Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[Kujo Jotaro]

Here's an interesting anecdote, a lot of people associate the Great Depression with starvation, and this is true. Many people, especially in the South and Appalachia IIRC, had a very hard time in the early 30s. It's just that 1929-31 had record harvests on the Plains. The farmers plowed up and planted as much as they could to make money because the prices for their food kept falling. And then a lot of that harvest ended up rotting because it was too expensive to process and transport it where it needed to be. And then the farmers helped cause the Dust Bowl because their actions helped cause insane erosion.

Considering how much this world sucks, we're probably set for another round of screwed up economic logic causing misery.

Lucky for us farmers have improved their methods of operation, and know how to actually apply science to improve their results as opposed to "scientists". Seriously farmers(not of the kiwi variety) are some of the smartest most knowledgeable people you'll ever meet. I'd add that our infrastructure is much improved over the america of the 1930's, dilapidated as it may be, which gives me hope that food will not have an issue reaching regions that don't grow much of their own.

 

[The Ugly One]

Yea, Gates is one of the largest farm land owners. He doesn't do anything with it, just let's it sit there and rot. This is probably by design.

Can't make us eat the bugs if we're still able to grow food.

 

[Sped Xing]

Heaven forbid a guy who spends 99% of his time in a truck alone listening to Sirus radio and pissing in jugs not be vaccinated.

Honestly. I haven't even had a cold in YEARS thanks to zero contact with hu-manns.

Cut open the back of my neck while working on my roof the other day and had to go get some neosporin and basic stuff like sterile gauze and paper tape. (The cut was just shallow enough I didn't need stitches.)

If you want sterile gause, just grow your own flax to weave linen and invest in a simple autoclave to sterilize it.


No not really I'm just trying to fit in with this thread.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Don't eat trash, @naaaaiiiiillllll!!!

And butter absolutely does not have the same tasteless, sticky properties of shittier fats. Here's proof: proper homemade cookies are amazing, while chips ahoy (palm oil) are disgusting.

Fuck your faggot neighbors.

You say that but roosters do not just crow in the morning. They crow 24/7 for no fucking reason at all and it is loud as fuck. There is a reason roosters are banned in areas where hens are not. I ate my roosters because even I couldn't put up with it. Maybe if I had ten acres, but I live in your generic suburban subdivison.

 

[Bakarina]

You say that but roosters do not just crow in the morning. They crow 24/7 for no fucking reason at all and it is loud as fuck. There is a reason roosters are banned in areas where hens are not. I ate my roosters because even I couldn't put up with it. Maybe if I had ten acres, but I live in your generic suburban subdivison.

My grandfather turned his ornery bastard into tamales after he walked half a mile to attack the neighbor. They were some really good tamales too.

Roosters are banned in most cities/towns/suburbs because they can be territorial little shits that are loud as fuck and no one wants to hear them at all hours of the day.

 

[Sped Xing]

You say that but roosters do not just crow in the morning. They crow 24/7 for no fucking reason at all and it is loud as fuck. There is a reason roosters are banned in areas where hens are not. I ate my roosters because even I couldn't put up with it. Maybe if I had ten acres, but I live in your generic suburban subdivison.

I know about roosters crowing all day.

Snitching to the pigs about your neighbor having livestock is faggotry no matter how annoying they are.

 

[Never Scored]

Holy fuck. Lumber has shot back up thourugh the roof. A 2x4x8 peaked at around $13 CAD here last year, then went down to $4.88(still double what is was pre-pandemic), now it went up to $5.28 last week and it's sitting at $6.48 today. I put off building a new shed last year because of this shit, and now it looks like I may have to again.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

I know about roosters crowing all day.

Snitching to the pigs about your neighbor having livestock is faggotry no matter how annoying they are.

Afraid I have to disagree with you. Your neighbors do not have a right to have a screaming alarm clock next to your window at 3am when you have to get up and go to work at 6am. I'm just not that much of an asshole, sorry.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Holy fuck. Lumber has shot back up thourugh the roof. A 2x4x8 peaked at around $13 CAD here last year, then went down to $4.88(still double what is was pre-pandemic), now it went up to $5.28 last week and it's sitting at $6.48 today. I put off building a new shed last year because of this shit, and now it looks like I may have to again.

Don’t put it off. We’re in for an extended period of inflation. That dollar you spend on lumber today won’t be worth as much next week or next month if you decide to wait.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

Don’t put it off. We’re in for an extended period of inflation. That dollar you spend on lumber today won’t be worth as much next week or next month if you decide to wait.

This. I am sort of stockpiling car parts for this reason.

 

[George Lucas]

A man's access to good french fries is an important thing. As is his choice of cooking fats. Me personally, I pefer butter. When I was a kid we only had margarine because my father was an asshole.

Every man should know how to make french fries. When there are no fries in the stores and you gotta make your own make sure you soak them taters real good after you cut them so they fry up nice and crunchy. If you don't have a deep fryer or don't want to use a lot of oil dry those bad boys off real good after you soak them, spray some oil on them, toss them in some spices and cook them in the oven, convection oven or air fryer. Just because the world is fucked doesn't mean you should be deprived of tasty crunchy fries. Limp fries suck ass.

Anybody got any recipes for homemade tendies? My supermarket has been mighty light on the frozen chicken.

I reached out to the product supply bigwigs about the possibility of moving some shit around to help my portion of the kingdom. No such luck. Apparently other sites are in even worse shape. They expect things to get even worse. Least they could have done is lied and said "two more months to flatten the curve." Holy fuck I gotta find another job. I can count the number of days off I've had the past two years on one hand. We are below 50% fill rate right now. I don't see the point in wasting another year to a losing cause.

I use clarified butter and coat the chicken breasts in just flour and salt. Not a fan of thick batter coats. I never make tenders. Too expensive, but the technique would be the same. If the butter is the right temperature you’ll get a nice browning.

Make sure the meat is dry. That’s really the most important thing.

 

[Sped Xing]

Afraid I have to disagree with you. Your neighbors do not have a right to have a screaming alarm clock next to your window at 3am when you have to get up and go to work at 6am. I'm just not that much of an asshole, sorry.

I see you like your chicken with a side of boot.

 

[glad vlad]

Ducks are generally pretty quiet and are a better fit for rainy climates than chickens are. Ducks tend to lay a little less than chickens, but also tend to lay more through the winter. Ducks are also generally less destructive to plantings than chickens and love to eat slugs. Ducks don't like mobile housing, though, which chickens are generally cool with. So if you want to rotate your ducks, you have to do it by herding them instead of moving their coop.

 

[Blobby's Murder Knife]

I see you like your chicken with a side of boot.

I just prefer to live in peace with my neighbors. Some noise is fine and I don't even live in an HOA. But someone having their dogs constantly bark when you live in a .25 arce or less plot on top of your neighbors is retarded. Same for having roosters. I don't care if people have dogs or chickens, but there are reasonable limits to things when you live in close quarters with others. If you don't think so, then fuck off to bfe.

 

[Sped Xing]

So if you want to rotate your ducks,

I never have managed to get mine in a row, and now you think I can get them in a circle?

fuck off to bfe.

Well ahead of you on that one. City life and country life have tradeoffs; suburbia is for lunatics who take people to court over whether a lawn is mowed often enough.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I know about roosters crowing all day.

Snitching to the pigs about your neighbor having livestock is faggotry no matter how annoying they are.

You don't need an autoclave, just put a small pot inside a bigger pot and set fire to your house around it.

 

[Never Scored]

Ducks are generally pretty quiet and are a better fit for rainy climates than chickens are. Ducks tend to lay a little less than chickens, but also tend to lay more through the winter. Ducks are also generally less destructive to plantings than chickens and love to eat slugs. Ducks don't like mobile housing, though, which chickens are generally cool with. So if you want to rotate your ducks, you have to do it by herding them instead of moving their coop.

Honestly, I think people in urban/suburban areas wo want good eggs should look into Coturnix Quail. They're quiet, even the roosters, and only require like a square foot of space each, so in a 6x6 hutch you can comfortably keep 20. The eggs are around a third of the size of chicken eggs and in the summer you can suppliment their diet with clover, dandelion greens and wild berries to cut down on feed costs a little. Their eggs are around 1/4-1/3 the size of a chicken egg, so if you have 16 hens you can easily get the equilivent of 4 chicken eggs a day in a 4x4 space. You could do that on the balcony of a condo if you really wanted to and just say they're pets.

God damn they're retarded, though. Like, I think they're literally stupider than most insects.

 

[glad vlad]

Honestly, I think people in urban/suburban areas wo want good eggs should look into Coturnix Quail. They're quiet, even the roosters, and only require like a square foot of space each, so in a 6x6 hutch you can comfortably keep 20. The eggs are around a third of the size of chicken eggs and in the summer you can suppliment their diet with clover, dandelion greens and wild berries to cut down on feed costs a little. Their eggs are around 1/4-1/3 the size of a chicken egg, so if you have 16 hens you can easily get the equilivent of 4 chicken eggs a day in a 4x4 space. You could do that on the balcony of a condo if you really wanted to and just say they're pets.

God damn they're retarded, though. Like, I think they're literally stupider than most insects.

I have been told that quail will kill themselves by jumping straight up and breaking their necks if the coop ceiling is high enough to get some momentum?

 

[Never Scored]

I have been told that quail will kill themselves by jumping straight up and breaking their necks if the coop ceiling is high enough to get some momentum?

Correct.

I had one kill itself by running straight into the plywood I use to back the hutch just for no reason.

 

[Bakarina]

Honestly, I think people in urban/suburban areas wo want good eggs should look into Coturnix Quail. They're quiet, even the roosters, and only require like a square foot of space each, so in a 6x6 hutch you can comfortably keep 20. The eggs are around a third of the size of chicken eggs and in the summer you can suppliment their diet with clover, dandelion greens and wild berries to cut down on feed costs a little. Their eggs are around 1/4-1/3 the size of a chicken egg, so if you have 16 hens you can easily get the equilivent of 4 chicken eggs a day in a 4x4 space. You could do that on the balcony of a condo if you really wanted to and just say they're pets.

God damn they're retarded, though. Like, I think they're literally stupider than most insects.

Quail eggs can also lower your risk of anemia because they're rich in iron. Though I've never eaten quail meat before so jury is out on how they taste.

I have been told that quail will kill themselves by jumping straight up and breaking their necks if the coop ceiling is high enough to get some momentum?

Tbf, chickens can and will drown themselves with rain water. I think that most birds are dumber than a box of rocks.