Why do people buy milk and bread is snow is predicted?

[tinkerbell1967]

It is the same way here in PA when snow is being called for. If I'm getting snowed it and can't get out I want good stuff, icecream, chips, lol!

 

[polkadotminnie]

Forget the milk and eggs. I grabbed batteries today so if the power goes out, I can still listen to the Auburn game on the radio. WAR EAGLE!!!!! We are expecting 8 inches tonight in Huntsville.

 

[momof1princess]

Forget the milk and eggs. I grabbed batteries today so if the power goes out, I can still listen to the Auburn game on the radio. WAR EAGLE!!!!! We are expecting 8 inches tonight in Huntsville.

i'm just east of gadsden, in hokes bluff, and we're in the 4-7 inches zone!

 

[luvthemouse71]

Shout out to the other poster from Southeastern MA!! I think its a Northeast thing just like the running "school's canceled in Foster-Gloucester." This is a town in western RI that would cancel nearly half the year (well it seemed like it) back in the 70s! Milk and Bread Alert -- they would say on the TV!

Ha! I was always so jealous of the Foster/Gloucester kids! I went to Catholic school too, they almost never canceled school. It was Salty Brine and Operation Snowball..you'd wake up and turn on the radio and/or the tv and listen intently, hoping that you'd have no school.

Here's some nostalgia http://www.quahog.org/factsfolklore/index.php?id=121

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

I live in MD and we get snow every year and last year we got just under 100 inches where we live..... people HERE do that. They can forecast 6 or 8 inches and people panic.

My parents live in Dothan AL. Just spoke with them a while ago about the weather.

We just moved from MD this summer (had 5 feet of snow in 1 week last year). I went to literally TEN stores here in Georgia today looking for ice melt and not a single solitary place even STOCKS it! We left all of ours in our house in MD not thinking we would ever need it down here.

It is the same way here in PA when snow is being called for. If I'm getting snowed it and can't get out I want good stuff, icecream, chips, lol!

We made sure to get plenty of fun food - fritos, Pepsi, doughnuts, oranges, candy to go along with the milk and bread.

 

[Sinboy]

I never understood the milk and bread and egg thing - are people making pancakes or french toast when it snows? I think stocking up on beer is a much more better way to go. At least if the electric and gas goes out - you can use the snow to cool the beer - right?

 

[RachelsMommie]

We knew a storm was coming today, so we stocked up on the weekly essentials. We usually grocery shop on Sunday or Monday, so with a snow storm today, it made sense to go ahead and do the weekly trip early.

Also, being at home instead of school means we will consume more food/drink like milk here, so we end up going through more milk. And if it's a snow day tomorrow, we'll end up making breakfast as a treat (like French Toast!). Makes sense to me.

 

[bumbershoot]

I think it makes sense...those are the perishable things I most often have to run out and get mid-week, so those would be the things I would opt to pick up if I were running by the store on the way home from work and I knew bad weather was coming. My pantry is pretty well stocked, but with milk and bread (and eggs) my options of what to make increase exponentially.

Yep.

I think it's a cute soundbite "oh these two things are so weird to get", but the reality is that most people eat bread and milk. Not everyone, but I'd say a pretty big majority of people.

So if you get everyone goign to the store to stock up, just in case they can't get out for a few days, most everyone is going to want to pick up those few items.

And then the shopping lists start varying. Some will get beer, some will get wine. Some will get diapers, some will get dog food, some will get hummus and veggie chips from Trader Joes, others will buy a big thing of Ruffles at Costco. Some will get lots of healthy food, others will get, um, pop-tarts (some will combine the two and get the organic toaster pastries at Costco LOL).

So the REST of the stuff on the lists are as individual as each person is! But the very basics, the staples, are going to still around the same. The bread and the milk.

And therefore, other parts of the store will get depleted as people shop, but not as much as the thing that is on most everyone's list.

Lol...I was thinking along these lines, too. How would anything go bad if it's so cold out you can just set things outside or in a garage, shop, or other outbuilding (or even your porch with a cooler full of snow?)

Well, living in a condo or apartment with no balcony might make those it difficult....

 

[DisneyAndRedSox]

Ha! I was always so jealous of the Foster/Gloucester kids! I went to Catholic school too, they almost never canceled school. It was Salty Brine and Operation Snowball..you'd wake up and turn on the radio and/or the tv and listen intently, hoping that you'd have no school.

Here's some nostalgia http://www.quahog.org/factsfolklore/index.php?id=121

Salty's son Wally Brine got me though many long morning commutes from hell going from Central MA to Boston for over seven years- lol

 

[BellePrincessBelle]

I'm another that just doesn't get it & I live in a snow belt. My house always has food & we can sure live for a few days without milk, bread & eggs since I always have a stocked house year round.

 

[GinnyEmma]

Eggs are for the kids that usually eat a quick breakfast on their way out. Bread for the sandwiches that are extra. It isn't rocket science. Can you all not think of other uses for bread or eggs than french toast? Weird.

We have a stocked pantry, but we make sure if we might not get out for a few days that we have plenty of fruit and veggies and the staples. I try to only make grocery runs every couple of weeks. if it is the end of a cycle, you can bet we are running out of the perishables, because they are eaten because they are perishable...

 

[BellePrincessBelle]

I have to ask everyone who runs out top stock up do you usually go the the grocery store more than once a week? Because if you don't then you should have plenty on hand already.

 

[allison443]

Eggs are for the kids that usually eat a quick breakfast on their way out. Bread for the sandwiches that are extra. It isn't rocket science. Can you all not think of other uses for bread or eggs than french toast? Weird.

We have a stocked pantry, but we make sure if we might not get out for a few days that we have plenty of fruit and veggies and the staples. I try to only make grocery runs every couple of weeks. if it is the end of a cycle, you can bet we are running out of the perishables, because they are eaten because they are perishable...

I agree, I have already seen a few of these threads about why do people go out for milk and bread and eggs...I'm surprised people even ask. Then people always post "they're making french toast!" These are perishable items.

 

[allison443]

I have to ask everyone who runs out top stock up do you usually go the the grocery store more than once a week? Because if you don't then you should have plenty on hand already.

Yes, I normally go to the grocery store several times a week, and pick up things like bread, milk, fruits and vegetables. I'm sure I could survive a snowstorm without the perishables, but I don't want to. So I go to the store if I don't have them stocked. I don't get why it bothers people at all. Especially if you're fully stocked, you wouldn't even be at the grocery store, would you?

 

[GinnyEmma]

lol, stocking up, and buying a couple of loaves of bread, and a dozen eggs are quite different animals.

Stocking up is a basement full of quart jars with tomatoes, and sauce, green beans, a freezer full of beef, pork, chicken, deer, corn...

When we don't feel like baking my family likes the healthnut bread toasted. I can't seem to replicate that. And with 3 teen boys in the house, a dozen eggs can last 2 days if they decide they want to indulge.

 

[SPBendersky]

I live in the NE and Bread and Milk are the basics. Even if power goes out we usually keep a cooler handy with ice for the basic items. We as you most likely have a grill outside which you can cook anything on with the right pot and pan no electric needed. When the power goes out if the freezer or fridge is not opened often it will keep the food for some hours.

Regards,
Scot

 

[Arielle22]

Another MA gal chiming in. I was 12 during the Blizzard of '78 which seemed to be a perfect age to play in the snow.

My youngest sister was 4 and our mom wouldn't let her out in the snow because it was over her head. My older brothers built her a snow fort on the patio so she could play there. My younger brother had just gotten out of the hospital with a broken arm but my mom let him so sledding with his arm wrapped up.

The families in my neighborhood had lots of children (I am one of eight) so milk and bread went quickly. Our dad and my brothers took sleds to local stores when rumors hit that a delivery was made.

I don't know how my mom didn't go insane with 8 kids stuck at home for 3 weeks straight.

I shop once a week so I usually don't need milk or eggs but I do like some snacks when stuck indoors.

I was talking to a site my work owns near Dallas, TX this morning. She was saying how they got snow and people had trouble driving. I asked her how much and she said a couple of inches. I laughed because we had a dusting yesterday and it was 4 inches. Experience makes all the difference.

 

[3boymthr]

I'm another that just doesn't get it & I live in a snow belt. My house always has food & we can sure live for a few days without milk, bread & eggs since I always have a stocked house year round.

I always have food - rice, flour, pasta, canned goods, etc., but it's the basics of milk bread and eggs that I always run out of and though I have a fairly large fridge, it's not so big that I can keep enough of any of these to last more than three or four days (I have one who would drink a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread a day if I let him). So yup, in anticipation of Wednesday's upcoming storm I'll be running out and buying Milk, Bread and Eggs (oh, and poptarts, too )

 

[eliza61]

I think it makes sense...those are the perishable things I most often have to run out and get mid-week, so those would be the things I would opt to pick up if I were running by the store on the way home from work and I knew bad weather was coming. My pantry is pretty well stocked, but with milk and bread (and eggs) my options of what to make increase exponentially.

Yes, but really when was the last time that "any thing" was closed for more than 2 days. Seriously? Last year when we had those 30 inches in one night, the next day, the pennsylvania ballet was open for the nutcracker.

The times when stuff was closed for 4-5 days are long gone.

 

[DisneyWorldbuff]

If there's a chance we're going to snowed in, I make sure to buy wine