work better. Avoid the egg roll wraps.
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