Thread: Canned Pumpkin Shortage

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:09 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote:

> Has anybody NOT been able to get the supply of pumpkin that they wanted?
> There have been no shortages in my area. Shelves are full of whatever kind
> of tinned pumpkin that is usually available.

It's called a publicity stunt.

Expect more of them every year after year after year.

-sw

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:09 -0800, "Dave Bugg" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Has anybody NOT been able to get the supply of pumpkin that they wanted?
>There have been no shortages in my area. Shelves are full of whatever kind
>of tinned pumpkin that is usually available.

Publix didn't have any large cans, just small ones and not nearly as
many on display as they usually have... but across the street at
Albertsons they had plenty.
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On Nov 19, 8:10*pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:09 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote:
> > Has anybody NOT been able to get the supply of pumpkin that they wanted?
> > There have been no shortages in my area. Shelves are full of whatever kind
> > of tinned pumpkin that is usually available.
>
> It's called a publicity stunt. *
>
> Expect more of them every year after year after year.

Yes and expect more threads day after day after day, as each new
retard *discovers* this "shortage"......I think the shortage is on
brain-cells.

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:31:43 -0800 (PST),
[email protected] wrote:

>On Nov 19, 8:10*pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:09 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote:
>> > Has anybody NOT been able to get the supply of pumpkin that they wanted?
>> > There have been no shortages in my area. Shelves are full of whatever kind
>> > of tinned pumpkin that is usually available.
>>
>> It's called a publicity stunt. *
>>
>> Expect more of them every year after year after year.
>
>Yes and expect more threads day after day after day, as each new
>retard *discovers* this "shortage"......I think the shortage is on
>brain-cells.

The threads will continue for at least another year. The pumpkin in
the stores now is from last year which was very wet also, but his year
was worse in Illinois so I imagine next year will be worse. Libby's
and other packers may be exploiting the situation to raise prices but
there "is" a shortage due to mother nature. Big business playing
games to control prices is nothing new. You may remember a post I
made about dairy cattle being slaughtered so supply would go down and
milk prices could go back up.

Here's a middle of the night twist from an insomniac: I was driving
through central and north-central Illinois a week ago and drove past
miles of fields filled with rotting pumpkins. All within 90 minutes
of Chicago. So we've got over 10% unemployment and who knows how many
on food stamps or other government assistance. Yet there's food
rotting because a machine can't get to it? A human and a pair of
boots could harvest it. Something is really wrong with this picture.

On our return trip back to Chicago I saw at least 20 farmers working
the corn fields on tractors with lights at 10:00pm Sunday night. At
one point I had 4 of them in my sight. All different farms. These
men and women are working through the night trying to make a living
and keep their farms while some fat-ass lazy bitch is stuffing her
face with potato chips purchased with food stamps while watching
desperate housewives.

I wrote the above at 3:00 this morning and after going back to bed I
decided against the paragraph that was where this one is. Some stuff
is really screwed up with how things work in the US.

Lou

I was surprised to find no canned pumpkin at Aldi's when I shopped for
Christmas dinner last year. I couldn't find a place on the shelf for
it, so I assumed that they didn't carry it at all. I bought sweet
potatoes and made sweet potato pie instead.

Tara

Lou Decruss wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:31:43 -0800 (PST),
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>> On Nov 19, 8:10 pm, Sqwertz <swe...@cluemail.compost> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:02:09 -0800, Dave Bugg wrote:
>>>> Has anybody NOT been able to get the supply of pumpkin that they
>>>> wanted? There have been no shortages in my area. Shelves are full
>>>> of whatever kind of tinned pumpkin that is usually available.
>>>
>>> It's called a publicity stunt.
>>>
>>> Expect more of them every year after year after year.
>>
>> Yes and expect more threads day after day after day, as each new
>> retard *discovers* this "shortage"......I think the shortage is on
>> brain-cells.
>
> The threads will continue for at least another year. The pumpkin in
> the stores now is from last year which was very wet also, but his year
> was worse in Illinois so I imagine next year will be worse. Libby's
> and other packers may be exploiting the situation to raise prices but
> there "is" a shortage due to mother nature. Big business playing
> games to control prices is nothing new. You may remember a post I
> made about dairy cattle being slaughtered so supply would go down and
> milk prices could go back up.
>
> Here's a middle of the night twist from an insomniac: I was driving
> through central and north-central Illinois a week ago and drove past
> miles of fields filled with rotting pumpkins. All within 90 minutes
> of Chicago. So we've got over 10% unemployment and who knows how many
> on food stamps or other government assistance. Yet there's food
> rotting because a machine can't get to it? A human and a pair of
> boots could harvest it. Something is really wrong with this picture.
>
> On our return trip back to Chicago I saw at least 20 farmers working
> the corn fields on tractors with lights at 10:00pm Sunday night. At
> one point I had 4 of them in my sight. All different farms. These
> men and women are working through the night trying to make a living
> and keep their farms while some fat-ass lazy bitch is stuffing her
> face with potato chips purchased with food stamps while watching
> desperate housewives.


Hey now, don't be a - dissin' the cybertwot that way...!!!

;-)


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Greg

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:14:42 -0600, "Gregory Morrow"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Lou Decruss wrote:

>> On our return trip back to Chicago I saw at least 20 farmers working
>> the corn fields on tractors with lights at 10:00pm Sunday night. At
>> one point I had 4 of them in my sight. All different farms. These
>> men and women are working through the night trying to make a living
>> and keep their farms while some fat-ass lazy bitch is stuffing her
>> face with potato chips purchased with food stamps while watching
>> desperate housewives.
>
>
>Hey now, don't be a - dissin' the cybertwot that way...!!!

Hopefully she's the only one with their hands in the chip bag. She
doesn't wash her hands after she goes poo.

Lou

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:38:57 -0500, Tara <[email protected]>
wrote:

>I was surprised to find no canned pumpkin at Aldi's when I shopped for
>Christmas dinner last year. I couldn't find a place on the shelf for
>it, so I assumed that they didn't carry it at all. I bought sweet
>potatoes and made sweet potato pie instead.
>
>Tara

Aldi's isn't a real grocery store. There's a few things we get there
but they don't come close to filling all our needs.

Lou