The day has only begun, yet I'm nominating this for the stupidest post of the day, perhaps the week. I'm in the food distribution business. What exactly is bumbles seeing that isn't close to flawless? Acreages of well-stocked grocery stores. Myriad restaurants offering a wide variety of choice. Safe, high quality products and reasonable prices. What, the free stuff bumbles is complaining about? Soup kitchens have to operate at the high, strict standards of the finest restaurants. Food stamps spend at those acreages of grocery stores. There's not a f***ing thing wrong with our food distribution system, and bumbles has insulted me deeply.
Karin is exactly on target. It's amazing how every store keeps every one of thousands of items in stock, many of them 24 hours per day.
I have only one complaint. I would gladly pay $20 per dozen for fresh Midwest sweet corn. Maybe more. But in-season edible fresh produce is for some reason unavailable in middle Tennessee. There are no farms, due to a lack of soil, but there are trucks. There are enough transplanted people here, who know what fresh produce is, and mourn its unavailability, you could charge almost any price. The local produce, even at "farmers' markets", would hardly be used to fatten livestock in other regions of the country. Most of it seems to have been on trucks for at least a week, although fertile produce farms are within six hours driving time.
For the past ten years or so, gardens have been impossible, devoured instantly by deer. Otherwise I would grow my own, as I did before the deer plague.
There is a lot of money here to be made by anyone who can figure out how to supply the demand. I can buy Nova Scotia lobsters, but Iowa Chief is impossible?
Does this same condition exist in other barren areas, like the desert Southwest?
