[justrepublican]

2007 Lord Cameron of Dillington, first head of the UK Countryside Agency, famously remarked that Britain was ‘nine meals away from anarchy.’

[Towed_Jumper]

Many thanks for identifying the source of this quote for me. I had heard it before somewhere and paraphrased it here, but not knowing to whom it was attributed.

Also -and on a similar line of thought, my wife mentioned to me recently that in her research, most metropolitan areas in the US only have about three days worth of food stuffs available in inventory...any interruption in the distribution systems and poof...chaos!