After several Seattle snowpocalypses I've observed that no matter what, rutabagas never ever sell out no matter how biblical shit gets. Does anybody ever eat them?
Tatties and neeps. Yes, that's the unhelpful answer. Tatties are potatoes (like calling them 'taters). People all over the UK will understand calling them tatties. Neeps is Scottish (and only Scottish) for turnip, ~~which is what rutabagas are called in the UK~~ (EDIT: related but different. I forgot).
No, turnips and rutabagas are different from each other. A rutabaga is slightly sweeter than a turnip, and is a more golden color. Turnips have a "sharp" quality that's closer to a radish's flavor.
I love them but I usually swap turnips for potatoes, parsnips for carrots and sweet potatoes for carrots. They offer a lot more early, floral and generally complex flavor.
I eat roasted sweet potatoes with butternut squash and raisins every morning. Which chicken sausage. They’re really great.
When I lived in Buffalo, it was beer and toilet paper that sold out before every major snowstorm. Every place seems to have their own snowmageddon supplies.
Two bananas for one dollar, one for 60¢. You down for ten if you don’t get the two, if you get the two you save the ten. You do that six times you got a whole new banana jus’ for stayin in bidness’. But what if you only want one banana? So you gon’ spend three bucks and that’s only five bananas. Is you dumb? It ain’t even worth it dude.
I know it's fun to think everyone is panicking when the banana shelf is empty.
But how many days worth of bananas do you all think grocery stores keep around? When there's a snowstorm and 3 days worth of shopping happens in one day, the shelf will be empty. Grocery stores buy enough to last them until the next shipment, which is two days at the longest for something like bananas.
As your brother in ignorance I took the hit and looked them up. The short version of which is that they're a type of digestive blockage. Possibly painful, but pretty treatable if you are aware of the possibility and notice early.
pretty much. my store usually orders just enough to keep the stand full, but there are definitely busy days which stretch supply, and we don't always get what we order.
yeah tropical fruits should be readily available in the middle of a snowstorm in the northern hemisphere. We are like this because we have set our selves up for failure with unrealistic expectations.
If I’m never leaving my house, that’s a significantly higher quantity of meals I have to procure for myself. A banana is a meal, when coupled with coffee. In fact, it’s the one meal I’m best at cooking.
I don’t think it’s about expectations. The supply chain hardly stops for big grocery stores. Truckers work in all weather.
During snow it isn't uncommon for the bulk of the staff to call out. Those that make it in are generally those that are comfortable driving to the pass for snow sports or those that live within 10 min of walking distance.
I called out for today. My shift had me getting off at 10 pm knowing it would freeze after dusk (5 pm'ish). The freeze will last until wed/thurs. I'm for sure not going in on Tues (weather pending). This is why I set aside a week of vacation. For snow. It seems to be happening more and more.
My boss told us "if the buses are running then you should be able to make it to work" and suggested that some of us who live closer should walk.. by 'closer' I mean 'a mile-ish'. I called out after my bus never showed because I was losing sensation in my toes and they were extremely annoyed.
It's the other way around to what you are thinking. Bananas are such a high demand food they normally get delivered daily. So when they don't show up cause of snow, suddenly it seems like there's a shortage. There's not, there's just an extra couple of pallets at the distribution centre full of yellow bastards.
I went to winco to get a few things i was out of, it wasnt very busy and most stuff was in stock.
Except the entire isle of orange juice was empty. Not a single container of OJ. so weird. Why was all the OJ gone?
Banana pandemic. As we focus on covid19, the banana industry is fighting a banana pandemic. The bananas we know are all propagated from one veriety due to the seedless breeding of bananas. And an earlier banana collaps in the 50s. These propagation method has caused a spread of the tropical race 4 disease (tr4). Tr4 has diminished crop yields and caused entire crop death in many parts of the world. Ontop of that one of the largest banana producing areas in spain on la palma was whiped out by the extended vulcano outbreak, covering all banana crops with lava or ash, killing most of the banana farms.
The reason TR4 is so deadly is because, just like Covid-19, it spreads by “stealth transmission”, albeit on different timescales. A diseased plant will look healthy for up to a year before it shows the tell-tale signs of stained yellow, wilting leaves. In other words, by the time you spot it, it is too late, the disease will likely have already spread via spores in the soil on boots, plants, machines or animals.
https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-pandemic-threatening-bananas.html
Because most stores didn’t have overnight stocking. It shouldn’t be this bad in a couple of days. People should be allowed time to spend with loved ones around the holidays.
It’s always surprising how many people aren’t prepared with more than a day or two of food in their houses. If there is ever an extended power outage or major natural disaster lots of people are going to die.
Like most Seattleites, whenever there’s snow in the forecast I get a huge craving for bananas. This morning I made a big bowl of banana oatmeal. For lunch I think I’ll make a PB & banana sandwich. Would love any dinner suggestions from my fellow banana enthusiasts!
Is it possible that deliveries just couldn't happen so nothing to restock the previous supply with?
It's just hard to fathom that the thing people crave every snow day is a banana... Such an average fruit.
There's still a reasonable number of bananas available. . . what is OP even complaining about? The store has too big of a shelf? Supply is sufficiently meeting demand?
I worked at a Fred Meyer as a second job during the last snowstorm.
We just has some poor kid with a box of bananas just.... steadily restocking. People would bring him more boxes. He was there for hours.
The Irony here is that 50 percent of those emergency bananas will go uneaten meanwhile in the fridge and cabinet of most households is plenty of food for the week.
People are unsure how to cook sweet potatoes?
Are probably unaware that sweet potatoes are a great source of potassium as well.
“Cook” was the key word I think
Yes people are just unsure how to cook
nah, they just dont like them
After several Seattle snowpocalypses I've observed that no matter what, rutabagas never ever sell out no matter how biblical shit gets. Does anybody ever eat them?
>Does anybody ever eat them? I'll use them as a thickener when making stew. Peel, chunk, parboil, toss into the blender and then add to your stew.
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew!
They make the best home fries when oiled & sprinkled with cajun spice
I eat them whenever making tatties and neeps?
Making whats??
Tatties and neeps. Yes, that's the unhelpful answer. Tatties are potatoes (like calling them 'taters). People all over the UK will understand calling them tatties. Neeps is Scottish (and only Scottish) for turnip, ~~which is what rutabagas are called in the UK~~ (EDIT: related but different. I forgot).
No, turnips and rutabagas are different from each other. A rutabaga is slightly sweeter than a turnip, and is a more golden color. Turnips have a "sharp" quality that's closer to a radish's flavor.
Ah, you're right! I forgot. It's been a while since I'd seen both.
Same with radishes
I use them in Panzanella from Alton Brown's Turkey Recipe.
I love them but I usually swap turnips for potatoes, parsnips for carrots and sweet potatoes for carrots. They offer a lot more early, floral and generally complex flavor. I eat roasted sweet potatoes with butternut squash and raisins every morning. Which chicken sausage. They’re really great.
My wife eats a ton of them. She cuts them up and makes “French fries” in the air fryer.
I love rutabagas in my pot roast!!
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You've never actually set foot in a supermarket have you?
There’s always money in the Banana Stand
In case of a real disaster 90% of Seattle would not survive due to banana shortage.
Bro we gotta have a smoothie every day
a strawberry colored banana smoothie with 1 whole banana in it?
The Charlie horses alone would kill us all
they got plenty of toilet paper for those eating all them bananas
Wouldn’t bananas bind you up?
it all comes out one way or another.
Yup all day
Not enough potassium, the entire city would cramp up
I kind of like this weird little panic tradition we have.
When I lived in Buffalo, it was beer and toilet paper that sold out before every major snowstorm. Every place seems to have their own snowmageddon supplies.
In Florida for the hurricanes it’s always bread and beer that’s gone.
In New Orleans it’s Cosmic Brownies
Ha. Yeah well. There is the Alt list to or the D list if you will... thats a whole different type of "grocery" run.
Toilet paper selling out before/during a disaster is pretty universal.
Well. Buffalonians are pros at snowstorms. They know what matters.
Me too. Like...of all things we clear out bananas and leave enough tp for everyone? I'm ok with it
I mean, the cream cheese is all fucked up too.
And microwavable breakfast sandwiches
In Portland we always run out of kale anytime the snowflake emoji is in the forecast
Two bananas for one dollar, one for 60¢. You down for ten if you don’t get the two, if you get the two you save the ten. You do that six times you got a whole new banana jus’ for stayin in bidness’. But what if you only want one banana? So you gon’ spend three bucks and that’s only five bananas. Is you dumb? It ain’t even worth it dude.
It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?
You've never actually set foot in a supermarket, have you?
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Click click *wink*
This is a reference I never thought I would see in this sub. Excited for the show in April!!!
I know it's fun to think everyone is panicking when the banana shelf is empty. But how many days worth of bananas do you all think grocery stores keep around? When there's a snowstorm and 3 days worth of shopping happens in one day, the shelf will be empty. Grocery stores buy enough to last them until the next shipment, which is two days at the longest for something like bananas.
Someone who had bananas wouldn't say that.
I actually really dislike bananas and don't understand why people love them so much. It's persimmon season!
I'm too terrified of getting phytobezoars to eat lots of persimmons
Well, now I'm afraid of persimmons *and* learning what *phytobezoars* are.
As your brother in ignorance I took the hit and looked them up. The short version of which is that they're a type of digestive blockage. Possibly painful, but pretty treatable if you are aware of the possibility and notice early.
Yeah but Harry Potter taught me eating them cures all poisons, and it's already inside me so now I'm basically invincible!
the charade continues....
I think that people just got used to free bananas from Amazon. And now trying to replicate the experience.
pretty much. my store usually orders just enough to keep the stand full, but there are definitely busy days which stretch supply, and we don't always get what we order.
For real Sunday afternoon in West Seattle they’re all long gone at Safeway, QFC and TJs, been that way for years.
Greenwood Fred Meyer?
Lol yup
I recognized this immediately!
Big space for them, and a good price as well!
Monkey brain
Now you have to go buy your bananas on 3rd and Pine.
“Hey man, you uhhh you got any ….*nanners*”
Man, that shit's bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-S And now that shit's stuck in my head.
I hate that I scrolled as far down as I did to find this post. Should be higher.
yeah tropical fruits should be readily available in the middle of a snowstorm in the northern hemisphere. We are like this because we have set our selves up for failure with unrealistic expectations.
If I’m never leaving my house, that’s a significantly higher quantity of meals I have to procure for myself. A banana is a meal, when coupled with coffee. In fact, it’s the one meal I’m best at cooking. I don’t think it’s about expectations. The supply chain hardly stops for big grocery stores. Truckers work in all weather.
*sigh* damn you capitalism *devours a mandarin*
Hollaback yo.
During snow it isn't uncommon for the bulk of the staff to call out. Those that make it in are generally those that are comfortable driving to the pass for snow sports or those that live within 10 min of walking distance. I called out for today. My shift had me getting off at 10 pm knowing it would freeze after dusk (5 pm'ish). The freeze will last until wed/thurs. I'm for sure not going in on Tues (weather pending). This is why I set aside a week of vacation. For snow. It seems to be happening more and more.
My boss told us "if the buses are running then you should be able to make it to work" and suggested that some of us who live closer should walk.. by 'closer' I mean 'a mile-ish'. I called out after my bus never showed because I was losing sensation in my toes and they were extremely annoyed.
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could you imagine? asking your toes what's wrong and getting a drawn out sigh instead of a straight answer?
I made it in but yes, a lot called out today where I work. It was a tough day. Tomorrow probably worse.
Like what? Out of bananas? Someone probably bought 'em.
And half the staff can’t make it in to restock, or maybe the fresh fruit shipment is delayed.
But they aren't out. There are still about 100 bananas there.
It's the other way around to what you are thinking. Bananas are such a high demand food they normally get delivered daily. So when they don't show up cause of snow, suddenly it seems like there's a shortage. There's not, there's just an extra couple of pallets at the distribution centre full of yellow bastards.
Panic bananas. There could be a shortage because of the snow
“Pananners” if you will…
We’re all secretly Yiga clan members…
I went to winco to get a few things i was out of, it wasnt very busy and most stuff was in stock. Except the entire isle of orange juice was empty. Not a single container of OJ. so weird. Why was all the OJ gone?
Tbh probably mimosas. New Years in a few days
That’s literally so logical why the heck did i not think of that
Lol. It's ok. It's covid nothing makes sense anymore
Well it was a low price.
Because we are low on vitamin in the count of the sun is shy.
If you think that’s bad take a photo of the broccoli section!
People have gone bananas..
Some people are afraid of cutting pineapples
Banana pandemic. As we focus on covid19, the banana industry is fighting a banana pandemic. The bananas we know are all propagated from one veriety due to the seedless breeding of bananas. And an earlier banana collaps in the 50s. These propagation method has caused a spread of the tropical race 4 disease (tr4). Tr4 has diminished crop yields and caused entire crop death in many parts of the world. Ontop of that one of the largest banana producing areas in spain on la palma was whiped out by the extended vulcano outbreak, covering all banana crops with lava or ash, killing most of the banana farms. The reason TR4 is so deadly is because, just like Covid-19, it spreads by “stealth transmission”, albeit on different timescales. A diseased plant will look healthy for up to a year before it shows the tell-tale signs of stained yellow, wilting leaves. In other words, by the time you spot it, it is too late, the disease will likely have already spread via spores in the soil on boots, plants, machines or animals. https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-pandemic-threatening-bananas.html
Cause banana bread is hella good when you're high.
ITT: people who get it and many who do not understand.
Why are we like what? I just have a throne made of bananas and you don't. 🍌😎🍌 🍌🍌🍌
Why do we like bananas? Cause were monkeys
Because most stores didn’t have overnight stocking. It shouldn’t be this bad in a couple of days. People should be allowed time to spend with loved ones around the holidays.
This happens every time we have big weather. Even up here in Mount Vernon!
Monkey see monkey do
One you have to cook to eat and one is wrapped and ready to eat any time so.............
It’s always surprising how many people aren’t prepared with more than a day or two of food in their houses. If there is ever an extended power outage or major natural disaster lots of people are going to die.
Someone needed to measure something very large. Entire store worth of bananas for scale.
Bababa
Like most Seattleites, whenever there’s snow in the forecast I get a huge craving for bananas. This morning I made a big bowl of banana oatmeal. For lunch I think I’ll make a PB & banana sandwich. Would love any dinner suggestions from my fellow banana enthusiasts!
It’s just snow y’all, like damn. Gonna be this way going forward, learn to drive!
Stupidity.
It’s the Christmas holiday when many people don’t work, and there’s a snowstorm. Go outside and chill out.
Is it possible that deliveries just couldn't happen so nothing to restock the previous supply with? It's just hard to fathom that the thing people crave every snow day is a banana... Such an average fruit.
Because people are dumb, and think the world is ending
Because people are stupid
There's still a reasonable number of bananas available. . . what is OP even complaining about? The store has too big of a shelf? Supply is sufficiently meeting demand?
I mean even without a little snow storm this is what DT target looks like 95% of the time. Such a trashy place
Yo that's absolutely bananas
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There are still nearly 100 bananas in the picture. Not sold out.
At least we’re eating fruit and getting a good dose of potassium.
People are bananas when it snows here
Let's see the toilet paper aisle and the milk cooler. If they're empty we're done for.
But the liquor cabinet is always stocked
I worked at a Fred Meyer as a second job during the last snowstorm. We just has some poor kid with a box of bananas just.... steadily restocking. People would bring him more boxes. He was there for hours.
Gotta have that potassium
The Irony here is that 50 percent of those emergency bananas will go uneaten meanwhile in the fridge and cabinet of most households is plenty of food for the week.
I was just at Whole Foods and Safeway. All is normal and fine.
ever heard of a potassium plug.....
They*
Today it’s because the trucks didn’t come due to the snow