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.
That's funny and I had forgotten that fakemeat showed up for the first time in our small town grocery store but it also remained untouched even when all the other meat was gone.
We're 80 miles from St Louis and this a recreational area due to a large river, canoeing kayaking, tubing etc, National Forest for hunting and lots of gravel roads. A lot of St Louis area people own land here and St Louis locked down pretty hard so most of them came here for the 2 week state lockdown and many came here every weekend after that. By the end of every weekend, the grocery stores were wiped out. I think a lot of them were going back to the city with coolers full.
Found it which is tough to do on youtube now. Their search really sucks these days; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksf6KBymnLo
37 minutes.
“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.”
Same here in SW Wisconsin. Fake meat, Tofu, Kale and anything ‘Vegan’ were always the last items to go...if at all!