Meat and potatoes, eggs and all the staples in the baking aisle were the first to disappear here in rural MO during the Great Lockdown of 2020. Snack and soda aisles remained fairly untouched. I was impressed.
Within 2 weeks, not a freezer could be found in stores.
I looked forward to shopping during the pandemic. It afforded me the chance to take a pulse on what was ACTUALLY happening vs the fearporn online.
What became incredibly scarce early on - aside from TP and paper towels and hand sanitizer - was kiddie food: fries and chicken tenders and burgers! There was plenty of meat in our stores, but the local farmer was our go-to choice for meat and chicken since they didn't treat me like plague.
The OTHER, very telling observation, was piles and piles of fake meat inventory. They tried to push that nonsense on us, and nobody fell for it. I was proud of my fellow Americans.