Why do people always stock up on bread and milk before a snowstorm?

[fishheadbob]

people go crazy for French Toast in snowstorms.

 

[bruski]

Add eggs and you have french toast !!

My daughter calls it the "French Toast Syndrome!"

 

[J_J]

PBJ , ham and cheese, BLT, etc, whatever.

Man can not live by bread alone, but he can try.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Toilet paper, of course...we don't save our corn cobs any more...but can't live without a case of Budweiser and a couple cans of Wolf Brand Chili! And the milk is to make Snow Ice Cream!

 

[Mike68]

Probably just a habit left over from different times like changing the oil in your car every 3000 miles.

A run on the liquor and beer store makes sense. Bread and milk must be just ingrained memory from our grandparents when it could take a week for a store to restock after a storm. Sandwiches are the easiest things to make without power.

 

[davesl708]

It's the weather reporters. They send out subliminal messages in the weather report.
They also own grocery stores.

 

[radioman]

yup- I noticed the same phenomenon. However what cheeses me off is that my normal shopping day weekly to get food always seem to the same freaking same people goes nuts shopping. I must be bad luck for bringing in storms.

 

[Dr_Zinj]

Never stock up on bread, other than one or two loaves in the freezer if it's on sale. Just the usual buying fresh every week. If a storm comes in toward the end of that week, well, just buying as usual, not stocking.

Ditto for the milk, since I don't have any cows, goats, or hamsters.

Besides, you know how hard it is to milk a hamster? Not to mention how many you need to milk just for the cream in your coffee? :laughing:

 

[xzcVAbc5]

When I worked at a grocery store as a younger man I was a stocker/sacker/cashier. It seemed like the busiest days where the worst weather days especially right at the beginning of the storm. Nothing beats taking a cart of groceries out to someone's car in the middle of a rainstorm!

 

[xzcVAbc5]

Never stock up on bread, other than one or two loaves in the freezer if it's on sale. Just the usual buying fresh every week. If a storm comes in toward the end of that week, well, just buying as usual, not stocking.

Ditto for the milk, since I don't have any cows, goats, or hamsters.

Besides, you know how hard it is to milk a hamster? Not to mention how many you need to milk just for the cream in your coffee? :laughing:

You just reminded me of this: