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wratgaf
Flour is the new toilet paper....
NationalOrganizationOfMenAgainstAmazonianMasterhood
Everyone discovered their love of Coffeemate creamer flavors by me.
BeaveIt2Leaver
Restaurant supply stores and retail outlets for broadline distributors have plenty of stuff. Flour? $20 for 50#. Go check it out!
nukemall
Hardly any waffle mix in Houston for weeks. Same for Queso Ruffles. I can tell what people are bingeing on.
HelaSisterOfThor
Jokes on you. I was already baking lol
lawideas
Still no TP in my local grocery
icedteabottle
Our flower, sugar, baking soda, and baking powder are gone.
RamonaQ
We haven't been able to find baking powder either.
goflyblind
Tommsen1504
It's really amazing to see circle repeat themselves. In Germany, we had this about two weeks ago. Now we have most back in our aisles
MexicanTrainer
The great global bake off
vayxes
Its not really that people are panic buying now.A lot of stores are being selectiv with what they're stocking to keep shipping less frequent
Ulthirm
Hey man I went to pick up my pills and they had nothing in the pharmacy left of the nature that helps with any flu, cough, or the like.
Ulthirm
Gloves and masks too. No NSAIDs either which means they probably weren't paying attention either.
handbanana13
It’s true. I’m a grown man and I painted rocks to look like ladybugs yesterday.
RamonaQ
Picture or it never happenedd.
handbanana13
I posted them. Check it out.
Skuggen
My mom did convince me to bake "proper" bread instead of using a machine. Holy hell that was a difference.
RamonaQ
YES! An entire world of difference. Good for you!
DoesItLookLikeIGiveAFuck2756
Hmmm, kinda feel bad for how much flour I have rn. It was on sale before all this so I picked up quite a bit.
Seradhe
I had to buy a 50lb. bag of flour from a restaurant supply company for my home. Making loaves of bread daily and giving it away.
RamonaQ
You are a quality human. Stay safe.
ikindacarebutimostlydont
If you hoard you're an asshole. That's all.
Imalwaysready
Where's the line?
sorryiguess
I “panick-bought” an electronic drumset and more ping pong balls. Solid investments.
IguanasEveryday
I went to 4 stores to find tartar sauce. Last store I went to had it..but closed the next day due to employees having Covid. Ain't it great?
RamonaQ
Smurfy. Stay safe.
Xianoth
In a pinch, mayo and relish makes a decent homemade tartar sauce. Just play with the amounts to your likes.
Imalwaysready
That is some weird next-level dedication to tartar sauce right there.
atotalmoron
Seriously. I went to the store yesterday and paper isle was bare, along with ALL of the cookie dough etc from the cooler. Saw a giant bare>
kimmeymore
ass
atotalmoron
cooler section and wondered, what could be so important here to clear it all out? Cookie dough, pastry crap. Bunch of fat fks...
HighlandPotatoe
Baking is a good activity to do with kids too
m00nWatcher
Username checks out.
smoochmysnoot
AlienNippleAntennae
Most people are bonding with their families ya health nazi. Take a chill pill go jack it or something. Yesh.
QuindecimT
Or people who work too often to warrant spending time on baking cookies and just want to enjoy their time off? Dick head
atotalmoron
QQ
astraIvoid
Baking is proven to be helpful mentally. Plus people are baking their own breads to avoid infection.
Italyforpresident
Welcome to week 3 of quarantine. In week 4 you will see excessive gaming. In week 5 hard depression. I will tell you about week 6 in days.
Mrcartoon
True about gaming...all xbox one controller are out of stock in Walmart,target, and best buy. Need a new one since my kid broke my old one.
Imalwaysready
At least furious masturbation has held steady the whole time.
BenSnow97
everyone's price gouging on the Switch already, have been for a few weeks
lifeisadadjoke
I'm in supply chain, and my contacts are telling me it could still be a while before any decent sized shipments of Switchs are made.
stopstopping
on week 5 in bay area. things seem brighter actually.
Thisisallyourfault
It took me forever to get my hands on white flour, and in the interim I wound up with a 20lb bag of wheat flour from an Asian market :)
flutterbyblue
I ended up buying a huge bag on Amazon. I already bake a lot so I’ll get through it this year.
ChetTheRocketStedman
https://youtu.be/Znf73dsFdC8 make these. You won’t regret it
buttplugsareforwinners
Yo look at the price labels. Its translated and you get a shit ton.
mammothfart
bagged a 16kg sack about 2 weeks ago.
RamonaQ
I heard if you can get to an Asian market, you can find flour, etc. We haven't had bread or ap flour for... more than a month. Bonkers.
lilEinsteinandtheOverStimulatedProstates
I’ve been able to find everything I want at small, independent groceries this whole lockdown. Just the big ones are out of stock.
RamonaQ
BUT I am glad people are making bread. All the yeast is gone, too. haha
strangledbyaturtleneck
My supermarket started selling the 1lb. bags we order by the case in the pastry kitchen...
Atarukb
I get my rice from western shops, and my pasta/flour from asian shops. Shit's weird.
RamonaQ
Yeah.
Thisisallyourfault
I've been making a lot of banana bread, and I stumbled across yeast packs in my kitchen, so maybe bagels this weekend:)
mammothfart
Did you consider sourdough?
Thisisallyourfault
I have not. From what I know, growing and keeping a starter is a little more high maintenance than I want to get into right now.
gypsyg
Still can't find tp. It's been 2 months since i've seen sny in stores
RamonaQ
Hang tough. Our Walmarts just got some. Maybe yours will be next/soon.
gypsyg
I can only hope! It's a good thing I live alone!!
gypsyg
GOT SOME!
RamonaQ
YAY!!!!!!!
threeGiraffe
You might try a Dollar Tree type place. They have it again here. It’s not charmin but it’s better than a leaf.
gypsyg
Thanks. I might try those next week
gypsyg
GOT SOME!!
threeGiraffe
?
tuxedobob
No cloth at the local Walmart. LOL MAKE YOUR OWN MASKS.
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tuxedobob
I mean, it's not like they're selling food...
Bizarrogreg
Yeah, no cloth or sewing machines at either of the ones by me. Crazy times.
RamonaQ
oh wow.
Tifandi
Any cotton will do, but the wait list for elastic was like 4 years on Amazon. I bought some hair elastics and safety pins.
Pieala
You can use other stuff. Old T-shirts, shirts, bandanas (but I just wear it like an old timey bank robber).
AideenSK
German here. Everyone has been making masks like crazy in the past weeks so material for them is out everywhere. I waited 3 weeks for new
AideenSK
bias tape from my local fabric store (ordered via mail, went there for pickup). None available on Amazon or fabric online stores. Elastic
AideenSK
bands are hard to come by, too. One of the biggest mailorder/online crafting stores has 3 weeks delivery time for fabrics at the moment.
AideenSK
It's crazy! First we hoarded toilet paper and pasta, now it's mask making material. I'm no better, been making masks the whole day long.
IdiotSavantTinker
Wife has been making masks, and says the Walmart has been stripped bare of cloth, thread, etc.
Kunitsu
yup, no velcro, elastic, bias tape, sewing machines are all gone... its insane lol! ive been sewing since i was a kid and there was never
Kunitsu
a time ive seen a fabric shop, or any place that sells fabric be this empty
IdiotSavantTinker
Mom has been sewing my entire life, thankfully she has tons of scraps.
Kunitsu
my grandmother who is just too physically ill to sew anymore has given me free range of her sewing room... she has SO fucking much fabric
UrbanArmadillo
Also bicycles, can't find a decently priced one anywhere.
IdiotSavantTinker
Bicycles will be the perfect apocalypse vehicle.
Imalwaysready
Big Bike really took advantage of this one...
LongoloidFartExplosion
Mine cost £20 Brand new.
Kunitsu
yeah our local walmart sold out of bikes in the last week, they've been on a 3 day bike building binge to try and restock
7Spades
Coming from the Netherlands, if we ever have that problem the apocalypse has started and nothing can save us.
BigJewishHulk
I'm from the Netherlands too, I can confirm that. It's in all the holy scriptures.
7Spades
An lo, I saw a bikeless plain, and it's people wept tears of anguish, for their loss was great and their doom weighed heavy on their hearts
PurpleShapedBows
Panic buying is starting all over again here in Tennessee
Slimtastik
How about your country buys some commonsense.
88wut
If only that was possible
RamonaQ
Yay. :/
nero4ty2
fearing what's going to happen next week when things "open up"
PurpleShapedBows
It's crazy because the people who are protesting are the same people who are panic buying
Imalwaysready
You joke, but I'm doubling down on quarantine once things "open up" prematurely.
nero4ty2
who was joking, i buy food for a broadliner there, i'm expecting a nightmare in 2-3 weeks
ChetTheRocketStedman
Ive been baking a lot actually. Breaking out my Grandmoms old word recipes. You know. The ones with no fucking amounts or instructions. 1/
terrylovesyogurt99
My wife just did the same!!
trigonman3
My Grandma used WordPerfect for hers.
ChetTheRocketStedman
Because they came from a world where none of them could read let alone be bothered to possible write it down as well. This type of shit
Appel99
Wow, at least I write out the measurements. Still on your own otherwise
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
Do your part for future generations: figure out and write down the amounts.
Imalwaysready
"It just says 'Go to the store and buy bread because it's 2020 or later and you don't have to do it yourself' on all these cards..."
ChetTheRocketStedman
Part of me thinks they never wrote this shit down because they were thinking “I’m taking these meatballs to the grave motherfuckers!!!”
RayLiottaLaughsAtIdiots
Accurate. My wife has been trying to buy flour for a week so she can make me brownies with no luck. DAMN THIS VIRUS!
Ferrumkit
Almond flour might work for brownies. I've only used it in short bread so dunno about any leavened breads though.
Imalwaysready
Try a bakery. Many are selling flour and yeast.
Aquilarden
I found a 12 pound bag and snatched that shit.
Chirishman
Try a miller like https://centralmilling.com/product/high-protein-bread-flour-organic-high-mountain/ you will pay non-trivial shipping tho
ROBOTvsMAN
Couldn't find baking powder yesterday.
buttplugsareforwinners
Pssst....small gas stations and also convenience stores have them. I went to 3 grocery stores a d found one at the mini mart around the corn
milkymilkmilky
Try checking at some smaller mills. I found some flour and yeast from those.
melandevile2000
Boxed brownie mixes are gone from the shelf here.. tp, flour, eggs, and boxed brownies. Hella bread though- no flour or yeast.
baccci
A week? I've been trying for a month (London, UK)
Markamanic
Special brownies?
ptownboricua19
Some bakeries are selling some for pick up if you buy baked goods. Some shops near me offer deals, check Instagram of you local shops
Ehehebottom
I was finally able to order flour from Target this week! Also try Aldi.
LucianKane
Been tough to find bread flour. So I added 2 tbsp of whey protein powder to all purpose. Best damn decision.
LucianKane
And I dont know SHIT about baking, but I do know chemistry.
rubber1duckie
Just buy brownies
EchoGecko
I got lucky, Back in Dec there was a sale on flour so I got 6 of them. Ended up given 2 to my neighbor since they couldn't get any 1/
EchoGecko
I got a batch of chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies in return,
MadamPuddifoot
There's always gluten free flour.
RayLiottaLaughsAtIdiots
kilo34
This sounds weird, but check 7-Eleven.
dogdays2025
I'm so sorry
datfandomdoe
Try a Latin market :)
Christx30
I found a 25 lb bag of flour for $5.47.
s98s7fd98sdf98
I just bought a 25lb bag on amazon. It was only $15 more than the 5lb bags, because of the price gouging.
RamonaQ
Also, not the same, but you can buy mixes online.
cloudninetynine
I just don’t think she feels like making brownies. Most of the stores still have brownie mixes. Heck, the person can make them 1/2
cloudninetynine
2/2 themselves. My 10 year old made me a batch of brownies. All I did was pour and bake. Wife might like the surprise brownies too.
RayLiottaLaughsAtIdiots
Nah, she makes em from scratch. Don't get me wrong, I wont kick a mix brownie outta bed, but her homemade brownies will blow your dick off.
RayLiottaLaughsAtIdiots
Good news to share, I found flour not 2 hours after i posted this. Thanks for the alternatives though!
Nandabun
Ahh, the super power activated
bananaspitz
Got a 25lb bag at Costco. Know anyone with a membership?
RamonaQ
Yes. My partner has a Sam's membership w/ work that we get in on, so if we get desperate, we can do that.
AndThenThereWereSquirrels
At least with cakes, most bakers will tell you just to get box mix. Brownies may be different but I'd be surprised
johnconroy16
I've been trying to find yeast for 2 weeks. One of the grocery staff told me to look in the bakery. The baker didn't know what yeast was! =(
MadeYouLookAgain
That bakers name- Albert Einstein
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johnconroy16
Wow you really went into my history to post on other comments? That's pathetic dude.
Rizley25
Several distilleries/actual bakeries have been selling yeast and distributing instructions on how to stretch it, that way if you can get a1/
Rizley25
Packet of yeist you can make it last. 2
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RamonaQ
Tell her to check flourless brownie recipes. Some of them aren't bad.
OvertleyBadpickuplines
I actually refer them, if done correctly.
strangledbyaturtleneck
As an out of work baker, yes! If you guys like fudgy brownies, flourless is the way to go
ifitseasytakeittwice
You have a have recipe, mon amie?
strangledbyaturtleneck
I don't have the one from work, but lemme see what I can find!
strangledbyaturtleneck
https://www.barbarabakes.com/king-arthur-flour-fudge-brownies/
ThatTwerkingWhoreFromOliveGarden
This has flour
RamonaQ
"Out of work Baker" are words that ought never be spoken.
Titty5prinkles
Fak ive been out of work for a month and baked every day
strangledbyaturtleneck
Wait, you've been baked or you have baked every day? There's a difference
strangledbyaturtleneck
I miss work so much, we're non essential apparently. Although frankly brownies and cookies are very essential in my eyes
RamonaQ
Mine too!
Annemoon
In that case.. time for Imgur baking posts teaching us cool baking tricks? :D
ThisSubCouldUseMoreBees
Our store is stocked with almost everything except salt. Like....wtf why hoard salt. I need it for my brining.
ashleeCat
MattEstrada
It’s because everyone bought everything so quick it overwhelmed the stores and warehouses so they have limits on how much a stores can order
godisdeadandnoonecares
So does everyone else
ThisSubCouldUseMoreBees
Valentijn101
ThisSubCouldUseMoreBees
DoomNet
If Jericho taught me anything it’s that salt is life and he who controls the salt comes out the other side of an apocalypse just fine.
Intentionallysapphic
Salt is plentiful AF too. Just go to literally any internet comment section.
Delta2Almanac
grundig79
I need it to keep the demons away!
ticktockbent
Everyone is panic brining
godisdeadandnoonecares
Underrated comment
beastlysunismyname
slug infestation?
IDoPictureStuff
Great thanks alot. Now everyone's gonna brine
hiyesthisissatan
I cannot get get yeast, baking soda, and and baking powder. I just bought a new house and I don't have those things yet. :(
s8whiskey
Dude right? I noticed all salt, I just needed finishing salt and people bought that shit. Right. Everyone needed flake salt too
needanamedammit
When money becomes useless, things like salt are worth their weight in gold.
AlexjoneswatchingTporn
The store just ran out salt is one thing we wont run short on anytime soon we have a mountain made of it
djordanmarshall
How else do you salt the land of your enemies in apocalyptic post Covid world?
StephenDaniels
They shifted all the salt trucks over to toilet paper.
FineNevermind
Well, you got to preserve the excess toilet paper somehow.
HighlandPotatoe
I keep a few kilos in for cleaning and disinfecting my fish tank equipment.
SnarkShark2020
Protection from Demons!
northhawk
i have not seen yeast in my store shelf in the past three weekends
woodjoiner
Lots more people brining and making pickles just like you.
limonchiki
Here, its beans. I always loved beans, I eat them often. Never ever were they sold out. Suddenly: empty shelves. Who are these bean-stealing
limonchiki
people who never eat them, except now? Hypocrites!
Oteneo
try finding baby wipes for, you know, an actual baby
slothmasterfred
What are you brining
AssapoopshitsMassachusetts
Homemade cheese requires salt.
MattEstrada
Most stores 1200 cases a night and half doesn’t come cause the warehouse is out and your doing 3 times sales
Shismouche
To purify the deads.
drewcrosby
PinkyToeSlayerOfTableLegs
Can you ship some edamame to me please? It's my favorite snack and EVERY store is out of them. I will actually pay you, please.
Imalwaysready
Gotta protect the doorways and windows to keep out the spirits of the recently Covid-deceased who don't know that they're dead yet.
ImguriansFillMySaltReservoir
I've been hoarding it for years.
simtanic8
I need it for my margarita!
pauldegraaf
Winter is coming
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
In about 8 months...
umbrellamaker
In Australia
ElSuperbeasto
How much you need
MillennialBoi
Gargling with warm salt water actually does provide symptomatic relief.
ElevenAndCounting
I haven't bought salt since early 2019, I have half a box left. What is going on with these people that they need all the salt??
SlappedStupid
Salt goes with everything & makes just about anything taste good. It can be used to preserve food & for first aid. Whether this is the ->
SlappedStupid
apocalypse or not, this is a $4 investment that I'm unlikely to regret. Apparently, lots of people agree.
ElevenAndCounting
I mean, I over use salt on everything. But even still, I'm on the same box for about a year now... theres no reason for people to be hoardin
SlappedStupid
If you have a legitimate reason, by definition it's not hoarding, & by the time you have a reason it's too late to prepare. If everybody ->
SmokyDoggg
Go to one of those quarantine protests. They always have a ton of salt, plenty to go around
cropduster5000
Somebody sounds salty. It was you!!!
actorsnonactors
gotta do something with all that meat everyone over-bought and now can't store.
imno0or1
I rly don't think ppl are overbuying food it's just an insane amount of Americans live off of eating out which isn't possible right now
Vault101survivor
To keep the demons out.
IUpvoteLOTRMemes
Salt is super useful, and if anything happened and you didn't have seasoning, you would be surprised how much you miss it. I read a story...
IUpvoteLOTRMemes
... of a russian family that was in the wilderness for years and they said they missed salt the most. Imagine everything you eat is bland
Imalwaysready
I thought you were going to go or Alas, Babylon, which has a distinct salt-procurement sub-plot section.
knownidiot
Alas , Babylon is a fantastic book and definitely influenced my shopping decisions.
Imalwaysready
Highly recommend the audiobook, too. Read by Will Patton. One of my favorite audio versions of a book.
OrangeFlavours
They're not HOARDING salt, they just bought salt and the store ran out. Stores can run out of stuff, dude, it'll be back later.
kmikl
Thing is, if you're panic buying, that's going to empty the stores out a lot faster than normal.
Ulthirm
You'll find that right after the quarantine there'll be a surge of stores running out of those basic things used the most as the people who
Ulthirm
Didn't hoard begin to purchase the things they ran out of and couldn't easily acquire again. Salt is one of those things. It'll be just the
Ulthirm
First week or so.
noneofthisismine
thing is, if the restaurants all close, then you're going to have to start making food at home.
Intentionallysapphic
Thankfully I have easy access to alcohol. Trying to keep it secret from my neighbors tho
Yurets1257
Yeah, I've been buying 10 times more products than I usually do. Just because university cafeteria got closed, so no breakfast/lunch/dinner
Seth2262
Thing is, if my pants fall down, you’re gonna be laughing
CommentsWithGandalf
Pants on the ground pants on the ground looking like a fool with your pants on the ground
bananhammock
Thing is, if you wear a belt you can make a lot of people less happy
ImGoingToEatAllYourApples
Aye. But supermarket should have more stock to buy because the resteraunts aren't!
kmikl
That would be terrible, I know.
kmikl
The sarcasm didn't land... okay, Poe's law violation.
OrangeFlavours
No, his point is everybody has to actually buy stuff they were lacking instead of only eating out, so they are buying more stuff.