The other day our Costco had no pork at all - no chops, ribs, Boston butts, ect. Chicken and Beef stocks seemed a little thin, but not bad.
I called the local packer to place an order and he hung up on me. "Sorry, we are too busy." Click.
At the local store beef prices are way up: chuck roast $7.19/lb, cube steaks $8.49/lb - about 40% higher than usual.
I thought I was getting dizzy from lack of sleep.
Turns out it was another Earthquake in Vegas around 4:05 AM.
Guess it hit 212 miles away near Tonopah!
I'm getting real tired of feeling Earthquakes.
I was talking about how many pounds of meat I buy and how much I love to slurp noodles long before this Chinese Virus hit.
As you can see with this quote of one of my posts in the Juice Fast thread in 2018...
https://vegascasinotalk.com/forum/sh...ice-Fast/page4
Day 19 Update
I am in the process of making the family pulled pork in a crock pot.
For some reason Albertsons had Pork Sirloin on sale at 97 cents a pound.
My uncle loves that trash. I bought 16 pounds and froze most of it.
I will have to make him some Potato Salad to go with it and I suppose some baked beans.
Yesterday I went to the Asian Market and bought a bunch of stuff for Pho.
I ended up making that and it turned out great for my wife for her lunch.
She likes the Sliced Rib Eye with Fat on it and Beef Tendon.
I prefer just the lean sliced Beef. You can find it sliced and frozen just like in the soup houses.
I watched her eating it thinking how it is my favorite dish.
You save about 5 dollars... maybe 4 dollars per bowl but it is a lot of work compared to just ordering.
The good thing is you can control the no msg and choice of salt content.
I would of gave the Uncle some but I made Pad Thai for them the day before and he had leftovers.
The noodles broke on me because I am an idiot.
I added the plain broken rice noodles to the dog food that I have stored in the fridge/freezer.
Anyways, second batch of noodles came out perfect and he can have some when he finishes the left overs.
Around my part of the world I have yet to actually see meat products not available. I don't know if pricing differences made it so poor people quit buying meat. I don't pay attention to prices because I'm single and make many times over my living expenses, so perhaps the prices have "corrected" the demand.
HOWEVER, the whole yogurt section was empty. There was a sign up about limits on cream cheese !? Cream cheese?! I almost took a picture of it. They had a guy disinfecting the area, so I wonder if they do that every night and hadn't done whatever job they need to do..
The grocery stores around here are not a national chain and I've been quite impressed by them and their efforts.
yawn. I stopped posting in the other forum. This is actually an interesting subject for many. Save your lame shit for others, please. Aren't you the one who takes pictures of the beer they drink? okey dokey. Aren't you supposedly a successful person? Seems like a successful person have better shit to do.
You could do other things like look up some pictures.
I found these on Ivan Ramen's Slurp Shop Walls in New York City.
Do you find them offensive?
Do you think Slant Eyed People find them offensive??
Obviously not, as it took the Chinese Virus to actually shut them down.
lol The Art of the Slurp.
They have a Menu that has instructions on how to go about Slurping!
Bob, anyone that accountinquestion reflects upon about some previous posts or situations is never the right person he is talking about. He is always a week late "must be strong weed he smokes". Reminds me of that cellar-dweller Biden. Come to think of it don't both of these guys live in a cellar.
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I'd slurp this all day long!
I went to the market in the OP picture yesterday evening.
I've been Cooking Pho all night.
Be ready in about 30 minutes.
I went a more traditional route and youtube has a good video.
However, the video below is far more entertaining.
You figure out.
You smart!
Some Costco’s don’t have enough chicken for their $4.99 Rotisserie specials.
I was at a Costco yesterday and Rib-eye steaks were sold out. Guy in meat department was getting me to buy T-bones and saying how lucky they were to get the meat. I walked away because Costco prides itself on “Prime” grade beef. The T-bones were “Choice” grade.
Prices of beef have gone up significantly at just about every supermarket. You can find rib-eyes (“Choice” grade) but it’s not cheap. I have been making good money trading options in the market so I am okay but the average Americans have got to be suffering.
The sad part is most people never saw this coming. I was warning about food shortages and food riots when the shut down started. You currently have a situation where 37 million Americans (DUE TO NO FAULTS ON THEIR OWN) had to file for unemployment benefits and food prices going through the roof. This cannot be a good situation.
Factory farming that resulted in cheap meat is going to change as well. Buffets are changing (for starters, they won’t be so cheap anymore) and fast food joints that depend on factory farming to keep low prices have to adapt or they will die.
People don’t understand baby chicks reach slaughter weight at about 7 weeks under factory farming. That is a lot of chickens that have to be processed and if the slaughter houses now become the bottlenecks for production, the whole system collapses. It was the fast food joints that wanted standardized meat products that lead to consolidation of the slaughter houses that lead to greater factory farming.
To repeat the message: 37 million Americans are hard pressed to buy food since they lost their jobs. That is a lot of consumers not buying meat. Then you have slaughter houses where workers are being infected. Then you have the wheels of the factory farming system coming off. You have a situation where the farmers are euthanizing millions of chickens and pigs because they cannot be processed thus creating a shortage and thus resulting in high meat prices.
You have a demand side problem (37 million unemployed). You have a production problem (slaughter houses closures). You have farmers losing money euthanizing their stock. And if a number of these farmers go bankrupt due to high fixed costs of factory farming, then you now got a supply problem. Fun times. And the punchline is most people never saw it coming.
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I thought this was a grocery store thread?
I got bitched slapped and had to move my Earthquake Talk to a new thread?
Life Sucks!
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