We get mail…
Kate, I am a Canadian living in Europe and I wanted to flag for your readers that we cannot get vegetable oils used for cooking at the grocery store. Olive oil is in supply for now at least but not canola, rapeseed, or sunflower oils. I have been to several grocery stores, my husband has been to different ones, and my sister-in-law has been to grocery stores in another part of the country. They currently cannot be found. Apparently Ukraine is a major exporter of these products.
Sign seen today at the grocery store: Due to shortages, we ask our esteemed clientele to take only one bag of flour per purchase.
Bags of flour in France are generally sold in packs of 1kg.
Thanks JA, keep us posted.
Well Europe has become a neo-Marxist’s wet dream, so use those emissions for your stir fry.
Neo Marxists are very oily … downright greasy. Use in moderation.
Kenji, I am crying in my beer for them. No beer, then we have all out war.
Our politicians haven’t caught up to the fact that China is closed and has been for some time now.
They’ll never say so as the United States politicians would drop the hammer on them if they expressed it.
Many United Nations votes for many different causes has shown that if your not with them, penalties are imposed.
So, you have to lie.
Canada not being self-sufficient as we should be and idiot politicians will make this worse as they’re not adjusting to the world structure and will just wait until infrastructure breaks and import supplies run dry.
The UN is the second biggest commie entity in the world after the CCP, followed by the EU. Putting our faith in the UN to solve the world’s problems was like putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse.
I’d have said like putting the toddlers in charge of day-care, but it’s hard to say which is more appropriate.
Commie or islamic, take your choice Arty.
No country in the world is as likely to be as self-sufficient as Canada. So sad that we are not making this a national priority.
Energy is key, and look what they’ve done.
TBF … the global Warmists cite overpopulation as the #1 crisis facing the planet. Choking off agriculture via cost of fuel, cost of production … is a feature, not a bug.
Distributing a bio toxin with short term and long term “effectiveness” is also an effective tool to deal with overpopulation. It’s also effective for your spawn (governments) to keep recommending to take said bio toxins against a very survivable disease, despite its complete ineffectiveness.
Evil at work.
Shortages and high prices are baked into the socialist cake. Self sufficiency is for the ruling class and inner party. Once socialism fails you have to implement communism.
“The goal of socialism is communism.” – V.I. Lenin
Sad but true old lori, from one old fart to another one. I know when stupid became the order of the day, most people will say I am wrong. Well, here we are reaching peak stupidity before we reach peak oil. A nation of fools. I know people are tired of my bashing the intellect of the average Canadian, but hell, I am right as in correct. Will someone stand up and do something?
Just got back from the store[midlands of the UK]. Last week store brand bread flour 60 pence for a 1.5 kilo bag, this week 95 pence.
During the early hoarding panic of COVID … I couldn’t even FIND a bag of flour in ANY of my local stores … except a high end boutique grocery store that sold 5lb bags of “artisan-made, free-trade, macrobiotic, organic, flour hand ground between historic millstones imported from Vermont” … for $10.00/bag.
I bought one.
This was mentioned on CTV morning show this am. Also concern that AB and Sask have had a dry spring which may affect our supply, which of course led to some token reference to global warmening. Which led to the next segment where some moron suggested that an increase in gold fish in lake Ontario “might” be due to a very small increase in the lakes temperature.
When a liter of canola oil cost much less than a liter of diesel people will substitute. Most older diesel in warm weather run just fine on canola or a mix of canola and diesel. The same happened 2007.
Yeti
I will have to check pricing at Wall mart for Canola…Good Point.!!
Before Covid…China already was having problems with shortages and high costs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/widespread-us-diesel-shortages-send-crack-spreads-mindblowing-highs
Didn’t make sense to me to import products thousands of miles away using vastly more fossil fuels than the short distance of making it in your own country.
Profits that reality eventually caught up to its faults.
If Europeans have a problem with this, they can replace their leadership with people who love their children more than they hate Vladimir Putin.
I hope for their sake they do it soon. Putin will only wait so long before doing it for them.
Kate keeps saying “We need a famine”. Looks like we might get one. Can we hold off until I move out to SK in June? I’d really rather not have to eat my neighbors here in Ontario – I suspect that they’d be rather… bitter.
Buddy’s Long Pig Pop Up BBQ guarantees a sweet, meat.
It’s all going splendidly well for our globalist friends in the gov’t. They’ve mastered the fine art of feigning empathy for those they lord over while simultaneously sticking it to them at every opportunity.
The U.S. just approved a bill to send $40B to Ukraine while mothers can’t find formula for their children.
Try wrapping your head around that one.
Is it not the case that it is difficult to get Canadian canola oil into the EU because it has been deemed “genetically modified”? That was certainly the case at one time.
Good reason to switch everything to GMO.
Roseberry
I do believe that imports of our OIL Sands Product was under the same EU scrutiny..??
Like Eastern Canada, Let them all freeze in the Dark. (And I still have relatives in the Netherlands)…but my birth country has gone 250% Woke Multi Cult STOOPID, that at this stage of their WEF plan, I honestly could give a shit.
And at the same time, let’s get this province (Ab), OUT of CON federation..!!
This cooking oil shortage could spell the end of French Fried Potatoes … we can only guess what means for poutine.
Canadians will lose weight against their will. Oh god … the horror.
Prinz Dummkopf will step in & abscond with western Canadian canola oil so poor Kaybeck won’t have to needlessly suffer the lack of poutine fries.
there isn’t a shortage, there is a shortage of European Union acceptable cooking oils, because the bureaucrats from Brussels know best
Wasn’t long ago the Eurotrash were regulating the curvature of bananas that could be imported and the minimum number of pickles in a jar (no I not making that up). Those were good times to be part of the bureautrash. Now the food rationing is beginning.
The world’s population is falling. As societies become more profitable, the need to have large families to support the family financially falls, and so does the need for children. That is why the 3 child policy in China is having such a problem gaining traction despite the fact that demographically, China is in trouble. Women have gotten used to having more free time, more wealth and aren’t in the mood to sacrifice more time for children.
So if it were not for WEF, the problem of overpopulation (which isn’t really a thing except to Paul Erlich, the fabricator of the whole scam) is not really a problem at all, and with it goes a lot of the arguments about anthropogenic climate change.
Looks like you’re gonna learn why your grandma kept a can of drippings in the icebox and washed and saved her aluminum foil.
And reused her tea bags.
We refer to our bacon grease bowl as “The Strategic Grease Reserve”.
But, but. We need to be green.
Parkland Corp. to build renewable diesel plant at Burnaby refinery
No fries for you.
The government and nature are co-operating in making sure that there is a famine.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadians-to-see-biggest-price-increase-at-restaurants-over-cooking-oil-shortage-expert-1.5897931
They should be thankful. Seed oils are absolutely bad for you. Seed oils are proven to be some of the leading causes of heart disease, cancer, and other life-degrading conditions. Cook with olive oil or butter.
This.
I have always used butter and lard. These weird fake oils are poison.
I don’t like to see food shortages, but all of those oils mentioned are crap. Buy a decent olive oil, it’s all you need (and butter, of course). Decent olive oil, BTW, does not come from grocery stores.
Also, not true that y shouldn’t/can’t use (good) olive oil with high heat.
everyone says cook with butter, but have you noticed butter is more ‘plastic’ like lettuce? It used to be butter would immediately soften at room temperature, I’ve noticed it staying hard for almost a day.
Went to COOP in the NW Calgary and see their brand going for $5, another close one for $6, then Dairyland for $7. Wonder what the difference is.
I had a friend who used to deliver for COOP and said their premium cheese and cheaper brand were the exact same product, just different labels. They ran out of premium labels one time and subbed the cheaper one, but no one would buy it.