Posted on 10/07/2010 7:32:13 AM PDT by FromLori
Either our nation's obesity problem is just as bad as they say, or Costco knows something we don't, because the aircraft carrier-scaled big box store is now offering enough (horrifying) food to last you a year for a cool $800.
The monstrous, 5,011 serving package, courtesy of food outfitter Shelf Reliance (hey, at least we'll have kept our senses of humor during doomsday!) claims their end days buffet contains "only top-of-the-line products," "developed with everyday menu planning in mind." Which makes sense, of course, because the only thing worse than knowing that the entire eastern seaboard has been leveled by nukes or a horde of flesh-feasting space titans is repetitive bunker fare—dehydrated fish skin AGAIN, mom?
Possibly more disconcerting than the notion of a year underground eating food from Costco is the fact that the package isn't just marketed for emergencies, but for "long-term food storage supply." Meaning that someone, somewhere, thinks it's a rational idea to buy an $800 cargo crate including containing 84 gallon-sized cans, to just, y'know, save yourself a trip to the grocery store. Now, I am totally down with Costco's cheese platters, and pasta multi-packs, but. My God.
Either our nation's obesity problem is just as bad as they say, or Costco knows something we don't, because the aircraft carrier-scaled big box store is now offering enough (horrifying) food to last you a year for a cool $800.
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And, recognizing you as an apocalyptic type, arrange to have you shot as you exit the store.
Sounds like MREs (or earlier variant of military rations) for the civilian population. Mmmmm...
Eating for $800 a year sounds like a bargain. lol.
replace school lunches with MRE’s!! lol
I bet the Mormons have a better alternative.
Once you open one .. it's eat, eat, eat until it's gone or oxygen destroys it.
What is the author’s point? Costco is bad for doing this? Not gonna click on it, because apparently his typewriter was set to keep repeating the first sentence. But if the excerpt is any indication, not much thought went into this.
I’m thinking that hunger and deprivation are inversely proportional to snark and bile.
Just don't wear your CC when you go to buy it - might be the last thing you ever do.
I’ll just go raid Michelle ma belle’s garden...
When, not if, when the SHTF, that food won’t be so ‘disgusting’.
Can someone here post a good site for practical long term food storage, if you don’t have a house the size of a storage facility and acres of land?
If they have the worldwide inflation I think is going to come, storing some assets in food I would think would be a good idea.
Twelve cans of “Hard White Winter Wheat (44 servings per can)”, one can of
Freeze-Dried Mushroom Pieces (48 servings per can)”, and dozens of cans of “TVP”—textured vegetable protein, which Shelf Reliance says “is consistent with real meat.” Not included in the deal is a can of freeze dried cyanide for when you grow weary of mixing TVP bacon with elbow macaroni every week.
I’m now reflecting on a year spent holed up in an abandoned mine, sleeping with a pistol under my pillow so the zombies don’t get me, or a year spent staring at “2 Cans of Taco TVP (42 servings per can),
Isn’t “textured vegetable protein”, SOY? gag barf. Can’t stand soy.
It is amazing how disgusting food becomes appetizing when you are starving.
Just buy $800 worth of soup, can opener, and lots of matches.
Right off hand it looks like the Mormon option ~ maybe packaged a little different, but the same idea.
fake bacon at that!
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