My dear departed SIL was ovo-lacto and at Thanksgiving would get a Tofurkey at Trader Joes for herself (and me because I’m not that fond of turkey). One year she was a little slow in getting it and was grumbling about how many TJs she’d gone to before finding one.
I chided her saying, “That’s because you live in the heart of Yuppieland. You should have called me – I’m out where the geezer Midwesterners live and I’d bet our store still has 'em up to here,” indicating chest high.
Curiously, there has been no chicken in the meat section around me for like 2 weeks now, though I’ve been able to get beef pretty easily (the more expensive Prime quality stuff, that is; the “Choice” grade beef is cleared out - market forces at work I guess).
The difference in shape is the whole point of there being different pastas. Each pasta shape “mixes” with sauce differently, and tastes, or has a mouth feel, very different from each other. As for penne, those thick tubes of pasta taste like eating almost nothing but pasta, no matter how good a sauce you have. I’m not surprised penne is left in the shelves.
What store has Prime sitting in the case?
A grocery run on Sunday was uneventful though there were so few cars in the lot at 6pm, I thought they’d closed early. There was a basket of complimentary gloves by the entrance. I put a pair on there and discarded them at checkout before digging around in my pocket. I couldn’t find onion rolls though the breads seemed well stocked overall. I noticed a few bare patches, particularly ramen and other instant noodle soups, and things like Ricearoni.
I went for refried beans and found a empty hole where my favorite La Preferida plain (they call it Authentic) cans would be but surrounded by plenty of fat free, chorizo, green chile, black bean, etc types available. I got some chipotle flavor and …don’t really care for it, too smoky.
Are they simply lower in salt and lower in sugar though, or are are they seasoned/sweetened with other things? To me, potassium-based “Lo” salt tastes abysmal, as does every single alternative sweetener I’ve tried. Some don’t notice or don’t care, but as far as I’m concerned they’re uniformly utterly wretched.
If that’s what’s in the low sodium/reduced sugar products, you’ll find me joining in with the toilet paper hoarders - just so I have something to fill my belly.
My WAG is a lot of it is people who don’t normally cook are buying for recipes, and being afraid to deviate. I’m guessing people who always cooked at home have good supplies for the most part, and the hoarding/shortfalls are coming majoritywise from people realizing they have to do for them selves now and are starting from scratch, and getting .exact food to fit published recipes they found.
I don’t understand potassium-based table salt. Too much potassium is far more dangerous than too much sodium.
Low-sugar fruits are usually fruits that are packed in juice, or light syrup.
I think a lot of it is because of parents who are stocking up for kids that are fussy eaters. When a picky kid wants spaghetti, they want it to look exactly like they think spaghetti is supposed to look and don’t give two shits whether some other pasta is going to be more or less exactly the same, they want regular spaghetti! I know kids that are up for eating all kinds of new foods but I have also known kids that had to have exactly the foods they like, prepared exactly the way they think it should be, no exceptions. I have known several extremely fussy adults too so I know it’s not just a kids thing.
About the third day of not eating and I suspect the strangely shaped pasta will be perfectly fine with them. Hunger makes the best sauce.
What I was going to post before you beat me to it!
Here in the UK that’s just “in fruit juice” rather than being badged as “reduced sugar” and - although its extremely rare for me to buy tinned fruit - I only ever get it in juice so, all in all, that doesn’t feel like an alternative version of anything to me! I was thinking of prepared foods really: stuff with a historically sugar-rich recipe that’s been reworked.
In my grocery store i found the exact opposite, we just happened to get a whole pallet of canned pinto beans in the day before everything started happening. Usually this would take us 3 months or so to sell. We sold it in just over a day.