Another "who new," part of the end of the world thing that we've been experiencing lately. Looking it up, due to several causes. Canneries can't get the right kind of aluminum stock for canning, people adopted more than the usual number of pets during the Covid thing increasing demand (like ammo), Covid-related labor shortages (people being paid to stay home), etc, etc.
Shelves for 5.5 oz. cans at Fred Meyer are bare. When available, the normal cost is around 60 cents a can. Today, no Friskies canned cat food, but Fred Meyer had piles of human tuna packed by Chicken of the Sea for 49 cents a can, same size. The chunk light in water variety, particles of fish floating around in the can. Yet, regular cat food is made primarily of packing plant wastes and water so the human grade tuna is a step up. Supposedly doesn't contain quite the ideal balance of "vitamins and minerals" that cats need. You can't tell the animals that; they gobbled the tuna down quickly tonight.
Canned tuna for less than cat food. When I was a kid, the tuna we got, you opened the can and you could see a slice of real fish in there. Not a swirling mess of fish particles. Mrs. Merkt says you can still get it like that but it's Albacore grade, costs more. The tuna of yore that we bought was always packed in oil. It wasn't until I married Mrs. Merkt that I discovered it also came packed in water for the diet / health conscious.
Shelves for 5.5 oz. cans at Fred Meyer are bare. When available, the normal cost is around 60 cents a can. Today, no Friskies canned cat food, but Fred Meyer had piles of human tuna packed by Chicken of the Sea for 49 cents a can, same size. The chunk light in water variety, particles of fish floating around in the can. Yet, regular cat food is made primarily of packing plant wastes and water so the human grade tuna is a step up. Supposedly doesn't contain quite the ideal balance of "vitamins and minerals" that cats need. You can't tell the animals that; they gobbled the tuna down quickly tonight.
Canned tuna for less than cat food. When I was a kid, the tuna we got, you opened the can and you could see a slice of real fish in there. Not a swirling mess of fish particles. Mrs. Merkt says you can still get it like that but it's Albacore grade, costs more. The tuna of yore that we bought was always packed in oil. It wasn't until I married Mrs. Merkt that I discovered it also came packed in water for the diet / health conscious.