• we need figures. hard facts. research.

    maybe the stress is also making people shit more, or possibly the canned fruit. People that haven't touched a prune in decades suddenly getting caught short.

    Do Fray Bentos sales also go up? Is there a correlation?

  • Do Fray Bentos sales also go up? Is there a correlation?

    Anecdotally, in Streatham Sainsbury's there were empty shelves of pasta, rice, tinned pulses, tuna etc, but Spam and Fray Bentos were comfortably riding the storm with fulsome availability.
    (They were in the war, you know. Seen it all before. And powdered eggs. Bananas hadn't been invented. etc...)

  • powdered eggs

    A hugely underrated emergency food. Lasts forever and tastes pretty good.

  • in Streatham Sainsbury's there were empty shelves of pasta, rice, tinned pulses, tuna etc

    B...but. If the shelves were empty how do you know this?!? [tinfoil_hat.jpg]

  • I can confirm my local MEGA-Asda in Leyton is totally out of pasta (except lasagne).

    A staff member told me people had purchased whole trolley-loads.

    Cleaning sprays with bleach also seemed popular.

  • Just go aldi, stuff seemed fine when I was in earlier. The staff text me sometimes about cakes so I'll just ask them to get me stuff so I don't die.

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