No survival food

[DrHenley]

She only likes Publix brand large-curd cottage cheese. I found Breakstone small-curd cottage cheese . . . but she won't eat it . . . and complains to the PR department at Publix. She gets pissed off that she has to do without cottage cheese, as she can't get the "right kind".

Publix was out of Louisiana Brand hot sauce yesterday and I had to buy Crystal Brand. I feel so deprived. Should I call the PR department and complain?

 

[DirtDiva]

I agree.

There is an elderly couple who live two houses down from us (she is 81 years old, and he's 90), so we go to the grocery store for them to reduce their odds of getting exposed.

She only likes Publix brand large-curd cottage cheese. I found Breakstone small-curd cottage cheese . . . but she won't eat it . . . and complains to the PR department at Publix. She gets pissed off that she has to do without cottage cheese, as she can't get the "right kind".

My GF can be very much like this, and everybody gets irritated with me when I suggest that people should compromise and temporarily lower their expectations because of the circumstances, and this has caused some arguments.

I have this theory that people can become "picky" in a crisis, as they feel less in control . . . so they compensate by becoming overly picky about nonsensical, petty, and stupid issues . . . like the "correct" kind of cottage cheese.

Somehow I flash back to my childhood and my depression era parents sitting at the dinner table telling us " Someday you may be glad to have that".

 

[Kevin L]

Somehow I flash back to my childhood and my depression era parents sitting at the dinner table telling us " Someday you may be glad to have that".

Agree 100%. Good post.

 

[Proud Prepper]

Publix was out of Louisiana Brand hot sauce yesterday and I had to buy Crystal Brand. I feel so deprived. Should I call the PR department and complain?

Crystal hot sauce is a Louisiana brand, Doc
It may not be made here anymore though.

 

[recon503]

perhaps this current situation will cause the "entitled" mentality to to reassessed, if not and things get really bad , I think those folks wont make the cut.

 

[DrHenley]

Crystal hot sauce is a Louisiana brand, Doc
It may not be made here anymore though.

According to their web site, their plant is in New Orleans. The reason I got Crystal is that it's the only brand besides Louisiana Brand that doesn't have fillers and thickeners, I didn't notice where it was made when I bought it. I was just looking at the ingredients: Peppers, vinegar, and salt.

 

[GaRp58]

Just can't wait to start hearing the horror stories about having to do without...
1. my big screen tv is broke...
2. cain't find no gas for my BBQ
3. trying to find some more mayo for my burger
4. anybody got a spare smartphone?
5. what the Fu** is that on the table mom?
6. why cain't we go to Yellowstone no more?
7. if I could just see Netflix ONE MORE TIME...

 

[Brent S]

Publix was out of Louisiana Brand hot sauce yesterday and I had to buy Crystal Brand. I feel so deprived. Should I call the PR department and complain?

Hey doc, we all have to make sacrifices, no matter how hard, for the good of all during this crisis!

 

[KateMTx]

Lol. Seriously though, if this gets a lot worse the fish in ponds and wildlife populations will be wiped out in no time. There are just too many people to feed. I never considered hunting without a license before, but if hungry most wont care about that or wether the animal is being thinned out to the point of no recovery of populations.

I remember growing up when we took the hunter education class, they talked about how this had happened in MS during the great depression. Only intervention from humans save a lot of the wildlife populations. It won't surprise me at all if it happens again.

 

[DirtDiva]

I remember growing up when we took the hunter education class, they talked about how this had happened in MS during the great depression. Only intervention from humans save a lot of the wildlife populations. It won't surprise me at all if it happens again.

Growing up in Louisiana in the 50's there were rarely sightings of alligators. Nothing like today. They were protected and endangered. Almost wiped out during the depression years. Florida gator populations were also and they had to restock from Louisiana Gator farms for the same reason. The deer population where my husband grew up in Missouri was almost decimated and had to be restocked after depression also. An elderly neighbor here once told us that after the depression you could not find a possum or coon on this mountain. I fear you are probably right.

 

[Brent S]

I remember growing up when we took the hunter education class, they talked about how this had happened in MS during the great depression. Only intervention from humans save a lot of the wildlife populations. It won't surprise me at all if it happens again.

There is a smaller pond behind my house, probably 5 acres or so. I would go back to it and catch and release a few times. It was awesome, I could land 8 or ten fish in an hour and a half easily. Very active, with fish averaging 1lb each. Some teens started going there with a small row boat every day and would load up a cooler with fish each day. Within three weeks of this I would go and not even get a nibble anymore. I quickly realized that if a couple teens could wipe out the fish population in three weeks then during a major crisis the wildlife populations won’t stand a chance. I still plan to hunt some if needed but don’t expect it to be a long term solution.

 

[Brent S]

Growing up in Louisiana in the 50's there were rarely sightings of alligators. Nothing like today. They were protected and endangered. Almost wiped out during the depression years. Florida gator populations were also and they had to restock from Louisiana Gator farms for the same reason. The deer population where my husband grew up in Missouri was almost decimated and had to be restocked after depression also. An elderly neighbor here once told us that after the depression you could not find a possum or coon on this mountain. I fear you are probably right.

The problem is there are a lot more people now than during the Great Depression.

 

[DrHenley]

I remember growing up when we took the hunter education class, they talked about how this had happened in MS during the great depression. Only intervention from humans save a lot of the wildlife populations. It won't surprise me at all if it happens again.

It happened to us at the BOL in the late 60's early 70's. Everybody had cleared their timber except us, and then everyone and his brother and cousin and brother in law was trying to hunt our land until we didn't see any deer anymore. It got to where I mostly duck hunted because there weren't any deer to hunt.

We clamped down hard on the poachers for several years with the aid of the game warden, and finally we started seeing deer again. Fortunately now a lot of people have put farmland back in to timber, so we're not like an island of timber in an ocean of fields anymore. Plus, a lot of the locals moved away.

 

[DirtDiva]

There is a smaller pond behind my house, probably 5 acres or so. I would go back to it and catch and release a few times. It was awesome, I could land 8 or ten fish in an hour and a half easily. Very active, with fish averaging 1lb each. Some teens started going there with a small row boat every day and would load up a cooler with fish each day. Within three weeks of this I would go and not even get a nibble anymore. I quickly realized that if a couple teens could wipe out the fish population in three weeks then during a major crisis the wildlife populations won’t stand a chance. I still plan to hunt some if needed but don’t expect it to be a long term solution.

Same thing with foraging. Many native medicinal plants are becoming endangered. Thus the restriction on harvesting. Perfect example is Ginseng.

 

[DirtDiva]

It happened to us at the BOL in the late 60's early 70's. Everybody had cleared their timber except us, and then everyone and his brother and cousin and brother in law was trying to hunt our land until we didn't see any deer anymore. It got to where I mostly duck hunted because there weren't any deer to hunt.

We clamped down hard on the poachers for several years with the aid of the game warden, and finally we started seeing deer again. Fortunately now a lot of people have put farmland back in to timber, so we're not like an island of timber in an ocean of fields anymore. Plus, a lot of the locals moved away.

We had a similar situation. We bought a large old farm about 30 years ago. Right at 100 acres. We left the standing timber, installed ponds to control eroding old pastures stocked them and planted almost 3000 young trees for deer forage. Put in CRP. Wonderful hunting, huge flocks of wild turkey, healthy deer herd. Stocked the ponds. Then the older farmers around us started aging out and selling or passing away. Corporate Ag/Mega farms started buying up those old farms and ranches around us. Corn and soy beans during season and during off season they would lease out the land to city folk in droves for that income. They were like locusts on the land. Poached the deer herds, cut fences and shot dogs. They would sneak in on the ponds and take out huge amounts of fish. Forage for Morels during season. Neither we nor the game warden could keep up. Finally we just gave up and sold it. And we actually lived on a small portion of the property. When we sold the 3 water wells on the property were undrinkable from the chemicals and we were surrounded on all sides by Mega farms. I will never live by commercial farmland again.