The 2022 Great Cream Cheese Shortage

[MossRoad]

Had not but two things the big Supermarket is missing are Toll House Cookie Dough is hit it miss and Chocolate Milk… just disappears for weeks at a time unless buying high priced single serving containers.

what is it with Chocolate in times of stress anyway?

Times of stress? I eat 4 pieces of dark chocolate every day at a minimum. We have a chocolate factory here in town. I go there and buy what's supposed to be a 20# box of dark chocolate covered tart cherry rejects, but it's usually 30-35 pounds. I eat one of those boxes in about a year.

About 20 years ago they said dark chocolate was good for you. So I'd go to Osco and buy 1/4 pound Cadbury Royal Dark bars on sale for a buck. I ate one every day for a month. Amazing that consuming 7.5 pounds of dark chocolate put 20 pounds on me in that month!

 

[ultrarunner]

Ghiradeli is in the neighborhood and if the conditions are right you can smell the chocolate from the plant wafting through the air…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirardelli_Chocolate_Company

Hershey also had a big plant here but moved it lock stock and barrel to Mexico...

https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article3100715.html

 

[MossRoad]

Ghiradeli is in the neighborhood and if the conditions are right you can smell the chocolate from the plant wafting through the air…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghirardelli_Chocolate_Company

Hershey also had a big plant here but moved it lock stock and barrel to Mexico...

https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article3100715.html

We have a flavoring company in the industrial park near the airport. It's sickeningly sweet on warm nights with no breeze. The fuel farm was located right next to it. I'd be sitting on top of the truck on a nice summer night and not sure if I was overcome by the avgas fumes or the vanilla! It was heaven on earth.

 

[Oaktree]

Chocolate Milk… just disappears for weeks at a time unless buying high priced single serving containers.

When I was a kid I kept bugging my mother to get chocolate milk, finally she gave in. Once was enough!! Never particularly liked milk anyway, but thought this was gross.
In other forms chocolate's OK, but not as a drink.

 

[MossRoad]

I do not like chocolate milk, but I can enjoy a chocolate shake. Strange but true.

 

[dmccarty]

Look in the pasta isle next time you're there.

Pasta was in stock this week but I have seen those shelves pretty empty.

Later,
Dan

 

[Oaktree]

Pasta was in stock this week but I have seen those shelves pretty empty.

Yeah. Better now, but still not much selection.

 

[Diggin It]

The other day I told my kid I made chicken cordon bleu. She asked where I got chicken to make that. I figured she meant flattened chicken breasts. So I told her I put it in plastic wrap and whacked it with a meat hammer. She said no, I mean where did you get chicken, our store is out!

And now turkey and chicken ....

Big bird flu mess, flocks of thousands being put down. Prices .... well ... not being put down.

www.tractorbynet.com

Oh, and there was another refinery explosion and fire overnight.


Just can't get a break. One thing or another.

 

[BravoXray]

We have a flavoring company in the industrial park near the airport. It's sickeningly sweet on warm nights with no breeze. The fuel farm was located right next to it. I'd be sitting on top of the truck on a nice summer night and not sure if I was overcome by the avgas fumes or the vanilla! It was heaven on earth.

Remember the peppermint farm out on Mayflower road?

 

[MossRoad]

Remember the peppermint farm out on Mayflower road?

Oh yeah. It's still there. There's a mint still on Mayflower just south of the tracks that are just south of the bypass. There are several others west of there. My wife grew up in Ramblewood off of Crumstown Hwy. We started dating in 1979. Her younger brother worked for Flory farms in high school. Starting position: Rock Picker! The kids would sit on the back of old man Flory's trailer while he drove around the fields and they'd jump off when they saw a rock, pick it up, and put it on the trailer.

They rotate the mint crops quite often. There was a lot of it on Peach Rd last year, between Crumstown and 23.

They pick it into those big wagons and that smells pretty good. But then they take it to the mint still and run steam through the wagons to extract the oil. Then they have to take the cooked wagon loads to dump them, and that is pure heaven if you get behind a double or triple trailer load of that.

Some of our kids' fondest memories of growing up around here is smelling the mint cooking towards late summer. Mine too.