It’s the amount that made it news. That’s a lot of chicken wings.
Mechanics, carpenters, and plumbers often use pickup trucks with the sides of the bed replaced by toolboxes. The toolbox rig has been a standard option for many decades. But, when selling it to fire departments or EMT services, you call it a “Rescue Vehicle”.
Kind of like calling something a “marine-grade outlet” or a “hospital grade outlet” bumps the price by a significant amount.
Want to sell a gadget for inflated prices? Just label it as “Military.”
I don’t know, chicken wings have gotten pricey. They’ve been fluctuating like crazy ever since COVID, and now avian influenza.
True. By happenstance I looked at the price of raw plain wings in the groc store a day or two ago and I don’t remember exactly what it was, but it was near $4.00/lb.
But even at $4.00/lb $1.5million buys ~400K lbs or ~200 tons of chicken wings. Like I said earlier, I have to believe this was the total amount of a lot of such orders over a long time.
The only way it could have been a single purchase is if the perp got confused about the unit of measure. But even then they’d have to be way, way off. Ordering 200 lbs to sell out the back door is sensible enough. Goofing by a factor of 2000 and ordering 200 tons is quite the math blunder.
Although I recall a supply SNAFU that happened to one of my USAF squadrons.
They used D-cell batteries at a decent clip. We usually got them through the DOD supply system in shoe-box-sized boxes of IIRC 100 which came like 6 to a case. Anyhow somebody wasn’t watching carefully and picked the wrong line out of the catalog for one order. They’d ordered what amounted to 5 shipping containers of batteries, not 5 cases of batteries.
The order kicked out before it was fulfilled because it blew well past that department’s annual budget. Thank goodness. We’d / they’d still be trying to use up 5 shipping containers of batteries now, 30+ years later.
Adidas is trying to figure out what to do with their “Yeezy” line.
Searched and didn’t find this. Take a pressure cooker and give it a fancier name and sell millions. They called it the Insta-Pot. I bought the same thing years before the Insta-pot, it was just called a counter top pressure cooker.
That’s about what they typically are here, but if you know where to shop, I picked them up for $1.69/lb yesterday (for normal sized wings) for the Super Bowl, and a few weeks ago, the same place had jumbo wings at $1.19/lb.
Perhaps you are a supertaster?
I did a search, but couldn’t find a classic example. Mars Candy had something called “Forever Yours,” with dark chocolate, caramel, and white nougat. They took it off the market and renamed it “Milky Way Midnight,” which is still available.
I actually think I’m a super-smeller. I don’t think I’m unusually sensitive to bitter, which seems to be the hallmark of super tasters. But i do taste lots of flavors (which are kinda smells) much more intensely than most people. My sense of taste has declined with age, and i can now tolerate small amounts of mustard, for instance, but i still find peppers, raw onion, and many other popular flavors overwhelming and unpleasant.
Yeah, I also have a lot of the issues that supertasters have. Bitter is a biggie, especially in things like salad greens.
There are a lot of nasty bitter salad greens.
OK, that should have read “mild stimulant.”
And an air fryer is just a small convection oven.
Well, technically InstantPot (it’s spelled with a ‘t’) is a brand name. There are plenty of other pressure cookers out there that are not called InstantPots. But I agree that those other pressure cookers* wouldn’t be selling as well as they are if it’s weren’t for the demand created by the InstantPot.
*Actually, “multi-cooker” seems to be the generic term for them, as they do more than just pressure cook. There’s also a saute mode and a slow cook mode (so it can replace your Crock Pot as well).