Covid-19 supermarket/panic buy updates (1 Viewer)

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My parents were saying the same thing last night. What the fuck like? Has Ireland gone gardening mad now we're all confined to our homes?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Everyone thinks we're about to run out of food so they will grow their own. I mean, it's not completely unreasonable in a society constantly encouraged to trust no-one. Sure we're all 50% doomsday preppers at the best of times.

 

[chris d]

I'm in there, at night, robbing your carrots and potatoes while you sleep in your beds. Gonna make a stew.

 

[magicbastarder]

My parents were saying the same thing last night. What the fuck like? Has Ireland gone gardening mad now we're all confined to our homes?

also, chickens are in short supply. our two were taken by a fox a couple of weeks ago, and a friend was going to do a run down to a chap in wicklow for some, but he's sold out and only has geese at the moment.

 

[ernesto]

only has geese at the moment.

Would you not go down for a gander!?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

There's been a total run on honey too

I wouldn't mind, but it's one of my staples

 

[ann post]

There's been a total run on honey too

I wouldn't mind, but it's one of my staples

sorry.

 

[ann post]

Was gonna make Jam but cant shake the idea that I'd be storing the virus in a preserve.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Gonna be restocking my freezer with chicken thighs this Friday

And eating ribs all damn weekend





That's about 4 euro a kilo

 

[ernesto]

Gonna be restocking my freezer with chicken thighs this Friday

And eating ribs all damn weekend


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That's about 4 euro a kilo

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I dont trust meat thats that cheap.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I dont trust meat thats that cheap.

You always have to cook chicken thoroughly

But for stews and sandwiches, I don't see the point in overspending

A roast chicken, you can probably taste the difference with a free range bird, but for most things, get the stuff on sale.




Got this off the rot rack last November, pulled it out of the freezer last night
It will last me til next week

 

[ann post]

Yesterday I opened a cheese that we'd had in the fridge a few weeks, mould on three faces.

I threw it in the fire. First time I've ever thrown a whole block of cheese on a fire.

As I'm 'at work' I had to send uncle travelling matt shopping.

Ann: 'I need two red peppers'.

Matt: 'What is a pepper'.

Ann: 'i need two leeks'.

Matt: 'What is a leek?'.

About a day ago I had ideas of teaching him to cook while I am home, this faded very fast today.

 

[the_jen]

Very nice people have kindly brought us groceries while we're banned from the shops. It's a really surprising mix! Things I've never bought in my life. Every meal is a best before-based mad libs.

 

[hydromancer]

Well I've gone through over half a packet of charcoal already I had to give it a break for a few days it was getting too pungent dunno if it can scare away Corona geussing prob not

 

[pete]

At least Euro Giant are still open. Essential frontline services right there.

 

[ernesto]

You always have to cook chicken thoroughly

But for stews and sandwiches, I don't see the point in overspending

A roast chicken, you can probably taste the difference with a free range bird, but for most things, get the stuff on sale.




Got this off the rot rack last November, pulled it out of the freezer last night
It will last me til next week

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Nevermind about meat that’s too cheap, I certainly don’t trust American cheap meat.
Pumped full of Hormones and god knows what.
That being said, if I’d a few beers on me I’d eat shite on a stick

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Just back from supervalu,seem well organised,long queue moving fast enough,no queue at tills,well stocked,lots of gloved staff.


But fuck all the assholes that stroll up past the queue and even think they can just jump in. And there were far too many. These fuckers didnt even look at the hand sanitizer at two different spots on the way. Assholes.

Fair play to everyone else though.

 

[chris d]

opened the emergency chocolate bar.

 

[ann post]

My parents were saying the same thing last night. What the fuck like? Has Ireland gone gardening mad now we're all confined to our homes?

Just a sidebar on the doomsday prepper gardening fiasco.

I went and spent more than weeks wages on outdoor things last week - They were all on a list I'd been generating since probably november and virusland coincided with the first week of workable weather we've seen since last year. So I bought the whole list, which normally would have been split over 2-3 months seeing I've no commute giving me 2hrs extra a day. I think the whole of rural suburbia did the same which probably looks like corona panic but also could just be planning and opportunity.

 

[pete]

opened the emergency chocolate bar.

Singular? If you fail to plan you plan to fail.