13:48 When a branch loaded with pears broke from a tree in my garden, I took the whole thing to the school I worked in for the children to 'pick' their own fruit. One lad was horrified that this was unhygienic because bugs might have crawled on them; he actually thought plastic-bagged fruit was safer than my fresh, ripe, pesticide-free beauties!
There's an entire industry that made sure people preferred bagged food instead of natural ones that grow in gardens around the house. I believe that all of those extra hyper super precautions they tell you to take when canning food are designed to make it look like it's too much bother to do it yourself at home, give up and buy canned food from the supermarkets.
This is a time capsule now. I’m a delivery driver for asda and I remember the weeks leading up to lockdown seeing all the empty shelves and delivering stock piles of tins and dry goods to customers with them saying “I bet it’s empty there” and I always thought “yeah cause you’re snatching it all up before the store opens”.
@@stablish4314 - I know several people who work in the large stores, who have said how much they enjoyed refusing to refund hoarders. They came back in droves when it calmed down, thinking that they'd get their money back, often with multiple trolleys full, and were not happy when told that it was an extraordinary occurrence, and they could not risk that the virus might be present on the returned items, which, as a result, would have to be destroyed. I know some places took things, but a great many did not.
@@stablish4314 mainly down to the government giving no advice,the wrong advice and not showing any leadership at a time of crisis. Stay at home,exercise once a day,wear a mask,leave all your windows open for air,stay at home,no cycling, get fresh air,wear a mask,but you MUST stay at home!!
i think a lot of it is people panic buying because people are panic buying, less about the fear of the coronavirus and more about the fear of not being able to buy toilet paper because everyone else is buying it because they fear that people are buying it
That be the problem with panic-everything, the self-reenforcedness of it all: Panic that the panicked state of others will hurt you even if their source of panic doesn't.
@2manynegativewaves Every 2 or 3 months we way a pack of 36 loo rolls. At the moment we're half way the pack. So we still have for about four weeks. In two or three weeks I'll have a look what the situation is. At this moment (March 15th, but last shopping on March 12th) some items are sold out in Slovakia, mainly in the shops in smaller villages.
Same here, except that I live in Germany and it works the same way here with the shopping carts. It's interesting to see someone having to explain something that's so common and a basic part of daily life.
@@83uwb Same in the Netherlands, I guess I took it for granted that things worked like that everywhere lol. Have seen it in other countries so just assumed it was a universal thing :P
Here in the u.s. near the end of the summer of 2020 people tried to return all the toilet paper they hoarded. Stores straight up denied them. The videos are glorious.
That's hilarious. I work in a grocery store in Canada, never saw any attempts to return the TP though. My store is in a rich area where people have large houses, so people probably just stored it all away in some unused closet. It doesn't go bad, after all. ...Come to think of it, that's probably why we've had a surplus for months now. Our upper storage shelves in the back are full of TP next to all the seasonal decorations.
A last minute prepper probably emptied it. I prepped more silently, in a way that would leave them time to restock before the rest of the people went crazy, I did it in January.
Saw someone has already done a psychological study on it. Apparent people buy toilet paper for comfort because it is a large product and doesn’t spoil so makes people feel they are prepared.
As someone who’s worked on a farm, my god yes about the loose produce. It’s grown like that, it’s shipped like that, what does it matter if it’s in a container or not? I bet you your sweet little hearts that those wrapped up mushrooms weren’t washed and they have the harvester’s germs all over them.
I like how calm you are about it, this is how people should be acting. This panicking is just whipping people into a frenzy and those people scare me. I'd rather take the calm approach as well.
I am definitely more worried about the not calm people than I am about the virus . Kinda think that the not calm people would happily beat me to death for a toilet roll , virus saying .. Probably I won't kill you 😶🤔👋
@Jennifer Lastra its easy to know what would happen when the virus got out of china.. i was already watching the horrors of what was happening in china and stocked up on everything back in january.. while people were relaxing and saying its just a flu or it wont get out of china.. i did all the preparations beforehand.. since its just a flu no one would act until it got out of control and then people would start to panic.
There is a few days food supply in the system. Just in time deliveries have replaced warehouses in the US and Europe. When we food manufacture workers go off sick there WILL be shortages and price rises.
Buy up all of those cream eggs. Then when everyone is hunkered down living on basics, you can roam the streets swapping yummy cream eggs for toilet rolls!
@@techosarusrex Now they said this is a possibility won't people hoard more? Certainly put people off spending anything I'm really hoping its not six months
all those people commenting on lack of plastic gloves when handling produce: where are you from if that's normal to you? Most people in my area in Canada wash their veggies+fruits before eating anyways and I've never seen anyone in my life use plastic gloves to handle produce.
In Australia, I have seen exactly one store with plastic gloves over fifteen years ago, if you're practicing proper food hygiene they're a useless commodity.
In Spain they encourage you to use plastic gloves when handling produce. I never use them nor have I been scolded by anyone for not doing it. Honestly most people I see just grab their onions and tomatoes with their bare hands.
Never seen anyone use plastic gloves in the US. We may invert produce bags and pull produce into them if we're being particularly cleanly, but most people just grab stuff.
But seriously. Why is everyone stocking up on TP? Do they plan on shitting themselves every 5 minutes? If things get so bad that shops can't restock TP, then you'll have more important things to worry about
@@Intrspace maybe they're are making improvised masks with them? because otherwise it makes zero sense, ok let's assume its for toilet use of course, other use i think they'd be using them is to wipe hand after apply hand sanitizer but there are sanitized special papers for that isnt it?? but its tp itself is not that clear because if you destroy the packaging it immediately get expose to air temp, worst ppl bags in which they are carry them might even more dirty hence making the tp useless if thats what they are looking for in the first place. so if thats the reason why there are stocking up to do these things or to be absolutely germ free, why don't they straight up buy, like i said, hand sanitized papers, or these wipes soaked in javel or something. where i live the price of tp is going up too, its insane! i really dont get it. ahaha
@@gary_05 The Toilet paper stockpiling panic started in Australia because they get the raw materials for making the paper & the cardboard tubes from China, & due to all the lock downs in China the supply chain was drying up. But in the UK our raw materials are homegrown or come from Scandinavia, so it's more of a case or panic fuels more panic!
@@NOWThatsRichy it is still so ridiculous, even though they stopped production over there, and i dont think its something that's gonna happen in every industrial locations in china where TP are made, even though hypothetically speaking if that happens somehow, and productions are not solely from there anyway, but it more probable that this virus will likely die down long before there are shortages in TP.
It's really weird to watch this a year later and remember all the panic buying. I had to get creative with a few meals. Bread sold out and I had to make bread for a few months. I got very good at it. Now I always maintain a 2-week pantry. I never did before. I wonder how many habits over the last year will stick with this generation, like how other major events caused a quirk of habit with generations before us.
In Germany I could not even get yeast or flour. Everything wiped out from the shelves. Pasta, flour, yeast, tins of food, toilet paper.....all gone....you would think a war has broken out.
a year ago i was thinking the same way - for example, i had a prediction that strict mask wearing rules will stick to society forever, but go outside now and tell me how right i was. i personally dont see any cooking/buying habits sticking to the generation after the pandemic right now, mid-2022
I grew up keeping my pantry stocked. At any time I could live off my reserves for months. I may not be happy towards the end with little fresh foods, but I'd be fine. When I got covid, I had plenty of tissues, meds, food, soap and detergent to self isolate. I grew up bottling foods, stocking freezers and dry goods, and buying sales on personal products. It's just how I live.
Old lady here ! I remember the bread panic , the tea panic and the bizzare salt panic ( think that one was around 1974 ) ! Salt 😶 A neighbor actually bought about 50 packs of Saxa Salt . Probably still has most of them to this day .
A quick Google search did not help me and this was before my time, but I am very curious. Please could you tell me, why, oh why oh why was there a salt panic?
@@Dthenn l have absolutely no idea what triggered the Salt Panic . This occurred in Scotland UK , don't know if it affected the rest of the UK . Scottish folks tend to like a fair bit of salt on their food , well we certainly did back then . I don't what the trigger was . We also had the coffee panic buy which did worry my German mother , but family in Germany posted us packages of coffee beans , so she survived that one . We also had The Winter of Discontent !! Loads of people went on strike , no rubbish collection , electricity cut off , dockers refusing to unload food supplies ! Fun times 😶👋
@MsSunhappy Check out The Winter of Discontent . Loads of people went on strike in the UK . Brought down the Government . Due to the power workers going on strike ( amongst many others ) our electricity kept being cut off . Guess what panic that caused ? Yep ! The great panic buying of candles ! To this day I always have a wee emergency supply of candles .
@MsSunhappy I believe it's called the Herd Instinct . You aren't panicking , then you see other people panicking , that triggers a panic response in yourself . As individuals we can act independently , once part of a group / mob , we can't usually do that . Fish and other wildlife use the same methods to escape danger , shoals , herds . Ever wondered why penguins hang about in groups waiting for one penguin to enter the water ? Or indeed kick one of their number in ? It's pretty freaky reason 😶
Seriously. It's scarier thinking I might not be able to eat or have basic toiletries because of these crazies. It's what basically amounts to a bad flu virus, not a zombie apocalypse, people.
@@juanchuang5978 Look up what a corona virus actually is. It's the same family as cold and flu. And people do panic over the flu every year thanks to the media. Plus any flu strain with a slightly different behavior. Remember bird flu and swine flu? They behaved like a more aggressive flu strain but people acted like the world was ending then, too.
juan chuang which is why the countries are on lockdown which helps stop the spread of a super infectious illness plus it does affect old people and it would be sad if a bunch of old people passed away cause the country didn't lockdown
"These onions grow in literal, ACTUAL dirt!" I absolutely love blunt british humour. I am a brit myself and I completely agree with the statements about single use plastics!
Some people are WAY too squeamish about dirt. When we had vegetables growing in our garden, I would often pull up young carrots, brush the soil off with my hand, and eat the carrots, whilst I did something else. I ate peas fresh out of their pods, as well as broad beans, and snapped off, and ate raw broccolli florets. Dug up and ate radishes, too. Was never ill. The last time I had cause to visit the doctor, was in 2010. A lot of people today have never played outside, climbed trees, swum in rivers or the sea, etc., and as such have a far weaker immune system. If I have a cold, it lasts 3-4 days at most. A cut will be completely healed in 5-7 days. In the last five years, I've had three days off work, and not consecutively, either. A bit of dirt won't kill you. Well, it won't kill me.
@@brianartillery You're partly right. Dirt isn't something to worry about. But I'd hardly eat a carrot right from the ground. I'd rinse it first. It's not uncommon, though, for a cut to heal that quickly. I also doubt so many people have never swum in the sea or played outside. I'm British, so that could be why, since at the schools I've been to there's been large playing fields with trees and bushes about, and the beaches I frequent will be packed full of people, which is why I head there earlier in the day.
@@dragonick2947 in america i know too many people have never been to the beach in my town and they say "ItS NoT A BeaCh ItS a WaTerFrONt PropErTy" like it makes a fucking difference.
@@dragonick2947 - I'm British, too. I've worked with younger people who have had cuts, that have not fully healed after 14 days or so. We never used chemicals in our garden, so I had no fears about eating things straight out of the ground - I have, in the past, dug up Pignuts (Conopodium majus), which are little radish-like tubers, and eaten them as a snack whilst walking. Never had amy problems.
@@Daniela-pr7rz That's why it's important to wash her blood of your knife before using it to cut up the toilet paper you're eating for lunch. Rookie mistake.
I told my kid I scored a rarity. I got some tp today. An employee tried to hand me something bigger & I said thx but I'm not that crazy. I hope she didn't take it the wrong way. Also, yw next person.
As a fellow British person I legitimately had no idea people who get so crazy about the loose vegetables. Like this is normal for us, and you guys are soooo over thinking it!
Loose vegetables/fruit are the norm here in the US. Had no idea anybody would have a problem with that! You're supposed to wash produce when you get it home anyway...
To personally pick the produce to your preference or what you will use it for is preferable. To me at least. Meaning, big or small potatoes, (to boil or fry) peppers (to fry it whole or dice and use in dishes, or stuff them) or watermelon, thick or thin carrots (to grate or not to grate), green or yellow bananas etcetera..... I even buy onions in two sizes. Bigger and smaller. Half onion in refrigerator is a mess, though sometimes inevitable even with size appropriate use. Am a bit lazy to buy all onions small size.
Ahhh... The taste of a true Apocalypse: Spaghetti sauce and Hot Dogs. Such weird stuff to buy, makes it rather obvious that most people out there have absolutely no clue about cooking... By the way, the Austrian government is handling this situation surprisingly well, they're avoiding panic and inform the people properly. For once we're doing something sensible!
I mean the UK government are trying. It is the media mostly that are making people scared. The advice is not to panic buy or do anything unordinary at all.
I mean the spread there is crazy tho, they kinda normalized having it i think because everyone is coughing but no one is getting tested. They say "it's just a cold mate"
this is why the government needs to be careful with talking to their citizens, most people are easy to scare and will go into frenzy’s like this because of television.
Do you have food for least two weeks? If not go buy. As those "panic buyers" did. This "panic buy" was not a mistake. Mistake was that they had to do it. You should always have enough food for least two weeks.
LillyCookies DDAENG no it’s not the TV’s fault, it’s cos people are fucking stupid. 2 grams or common sense is all that’s needed to realise everything will be fine
@@alexanderkasson106 Sanitizer wipes and masks. Even toilet paper. - as stations and convenience stores buy it up from the larger stores hoping the less mobile will be buying it up at their increased prices. My local paint supply stores had to take masks off the shelf because people are over buying for themselves and resale, it leaves none for workers.
Everyones trying to make a buck off the crowded spaces where getting these things is less convenient. People are quick to open their wallets for ease of purchasing these things, and lots of folks are capitalizing. Where I'm located, people normally buy things, like fruit, & things we have a surplus of, even criminals moving drugs for profit. They make the few hour drive to the big cities and double or triple their money. ( I make wine and pick a lot of fruit, always competing with city-resellers. ) But thats just business 101
Yup. That was the best. Luckily, I have two very good greengrocers' shops within walking distance of my house. Lots of lovely loose produce in both. Better quality than supermarket stuff, and you can buy as much, or as little as you want. And it's put in crisp brown paper bags, too.
That swing on the tin hotdog just made me laugh. Your comment on 'look at the swing on that hotdog ... you just have to admire that" ... just made me laugh, Thank you, sir.
Something about watching a guy walk down the refrigerated meat aisle while the typical supermarket beeping goes on in the background, it gives me goosebumps.
I've been watching grocery hauls for years. Just the right balance of unnecessary yet interesting information to keep my mind from drifting off while being relaxed;)
It stupid even in the us i swear the go people here are afraid it is like stupid with people being scared it even shutting school down without the staff one a payroll while on break and job closings im not surprised how dumb, lazy and easily scared by anything
I saw someone freaking out that there was a little spider on their strawberries once, forgetting that, shock horror, plants grow outside, among creepies and crawlies. Some people are so sheltered these days 🙄
@@bxstar5276 its made for disabled people who, for example, don't have great motor skills & can't chop vegetables well. but I understand your point that most people are well-able to chop broccoli instead of buying it pre-cut
Depends on the spider. If I recognise it as a local spider I would just flick it off my strawberry since I know that we don't have venomous spiders. I'm not so sure about spiders I don't recognise that have been imported along with the fruit.
Wait, people get squicked out by you handling produce? Dear god, how do they think it ends up in the bin to buy it? Like, have you guys ever seen a bathroom out in the middle of the farmer's field? Exactly, so how do you think the workers relieve themselves? That's right. Never mind the deer and rabbit and whatever comes to eat the deer and rabbit, Plenty of workers use tobacco, but smoking takes too much time so they'll have a chaw in. Oh, and don't think combine harvesters are going to save you in terms of hygiene, those things will mangle and grind up the field creatures and place their corpses right along side the crop to be sorted out. So, enjoy your tobacco spit, poo and animal guts covered vegetables if you don't wash them! You probably got more dirt on you from handing the vegetable than the vegetable got from being handled. Wash your dang vegetables.
I think the silly people protesting are all fourteen-year-olds who don't cook or shop, don't understand basic hygiene, and don't know that fruit and veg need to be washed and sometimes peeled. They wouldn't have a clue that you could take an onion home without touching it, and find that it has neck rot. "...get squicked out..." I've never heard that before! See, YT can be educational! :)
it's genuinely baffling to me, i have clinically diagnosed OCD, generally triggered by dirt and the like and it doesn't bug me because you are just supposed to wash veg and the like. i really have to wonder what those folks are thinking when complaining about picking up the produce to check it, like do they just buy any piece of veg they touch and eat it without washing? cause to my mind that's way more gross.
I'm here a year after this was first posted. I'm Immune Compromised, and nope. Plain Washing won't protect you from food born illness. In the US, produce is washed and cleaned before being shipped to grocery stores. Before the C19, lysteria was the last big outbreak of food born illness- on lettuces. The Contamination happened in transit. The only thing that would kill lysteria was heat or a chemical sanitizer... that isn't edible. I considered vodka to sanitize produce, but it doesn't have a high enough alcohol content. It takes 150 proof, no dilation at all, alcohol to kill lysteria. Even if the produce is not contaminated with the big bad bugs, I'm sill vulnerable to ALL of them. I decided to not eat raw food any more. doh, I forgot to add: I don't begrudge anyone eating all the produce you need. For those of us with broken immune systems, we have to think differently.
People are just selfish, my god it’s not the end of the world lol. It’s not a bloody Apocalypse. Think of other people who can’t get anything. Honestly these people are crazy x
It's the same here in America. No toilet paper at any store. So glad I grabbed a small pack at least. I guess I could always use the shower head, though, to spray my ass after shitting.
LIDL have done a good job...perhaps the greed only applies to ASDA...Sainsbury's good as WELL but they get alot of abuse from customers ASDA need to take that advert down implying only pensioners and vulnerable can shop between 6-9am ...if they don't intend implementing it take it down..their not looking too good at the moment. "Tills 1-8 for pensioners only please'..that was an announcement at 7am when their were only supposed to be them in at that time..when asked why the store is full up with people under that age with full trolleys they answered.. well we did open at 6am..it was 7am when asked
As a Canadian I love hearing the stories CBC have been putting out about the people "Stuck abroad at the vacation destination" when those people ha e also planned those trips "two or three months ago"
I know this is a while ago now, but I wonder how many people complaining about the touching and putting down of food, were not for reasons of bacteria spread, but for risk of spreading covid. You're unlikely to find covid on your onion when you pull it out of the ground. I do think it is wise to minimise what you touch, but don't buy, even if you say you have washed your hands. It's pretty hard not to touch your face at all until you get home again. Other than that reason, I'm fine with loose veg being touched.
@@artyomsherwin648 I'm American and I've never in my life seen plastic gloves for handling the produce. The idea was completely shocking to me when I saw the video actually.
They do the plastic thing in Europe. Italy are quite serious about it up north, old people will complain at you if they see you touching without gloves, even things like oranges 🙄
I literally just wanted pasta for my pesto I think I’m going to get some gnocchi because everyone seems to leave that alone I don’t know what people think is going to happen when they get corona but apparently pasta is mandatory...
Pasta is non perishable and keeps for a long time, as well as not requiring any advanced preparation (just boil it) meaning it's good to keep in case you get quarantined or fall ill, as well as being easy enough to prepare even if you are quite ill. TL;DR: it's a good basic staple along canned food if you are not able to leave your house
Monica Bondevik genuinely if you have more than you need I think some food banks are having shortages because of this so if you wanted to donate some it would likely be appreciated :)
The sad thing is all the food that will be thrown away by the people who don’t actually know how to cook but have bought ingredients Well said about the veg by the way. When I was young I was sent round to the greengrocer with a bag and he just poured all the veg in together loose.
Yeah in Australia people were trying to return the stuff they panic bought, as they either can’t afford the ridiculous amount they bought or felt bad. We now can’t return most things..
@@andymorgan6644 I don't think most people are worried particularly about atomic shrimp's hands, but about the coughs and sneezes on people's hands generally, and those people getting those on the veggies. People are gross, you might be surprised to find out how many don't even wash their hands after going to the bathroom. Forget the sneezes even, you can get Covid-19 from literal human fecal matter put there by thoughtless people going through the veggies. Covid-19 also doesn't wash off super well with only water, but you shouldn't wash veggies with soap or alcohol, so if it did get on them, you're kinda screwed. Once we have a vaccine and most people are vaccinated, it won't be such a big deal, but for now I think some worry is warranted.
You tell me? I sprained my leg 2 weeks ago and because I live in an apartment with no elevators and I cannot take the stairs with my leg like this, I have been pretty much stuck in my flat and have to order my groceries. Which sucks when people are panic stockpiling...
Sugar we have plenty. But there's no flour anymore and no yeast (but why wife just told me that there's now a bakery selling yeast), soap's very limited too. And in some stores toothpaste is gone. Well, and it didn't really help one week that pasta was on sale, so the shelves where really completly empty. But ever since the stores limited the amount you could buy it has gotten better (except for the toilet paper, that is).
I wasn’t panicking until i went to the store and saw how people are panicking. I watched this video after feeling shook by my supermarket trip and your relaxed attitude towards the whole thing is really comforting to see. Thank you!
I haven't been to the store in a while now, I wonder how things are right now where I live... I don't think there's been that much panic in Finland yet, except for this year's high school graduates who are shitting their pants because they had their finals pushed into one week and their graduation is at risk of getting postponed by an entire year at worst if they fail a subject due to not having enough time to study or if they get sick and can't attend and the subject they fail doesn't have a retry next fall. I'm glad I graduated high school almost 5 years ago, didn't need to deal with this crap, only had a scare of some stomach bug that's like a yearly thing, but with that disease our instructions were literally "it doesn't matter if you have it you're gonna attend and we'll have mattresses if you have to lie down and we'll give you a bucket to puke in"...
Same here in the states. Started to worry how I'm gonna feed my family when everyone is buying all the rice, pasta, etc. but the man makes a good point. How the hell is there a food shortage when there is an entire isle of chocolate eggs? It was a nice slap to the face to make me get ahold of myself.
I just laugh when I see it, and ridicule people who are so obviously panic buying, why do you need to buy 48 rolls of toilet paper?? Are you having a family gathering and all of you have IBS or some shit
@@kamerons2895 I mean if it's a pack of 48 it's just smart since generally speaking the more rolls per package = smaller price per roll. I live together with my boyfriend and we always buy a 32 pack which is the largest package we can find and it's cheaper than buying four 8 roll packs. But if it's 48 rolls in smaller packages, yeah it's panic shopping
Lol I'm American too and a lot of the subtitles were interesting and insightful lol. I didn't know they sell eggs unrefrigerated there, very interesting. Come to think of it, why don't they do that here?
@@i.cant.sleep.anymore There is a video explaining the different mindsets of having unrefrigerated eggs to refrigerated eggs. They do look and taste different but for me, I like the US eggs over British ones. I think it's a matter of what you grew up eating.
@@i.cant.sleep.anymore it's the way the eggs are processed here in the states- they're pre-washed, which removes the protective bloom layer (natural vacuum seal.) Eggs aren't (edit: commonly) prewashed in Europe, they're just given a dusting to remove stray feathers and are made sure there isn't too much poo ;) keeping the natural anti-bacterial layer intact.
If they would stop panic buying there would be enough for everyone. I have to go shopping tomorrow and I dread finding what you found, empty shelves. We are a retired couple so don't really need a lot, just a little will do us.
I went shopping a few hours ago and absolutely nothing was out of stock except the premade single-serving salad bowls. Plenty of bread, plenty of tuna, plenty of canned everything, and more rice than you could shake a stick at. It largely depends on the store you're going to. I wager large warehouse stores like Food 4 Less or Costco are going to be picked over, but my local Albertsons affiliate was just fine.
90 seconds water? What about soap? My arse is a complete twat and gives me nothing but problems. Even still, when I was my bum, I use water and shower gel. I think some religious people wipe with water and hand but I just think that’s very unhygienic
OMG. i work in a lidl. and this person came to my till. have 30 bags of pasta, 3 entire cases of tuna (you get about 50 in a case), about 20 bags of self raising and plain flour each. and aload of other stuff. only for their damn card to get declined. had to put all the stuff back.
Oh dear, what a shame......tee bloomin' hee. That's so funny!! I wonder if they were shopping for another store and were hoping to sell it all for a fat profit!?! Sorry you had to put it all back though!
Absolutely loved your rant about touching loose produce. People can sometimes lose sight of simple facts (food is grown in dirt!), and what's important (single-use plastics are helping to kill the planet). I really appreciate your calm, smart style. So glad I happened upon your channel!
The actual problem isn’t plastic. It’s oil. Plastic is byproduct of oil refining. Stop flying for vacations. Stay on your side of the world. Drive only when necessary. Move closer to work. Everybody needs to do their part for our children and following generations.
@@redelfshotthefood8213 No plastic is also a big problem as long Biodegration means it either needs to be burnt which creates toxic fumes or stored (dumped) which mean it'll for sure end up in the ocean.
It's so ridiculous that anyone was even upset about it or expected him to wear gloves. I've never seen anyone wearing gloves to touch onions before, and do they not realise that the field workers and the staff at the supermarket would also be touching the veggies when they're restocking? Sometimes they might wear gloves but they'd be work gloves probably with soil on them. I think some people are massively disconnected from the realities of food.
It's a reference to the French Revolution when the queen who lived far away from France got informed of the starvation and she said "There is no bread, then let them eat cake"
God I’m an idiot, I thought it was a joke about Jesus and Easter, because he multiplied the bread, and when he died and couldn’t multiply bread, Easter happened
@ricky gore Well some people do panic buy. Stocking up on several of the same items in their carts. I saw someone buy like 4 gallons of milk, and 4 large containers of cottage cheese the other day. Like, how are you supposed to eat or drink all of that dairy before it expires? And why so much dairy? It'd make more sense to buy powdered milk. And it was just an old couple shopping too. But I do understand what you mean, and that it isn't just because of panic shopping.
@@usernameisunavailable8270 its because people don't want to be out in public during this pandemic especially old people, and cheese can go in the freezer, milk too.
I've been bulk buying toilet paper for years, all my mates always thought it was hilarious I'd have a stack of about 100 rolls or so next to the loo. Suddenly they can't buy any and don't think the idea is quite as funny any more. (It's *MUCH* cheaper to buy in bulk vs a few rolls at a time)
I never understood the hoarding (and bulk buying ISN'T hoarding) of toilet rolls. None of the C-19 symptoms were excessive loose bowel movements, were they? Or were people terrified that they might cough so hard, they'd crap themselves? Don't recall seeing either symptom on the WHO website. Wait... I know what it is... a huge amount of people today are just arseholes. That's it.
At this point I feel like I need to panic buy, but out of panic from the people that do a panic buy because of Corona. That's ironic. Yall this tweet is a joke. I'm too broke to panic buy anyways.
What’s worse is how their panicking and hoarding result in me having to react similarly; my dog is diabetic (amongst other things) and has a specific diet of certain foods, those foods are now almost always out of stock, resulting in me now having to hoard those foods when I can so my dog can live. Forced to hoard because they are!
I feel like this is the same for both humans and pets with restrictive diets. For all the urging in the UK to be 'considerate' its a joke and some of the more vulnerable are suffering.
The medicine aisle brings back memories. I inject prescription medication 3 times a week for MS and need to take 2 paracetamol beforehand to avoid being in pain all night afterwards. Seeing the whole shelf of paracetamol disappear was pretty stressful
Ignore the negative comments, haters always going to hate, like you said, they don't know how vegetables are grown, imagine if they found out an egg comes out of a chickens arse! keep up the great videos! Keep Calm and Keep Filming!
Eggs come out of a chicken's cloaca which is the orifice that a chicken's feces and urinary excrement exits as well. Chickens have only one hole other than their mouth and respiratory tract.
@@lilywaterflower3502 Technically, eggs come out of their vagina which is located in the cloaca. Additionally, chickens don't urinate, they don't even have bladders. All that's up there is a hole for their vagina and a hole for waste.
Can't bulk buy paracetamol, that's just many many people concern buying which is fair enough. Goes to show how fast things will disappear when it's time for everyone too prep
Slovaks are cool people. I had an exchange student from Slovakia and I miss that boy so much! He was so smart and funny. I have to go visit him one of these days.
@@skeptigal8899 I stayed for 2 weeks in Slovakia a few years ago, beautiful country and beautiful people. Honestly I still get random cravings for Bryndzové halušky and even though I've made attempts at my own version of it I don't think it compares truly to how the Slovaks make it. Going back for more some day!
Atomic Shrimp: the only man who can make me sit through his whole daily shop and not get bored hahaha. also, up north, I've not seen this happen yet. do we all just not care up here? lmao
I worked in a mid-size Co-Op supermarket all through covid, and I distinctly remember returning from two weeks of annual leave on Sunday 15th March 2020 to ABSOLUTE CHAOS. Obviously we opened at 10am, but did the whole "Doors open at 9:30 for browsing" thing that has since disappeared. When we opened the doors at 9:30 there was a huge queue of people snaking round the corner outside, and they all barrelled in with their trollies, loading them up with massive amounts of loo roll and pasta and other stuff, and then by 10am when we could actually open the tills there were huge queues down almost every aisle. This went on and got worse. I think people must have been tracking delivery vans on facebook groups or something because there were occasions where our delivery was only just backing into the yard when people came piling through the doors demanding the toilet rolls. They wanted it straight off the lorry. I remember one guy shouting at me that he had driven 30 miles to our shop just for toilet rolls. Then when we put blanket limits of two per item across everything in the store, I remember a woman kicking off that I wouldn't let her buy 20 bottles of wine - she said "But I NEED them, because I have to self isolate for two weeks!" If you're supposed to be self isolating due to exposure WHY ARE YOU HERE???? also, wine? That's your must have item??? That whole time was an absolute nightmare. I'm so glad I no longer work in a supermarket!
@@minnsminns The wheels kinda scoot if you push or pull the cart. I have no idea why ours are like that. Maybe it has something to do with the kid's seat by the handle bar.
You can do a U turn on the spot. Or as they say, standing on the back when no one's looking and drifting around corners like in mario kart is an art form over her (even better when you catch someone else doing it and they think you're judging them so they stop and act "normal" when all you were really doing was feeling jealous)
Yeah, that's how buying vegetables and fruit has worked over here(Finland) for as long as I remember. Basically only cucumbers are wrapped in plastic anymore here.
@@zerogbot23 I've traveled all over the US and the great majority of produce isn't bagged and hasn't been in the 20 years I've been actively buying the stuff.
I always go back and watch your ‘older’ videos whenever I need some comfort, as weird as that sounds there’s something relaxing and safe feeling about your videos, maybe it’s your voice. But this was was a shocker, it’s amazing how quickly you forget about things, this was only a few years ago and now we are back to normal you forget how bad things did get. It’s great that you’ve made this video as a kind of diary entry of the beginnings of the pandemic. You deserve every success that comes your way through these videos, to some you’re just a bloke that makes videos on RU-vid, but to some of us you’re like a friend. Thank you Mike.
As we are not supposed to touch what other people have touched, because of the virus, I don’t see why food should be an exception. However, short of using a pair of tongues to pick things up I don’t see how it can be avoided.
Gato Cat yeah but picking stuff up with tonges like they use in the loose bread isle, other people have touched them too so your argument is kind of moot??
There's a lot of items priced like that. But our stores aren't afraid to price an item as a whole number. Its very common. Our pricetag also actually reflects the price you pay at the cashier unlike our American counterparts
@@darkelemental In finland only lidl prices items as whole numbers. Stores really love to treat customers like easily tricked little babies. The best part is since we don’t use 1 cent coins 3,99€ actually is literally 4€, you’re not even saving a the cent lmao
@@TainaElisabeth that's strange. As a country we all collectively see 1.99 and actually know it as 2 because the penny doesn't matter to us. It holds no actual real value like it used to so stores have probably realised that we don't care about the penny difference over the last 10 years or so and it saves them time at the checkout counting change. Strangely aldi and lidl are some of the few stores here that insist on using the .99 for everything
I'm 69 & was taught that the reason for non whole number prices was to avoid theft by staff. If you have to give change you have to ring the transaction on the till, if you don't have to give change you can pocket the cash. Nowadays that's less necessary.
If you ever get tired of doing weird stuff in a can, I really enjoyed seeing shopping at the supermarket in the UK. So take us shopping, any kind of shopping. I have never heard of some of the things in this video. It was really interesting. -A fan from USA.
Same! The first video I watched of his was the 1 pound, 1 day, 3 meals one and I literally had a slight 😲 moment when I saw that they have MILK IN LITTLE PACKETS! That’s amazing and I have a question about it. Do they need to be refrigerated? Or are they one of those non dairy products? He did say milk from a cow, but I really might be missing something. Blown aaaaway, it’s so out there to me lol. How bout mushy peas? Blegh 😖
Mαяsbαяs Yes packets of milk like that are usually in hotels and cafes in England also it doesn't matter about them being refrigerated although It's the norm for them not to be
@@marsbars16 it depends what type of milk it is, for example if the milk in the packets is fresh then yes it needs to be kept in the fridge, but you also get uht milk in little packets which is long life milk that has been heated to a high temperature to last longer, these you can just keep in your pantry.
Loved the explanation of the trolleys. Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes: "I tried one of these new discount supermarkets today. They were selling shopping trolleys for a pound. Brilliant!"
I remember going to my tesco and seeing no pasta or rice left, and so the two-three weeks after lockdown I was out of a job that guaranteed me atleast a free meal, and no food in my cupboard, I honestly ate a sngle serving bowl of porridge oats with no sugar, the really shit 90p bag of frozen sausages that were 50% wheat, tesco brand mustard for dinner, bread was optional depending on if any were left on the days I went, no flour meant I couldn't make my own either... The people who panic bought everything leaving the poor/lower class/students with nothing should be ashamed of themselves. I initially lost almost about 6 KG, then gained about 20 during the span of lockdown, though the gain was also because I decided to sit down and write a novel, and learn Chinese, not just because I was eating whatever shit food was left at Tesco.
I'm in a small town in the US in the middle of no where (I'm talking like Near the boarder of Canada nowhere) and there isn't a single case of the virus within 500 miles of my town. Today at 6am, I went to my local grocery store to get a box of donuts for my family when I see six men and two women in their mid years, pull up in two 4x4 dodge trucks each pulling 6ft covered trailer. I assuming they were Campers/fishers/hunters, as they do here. Didn't think anything of it at first. When I checked out with my box, I pass by three of them with carts loaded with various dry foods, rice, cornmeal, water, pasta. Then I knew... Yeah maybe MAYBE, they were getting things for a huge camping session but my guess is probable not. They're more likely a group of preppers that have a shared cabin near by and were getting everything they could get, secretly hoping this is the end of the world scenario they fantasize about. /_-; ugh.
Definitely a bit much. A month or two's worth of staples is generally good enough (which the hubby & I have been stocking up with over the last 2 months because of the conditions coming out of China). If everything fails, there's always multi-vitamins & other supplements to help.
The thing is, the virus doesn't scare me, I don't have any underlying health issues (touch wood). But it's the people that panic buy that scares the piss out of me.
drkRoss yup me too. these people are idiots. the only people who should be stocking up are the vulnerable people. not the whole nation going bonkers. it's selfish
@@Kiryu_Maji no i get what he's saying about panic buying but I'm talking about the ill be OK I'm healthy thing.. During a virus pandemic like this your only as strong as the weakest in the community.. We need to look after the vulnerable just as much as ourselves
I used to ask old people about living through the wars when I was kid now(hopefully) I'll be able tell kids that i lived through the Corona virus pandemic 😎✌😂
I don't hafta tell my kid bc she's living through it herself. Us not going to Disney over coronavirus is one hell of an excuse. Which really isn't an excuse. But those prices better not go up after this. Otherwise, we might not ever go.
