[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Why bread and milk? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/7/2011 7:30:42 PM EDT
| Help a Northerner understand why people run out and buy bread and milk when the threat of snow rears it's ugly head. |
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Quoted: I work for the transportation arm of a major grocery store chain and it's not a plot. People panic buy this stuff. We were getting "emergency" milk orders all night tonight in preparation. Hmm.... ...Maybe it's the same thought though. Perishable things in the household that you can't already have stockpiled, except for powder milk and flour to make bread.
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| LOL I dont get it either... and when we get a few inches of snow, its not like I will be out of food for the next few days that the snow hits. I actually went grocery shopping a few days ago, not bc of this weather (actually didnt hear about it yet) but bc I was actually out of food. |
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Because my milk expired on the 6th and all I have is end pieces of bread. LOL And because if you're snowed in your kids are home and working up quite an appetite playing in the snow 
You have to buy groceries for a snow day like you shop for summer when the kids are out of school. |
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Not sure why the bread and milk, maybe just preference. I prefer to check stock of eggs, breakfast sausage, steak and beer.
Obviously, when people are stuck at home they eat at home. We're usually stocked pretty good as we don't eat out very often like a lot of families. Some are probably living on a diet of campbells soup. I'd bet those families that eat out every night are quite panicked. Well, maybe not. They probably have a freezer full of TV dinners too. |
There's just no substitute for preparedness.... certain things just should never run out... ammo, mags, spare parts, fully stocked freezer, beer, grill, extra propane, generator, fuel for said generator, and a trusty Coleman lantern.... what else do you really need? 
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There's just no substitute for preparedness.... certain things just should never run out... ammo, mags, spare parts, fully stocked freezer, beer, grill, extra propane, generator, fuel for said generator, and a trusty Coleman lantern.... what else do you really need? Rubbers and some weed?
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There's just no substitute for preparedness.... certain things just should never run out... ammo, mags, spare parts, fully stocked freezer, beer, grill, extra propane, generator, fuel for said generator, and a trusty Coleman lantern.... what else do you really need? Rubbers and some weed? LMAO!!!  I stand corrected.... Gotta leave the green stuff alone, though... just not fer me.... I prefer the beer and Crown Royal variety....
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There's just no substitute for preparedness.... certain things just should never run out... ammo, mags, spare parts, fully stocked freezer, beer, grill, extra propane, generator, fuel for said generator, and a trusty Coleman lantern.... what else do you really need? Rubbers and some weed? LMAO!!! I stand corrected.... Gotta leave the green stuff alone, though... just not fer me.... I prefer the beer and Crown Royal variety.... I agree and was just kidding with the pot comment. Dopers are morons IMHO. But I will throw back a nice rum now and then. 
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It is nice to have a stocked freezer..however here in north georgia my biggest concern
Is not running out of food.. Or not being able to drive because i got that covered for sure. It is not having power. Some of the terrain that the lines run through is very rough. And at times almost impossible To get to. Even this wouldnt concern me, but i have a 1year old. So it is a minor concern. A note on the frozen food. I try to keep a stock of non perishables. No power = the frozen stuff can ruin and also no water from the well. So i try not to open the fridge/freezer just my .02 cents |
| Because we have like one salt truck in the entire state. Y'all northerners are used to the weather and equipped for it with all your snow plows, salt trucks, and labor force behind it all. We are not and purchasing the equipment and paying to maintain it would mostly be a waste if we only use it like twice a decade. So if something happens people run around freaking out, but still try to drive like their prius is actually a Porsche..and then they end up in ditches and high ways get closed down. |
I can't believe that none of ya'll good Southerners knew the correct answer! 
It's a ritual offering to the snow Gods so that they will smile upon us and bring us lots of the white fluffly stuff!!!!! Kinda like the injuns used to do a raindance to bring rain during a drought. Buying bread and milk is the South's modern day snowdance. 
And now you know why Southerners buy bread and milk when there is at least a 2% chance of snow, 'cuz the more bread and milk you buy, the better the chance of snow!
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because when you're freezing your ass off eating snow ice cream makes the most sense to do!!!!
The other reason I can think of is along with wide spread power outages, inexperienced people morons crashing cars at any place brakes must be used........ it is just nice to sit on the front porch eating little snack sandwiches and drinking whats left of the the milk while watching all the chaos and idiocy happening in the streets before you
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It is nice to have a stocked freezer..however here in north georgia my biggest concern Is not running out of food.. Or not being able to drive because i got that covered for sure. It is not having power. Some of the terrain that the lines run through is very rough. And at times almost impossible To get to. Even this wouldnt concern me, but i have a 1year old. So it is a minor concern. A note on the frozen food. I try to keep a stock of non perishables. No power = the frozen stuff can ruin and also no water from the well. So i try not to open the fridge/freezer just my .02 cents As far as power thats why you get one of these, 
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| We went to the grocery store to pick up a couple of household stuff, not thinking about the snow "run" on milk and bread. We noticed the milk were just about all out, half the bread were gone but the most interesting thing was, the meat department was empty. So add meat to the list of item. |
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Because we have like one salt truck in the entire state. Y'all northerners are used to the weather and equipped for it with all your snow plows, salt trucks, and labor force behind it all. We are not and purchasing the equipment and paying to maintain it would mostly be a waste if we only use it like twice a decade. So if something happens people run around freaking out, but still try to drive like their prius is actually a Porsche..and then they end up in ditches and high ways get closed down. That still doesn't explain the bread and milk. I would understand canned vegetables or pouches of tuna. |
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We went to the grocery store to pick up a couple of household stuff, not thinking about the snow "run" on milk and bread. We noticed the milk were just about all out, half the bread were gone but the most interesting thing was, the meat department was empty. So add meat to the list of item. It was milk and meat today. They wore my ass out. It's going to be a long two days. |
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I work part time at Wally world in Rome GA.
Propane tanks sold 26 from 2:30PM to around 6PM. Thats a lot. There are officially 16 full tanks left. Thats not good. OH and LOTS AND LOTS of BEER. Lots of beer. OK lets see. Beer. or your adult beverage of choice. Snow and lots of it. Or ice and lots of it. No Power No TV No Lights No internet nothing to do but eat and........... SCREW. 9 months later Surprise surprise surprise. |
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I work part time at Wally world in Rome GA. Propane tanks sold 26 from 2:30PM to around 6PM. Thats a lot. There are officially 16 full tanks left. Thats not good. OH and LOTS AND LOTS of BEER. Lots of beer. OK lets see. Beer. or your adult beverage of choice. Snow and lots of it. Or ice and lots of it. No Power No TV No Lights No internet nothing to do but eat and........... SCREW.9 months later Surprise surprise surprise. Good call, I must go get more of my contraception method of choice. |
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I work part time at Wally world in Rome GA. Propane tanks sold 26 from 2:30PM to around 6PM. Thats a lot. There are officially 16 full tanks left. Thats not good. OH and LOTS AND LOTS of BEER. Lots of beer. OK lets see. Beer. or your adult beverage of choice. Snow and lots of it. Or ice and lots of it. No Power No TV No Lights No internet nothing to do but eat and........... SCREW.9 months later Surprise surprise surprise. Good call, I must go get more of my contraception method of choice. A baseball bat?
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Because we have like one salt truck in the entire state. Y'all northerners are used to the weather and equipped for it with all your snow plows, salt trucks, and labor force behind it all. We are not and purchasing the equipment and paying to maintain it would mostly be a waste if we only use it like twice a decade. So if something happens people run around freaking out, but still try to drive like their prius is actually a Porsche..and then they end up in ditches and high ways get closed down. That still doesn't explain the bread and milk. I would understand canned vegetables or pouches of tuna. because I took all of the beef jerky |