Glad I bought such a big stash of pasta and rice and whanot last year. Thing is, it's just about past its sell by date now. I'll get through it no trouble. They always give the sell by date as earlier than when these dried goods can be eaten by. I ate a year old pack of noodles the other week as proof of concept. Wasn't great. But it filled a hole and didn't make me ill.
I don't know what the answer is really unless you have multi-year long stash and somewhere you can protect it, cook it. I've been through this scenario a million times (in my head) and it's really not so simple. Still, it's better to be prepared and there is a lot you can do. Lots of good advice given in this thread. Don't have much more to add. Maybe, just get in there now before Xmas goes crazy and you won't get a delivery at all. Buy as much as you can eat, a year or two down the line. Don't be worried about pasta being six months out of date. Tinned goods keep for a good while past the date too, but you don't want to push it too far. If nothing else, they make for a handy weapon.
Bought some beers tonight after a little abstinence. Didn't realise how fucking raped the shelves were. Wine too. Fuck me, it's not a good time to be an alky. Missing all kinds of random shit on the shelves. What was there last week is missing this week, vice versa. Same old fuckeries going on with frozen stuff. Chips! Now, they aren't very nice, and they aren't very nutritious, but they fill another one of those holes when you are having a night off from cooking great food. I even prefer the cheaper ones they do because they are thinner and cook a bit easier and crisper in my little oven.
Never mind, I just made a comment to the guy I know behind the counter. He's a gamer. We chat shit about GFX cards and whatnot when no one is looking. I made a sarcy comment, and he corrected me. He told me it's not so much the drivers to deliver the goods, though that is quite a bit of the problem, it's more the fuckers stacking the shelves to get the goods on to the lorry. A bit like what
@Sped Xing talked about before if I'm not mistaken: it's not just the guys driving the trucks, it's the guys loading the trucks - if you got no one to load, then...
They had guys to load, but here was the thing, he told me they kept loading the same fucking stuff. And there wasn't enough of them to load all the other stuff. I meant to question him further, but people came in and I had to shoot.
Anyway, the problem is not so much lorry drivers, it's guys loading the vans. They have stuff in the depot/warehouse, but they don't have enough people to load it properly. The ones they do have just keep loading the same stuff for some reason. I'll try to find out why. Maybe it's lower on the shelf. LOL.
If things are this bad now, yeah, they will be worse by Xmas. Don't care personally, I'll get by. Got no kids to nag me for shit. Folks so old they are thankful for what they get. And I got my own Xmas pressy to myelf all worked out and nearly payed for.
Tbh, not really sure what the guy's argument was. It seemed a bit weird to me. Yeah, they got most of the stuff, lorry/van drivers are in short supply but not the bottleneck. But just not enough stuff in the warehouse to distribute it all, and those that are there, just keep sending more of what they got, rather than evening out the distribution of things they don't have.
Fuck it, I'm nearly wankered and it's only.. shit, it's the next day. Ok, I'm fairly wankered. Another post I probably shouldn't post but fuck it. I love you fam.
If anyone can explain this, I'm all ears.
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