People in Texas are panic buying milk and bread in preparation for potential power outages due to a snowstorm. What, are you gonna make spoiled milk sandwiches? Only reason we're looking for milk and bread is because we're out of milk and bread.
by Time_Owl_2589
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There’s nothing to understand. People are fucking stupid.
Better you than them.
That’s.it.
Right, I had to stop for a few things yesterday – couldn’t get any bread, or milk, or eggs. Luckily all the canned, easily preserved foods were in stock.
Some of it is that people who might normally shop on the weekends are shopping now, but most of it is that people are stupid. Same reason that there was a toilet paper shortage at the beginning of Covid. It’s going to be icy and cold for like 3 days. If you don’t normally use 3 gallons of milk in 3 days, what makes you think you will now?
Feels like you don’t need to worry about spoiled milk from a power outage if the cause is ‘ice’. (I get the frustration with empty shelves, though.)
This is not a facepalm. They had a winner storm like 2 years ago that ended up being hella fatal to many people. Of course they’re going to panic buy. Milk and bread are go-tos because milk usually has a decent amount of protein and vitamins, and will keep just fine in the cold when the power goes out, and bread is an easy carb thats filling, but can be used with PB and jelly to make easy sandwiches. People also use milk in a ton of recipes like biscuits and such that they can prepare before the outages happen to have food for when it does.
So the only faceplam here is you for being fairly ignorant of how to prepare for bad weather and potential power failure.
You can use the snow from outside to keep any perishables from going bad.
If there’s a snowstorm you can keep the milk out in the snow!
People still prep for winter storms like the populated areas don’t do any snow removal. You’re *probably* not going to be stuck indoors, for days on end, unless you want to be stuck indoors.
They do that where I live, and we haven’t had an actual *blizzard* since 1979.
They got the clearest signal that things are going to get bad, Raphael left Texas.
Speaking as a Texan, I know these idiots would rather panic buy, bitch about supply shortages, spend thousands on scalped goods and supplies, and talk to each other about how “ridiculous” this all is.
Then they’ll go and vote for Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott again.
It’s the French Toast panic buying of milk, bread and eggs.
Spoiled milk sandwich, you mean cheese sandwich?
In the NE we jokes about this all the time. Any little snowflake we start with the “GET THE MILK AND BREAD” jokes.
Im shocked every year that people outside of snowy states do actually do this.
I don’t drink milk but if you lose power and you’re worried about losing milk or spoiled milk just stick it outside if it’s that freaking cold along with the rest of your stuff in your fridge and freezer
yep can confirm. went to local walmart (OK) yesterday, milk was being bought quickly. bread was running out on shelves. thankfully bakery still had plenty of the good stuff. crazy how people stock on bread/milk before ice storms, bc honestly I know MANY people down here in the south CANNOT DRIVE ON ICE (no skills)-so accidents are VERY common even when just a little snow/ice hits.
There is a big misconception about how this stuff works. The stuff the store is out of is all of the fastest turnover stuff – it’s just a certain percentage of people buying a few days early so they don’t have to travel in the weather, but these are all the same high turnover staples that everyone is buying and the stores never usually have more than a day or two’s worth of that stock available. That’s it, it’s not panic buying, it’s that grocery store inventory isn’t magic
Snow and ice is a good way to keep it not spoiled milk…..
Did they take all the toilet paper too?
Bet there’s flour, and salt on the shelves. Get a Dutch oven, Make your own bread.
Same situation in Shreveport. Luckily I got my weekend needs stocked yesterday. People around here panic and then buy enough for 2 weeks when they only need a couple days worth.
I grew up in south Louisiana evacuating for hurricanes. Every time one reached the gulf my small town stores would run out of bread milk and eggs. We used to joke that when bad weather comes everyone wants to eat French toast.
Texas has a very bad history with things like this and I wouldn’t trust their government to help me, so I’d probably do the same.
They’re donating all their supplies to the ice pastors church
There are still people with toilet paper in their garage from Covid. People freak out and go crazy. It will be completely over on Monday.
… I would buy flour and salt; can make flat bread.
remember covid? I was an instacart shopper from ’19 to ’21. what a shitshow. Is there tp still available?
I lived in Mississippi for 15 years.
Any time there was a big storm coming (protip: In Mississippi, that’s about twice a month) bottled water, milk, gas, bread, all the basics would get completely cleared out.
People who don’t usually get snow lose their minds when about happens
Why are people panic buying? So much shit going on I missed it
They’ll be reselling them on the parking lot.
Do you not remember the toilet paper incident from 2020?
Well if there’s a snow storm I don’t need electricity to keep milk from spoiling. Cause it’s gonna be fridge temps in the house without heat.
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If it is cold outside, you can always store the milk there.
You can store milk outside until the temperature rises or the power comes back on
I heard two people at my job balking at the idea of paying for the voluntary accident/ short term disability offering because they only guarantee 65% of weekly pay for up to six months. Specifically, their complaint was not the weekly deduction (under $3), or the time limit, but that 65% was “a waste of money.” You know, as opposed to the 0% they will be taking in if not working because they got hurt without it.
My point is that people are, more often than should be possible, quite dumb.