This was just a couple of weeks ago in one of our main supermarkets in the area. They still limit counts on many items you can buy in one trip.

This was as late as July, and this section still isn't much better today.  Never in my life have we experienced something like this ( mid 50s )

There was a time or two that we had to watch our money, but there was always food to eat...

Wild.  Supply chain issues aside, pasta is one of the easiest foods to learn to make, even with few tools.  Eggs, Flour (semolina or OO), olive oil, and some kosher salt.  That's it.  Sure, a mixer with a dough hook and a pasta roller will cut down on the prep time, but after making my own for the past 10 years, I only buy stuff pasta or really labor-intensive shapes (like Orecchiette) in the store these days.

We had some shortages like that for a few months, last year around March. Shelves that were bare of the weirdest essentials. We had a shortage of Kraft Easy Cheese for a while. Whole areas would be barren. 

But, things are pretty much back to normal here now. Everything is stocked more or less like it was before the pandemic. I haven't gone to the store for something and it simply wasn't available for months. 

Sun Dec 06 2020 18:20:21 EST from Nurb432

This was as late as July, and this section still isn't much better today.  Never in my life have we experienced something like this ( mid 50s )

 

 

Earlier i mentioned that we were also out of staples, like four.. 

For the most part pre-fab and frozen went first hen staples vanished when people realized they woudl need to actually 'make' their food.  Flour, oils, spices, sugar.. all of it

Sun Dec 06 2020 20:26:32 EST from DutchessMike

Wild.  Supply chain issues aside, pasta is one of the easiest foods to learn to make, even with few tools.  Eggs, Flour (semolina or OO), olive oil, and some kosher salt.  That's it.  Sure, a mixer with a dough hook and a pasta roller will cut down on the prep time, but after making my own for the past 10 years, I only buy stuff pasta or really labor-intensive shapes (like Orecchiette) in the store these days.

Yeah, we did have a shortage of staples like flour for a while - right about the time that bread recipes became popular on Facebook and everybody was sharing photos of the latest abomination they had concocted in their kitchen. 

The things we *didn't* get right about a zombie apocalypse... 

There weren't ever enough latex gloves and disposable surgical masks in the littler blowing around after the fall of society. 

There would be commercials about dealing with your undead loved ones and how we were all in it together nearly immediately, well before society collapsed. 

"In these troubling times, when your undead wife prowls the streets of the neighborhood, and you are hiding behind boarded up windows and reinforced doors with your 12 gauge - it is good to know you have a friend in the furniture business. We offer contactless, secure delivery and we'll clear the perimeter before we leave so you can retrieve your new Lazy Boy recliner! Special financing available. These are uncomfortable times, let us help you make them a little more bearable!" 

Mon Dec 07 2020 07:08:55 EST from Nurb432

Earlier i mentioned that we were also out of staples, like four.. 

 

:)

Mon Dec 07 2020 09:35:28 EST from ParanoidDelusions

"In these troubling times, when your undead wife prowls the streets of the neighborhood, and you are hiding behind boarded up windows and reinforced doors with your 12 gauge - it is good to know you have a friend in the furniture business. We offer contactless, secure delivery and we'll clear the perimeter before we leave so you can retrieve your new Lazy Boy recliner! Special financing available. These are uncomfortable times, let us help you make them a little more bearable!" 

 

 

I will know the world is coming to an end when I am forced to eat grain to survive.

I donno, im pretty fond of cereal and bread.. 

Tue Dec 08 2020 11:50:42 EST from nonservator

I will know the world is coming to an end when I am forced to eat grain to survive.

Grain is the tool of tyrants, it is the food of slaves.

Let me eat cake. 

Wed Dec 09 2020 08:21:03 EST from nonservator

Grain is the tool of tyrants, it is the food of slaves.

:D 

Well, there are OTHER things I do that George Clooney might consider beneath his stature but that I am willing to do, too. Sometimes the grass only SEEMS greener (or the hair thicker, in this case...) 

I don't consider myself inferior to any celebrity just by virtue of their celebrity - but I do understand that a Lamborghini is a superior car to a Fierro by any reasonable measure. :)

I have actually noticed more very attractive women doing double-takes and letting their eyes linger when I caught them, since the masks have become a thing. Evidently it all goes to hell for me from the top of my cheeks down to my chin. :) 


Of course, maybe the same could be true of those women... Forehead to Cheekbone Foxes. :) 

 

Fri Dec 11 2020 05:43:08 EST from darknetuser

Can George Clooney do sysadmin jobs or deploy an awesome service like, say Citadel?

I don't consider myself inferior to any celebrity. They sell something different than I sell. I am ugly as heck but with the mask mandates that does not matter anymore, anyway :-)

Say this to your wife: "Honey, I am better than George Clooney, there is something I am willing to do that George Clooney would *NEVER* do."

Wife: "Oh... what's that?"

Then say this: "You."

Ahhhhhh good times, I guarantee it. 

I suspect George would probably nail my wife, if the situation presented itself. 

I don't think, for example, Gal Gadot is likely to ever go, "Well, it is Paranoid Delusions or nuthin' - tonight... so... saddle up - loser... you're riding the invisible jet tonight..." 

Life isn't fair. 

Fri Dec 11 2020 15:18:34 EST from zooer

Say this to your wife: "Honey, I am better than George Clooney, there is something I am willing to do that George Clooney would *NEVER* do."

Wife: "Oh... what's that?"

Then say this: "You."

Ahhhhhh good times, I guarantee it. 

LOL

Sat Dec 12 2020 16:48:03 EST from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: arrgh my tooth - freaking virus

Kinky!

If you are going to offer MP3/FLAC files to download along with a disk purchase, PLEASE use the right tags.. geesh.

ya ya i know. .'first world problems' and its less trouble to fix a tag that burn the disk i just bought, but i hate opening disks out of the wrappers and its still annoying. 

Sun Dec 06 2020 08:26:32 PM EST from DutchessMike

Wild.  Supply chain issues aside, pasta is one of the most unexciting tastless heavy calorie foods to learn to make, even with few tools.  Eggs, Flour (semolina or OO), olive oil, and some kosher salt.  That's it.  Sure, a mixer with a dough hook and a pasta roller will cut down on the prep time, but after making my own for the past 10 years, I only buy stuff pasta or really labor-intensive shapes (like Orecchiette) in the store these days.

Convenience and storage is why people by dried pasta.  

Sat Dec 12 2020 04:48:03 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: arrgh my tooth - freaking virus

But i wasn't able to see what he was doing. No mirrors on the
ceiling. ( i had a dentist who did that for you. )

 I see scenic pictures on the ceiling of dentist offices.  My current dentist practice has TV/monitors in front of the chairs, they ask what I want to watch.

I had one with TVs. Now its just music, ( 70s 'soft rock' stuff ) and you get to count the pinholes in the ceiling tiles.   Always freaks them out when i tell them 'there is 1294 holes in that tile over there'.. ( just an approximation of a 1" square extrapolated out to the entire tile )

At the eye doctors office, my dad would go in, read the copyright at the very bottom of the eye chart as he walked past it to go sit down. "what is the lowest line you can read".... heh 

we are a laugh a minute in my family.