Posted on 11/01/2021 6:24:21 AM PDT by mylife
If the warnings of a turkey shortage this Christmas have got you in a flap, fear not – Heinz has a backup plan.
It has come up with a Christmas dinner soup with ‘big chunks’ of turkey as well as sprouts and stuffing.
The £1.50 Big Soup Christmas Dinner also has roasties, pigs in blankets and a gravy and cranberry sauce.
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Seems to me this is more like Socialism. The elites eat high on the hog and the peasants eat out of their garbage cans ... ref: Venezuela.
Yep. The only news story in this is that they’re trying to capitalize on everybody being afraid of things running out. This isn’t about shortages, it’s about taking advantage of the shortage-itis everybody seems to be having right now.
Their green apple is excellent, and the labels are great.
Those Brits are bloody insane.
there was also a pumpkin shortage being bandied about when our Walmart had bins of them with slashed prices.
so i don’t know who’s getting shortages!
I know! no bangers, mushie peas? no beans or spotted dick?
Where’s me McChristmas pudding?
Today they will be giving them away.
I get the after Halloween and use them as targets :)
Och, awa’ wi’ yer auld puddin’! Whaur’s me Christmas haggis?
good idea!
Reminds me of prison food loaf.
CC
Years ago, the US Army had an interesting solution to Thanksgiving dinner in the field. Imagine giant TV dinners.
That is, one very large rectangular aluminum tray with sliced turkey and gravy, with a heavy aluminum foil lid. Enough for 30 men. Another tray or two with stuffing. Another with mashed potatoes. etc. And the zinger was that if the unit has 31 men, the number of ration trays, of everything, was doubled.
“It is a real ‘hog’s bait’,” I remember someone saying.
Actually, in a smaller sense, I can see a family sized version of this - parts of which are already being sold.
While you can get microwaveable sliced turkey in gravy, it is not enough for say 5 or 6 people. However, the mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, green beans, glazed apple slices, etc. are already there.
I’ve had that dinner, a real treat compared to MRE’s.
I have the turkey breast in the freezer and will be using homegrown veggies to go with it.
It will be my usual from scratch meal and awesome as usual.
1 can chicken, 1 vegall, 1 cream of chicken.
Stir and pour in casserole dish, top with bisquick.
bake at 350. not bad pot pie from a can.
IOW, they are trying to instill panic and cause more panic buying like happened in spring of 2020.
I’m not sure what their motive is, but I’m now seeing it all as BS.
If I only have a bunch of potatoes to share with my family and friends that’s good enough for me.
BTW we got thousands of uber fat canadian greese roaming NC and I got BBs and arrows so sssshhhhh:-)
Socialists are very big on control via rationing. And to have rationing, there must be shortages, real and imaginary. The reason for this is Gresham’s Law in economics.
That is, when you have two competing currencies, people spend the lower valued one, driving its relative value lower; and they save the more valued one, driving its relative value higher.
And the magic is that “anything of value with finite availability can be used as a currency.”
And what pushes socialism to the brink is that there are a vast number of things that are valued; so they must ALL be pushed into shortage and scarcity. Even fresh water and clean air can be rationed by a despotic enough socialist. In East Germany they rationed colored paint and music “solely to be used to honor the state.”
In the west, socialists always push out ideas like “peak oil”, “panic buying and hoarding”, and the “unhealthy nature of abundance”. It’s always about control.
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