Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
I have been buying my spices from these guys for as long as I can remember for sausage making, etc. Great quality fair prices, huge variety and selection of hard to come by ingredients.
This morning I am placing all my orders for the winter work ahead and stocking up where I think we may have need just in case.
He said that they have holes in their inventory all over the board. Don’t know when they are getting more, don’t know if they are getting more. He used the term supply chain issues.
I know the guy I order from and at the beginning of the call he said- don’t blame me.
Anecdotal, I know.
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Let them eat spicecake. ~ Marie Anecdotal
Clever
Yeahhhh, but one less link in the syllable chain woulda’ been better. Or two more. Anecdotoinette ☺
I suspect that Marie was more of a sausage fan.
You could covert to Irish. We don’t believe in spices. We just “offer it up”.
The Irish don’t even put gravy on potatoes.
”Missus O’Leary, I do believe your cow kicked over a lantern.”
“Cow, Officer Flannerty, we uns can’t even afford a cat, and they make dang fine gravy with a pinch of flour if one might have some of that.”
There’s a lot of Irish in us Southerners and we eat gravy; what do the folks in Ireland use, whisky?
Yes, seeing this all over in north Georgia. Holes in stock across most stores shelves. Interestingly, a major upscale lots of organic grocery store, Sprouts, seemed to be very well stocked on everything a couple weeks ago, compared to other stores having missing items. Maybe they are letting those willing to pay more for “better” still get their goodies? Or maybe Sprouts some how does better ordering and planning? Not sure. On the other side, Costco used to have a very well stocked spice isle, they still allocate the same room to the spices but now it is a lot of the same things, probably 15% as much variety as they had 10 years ago. I noticed this big time due to being in New Zealand for 10 years and coming back to the US this year.
Many of us truly have no clue what it’s REALLY like to go without. Even though I grew up on a small family farm way downeast in Maine, and I thought I knew what it was like. If you really think hard about it, we don’t. Hell, even “poor” people in the US have 3 squares a day, roof over their head, 2 or more cars, cell phones, etc. (Not talking about the mentally disturbed. They primarily make up the homeless and indigent in the US.)
I’m 76 and when I was a very poor rural Southern White boy, there was real hunger and poverty among my ethnic group, and Blacks; but that changed for the Blacks around mid-1960s. It was trickle-down from the Vietnam War and Great Society (waste) that helped poor Whites.
It depends on whether he was one of Biden’s 50 million actual voters, if so then he deserves some of the blame. If not, then no.
I’m seeing empty shelves in my local grocery store here in the Midwest now. I wonder what it will be like come February.
I’m in the Midwest somewhere, so far no empty shelves here.
Best meat rubs I’ve found are from these guys https://beardedbutchers.com/
Best meat rubs I ever had were from an ex-girlfriend. Too bad she’s my ex
I’m no scholar, but didn’t the entire mercantile system- the very foundation of modern capitalism- begin with the spice trade? I remember my father telling me that a man could make his entire fortune with a sack of peppercorns back in the days of the Medici. Most spices we use simply cannot be produced in the US and while we could certainly survive without spices, it is a canary in a coal mine in terms of what’s getting through versus what’s not.
I bought every last ounce of their fleur de sel in stock, here’s hoping it will make my fortune.
if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
Jan Pieterszoon Coen
My wife, Javanese, informs me that ‘JePeCoen’ is a derisive slang term for ‘one who is drunk with power, a petty tyrant’. She refers to Eddie Van Halen as the ‘JePeCoen’ of the group.
“Since the 19th century, his legacy has become controversial due to the violence he employed, especially during the last stage of the Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands, in order to secure a trade monopoly on nutmeg, mace and clove.”
Figured that’d be in there. Merc•antile, indeed (& as usual…like the stuff Smedley Butler related). But :
Dutchboy paintin’ ruleless music with his Frankenstrat is heroic artist. Dutchboy paintin’ “business” with murder-blood is villainous glutton. Two different brushes, not one too broad a’ one, eh? Rare magic dyke story vs well done ruinously overcooked dick story. Plus, honest-poetic-karmic cholera got the gangster, but gangster cancer got the rocker.
Go anywhere east of the UK, and you find an ever-increasing pallet of spices used in foods. As they explored, great food enticed others to bring back spices to make their boring food taste better. The global trade certainly began with spices…..until there were guns to trade. Best of luck with your production.
Don’t spices have an expiration date?
Herbs and spices can be frozen to extend their shelf life. The spices and herbs that are used frequently I store in Mason jars away from light and heat.
Try this. I get my Kosher and Pink salts from these guys, in the 15lb bags.
https://sfsalt.com/search?q=fleur+de+sel&type=product%2Cpage
I’ve bookmarked that site. Thanks for the tip on it, HSF!
Bought some shorts, end of summer sale. Went to the only local place (guess who) that sells the hangers w/ the two sliding clips. Last Saturday.
Nada.
To an associate, “Do you know when you’ll have some?” “No idea, think we haven’t received any in over a week, maybe longer. Try shopping us online.”
It’s all a giant house of cards, and the government fuckers have been knocking out cards since February of last year.
Just had read this on zero hedge, kind of interesting about what it all means. Maybe war with Taiwan and possibly US.
Or just strangling the US a bit more.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/la-nina-sparks-cold-wave-across-china-ccp-tells-households-stockpile-food
Had gone to the Farm Supply store in my neck of the woods to get some Sevin for killing fire ants (it works pretty good and is fairly safe) and there was none. What they had was a Breyer product, and when examining the bag noticed it was made in China. Had never seen an agricultural product made in China before, much less anything from Breyer. Also all the rolls of plastic were gone. A whole lot of crops are grown on or under plastic.
Fertilizer is through the roof, about $7 a bag higher than three months ago, big farmers will not be planting as much.
It is not just spices, it is all food across the board. I have been studying this for months, and everything I have found points to a worldwide food shortage the likes of which no one alive today has ever seen. Crops are being destroyed. Fertilizer is disappearing, and agriculture transportation is being disrupted.
I figure we have maybe a month or two before the people start to realize what is going on and start panic buying at which point this thing is going seriously sideways.
It looks like Covid was only the first front of the war, the second is food, and the third is energy, which it looks like will hit simultaneously.
Time to get serious about this shit. If you think things got weird in the past two years, it is going to get insane in the next 2.
I believe you. I recently drove across the US. I stopped in a lot of gas stations and I asked every cashier about shortages. EVERYONE had issues and they all had different stuff missing. Customers chimed in, too. The shortages story is real, even though some folks might not be seeing it where they are. Spouse went out and even they noticed the empty shelves (they’re not as observant as I am). Most recent issues I’ve seen- TP has been in and out. Water bottles in short supply. Paper products and cleaning products. Pasta sauce+pasta and ramen. Started to notice items online with long shipping times. I noticed in July and August big box stores have been selling appliances with delivery dates in the New Year.
HS, everything at some point is anecdotal, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
I only use that as an insurance against the charge. In the past every time I’d post an observation a specific subset would make sure to point it out, this way we can just get on with the story.
Anyone who still clings to the belief that there is anything approaching normal on the horizon is just not in the game.
AsI told Bea earlier today, i drove into Southern Illinois to rescue a 20 lb Flemish Giant.
Extreme times, almost tribulation quality.
Anyone who hasn’t noticed shortages isn’t paying attention.
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Most of the inventory in my store is stuff I back ordered 6 to 12 months ago. The new rule of business is to keep massive back orders, never cancel them, when goods arrive place more back orders immediately and scrounge for what’s available that you may not have on back order constantly.
It’s also critical components for infrastructure buildout. My employer is on a massive spending spree to upgrade the backbone network. Along with new networking gear, they need to upgrade 30 year old HVAC systems and power supplies that were over built in the 1970’s but are now woefully inadequate.
In all of the places I am responsible for, at least one item is unavailable at any price. If any one item of the 3 cannot be procured the upgrade is put on hold. Badfinger’s infrastructure spending won’t help and will probably make that worse.
Compounding the problem even more, the vendors that install the hardware must take clot shot by 12/31, no exemptions. Entire crews of union and non-union tradesmen are telling me they will not comply. In the meantime I keep the legacy network going with bandaids and experience. Badfinger has decreed I’m done 1/4 unless something changes or I am exempted.
Don’t take the Shot or you will probably ruin your health and have no medical coverage for it. Better to be unemployed than dying or dead. TPTB know the sick and dead can’t Revolt.
My farm supply can’t get 32-0-0 fertilizer because there ia a global shortage of nitrogen fertilizers (made from petroleum) for the next year and perhaps forever! If that was to continue Mr CO2-Fart-Brain-Dead Senile illegal Commie POTUS, that will put a dent in farming and ranching (can you say food, Mr & Mrs Consumer) in America you can bet your sweet hungry ass!!! Shut down some more petroleum pipelines critical for fuel, fertilizer and heat lately mr Joe dumbass (D)? What about making some cheap nitrogen fertilizer from wind and solar power? You saved the Delta Smelt (?) and golf courses by draining Lake Meade but 40 million Westerners can’t drink solar/ wind generated electricity! Did y’all discuss such realities as that and the Eddy Minimum (Global Cooling not the UN moronic fraud of “global warming”) at your Irish Econ meeting last week? FJB