Off Topic Coronavirus - 606 tales from the Inquiry

A friend went into the supermarket to buy flour … the shelves were bare … you need to panic buy China

 

@Royston Rejuvenated can't even make 'beans on toast' … can you really see him making spaghetti ? and if he did make spaghetti he wouldn't know what to do with it afterwards..

 

Maybe inside the M25 and higher populated areas @AllHellLetLoose

The local farm shop was very well stocked when I went in a couple of days ago for some tomatoes and onions. They had loads of preserves and honey too. Shop local at from the source. That's if people know where they are.

I have seen pictures of supermarkets with empty shelves, and some funny ones:
- empty shelves but full of vegan food
- no beer except Budweiser
- no pizzas except Ham and Pineapple

Even at a time of "crisis" people still are not willing to compromise and have s*** food.

 

I make my own scones and Christmas pudding.

 

A guy at work went to Waitrose to buy milk as they had run out... Waitrose only had fully skimmed milk … he walked out!.... Milk comes from cows and has some fat in it!... it's not made from wheat or almonds!!!! and it is also not a by product of the cheese making industry.

 

We don't have that many Farm Shops in New Eltham...

 

Did you hear about the Turkish Shop charging £15 for hand sanitizer in New Eltham @AllHellLetLoose?

My folks still live there.

Take a drive to Swanley, or Poll Hill.

The butcher's at our local farm shop had loads of decent looking steaks.

 

It's a pity because he sells some really good stuff in his shop but trying to make a fast buck in an emergency will devastate his reputation!

 

I went to the Hoover Building Tesco off the A40 this morning to get a paper & some lunch things for work.
I've popped in there nearly every weekday morning (early) for 4 years at least.
The only other folk I usually see there at dawn are a few other workers (builders and the like) buying sandwiches.

It opens at 6am. This morning I was there at 6:10 and the car park was virtually full.
Inside I had to join a 100 yard long check-out queue, which took over an hour to get to the front of.
At 6:50 the store had to close its doors to people wanting to come in, just so it could serve those already inside.

This cannot go on.
I'll try to do my usual Saturday morning shop this coming weekend, which includes quite a bit of stuff that I deliver round to my old mum's house afterwards.
She usually has stuff delivered to her in midweek too, but that has stopped).
I'll have my stuff in the trolley in 20 minutes - or some of it at least, fingers crossed.
But I fully expect to be in the store for 2 hours or more, maybe 3, just queueing.
If I can get in there at all.

What I'll do after this coming Saturday, I haven't a clue.
Think I'll avoid supermarkets, and just pick up bits and pieces as & where I can from small local stores.
And pay through the nose I expect.

 

All football now suspended until April 30..

 

Oh yes, the football. I remember that!

To be honest, I no longer care much whether this season is completed or just abandoned.
People on Sport Radio who are still banging on that the season HAS to be finished at any cost (regarding complications to future seasons) are sounding irrelevant to me now, and a bit hysterical. It really doesn't matter that much anymore.
In another week or two, I don't think it will matter at all.

And I'm by no means certain that when the football does begin again (September at the earliest in my view) record crowds will flock back to stadiums.
It will be a different world by then, and we will all be different too.

 

Funny you should mention spaghetti.

I just supported another local restaurant

 

My wife reckons the only thing I know how to make is a mess

 

Braving my life and off to Morrisons in Petts Wood.

A final stock up for beers as my enforced self isolation begins tomorrow.

Mr ban Gerwen will be my deliveroo service when supplies finish.

 

It was a local mini market that had bum paper when all the supermarkets had been out of it for a week.

 

While SAinsbury's is emptying fast the little local Asian shop in Orpington High St is well stocked up but empty. Two excellent greengrocer stall in the High St, not to mention Hewitt's farm, and as China says, Poll Hill. I also have a local butcher who is very good. Strange times.

 

This mob are good in chavvy Petts Wood.

I'm looking at the variety of weird and wonderful beers to pick

 

It's odd, my local corner shops have been great and are still well stocked. Just proves it's a demand thing rather than supply issues

 

Fvcked me there mate I thought it was a bloody vending machine until I turned the picture on its side

 

Absolutely. IT's just that reserve stocks have been transferred from the warehouse to some people's garages and freezers. Parents with young children can't even get CAlpol.