No Soup For You

18 Replies to “No Soup For You”

1. If we have any money and if there is any food to buy.

2. …”People might reconsider their protein sources, adopting new recipes for local, lower-cost foods they may not have chosen to eat before, such as freshwater fish in landlocked regions or seafood on the coasts.”

   This statement here tells me that they don’t know what they’re talking about. Fresh water fish in Ontario at least costs a small fortune. There is a small commercial fishery on the great lakes, and the products of that fishery are far from cheap. Quality fresh seafood (or lakefood) is a luxury, unless you’re catching it yourself.

   1. There’s always roadkill, Rusty. Maybe that’s what they meant by low-cost alternative sources of protein.

      And those of you who have been cussing the squirrels for getting into your bird feeders, you may find it has paid off for you in the long run.

3. You can find a solution to this ‘expensive food’ problem that you politically impotent right wingers keep talking about. Here is a hint: think outside the box. As for myself, I am going to bake up a big batch of Scottish Shortbread, made with real butter. I give away quite a few of them this Christmas season, I give them away by the dozen. I care.

   1. I bet it costs you twice as much to make the shortbread this year over last year. Not that long ago the standard price for butter was under 5 bucks a pound, now it’s often 8 or 9.

      1. I could not resist …

         https://mitchieville2020.blogspot.com/2023/12/top-five-poor-food-choices-of-dark-ages.html

         1. Ha!! Too funny, thanks.

         2. Thanks for the link, Fenris, and happy to see your handle again in the comments.
            As to the rich, buttery shortbread you’ll be distributing, is this in preparation for the human flesh eating or simply a Christmas tradition? Also, icing sugar or brown?

      2. and it is not even a pound after our conversion

   2. Butter is now $7.99/pound. Sugar is way up too. So I estimate your one dozen cookies is going to cost about $2. So yes, you’re cheap. Do you intend to serve nothing but Scottish shortbread for Christmas dinner?

4. The next government guidelines will be a recipe book for cooking your neighbors and turning them into a stew.

5. Government’s should prioritize keeping food, energy and shelter prices low. Not by micromanaging or subsidies but by reducing taxes, fees and getting rid of unnecessary regulations and bureaucracy. In Canada we have the exact opposite happening – high fees, taxes and regulations on necessities and high income taxes. Reduce the government caused price pressures and the majority of people won’t require government assistance and government programs.

   “People might reconsider their protein sources, adopting new recipes for local, lower-cost foods they may not have chosen to eat before, such as freshwater fish in landlocked regions or seafood on the coasts.”
   We’ve got that one covered, we ended the hunting season with one elk, one mule deer and 3/4 of a moose (1/4 to hunting partner). There’s enough red meat in the freezers to last until Trudeau and the Liberal-NDP government is given the boot in the 2025 election.

   1. Fresh water fish from Lake Manitoba is more expensive than beef. Plus it is very tightly regulated by the commercial fisheries bureaucracy and violating their rules will get you in more trouble than robbing a store. People are simply forbidden from taking enough to actually make a dint in your protein needs for a year with an angling license. These bureaucrats are morons.

      1. Probably the same here in Saskatchewan. Daily limits for fishing aren’t generous. I suspect it would be difficult for an individual person get enough fish to meet their protein needs. Buying fish isn’t cheap.

         Don’t worry, soon the news will tell you to use legumes as a substitute for red meat, fish, pork and poultry. Next they’ll promote insects and fake lab meat again.

6. “Using machine learning, AI models and expert knowledge, the report forecasts that meat will experience the highest increases, at four to six per cent, followed by vegetables and restaurants at three to five per cent, bakery and dairy at two to four per cent and fruit and seafood at one to three per cent.”

   So the machine learning and AI models have spoken and set the floor for price increases next year.

   How did their predictions do for 2024?

7. Well, for all those deep thinkers out there. Go take your covid boosters because that is why we are where we are. Stupid people fell over themselves for lies, and damn it they deserve to pay for their stupidity, I do not.
   Of course those morons who voted liberal and n d p ,are also a serious problem.

8. Fortino’s in Ontario is selling beef honeycomb tripe for $6.99 / lb. this week. The word “honeycomb” does not make it taste better.

   1. Tripe – cow stomachs. Pretty much a neutral taste, I think. Finely ground, a big ingredient in wieners.