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I AM STILL PISSED AT HOW PEOPLE ARE OVERREACTING TO THIS GODDAMN VIRUS!!! AND BY THAT I MEAN YOU KNOW WHAT PEOPLE BUY OUT AT THE GROCER??!! MILK! MILK PRODUCTS! EGGS!!! WHAT THE FUCKKKKK??!???!
DO YOU KNOW WHY CHURCHES AND SOUP KITCHENS ASK FOR NON-PERISHABLE FOODS?!?! BECAUSE THEY DON'T PERISH!!! WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO 30 GOD DAMN LETERS OF MILK?? IT FUCKING ROTS IN YOUR FUUCKING FRIDGE!! I KNOW PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO MAKE A BUCK SELLING REPACKAGED TOILET PAPER, BUT NO ONE'S GONNA BUY YOUR SHITTY SOUR MILK YOU GODDAMN IDIOTS!!

Most perishables can be frozen or used to make things that can then be frozen.

I know we bought extra fresh stuff this week because my dad normally buys lunch and coffee during the day. We are the extra milk buyers of your nightmares, I guess. Soz.

ayrt

Yeah but I live in Canada where milk is bagged, and I highly doubt people are making the decision to cut it out of the bag just to freeze it and have it curdle just to use it five weeks later.
Like I'm good with people buying and extra carton or two, but people are buying so much that DAIRY products are being restricted, with canned goods like beans and other non-perishables are on sale and in full stock because people are complete and utter morons!

Extra is fine, but buying carts full of something that very clearly is not meant to last is ridiculous! These things get restocked regularly because their shelf-life is not that long.
I'm not mad that milk is sold out, just that people are selling out milk because it is not that dire or a necessity, especially since it isn't one that lasts as long as people seem to thing.

...You don't need to cut it out of the bag to freeze it. You just freeze it in the bag, then thaw it later when you need it.

All this has done is move up my “acquire milch goats” timeline. Maybe people are freezing it? Idk. I did buy extra milk—I bought a half gallon instead of a quart because I’ll be cooking stuff at home that I wouldn’t normally have time to. Mmm, homemade mac and cheese.

ayrt

Yeah, well that's fine. Buying an extra gallon or two isn't a problem, it's the people who fill their carts to the brim with the stuff that bother me. I live in Canada where milk is bagged for the most part, and it is not the sort of substance that does well frozen. I've never froze it myself, but it's most definitely the type to separate and curdle because that's just what happens with milk...

Frozen milk separates (unless it's skim), but it doesn't curdle. (Why would it? Curdling is a chemical reaction to acidity.) People bought separated milk for years before homogenization became a thing. It's less of a hindrance to shake up thawed milk than you seem to think.

ayrt

There are a lot of things people did before homogenization was a thing, but if you didn't guess it already, these things are considered outdated for a reason. Shook milk doesn't come together for long, it's the same disgusting separated mess it was ten seconds ago before you shook it, It is not the same as fruit juice or anything of the like because it is an animal based product that comes as it is generally served. I'm sure you can creep up on some cow farms and suck the milk from some utter, which I'm sure they did at some point in the past, but as it is now, it's kinda disgusting, much like drinking separated milk. It's fine if you do it, but if it's such a thing why would you even need to buy an entire store out of milk if you already have it frozen up already? The simple fact is that you don't need to, because it's stupid.
Not to mention curdling occurs not only naturally, but at extreme temperature variations, and with purpose when trying to dilute certain drinks. Separation might as well be curdling, because the particles separate all the same, even if they don't come together as clumps they're still not as they should be.

As someone who goes through a gallon of milk and 12-18 eggs per week, I think people are just buying a little extra. Like maybe 2 weeks worth instead of one week's worth. Eggs and milk will last 2 weeks.

But the stores aren't used to people buying a little extra. Hence the shortages.

Fresh meat is a different story. Those motherfuckers are clearly buying WAY more than 2 weeks' worth and freezing it, and not to sound bitter, but I hope they and their frozen ground beef rot in hell.

ayrt

Nope, not where I live, we also use a lot of eggs and milk ourselves. Even if they used two times that a week, they'd still need to be buying four times that amount to sell out my local grocer. My city is rather small, but we actually have a lot of product for sale. It wasn't so much as buying a little extra, but rather at the same degree people bought toilet paper. I can kinda get buying extra eggs since I pickle them myself, but milk can barely be frozen, it'll curdle and separate, not a pretty picture as far as I'm concerned.

Even then, this is a product that gets regularly re-stocked because of its low shelf life, and it has a low shelf life for a reason, so why are people buying it in bulk?? It's the same thing as the meat people. Which we also have an issue with over here... but at least I've regularly froze ground meat and been able to use it in poor mans pasta, or hamburger helper, when I've never thought about milk that way once.

Eh, I wondered if people were meat hoarding too but honestly, they might not be. I figured it like this:

* TONS of people eat out at restaurants because they don't cook or don't like to cook.
* Americans eat a lot of meat per day. Like... a LOT. Way more than we need to.
* With more people staying in and not eating out because of social distancing or wanting to save money, there's suddenly a much bigger burden on grocery stores because people are buying food ingredients instead of going out.

I don't doubt there are people hoarding, but I'm sure most of it is the above theory.

I hadn't thought of that!

The thing that baffles me is that we're being told to be prepared to stay inside for a week or two - but not to strip the shelves. I mean, pick one! This is like preparing for two Christmases and New Years put together, of course stuff is going to run out.

Me, I'm planting vegies, in case we're in for the long game. I'm feeling the lack of an air-raid shelter to plant them on.

I’m just pissed about the lack of toilet paper. I shower twice a day now because I’m trying to make the rolls I have left last.

ayrt

Hell fucking yes... I'm lucky enough that we had something of a supply already when people started buying everything out. I'll still buy a bag if I can find it, because we fucking need it with four people in a house where I live, but fuck those people who fill their carts with the stuff when they seriously don't need that much.
I'm mostly mad that people are treating perishable items the same that they're treating non-perishables. Like at least when people buy five thousand rolls of toilet paper there's a chance they're going to use them, but there's no way someone can buy a cart full of milk and rationally use that before it all goes bad, let alone that they actually need it...

https://www.survivopedia.com/diy-toilet-paper/

The milk thing is nuts because COWS GET MILKED EVERY DAY. Unless the processing plants and shipping are forced to shut down, there will be a continuous pipeline of milk, like slways. Grocery stores are constantly restocking milk under normal circumstances. People shouldn't panic over milk!

For what it's worth I had no problem finding milk today or last Friday. There were eggs today, too. All the unsalted butter was gone, though! Just the unsalted, not salted. Everyone decided they need to bake, now? Explains why there was zero flour, including whole wheat and bread flour, even the expensive stuff.

ayrt

EXACTLY!!! These are things that get replaced so often because of how quick the existing shelf rate is!!! Ugh, I can't stand it!! I have to say I got lucky buying butter before things got so intense but of course that was sold out too next time I looked too, not to mention most of the bread as well at the time.

Flour is a weird as hell thing to sell out of, I have to agree. I rarely go down that aisle unless I need it, but what the hell do people think they need three years of flour with when I highly doubt they bake anything regularly in the first place... and even if they do, (the same as buying an extraordinary amount of milk) they did not need that much of it...
It's like some sort of domino effect where someone sees someone putting something extra in their carts and thinking they need it too... just times one hundred...

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