The "French Toast Storm System Warning"

[xiphias]

Yeah. Here in Boston, before the first significant snowstorm of the year, people tend to panic and stock up on eggs, milk, and bread. This is called the French Toast Warning System.

And I really wish I could go ahead and laugh at that right now. 'Cause the grocery store was WAY more crowded than it normally is on a Friday at 10:30.

But I can't.

Because I was there at the grocery store. Buying milk. And other stuff.

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Heh. In Charlotte, people added toilet paper, to cope with the natural aftereffects of eating too much French toast.

[ckd]

It's all sympathetic magic: "buy white stuff before the white stuff hits". I'm surprised there isn't a run on rice.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

. . . I bought Puffed Rice cereal . . .

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

And white rum.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Already got it.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, we buy toilet paper at Costco, so we still have about forty rolls . . . .

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

I agree with the poster who said that it was sympathetic magicks. But I would say that it is actually antipathetic magicks, where the idea is that if you are prepared for the disaster, then the disaster will be much milder than predicted. I think that is a very newenglander sentiment....

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Ha, beowabbit and I had french toast for breakfast this morning! It just felt...right. :-)

[goljerp]

In NYC this morning (around 9am), the supermarket I went to wasn't too crowded. And I left without buying anything. Ha! I bought my bread, milk, and other stuff yesterday night.

But, darn, I forgot to buy eggs. We're almost out. And I did buy a lot of toilet paper today before I went home. (I'm working from home today -- on my lunch break now. The snow has started here...)

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

I went and did my shopping on Thursday so I wouldn't have to deal with the mobs at the store.... even then it was bit busier than normal.

[paradoox.livejournal.com]

The Watertown Square Stop and Shop parking lot was totally full about 10 AM when I got there and 11:30 AM when I left. I did manage to get everything on my list other than the Cat Litter because S&S no longer carries the correct brand. But, somehow I think I might have been better going last night.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Market Basket was already bad *yesterday* at 10:30am. But I normally get to the supermarket on Wednesday or Thursdays, and knew it would only be worse today. The fact that a storm is coming does not mean that we stop needing the food we would have otherwise needed...

[deerdancer22.livejournal.com]

I almost feel as if I live in the southern hemisphere we are so opposite here in Florida. We go through the French toast thing in summer when the hurricanes are possible. Actually I don't think it is a French toast thing as there is too much danger of losing electricity. We do lots of water, canned food, candles, flashlights, toilet paper of course, plywood for windows if you don't have it yet. Kinda makes the french toast thing seem more minor.

That said, here in my town on Venice, people are very complacent. Hurricanes always move around us never here. When Port Charlotte was devastated just south of here the hurricane curved before it got to Venice. Apparently this is sacred Indian ground that is mega blessed. I was the only one in my neighborhood to put up plywood when we were threatened last year.

[fibro-witch.livejournal.com]

So how did you enjoy your french toast? Me I went out and got potato chips. It's a family tradition to sit and watch the snow while eating potato chips. I don't know why, but it's a tradition.

I think it started with my great great grandmother slicing potatoes and frying them into crisps.

I wanted to stop at the paky but that lot was FULL. Plenty of room at the grocery store.

French Toast Warning System

[cogitationitis.livejournal.com]

My husband jokes that everyone is making bread pudding.

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

Possibly as the result of having grown up in a climate where disasters tend to occur during warm weather, it would never occur to me to buy eggs or milk just before a major storm. They'd be too likely to spoil if the power went off. Bread, maybe. Instead, I fill in any gaps in my canned food supply, buy a couple days worth of veggies and meats, and make sure I've got a couple cases of canned sparkling water on hand. Since I usually have a supply of toilet paper and paper towels on hand (in addition to the 2-months disaster supply), that's not an issue. The sterno and tea candles also already in my disaster supplies make buying those unnecessary. Thanks to my town's frequent power outtages in all seasons I have multiple hand-crank flashlights and battery-operated emergency lights scattered around the house. I did have to build up my de-icer supply.

The thing I lack is an ambient heat source. What I really need is a good solar-powered generator. Do they even make such things?