shut down

Mar 17, 2020 Last reply: 6 years ago 54 Replies

Until people start buying additional fridges and freezers, or building additional sheds, to store all their hoarded stuff. The scary thing is, people *will* do that. Some people are utterly obsessed by it.

The threshold of how much is reasonable varies from one family to another. A large family with a lot of children will get through several bottles of milk and more bog rolls than a couple of people. It is fine to say "if you genuinely need more stuff, go shopping more often"... except that trying to arrange a supermarket delivery slot is a major problem if you can't go out because the government advises/orders you not to. My wife is managing to get Tesco delivery slots as long as they are almost a fortnight into the future, but despite checking every night at midnight when they announce the slots for the next delivery date in the future, she's never seen *any* free Sainsbury's slots. I wonder whether some people have got automated systems which grab every slot as soon as another day's-worth of slots is released, and then auction them at an inflated price.

Those of of us who are 70+ aren't supposed to go out for 12 weeks.

Sainsburys may be holding back slots, as they have announced that they will be giving priority to the elderly and otherwise vulnerable from the

23rd - which they would be unable to do if they were booked up for a fortnight in advance.

SteveW

I'm not sure people are that sensible. They'll stop when they run out of money, or storage space.

Here, too. But it's normally two weeks, and we only get deliveries three days a week.

Presumably not of vegetables or wholemeal bread though ?.

Boris has already promised that all over 70's will be provided with essential supplies. There are approximately

12,000 tons of ships biscuit, a.k.a hard-tack stored in depots up and down the country originally laid down in the event of Nuclear War or a similar National Emergency. These ships biscuits suitably wrapped will be delivered by the postman through your letterbox in the normal way at regular intervals. Instructions on how to render your ship's biscuit suitable for eating will be included with the first batch along with an instruction video online featuring Mary Berry. You will also be provided with three bananas per person per week, again posted through your letterbox, along with two tins of sardines. These will also feature in the Mary Berry film with tasty recipes for dishes such as banana and hard-tack surprise, sardines on hard-tack toasted hard-tack etc etc..

michael adams

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The weevils will supply the protein.

Tap gently to remove (according to CS Forester). This also identifies hidden cracks of benefit to those *dunking* their hardtack.

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Now you are entering the realms of fantasy.

Owain

Consider if we have a sudden fix for CV - whether effective medication, vaccine, or anything else. Everyone who stocked up will then be wanting to reduce their excess store. And will use that in preference buying new product. The retailers will then be imploring us to buy more!

(I do realise that this moght result in a long-term shift of behaviour such that more of us make sure we permanently have a decent supply of toilet rolls, rice, pasta, tinned toms and beans, but many will want to switch off second (or third!) freezers.)

I thought you were going to write "in case of war with Napoleon."

My parents generation always had a stockpile of tinned and dry food. Rationing and shortages left its mark.

On 21/03/2020 10:05, michael adams wrote: >> and hard-tack surprise,

the surprise is the added live protein - weevil larvae

Don?t knock tinned sardines. Sardines on toast is one of my favourite sacks.

That really doesn?t explain/ justify some of the behaviour- eg people with car fulls of loo roll. Even when we shopped for 5 people, we didn?t need to fill two trolleys to over flowing every two weeks ( ie 1/week) - that included essentials and non-essentials. People are buying far, far, more than they could possibly need for 14 days. There doesn?t seem to be any sign of it dying down, if anything it is getting worse. It seems delivery trucks are being intercept and unloaded by looters.

In message snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com, at

08:53:51 on Sat, 21 Mar 2020, snipped-for-privacy@gowanhill.com remarked:

It wouldn't be that many, I agree.

In other news, the Co-Op today didn't know if a bunch of four bananas counted as one or four. Let me buy them anyway.

In message <r55edm$25v$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 16:12:38 on Sat, 21 Mar

2020, The Natural Philosopher snipped-for-privacy@invalid.invalid remarked:

That's right. Although they may have save newspapers to use as toilet paper.

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Saturday Breakfast on BBC1 had sardine bolognese this morning.

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