Any concerns about food shortages?

[Texanna]

I buy Hunt's and other brands that don't use the corn syrup. Gefen ketchup (in the kosher aisle) is also a very well kept secret as far as excellent ketchups go. A little more expensive but really good.

Note that high-fructose death syrup is also legally referred to as corn sugar to help the American consumer stop avoiding HFCS. Was it the late '90s the industry was allowed to do that? Any way, it's accurate.

 

[Texanna]

Speaking of China, anybody find their former opium wars & the fentanyl made there a bit ironic?

Seems like the shoe is on the other foot these days

Opium Wars - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

This is intentional. Referring to that situation, I'll never forget the documentary I viewed where a fluent English-speaking young Chinese tour guide told the person (Brit or USA citizen) the following: "We don't forget what you did to us."

They are carefully taught that in commie skool. Koom-bay-ya-ya-ya ... so yeah, it's a plan, it's war, and it's killing people.

 

[billdeserthills]

Egg prices soar nearly 60% as some retail locations see low supply

Eggs saw the largest jump in price year-over-year since 1973. What lies ahead?

www.yahoo.com

I saw that eggs were $3.49 for a dozen at WinCo the other day.

My sister in L.A. said it was $7.30 there.

Aloha, Mark

Someone told me they paid $9.50 a doz at Sprouts & it was the cheapest dozen they had, I paid $5.50 at Walmart for mine

 

[The Heretic]

Someone told me they paid $9.50 a doz at Sprouts & it was the cheapest dozen they had, I paid $5.50 at Walmart for mine

Been paying less than $4 for 18 eggs at Winco IIRC - and IIRC that price is for the first two cartons.

People pay a lot for the ambience of Safeway, Whole Foods, etc. - I could care less about the ambience as long as the store has the food I want. I spend less than an hour grocery shopping once a month.

 

[Cavedweller]

the British went to war to ensure their merchants could import opium into china, forcing the Chinese gov to make it legal. Britain, by force, facilitated the creation of millions of Chinese addicts over decades.

Not just the British. Several of America's most prominent families made their fortunes in the opium trade:

John Jacob Astor (for whom Astoria, Oregon is named).

"John Murray Forbes and Robert Bennet Forbes worked for Perkins & Co. in its China trade... It was the brothers' activities in the 1830s and 1840s that led to the Forbes family's accumulated wealth. The most notable family member on the contemporary scene is US Secretary of State John Forbes Kerry."

"The Russell Family. Samuel Wadsworth Russell ...landed in Canton in 1819 and quickly amassed a fortune in the opium trade. ...Russell's cousin and fellow opium trader, William Huntington Russell, was a co-founder and funder of Yale University's Skull and Bones Society."

"Warren Delano, Jr., the grandfather of Franklin Delano Roosevelt"

Payback is a b1tch, ain't it?

5 Elite Families Who Made Their Fortunes in the Opium Trade

There's dirty money buried in the basement of some of America's wealthiest and most powerful families.

www.alternet.org

American Opium Merchants genealogy project

A collection of genealogical profiles related to American Opium Merchants

www.geni.com

 

[albin25]

Not worried about food shortage in MY home…. I'm worried about the general public's reaction to a food shortage.

 

[arakboss]

No not worried about food shortages, I will go full Donner party before I starve and there plenty of you people to munch on..

I ate lead paint chips as a kid so you might want to pass me by.

 

[made in china]

I ate lead paint chips as a kid so you might want to pass me by.

And if I taste as sour as my attitude, they're gonna need lots of BBQ sauce

 

[Xaevian]

Been paying less than $4 for 18 eggs at Winco IIRC - and IIRC that price is for the first two cartons.

People pay a lot for the ambience of Safeway, Whole Foods, etc. - I could care less about the ambience as long as the store has the food I want. I spend less than an hour grocery shopping once a month.

I "sell" the eggs from my chickens for $3/dozen. That is about the cost of feed and nesting stuff. But hey, free range, cage free, all natural.

 

[billdeserthills]

Been paying less than $4 for 18 eggs at Winco IIRC - and IIRC that price is for the first two cartons.

People pay a lot for the ambience of Safeway, Whole Foods, etc. - I could care less about the ambience as long as the store has the food I want. I spend less than an hour grocery shopping once a month.

I've been to Winco, unfortunately I'm not always able to devote enough time to walk through their entire store--many days it is worth the extra cost to me not to hafta walk all around a store that measures in football fields for size

I do enjoy Winco's raspberry flavored hard candy in the bulk aisle, I always wonder if they have the castoreum flavoring?

A Brief History of Castoreum, the Beaver Butt Secretion Used as Flavoring

Is there beaver butt in your vanilla ice cream?

www.mentalfloss.com

I hear those beaver butts are damn tasty stuff

 

[The Heretic]

I've been to Winco, unfortunately I'm not always able to devote enough time to walk through their entire store--many days it is worth the extra cost to me not to hafta walk all around a store that measures in football fields for size

I do enjoy Winco's raspberry flavored hard candy in the bulk aisle, I always wonder if they have the castoreum flavoring?

A Brief History of Castoreum, the Beaver Butt Secretion Used as Flavoring

Is there beaver butt in your vanilla ice cream?

www.mentalfloss.com

I hear those beaver butts are damn tasty stuff

I have a pattern I follow for the stuff I want. I don't know why it takes me so long to do it though.

 

[sobo]

I ate lead paint chips as a kid

That explains everything...

 

[sobo]

I have a pattern I follow for the stuff I want. I don't know why it takes me so long to do it though.

I have a prepared grocery list (Excel) that I just highlight what I want before I leave home. The path taken is a zigzag through the aisles of the east half of the store from front to back, cross over to the west side, then a zigzag through the aisles of the west half from back to front, right up to the checkout line. Same path every coupla-three weeks, no matter what's on the list. Despite what one may think, this makes passing through the store a lightning fast task. I can damned near go shopping totally asleep, it's so ingrained...

 

[Provincial]

My wife shops at three different Waremart/Winco stores, depending on what else she is shopping for. This is because the other stores may not be near her favorite Winco. All three seem to be laid out differently, and the Waremart is the most different. She seems to travel the full length of every aisle, leaving no shelf unscanned. I simply cannot understand it, but who am I to question this? I'm just a pack mule at that point.

 

[ma96782]

I do enjoy Winco's raspberry flavored hard candy in the bulk aisle, I always wonder if they have the castoreum flavoring?

A Brief History of Castoreum, the Beaver Butt Secretion Used as Flavoring

Is there beaver butt in your vanilla ice cream?

www.mentalfloss.com

I hear those beaver butts are damn tasty stuff

Aloha, Mark

 

[ma96782]

Mind you that CA has gone to "Cage Free" eggs.

Talk about shooting themselves in the foot.

Aloha, Mark

 

[Jay Walk]

Eggs full up at safeway today.

$1.99

 

[arakboss]

Eggs full up at safeway today.

$1.99

Grocery outlet in Tigard had zero eggs yesterday.

 

[Jay Walk]

Grocery outlet in Tigard had zero eggs yesterday.

Check with Heretic.

 

[The Heretic]

Check with Heretic.

I only go there about once a month, and if they don't have eggs, the Costco about a block away probably will.