So I Decided to Order Groceries for Delivery

[Guinevere]

I adore digestives. The chocolate are almost my favorite cookie (biscuit to you) ever.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Plain chocolate you mean... right.... not that milk chocolate kind, surely?

[Guinevere]

Dark chocolate, yes.

[Gob]

I'm baking bread again today. Not because the shops are out of bread, I just enjoy baking.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Right! McV's I hope?

[Guinevere]

Nope. I have to check the brand (and not eat them too quickly).

[Lord Jim]

It's kind of ironic that because of the panic buying we now have to spend more time out in public, making multiple trips and running around from store to find what we need, then before we were under the lock down...

[MGMcAnick]

I usually do the week's shopping on Saturday mornings. I like shopping. Its sort of like the last vestige of the great hunt. (Thank you George Carlin.) Mrs Mc has decreed that I be a senior citizen and go to Wally World next Tuesday at 6:00 AM when they have a special HOUR for seniors. I have explained to her that I'm only a sophomore, but she's not buying it. They must think seniors are all early risers. I am, but six o'clock???

I bought a big bundle of TP at Sam's SEVERAL weeks ago. If I hadn't we'd be out now. Our son's in-laws ran out, but he had enough to share. They live close together. His mother-in-law really should't go out at all due to a completely depleted immune system caused by illness, not chemo. His father-in-law isn't much better. They are isolated in a beautiful home that backs up to a cemetery they are in no hurry to join. I feel very sorry for those who run out of TP. Unless someone sneezes, and we poop our pants running away, I think we'll be fine. Those who are hoarding TP should be forced to eat it, without Ketchup.

I have been told that the QuikTrip up the street from here (I'm at work) will only be open for credit card fuel sales beginning soon. I'm guessing there are 15 or 20 people who work there who will be out of jobs. There is no nearby grocery store here, so QT is IT for a lot of folks who have no access to a car.

Local major manufacturers like Spirit Aviation (think Boeing) and Textron, (owner of Cessna, Beechcraft and Hawker) have already laid off over 15,000 locally. That's 15,000 incomes that no longer have outgo. Unemployment compensation has to cover necessities. I'm thinking about locking up till this is over too. No outgo for so many means no income for me.

The governor has shut down all the schools through the end of the school year. At least she hasn't shut down the whole state, yet. I love Mrs Mc, but 24-7 would be tough for both of us.

[Gob]

I have fields and fields of cauliflowers all around our house. I may get sick of cauliflowers soon.

Luckily spuds have recently been planted here too.

[Bicycle Bill]

I eat vegan/vegetarian (depending on where I land on cheese and butter that day) a few days a week. And then I eat flesh.

-"BB"-

[Guinevere]

Vegetarian all weekend. Rib eye for dinner tonight (grass-fed, of course).

[Gob]

NHS workers across the country have been left in tears after shop workers greeted them with applause and flowers at UK supermarkets during a dedicated shopping hour for key workers amid coronavirus panic buying.

Supermarkets up and down the country including Tesco and Sainsbury's enforced a shopping hour just for key workers last week after frenzied shoppers cleared the shelves of essential items such as toilet roll, as well as cupboard staples such as pasta and tinned foods.

The illness has so far killed 281 people, with over 5,683 cases having been confirmed in the UK, and the increased panic had meant workers were not able to get their hands on supplies.

Supermarket workers today lined up at the entrance of a store in Swansea and clapped as nurses and doctors walked through the doors.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... rkets.html

[ex-khobar Andy]

I was at Trader Joe's this morning and for the first time there was a queue to get in. They were limiting customers to 35 in the store at any time which is about what you might have on a typical non weekend day. Everyone was pretty good and kept their distance. In the wine section (here in KY it has to be a separate entrance) they had Maison Barbulot Cabernet Syrah for the first time in weeks - lots of it - so I got myself a case. That should see us through a couple of weeks if we husband it.

Kroger was as normal with notable exception of empty shelves in 'bath tissue' (who calls it that? Have you ever accused your wife/husband/mother of putting the bath tissue the wrong way around on the roller?) and cleaning products. Plenty of meat and fresh veg and dairy etc.