I hear ya. I walked up to the bread aisle and it was picked clean of all but the weird stuff. And 5 loaves of Italian sliced bread. (regular sliced loaf, not what you get up at the deli) couple ahead of me threw 3 of them in the cart, obvious that they dont normally buy it, but its all their was. I grabbed the last two, because that is what I normally buy. I put the 2nd one back because I know that stuff goes bad faster due to fewer preservatives and it might be a waste. Might as well let someone else eat it.
And it was nuts last night. I could have loaded every bit of land based animal protein in the store in two carts. It was like a 80s textbook on Eastern Europe . All that was left in the cases was things like beef livers, some lamb, and andouille sausage. On Friday to get sage sausage I couldnt buy it by the tube. I had to buy preformed patties marketed for grilling to be eaten on a bun like a burger. Last night even those were gone. Luckily it still fried up nicely to be crumbled up into spaghetti sauce.
looks like with many stores going "9-5" and restocking overnight instead of progressively stocking throughout the day, the only way to get some things will be to wait in line. I overheard a coworker say she arrived at a grocery an hour before they opened and was already 41st in line.
After years of making a weekly meal plan at home and then buying the stuff to make those dishes, I think that is over for now. Now its going to be "what can we find at the store?", and once we have that, we can decide what we are able to cook later.
Welcome to Amerika, comrade.
Quit yer *****in' we're just tryin ta Bernie this **** up!
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